Words Cut to the Heart of the Matter

January 11, 2010

Don’t underestimate your impact in this world. The slightest thing you do can change the course of many many lives.
Example:

Words are like knives…

About ten years ago I was working with a guy named Todd. Todd and I got along really well and had many interesting conversations, some deep, some shallow, most I don’t even [...]

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Cure for Cancer and H1N1?

December 15, 2009

I have been hearing a lot lately (and from multiple sources) that viruses have a tough time surviving in your body if your PH level is slightly to the alkaline side of the scale. Sources also say that cancer is slowed/stopped through the same alteration of the ph of your body.
What is PH exactly? PH [...]

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Lose Weight, Get in Shape, Easy Button

December 3, 2009

I was reading an interesting article today in the local paper, an AP story, so I’m sure it’s around the world, but still a matter of who picks it up. The article was an interview with Tenille Ray, the reigning Miss Universe.
Miss Universe is a body building title, not a beauty pageant thing, but Ms [...]

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Low Fat, Low Carb Diet equals Better Mood?

November 13, 2009

Could a low fat low carb diet improve your mood?
Grant D. Brinkworth, Ph.D., of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation-Food and Nutritional Sciences, Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues conducted a randomized clinical trial involving 106 overweight and obese participants who were an average age of 50. 55 of them  followed a high fat low carb diet [...]

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Exercise and Arthritis

November 11, 2009

A report from Harvard medical says exercise does not exacerbate arthritis.
interesting
Does exercise contribute to arthritis? Research says no http://tinyurl.com/y86arxx

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Total Health

November 1, 2009

It’s easy to get focused on the gym and your workouts. It’s easy to get focused (and sometimes anal) about the food you use. But we have to realize that health is a combination of those factors plus your mental state. That’s what I want to touch on today.
Without the life balance you aren’t going [...]

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Skinny? and Ralph Lauren

October 27, 2009

The other day my youngest daughter came home and she was excited because someone had called her skinny. Skinny is about the last thing I would ever want her to be. Healthy is what I am aiming for. She works out at the gym at a furious rate on a regular basis and is a [...]

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Nutsy, isn’t it?

October 9, 2009

It’s been six years since the FDA approved the packaging nutritional label “Scientific evidence suggests but does not prove that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts, as part of a diet [...]

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Hinie in PA?

September 22, 2009

(the one where I indulge in a bit of silliness)
This morning I was greeting with yet another article on H1N1, otherwise known as the swine flu virus. it doesn’t surprise me as we have two cases at one of our local colleges, Albright (my alma mater), but what made me take a double take was [...]

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Living Past 100, The New Centurians

September 20, 2009

Interesting article in The New Scientist on longevity and aging. Amazingly enough the 4 keys to long life are…drum roll please…Diet, exercise, ‘psycho-spiritual’ and social.
Broken down, are we so surprised to learn, if you eat right, exercise, have faith in something, and lead an interactive social life you will live longer? Common sense.
So what are [...]

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