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	<title>AHEAD OF THE CURVE AT MIDLIFE</title>
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	<description>Progressive resources for women on health, conscious aging, work, life, and ourselves in the second half of life</description>
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		<title>Osteoporosis Drugs Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Fractures and Brittle Bones in Some Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Do you know what a &#8220;low energy femoral shaft and subtrochanteric fracture&#8221; is?  If you take a drug like Fosamax for osteoporosis or osteopenia, now is the time to get informed. These words, added to Fosamax inserts, warn that taking this drug increases your risk of fracturing your femur, or thigh bone, even during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/03/10/osteoporosis-drugs-like-fosomax-may-increase-risk-of-fractures-and-brittle-bones-in-some-women/</link>
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		<title>Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health &#8211; Even If You Work Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve heretofore thought of as simply a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/03/09/long-periods-of-sitting-is-harmful-for-your-health-even-if-you-work-out/</link>
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		<title>Most New Small-Business Jobs to Have a Woman as Top Boss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, co-author of Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, and CEO of 20-first, a company that helps organizations develop more inclusive leadership styles, gender-balance in their management teams and better respond to women as employees and consumers &#8211; one in three new US jobs in next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/03/07/most-new-small-business-jobs-to-have-a-woman-as-top-boss/</link>
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		<title>Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss &amp; Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Energy System  beginning on March 16. I attended this course live with these two pioneers in energy medicine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/03/06/live-online-course-with-carolyn-myss-norm-shealy-the-science-of-medical-intuition/</link>
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		<title>Skip the Botox, Do Facial Yoga Instead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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 &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/03/05/skip-the-botox-do-facial-yoga-instead/</link>
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		<title>Soft Drinks: America&#8217;s Other Drinking Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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 &#8211; while also increasing their risk for diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/03/03/soft-drinks-americas-other-drinking-problem/</link>
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		<title>Defining Moments: Act on Your Insights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this beautifully written essay simple and powerful. Psychotherapist Mel Schwartz describes insights as initiators of change &#8211; but only if we pay homage to them. As forerunners of our growth, he says, they need our attention. If we don&#8217;t commit to our fragile new insights, we simply aren&#8217;t taking ourselves seriously enough.
From time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/02/28/defining-moments/</link>
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		<title>Letting Go: A Practice to Forgive, Forget and Heal Hurts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ While you&#8217;re reviewing your intentions for the year and deciding what you want to let go of and what you want to take with you this year, releasing a hurt, thought, injury or old issue may well be on your agenda.  Use this simple process as a tool to help you. A ritual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/02/26/letting-go-ritual/</link>
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		<title>Eckhart Tolle TV: Creating a New Earth Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eckhart Tolle, the runaway bestselling author of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life&#8217;s Purpose, and The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, continues to inspire with his stated goal of creating an online community intended to help usher in a new state of consciousness into the world. A long time in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/02/24/eckhart-tolle-tv-creating-a-new-earth-together/</link>
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		<title>An Eater&#8217;s Manual for Anyone Who Eats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pollan&#8217;s  In Defense of Food: An Eater&#8217;s Manifesto put forth three simple &#8220;rules&#8221; 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&#8217;s learned about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com/2010/02/22/an-eaters-manual-for-anyone-who-eats/</link>
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