Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet, Change Your Life, Change Your World

September 20, 2009

Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet, Change Your Life, Change Your World
by Jordan Rubin with Bernard Bulwer, M.D.
Epidemics of obesity and chronic disease are obvious in our society. And more and more is written about the connection between these conditions and what we eat.
Jordan Rubin researches and writes about ways we can change our approach [...]

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How Vigilant are You in Avoiding Genetically Modified Foods?

September 19, 2009

There’s talk about the dangers of genetically modified foods… GMOs.  The big food processing corporations want you to think they’re perfectly safe, and they work diligently to prevent you from even learning through product labeling whether or not a particular food has genetically modified ingredients.
The more we know about the relationship between the food we [...]

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Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet

September 17, 2009

Get the Sugar Out, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet,
by Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS
Ann Louise Gittleman, a certified clinical nutritionist specializing in weight loss, cleansing diets and natural hormone replacement therapy and a leading teacher at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, [...]

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When Food Is Food and Love Is Love, A Step-by-Step Spiritual Program to Break Free from Emotional Eating

September 16, 2009

When Food Is Food and Love Is Love: A Step-by-Step Spiritual Program to Break Free from Emotional Eating
by Geneen Roth
I’ve dealt with emotional eating for decades… the ice cream, then potato chips, then chocolate.  And although I’ve found physiological reasons, the emotional habit has been more difficult to change.
Geneen Roth has worked for almost three [...]

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Forced Mumps Vaccine on Maine Campus

August 9, 2009

I remember the mumps…swollen face, fever, chills…the works. (It was also the first time I became aware of the Law of Attraction in my life but that’s another story.) I was miserable for about a week while my mother and my immune system worked their magic, then I was fine.
I even remember my father’s mumps [...]

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Cancer and Stroke from Barbecue? A Few Easy Fixes…

August 8, 2009

There’s still plenty of summer left here in the Virginia foothills for backyard barbecues.  The local farmers’ market tables are overflowing with fresh corn, ripe tomatoes, sweet watermelon.  Add local, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, grass-fed beef, and you’ve got the makings of scrumptious meal.
Okay, so there are health risks to this good old American tradition…and they’re on [...]

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E-coli, IGF-1, Antibiotics, and Pus in Every Glass of Milk…Yum!

August 1, 2009

When I taught research methods to my high school students, I used the example “Milk Does A Body Good” to teach them about source and bias.
“What do these ads suggest to you?”
“That milk is good for us. That’s what we’ve always been taught. It has lots of calcium and stuff we need for our bones.”
“So, [...]

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