AHEAD OF THE CURVE AT MIDLIFE- The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
- Osteoporosis Drugs Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Fractures and Brittle Bones in Some Women
- Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health – Even If You Work Out
- Most New Small-Business Jobs to Have a Woman as Top Boss
- Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss & Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition
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Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In a ten year study seeking to understand more attitudes affect our health, a team of researchers from Columbia University has found that, just as negative emotions such as anger, depression, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, feelings of happiness seems to protect the heart. Specifically, the study examined the impact [...]
Mar
9
Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health – Even If You Work Out
March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What fresh hell is this? It seems that the ante has been upped for couch potatoes, people who drive or who sit in front of computers for a living. Specialists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden are finding that prolonged periods of sitting are more harmful than what we’ve heretofore thought of as simply a [...]
Mar
6
Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss & Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition
March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is a special post for our special intuitives and Carolyn Myss fans. She is offering an online audio course with Dr. Norm Shealy, The Proven Power of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body’s Energy System beginning on March 16. I attended this course live with these two pioneers in energy medicine [...]
Mar
5
Skip the Botox, Do Facial Yoga Instead
March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment
For some common sense about face lifts we turn to the ancient art of yoga to discover that your facial muscles are like any other muscle – exercise tones them, and regular practice can keep sagging jowls at bay, your forehead smooth and eyelids in place. Who knew! Well, I jest, but I was [...]
Mar
3
Soft Drinks: America’s Other Drinking Problem
March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Many women who diligently watch their daily intake of calcium from greens, dairy products and supplements to protect their bone health, are unaware that they lose the benefits of their careful attention when they reach for a can of soda – while also increasing their risk for diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. [...]
Feb
22
An Eater’s Manual for Anyone Who Eats
February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto put forth three simple “rules” for eating healthily while being mindful of the impact your food choices make on the planet: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” His latest book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual uses these categories, but adds what he’s learned about [...]
Feb
20
Tips from Chinese Medicine on Staying Healthy During Deep Winter
February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In Winter’s Emotional Weather it’s suggested that winter is a time when energy retreats deep inside the body. According to traditional Chinese medicine, lifestyle choices should shift with the changing seasons, and winter is a time to explore the interior landscape of your body as well as your thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Physically, stretching, yoga [...]
Feb
16
Vitamin D and You at Midlife
February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Vitamin D is in the news a lot, and it’s wise at this stage of life to pay attention. Why? Because vitamin D deficiency has been linked to many chronic diseases that tend to emerge later in life – from cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and depression, to fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, bone [...]
Feb
14
This Valentine’s Day, Develop the Second Most Important Quality in Your Relationship
February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
When asked what the second most important quality to develop in a relationship is, beyond mutual recognition of spiritual awareness, counselors, teachers and author of several books including their classics, A Shared Heart, Models of Love & The Heart’s Wisdom, Joyce Vissell, RN, MS & Barry Vissell, MD would respond with a litany of qualities [...]
Feb
12
Winter’s Emotional Weather
February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This new series explores how becoming aware of the impact of seasonal change on health and well being can provide insight and new tools to guide your actions and improve your quality of life.
It’s not coincidental that, instead of celebrating the new year a week after the winter solstice, the Chinese calendar falls nearer [...]
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