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- What is Lifestyle Coaching? - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2011 from Marti AngelLifestyle coaching focuses on creating positive results by building self-awareness, supporting positive action and facilitating a deepened understanding that opens the door to new possibilities and choices. In a coaching context, lifestyle addresses the whole person, including nutritional, ...
Views: 1904 - Are You Disempowered at Work? 10 Strategies to Gain Rock-Solid Confidence - by Submitted on May 16, 2007 from Kathy Caprino“Professional women have made tremendous strides in terms of drawing on our strengths, abilities, and confidence in the workplace in recent years, but it’s clear that we have a long way to go before we are using our female power with self-assurance and ease,” says Kathy Caprino, MA, personal and ...
Views: 5035 - Choosing the Right Anti-wrinkle Cream - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2012 from Janet Martin“If God had given women wrinkles, he could at least have put them on the soles of her feet,” wrote French author Ninon de L'Enclos. These words echo the sentiments of millions of women (and some men) worldwide who hate wrinkles and will do anything to hide them. Sadly, wrinkles ...
Views: 727 - An Understanding Of The Medical Tests Required If You Have Acid Reflux Symptoms - by Submitted on May 15, 2007 from Evelyn LimIf you have acid reflux symptoms, you ought to consult a doctor. Your doctor would have to determine how serious your acid reflux or gestroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is. He may require you to go through a series of tests at each stage of the development of your disease. He can then ...
Views: 2028(1 vote) - Smokers Have More Wrinkles - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2012 from Janet MartinHere's another good reason to quit smoking. Researchers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor's dermatology clinic found that smoking may increase wrinkles at parts of the body other than the face – even on areas that are covered with clothes! Yolanda Helfrich and her team who ...
Views: 934 - Chinese Medicine As An Alternative For Your Health - by Submitted on May 15, 2007 from stan wardWhilst thought of, for thousands of years, as the primary medical system in China, Chinese medicine is considered as alternative medicine in the Western world. Chinese medicine is becoming increasingly popular as people are attracted by the idea of natural healing as opposed to modern medicine ...
Views: 1030(1 vote) - When is Sciatica not Sciatica? - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Graeme TeagueSciatica is a common and debilitating condition. You may have been suffering on and off for years. You know the pain; it is in your lower back and runs into your leg… or does it? The sciatic nerve has a definite pain pattern to it. It is formed by five nerve roots (small nerves exiting the ...
Views: 5260 - THE SURGICAL-PRESCRIPTION (SUPR) ESTABLISHMENT vs UNCONVENTIONAL THERAPY-HERBAL REMEDY (UTHR) ALTERNATIVE - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Ira EdwardsThe SUPR medical establishment is like a fortified city. SUPRs shoot arrows haphazardly at any approaching stranger. Nothing good, they think, can come from outside their walls. SUPRs own science; all rivals are quacks. They oust traitors from their midst who threaten their prejudices. The ...
Views: 644 - 10 Digestive Diseases Having Constipation And Other Bowel Related Symptoms - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2010 from Sandra Kim LeongYou can expect to experience constipation or uncomfortable bowel related symptoms when your digestive system is upset and not working properly. Your many symptoms can include bloating, gas, loose stools, nausea, weakness, dizziness and sweatiness. Serious life threatening complications can ...
Views: 988 - How to Communicate Effectively With Your Physician - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Dr. A. HesterMost Americans do not know how to communicate effectively and efficiently with their doctors, and this is through no fault of their own. After all, the average citizen cannot be expected to know the complicated scientific principles it took their doctor many years of intensive training to ...
Views: 2115 - Artificial Sweeteners Safety - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Connie LimonPeople naturally like the sensation of “sweetness.” There are foods naturally sweet that contain important nutrients to support health. These include: • Fruit • Breast milk Other benefits of sweet foods include: • Offering a pleasurable addition to a meal or snack • Helping to mask ...
Views: 787 - Energy and Vibration - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Margo KirtikarWe know today that we are all energy units! Albeit of different levels but energy units we are including buildings, furniture, food, and anything else that you see around you. In solid units such as we are, energy is held together to create matter, don’t ask me to go into the physics ...
Views: 1684 - Colectomies And Faith - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Tom WrightWhen I was only twenty-two years old, the doctors sat on the edge of my bed and quietly pronounced that I had two weeks to live. That was thirty years ago, after four years of being constantly sick, and weakened by blood loss from ulcerative colitis. Either I, or my colon, had to go. Instead of ...
Views: 919 - How To Treat Baby Eczema - by Submitted on May 13, 2007 from Evelyn LimYour baby may develop dry and scaly skin patches which many parents refer to as baby eczema. If the symptoms are found on the scalp of the baby, it is known as cradle crap. However, if the symptoms spread to all over his body, it is known generally as infantile seborrhoeic eczema. When the ...
Views: 6890(1 vote) - THE 3 KEYS TO UNLOCKING OPTIMAL ENERGY - by A feeling of vitality and high energy is basically the result of good sleep, good exercise, and sensible eating, along with an absence of disease. But there are right ways and wrong ways to achieve healthful energy.
1. Exercise
The principal problem for most is that it takes some ...
Views: 736 - The Biofeedback Way To Starve Stress - by If you're like me, then you've probably flirted briefly with some sort of meditation or guided-imagery technique in an attempt to give stress the slip. Unfortunately, I always ran into the same problem. After wrapping myself up into a reasonable facsimile of the lotus position, I'd close my eyes ...
Views: 1677(2 votes) - Go From Overwhelmed to Overjoyed - by All work and no play makes Jane a woman of the nineties, so say two recent surveys.
According to the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, stress ranks as the number-one problem of working women in America, especially for professionals in their thirties and forties and for single, ...
Views: 1061 - BE YOUNG AND HEALTHY BY BUILDING STRONG BONES - by Bones are the body's foundation. Having strong dense bones is essential to good posture, strength and balance. The quality of our skeletal structure has a direct impact on our appearance, vitality and energy level. The better we stand, walk and move around, the more youthful we will look and ...
Views: 706 - 3 REASONS TO TRY TEMPEH - SOY'S SUPER FOOD - by When most people hear soy, they usually think of tofu and soymilk. Soon tempeh (pronounced tem-PAY) will be one of the first soy products to come to mind. It is fast becoming the most popular soy food on the market because it is highly nutritious, easy to digest, and deliciously simple to ...
Views: 806 - THE HEALING POWER OF SOY'S ISOFLAVONES - by Numerous reports indicate that, because soy is high in isoflavones, it can prevent illness and promote good health. Isoflavones are a class of phytochemicals, which are compounds found only in plants (phyto means plant). They are also a type of phytoestrogen, or plant hormone, that resembles ...
Views: 897 - SIX WAYS SOY BENEFITS YOUR HEALTH - by Soy, and most soy-based products, are nutritional powerhouses. Soybeans are the only plant food that has all of the essential amino acids our body requires, making it a complete protein. Soy foods do not have any cholesterol, and most are high in fiber. Soy also has many vitamins, minerals, and ...
Views: 830 - HIGH-PROTEIN DIETS - ARE YOU LOSING MORE THAN WEIGHT? - by Protein is a vital nutrient, essential to your health. In its purest form, protein consists of chains of amino acids. There are 22 amino acids that combine to form different proteins, and 8 of these must come from the foods we eat. Our body uses these amino acids to create muscles, blood, skin, ...
Views: 832 - Letting Go of Grief - by Grief is an emotion that can lodge in the body tissues and the spirit. Although we usually think of grief as having to do with loss of a loved one or something highly valued like a job, grief can take less recognizable forms. Some common underlying sources of grief are mourning of one's own lost ...
Views: 2900 - My Chocolate Chip Cookie Diet: or, How to Lose Weight Without Deprivation - by First, let me tell you a little of my story. I am a behavioral therapist and I have lost a hundred pounds using the methods that I will describe. And I did it while being able to eat my husband's fabulous chocolate chip cookies (he's the one who labeled this a chocolate chip cookie diet). The ...
Views: 1794 - Detoxification Treatment For Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2010 from Sandra Kim LeongIf you have Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), your best line of defence appears to lie in ways to prevent your exposure to known allergens and irritants. This would give your body a chance to heal itself. However, you would find that it can be an almost impossible task to completely ...
Views: 1710 - Do you enjoy the sweetness of life? - by Do you enjoy the sweetness of Life?
Quick ways to ground yourself or your kids from the effects of sugar 'n spice
Sugar is powerful stuff. The right amount of it supports our self-awareness and strength of personality. Taken in excess, your moods swing like a pendulum. A crying jag from ...
Views: 1048 - The Bike - by I bought the bike to get more exercise. In my mind, I imagined losing a few extra pounds, and feeling healthier. But, my experiences with the bike proved to be far more fascinating and multidimensional than I could ever imagine. I went to the bike shop and picked out a sleek looking, black, ...
Views: 682 - Mindfulness: More Important Today than Ever - by Remember, counsels Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, that this moment is the only time over which you have dominion. The most important thing in your life, therefore, is the thing you are doing at the moment. The most important person in your life is the person you are with at the moment.
And if ...
Views: 830 - Mindfulness: More Important Today than Ever - by Remember, counsels Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, that this moment is the only time over which you have dominion. The most important thing in your life, therefore, is the thing you are doing at the moment. The most important person in your life is the person you are with at the moment.
And if ...
Views: 518 - ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY - by Cynthia Meier describes her second marriage, which ended when she was 32, as “four years of wedded bliss, one year of severe struggling.?And for three years after the divorce she “hung on like a pit bull,?says the 45-year-old operating room nurse, trying to retrieve the relationship with her ...
Views: 863 - SEX AND THE SOLITARY PERSON: Alternatives for Those Alone - by I feel like Ken Kesey's Nurse Ratched each time I say it, but my dog Buddy is much easier to live with since his operation, the one that makes men cross their legs in painful commiseration. He’s still ninety pounds of rough-and-tumble Australian Shepherd, but the primordial drive to become Alpha ...
Views: 1670(1 vote) - Sugar Cravings and Cancer - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Caroline SutherlandDespite the decade-long war on cancer – the fundraisers, the walk-a-thons, the lapel ribbons – there are more people diagnosed with cancer today than ever before. In my opinion, the war on cancer will not be won with some miracle drug or millions spent on research, but with a few simple ...
Views: 5443 - Connecting Panic, Fear and Rectal Bleeding - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Caroline SutherlandPicture a 56 year old woman who recently suffered from a financial setback. Her ex-husband who supported her and two children is now out of work and suddenly she is thrust into a state of panic. Over the years she has suffered from constipation and now because of the stress she is experiencing, ...
Views: 954 - Psoriasis, Eczema and Dandruff - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Caroline SutherlandDo you suffer from itchy, flaky skin on parts of your body or the soles of your feet? Do you have dandruff? Sometimes this itchiness can be particularly bothersome manifesting in large skin patches or deep grooves in the heels that bleed from time to time. Topical creams are only a temporary ...
Views: 2191 - Learn To Let Go And Flow With Life - by At any moment, your life is exactly the way that it is. You are the way you are and the people in your life are exactly the way that they are. This is true whether you like it or not.
When you fight and resist the way your life is, you create a state of fear and upset that almost always makes ...
Views: 9303 - How To Be Free Of Guilt - by The key to releasing guilt is to recognize that we all go through life doing the very best we can with the very limited skills and awareness that we have at the time.
Unfortunately, the awareness that we have is seldom enough. As a result, we make mistakes. Sometimes we make big ones.
Making ...
Views: 6231 - FAT LOSS - The Honest Answers - by Are you tired of losing body fat just to find it again? Feeling guilty about all the money you have spent, chasing the perfect answer, wishing for magic? Do yourself a favor and stop allowing the media and everyone else to take charge of your physique. Right Now! Whether you want to lose 25 ...
Views: 744 - What is Patient Centered Care and how is it Better? - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Leslie McKernsWith the advent of managed care, more patients are seen in shorter amounts of time and the amount of one-on-one time with the doctor seems to be on the verge of evaporating. Escalating pressures on the physician and the medical staff increase as health care approval agencies mandate more ...
Views: 14238 - The Three Bodies of Permanent Weight Loss - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Pete PantazisThe following words may seem taboo: weight loss is easy! We have just been going about it the wrong way. Almost all of the products and diets on the market today miss key components to achieving permanent weight loss. Almost all of them only focus on the physical body- what we eat, how much ...
Views: 688 - Use Natural Vision Correction to Improve Your Eyesight - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Brenda CyrWhen you think about improving your eyesight, natural therapies are not usually the first thing that occurs to you. Most people make an appointment with their eye doctor, and resign themselves to the fact that they will be buying new glasses, contact lenses, or maybe even the dreaded bifocals. ...
Views: 1024 - DIGESTIVE ENZYMES MY HELP YOU TO FEEL BETTER - by Enzymes are catalysts. They change food to usable form and are produced in the mouth, stomach, pancreas, liver and the intestinal tract. The three categories are: l. Metabolic enzymes - work in blood/organs. 2. Metabolic Digestive Enzymes - work in digestive organs. 3. Food Enzymes, in all raw ...
Views: 920 - Over Fifty and Unemployed - What's Next - by What can you say to a 52 year old, laid-off, director in telecommunications? I never planned my career dreaming this would ever happen to me. Always a top performer, dozen of headhunters calling every week tempting me to a more lucrative job, life was focused on retirement and enjoying the ...
Views: 2863(1 vote) - Introduction to Self Help - by Above all, what we as Americans prize are magic elixirs: simple solutions, closed and totalizing systems of explanation, grand schemes at once easy to understand, applicable to everything and everyone, and which thereby reduce the heart-stopping complexity of the world to a set of nostrums or ...
Views: 849 - Premenstrual tension - by This feature will deal with the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone, how they affect the monthly cycle and mood, how imbalances can occur resulting in premenstrual tension or syndrome (PMT or PMS), and how essential oils and other natural products can help.
To most people, the term ...
Views: 3150 - Do Vigorous Exercise Enthusiasts Need to Ingest Salt Tablets - by Submitted on May 10, 2007 from Connie LimonSweat does have salt in it; however, you do not need to ingest salt tablets after working out vigorously. Even sweating 1 to 3 quarts per hour of exercise would not require extra salt. In addition, if you train hard on a regular basis, you are not likely to develop a salt deficiency even with ...
Views: 1974 - What is Qigong? - by QIGONG
THE MOST PROFOUND MEDICINE
Is strenuous exercise necessary for health?
No. Good physical condition is required for competing athletes and does not insure good health. A trained athlete can have cancer and die from a heart attack. Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to have a heart valve ...
Views: 4159(1 vote) - Natural Cures for Depression Anxiety - by Submitted on May 10, 2007 from Ken ThoburnNatural and herbal remedies, although viewed with some caution in certain areas, are becoming more sought after. Many of these ancient remedies have been around for hundreds of years. Now they are manufactured to the highest pharmaceutical standards and formulated into dosages to effectively ...
Views: 570 - Possible Naturopathic Explanations for Female Infertility - by Submitted on May 10, 2007 from Dr. Pamela FrankOnce some of the more evident causes of infertility such as endometriosis and fibroids have been ruled out, infertility may be explained by the following: Implantation Problems – This is a significant cause of fertility problems and cannot be adequately assessed diagnostically. An ...
Views: 1207 - The Top 7 Guiding Principles to Extraordinary Weight Loss in 7 Days - by Submitted on May 10, 2007 from Dawn SandersThis is about scrubbing the cells of our body to uncover the vital, lean, happy, joyful being we were designed to be! That’s right: scrubbing, cleaning – detoxifying from the inside out and the outside in. Getting the junk out. You may be thinking… why do we want to focus on cleansing and ...
Views: 1817 - Best Diet for Weight Loss -- One Size Fits All - by Submitted on May 10, 2007 from Jason ClemensChances are that the topic of diets has come up a time or two in the course of your daily conversations, usually in the form of you or one of your friends confessing those familiar words... "I need to go on a diet." And even if you aren't trying to lose weight, the statistics would say that ...
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