Apr
16
Soft Drinks and Midlife Bones Are Not a Good Mix
April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Of the many things I can thank my mother for is that she never let her girls develop a taste for (read: addiction to) soft drinks. Back in the 60s when Coca Cola began coming out in 6 oz bottles, two was our weekly limit. Raised on a large farm in northern Hungary, she didn’t need [...]
Apr
13
Build Strong Bones Prevent Osteoporosis: New Program Begins April 22
April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Women Doing It for Themselves: 8 Steps to Building Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality Master the essentials and become your own most powerful ally in safeguarding and building your bone vitality for life A drug-free and natural way to reverse or prevent osteoporosis and osteopenia without side effects If you are one of the millions [...]
Apr
11
A Role for Yoga in Heart Disease, Breast Cancer Recovery and Diseases of Aging
April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
“We know that inflammation plays a major role in many diseases …and yoga appears to be a simple and enjoyable way to add an intervention that might reduce risks for developing heart disease, diabetes and other age-related diseases … [it's] an easy thing people can do to help reduce their risks of illness.” This was [...]
Apr
7
A reminder from Christiane Northrup, M.D., in our continuing series on bone health and preventing osteoporosis: Healthy bones need magnesium as much as they need calcium and vitamin D. Without enough magnesium, too much calcium gets inside cells and can cause cramping and constriction. While calcium is emphasized to mineralize bones, magnesium controls the entry [...]
Mar
29
The Heart in the Brain: Shift Your Perceptions, Manage Your Emotions and Reduce Stress to Prevent Heart Disease
March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Many wisdom traditions around the world speak of the heart as harboring its own Intelligence. Though I suspect many of us intuited a spark of truth in it, given the image of the mechanical pump we grew up with, it’s a notion we’ve tended to view metaphorically. Well, we were right! Over the last two [...]
Mar
23
More on Positive Emotions Plus a Tool to Increase Happiness and Benefit Your Heart
March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In light of just having shared the benefits of happiness and positive emotions on heart disease, we’ll share a resource and reprint an excerpt from our monthly newsletter about research on positivity. (Commercial pause: sign up to stay current on cutting edge research on body, mind, emotion and spirit health and vitality.) How negative are [...]
Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | 1 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 and [...]
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 happy [...]
