The Best Policy
By Wayne Mitchell - 1/4/2008
Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 28, 2003 How do I help a former friend let go of a friendship that`s not working for me? This woman, I`ll call her "Anne," is a life coach. We met last year and hit it off as friends. The problem for me is the vast majority of our conversation centered ...
Create Your Own Home Spa
By Rebecca White - 1/4/2008
No need to go spend money at a spa! There are a few things you can to do in your bathroom that can turn any ordinary bathroom into a place for you to relax and unwind from the pressures of everyday living: Light candles any kind and lots enough to light up the whole room. Choose your favorite scen...
Lung Cancer - the Truth, the Story
By Ann Knight - 1/4/2008
Lung cancer has now become the deadliest of all forms of cancer in many developed countries including the USA where about 170,000 people die from the disease each year. Worldwide this type of cancer kills an estimated 3.5 million people a year; a startling statistic when you consider it`s largely pr...
Malignant Mesothelioma Research
By Elizabeth Morgan - 1/4/2008
Malignant mesotheliomas are highly aggressive cancers, usually linked to asbestos exposure. Most patients survive approximately one year after diagnosis, and only seven percent of patients make it past five years. If not diagnosed early, these cancers are extremely difficult to treat. However, ea...
Can Thinking Make You Fat?
By Sheri Zampelli - 1/4/2008
What if your thinking creates your body? Take the example of Daisy. She always felt like she?d look better if she lost 5 or 10 pounds. From the time she was 16-years-old, she said things like, ?I?d like to go swimming but I?m too fat to wear a bathing suit.? Or, ?What guy would want to date a fa...
You Can Take A Vacation From Stress Whenever You Desire
By Abbas Abedi - 1/4/2008
You can go to faraway places with white sandy beaches and clear azure skies in the blink of an eye. You can go back in time to the days of prehistoric monsters or you forward to the world of tomorrow. You can even fill your eyes with tears one moment and laugh out loud the next. Reading a book is on...
A Gorgeous Flooring for Yoga and Exercise, Tatami Interlocking Mats
By David Bobby - 1/4/2008
Tatami interlocking floor mats are presented by InterlockingFloorMat.com. This Tatami mat is new generation and comfortable flooring for Yoga, Martial Arts and Exercise Schools. Most of Yoga, Martial Arts, Karate, Judo, Child-care Centers, Fitness and Exercise centers require a comfortable and safe ...
How to Make Sandwich Rolls with Your Bread Machine
By Dennis R Weaver - 1/4/2008
For that next picnic or family outing, consider making sandwich rolls with your bread machine. They are quick and easy and so much better than what you buy from the stores. Take any bread machine mix. Mix according to the package directions but set your machine on the ?dough? setting so that the m...
Give Yourself The Greatest Gift
By Chris Green - 1/4/2008
Would you be interested in having such a gift? Hmm, let me
guess! The good news is that YOU CAN. The gift I`m talking
about is personal responsibility. Let me share with you
precisely why this gift is the best you will ever receive! When you decide to take personal responsibility for your
whole life...
Your Health is Important Get Fit For Life
By Martin Smith - 1/4/2008
Choosing fitness equipment for your personal use can be a rather daunting task. You can?t turn on the TV without seeing ads that promise or imply that if you buy their exercise product and use it for 10-20 minutes a day you will have a slimmer trimmer body. We all want to look better but be wary, ch...
Learning the Secret of Contentment (Part 2)
By Saundra L. Washington - 1/4/2008
Paul?s encouragement to the Philippians is also our encouragement. Consider his afflictions and trials:
- I was beaten 5 times by the Jews with a whip - 3 times I was beaten with rods - Once I was stoned - 3 times I was shipwrecked - On many of my missionary journeys, I was in danger ...
How Stress Effects Neurotransmitters
By Bev Storer - 1/4/2008
The brain uses feel-good transmitters called endorphins when managing daily stress. When the brain requires larger amounts of endorphins to handle increased stress, the ratio of many of the other transmitters, one to another, becomes upset creating a chemical imbalance. We begin to feel stress mor...
9 Tips to Stop Food Cravings and Help You With Your Diet
By Emily Clark - 1/4/2008
Most of us are "regular" people. We don`t eat the perfect diet
all the time and have our struggles with food, same as everyone
else. But having an awareness of this fact and knowing a little
bit about our health and food nutrition can help when it comes to
making wise decisions. Many people struggle...
Medical Tests: What Does a "Normal Range" Mean?
By Gary Cordingley - 1/4/2008
We have a marvelous array of medical tests available to us. Many of them?typically blood-tests?even come with results expressed in numbers signifying the exact quantity of something that was measured. On laboratory reports these measured quantities are often accompanied by a "normal range" for what ...
Life Happens
By Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. - 1/4/2008
Shit happens. I know this to be a fact, because I read it on a t-shirt. ;-) It`s one of those simple truths that most people agree with, even though they may not like the crude language. Life is full of unwelcome surprises. It does not progress in a flawless path, no matter how hard you try, no ...
Glimpsing Your Personal Heaven
By Rebecca Skeele - 1/4/2008
In my private practice for the past 13+ years I have discovered
how hungry we are to find deep fulfillment and loving, make wise
choices for ourselves and the planet, and walk in union with our
higher guidance. Yet our days are filled with endless, empty lists of have-tos,
shoulds, and must-dos. Qua...
La Minita Coffee ? It?s in the Green Beans
By Jim Cameron - 1/4/2008
La Minita; Spanish for ?The Little Gold Mine? says it all. La Minita is arguably the best coffee in the world and is sipped by the who?s who in the specialty coffee industry as well as by those of us who have access to it in our businesses. Similar to the wine industry, the best coffees are not al...
Spirituality: Waiting For God To Rescue You?
By Nick Arrizza, M.D. - 1/4/2008
If you subscribe to some form of religion it is likely that you have more than once found yourself praying to your God for help of some kind. What is the nature of the help that you have been asking for? Well in most cases it likely has the quality of asking your God to help remedy a problem in some...
Ghost of Binge Past
By Dolletta Mitchell - 1/4/2008
Holidays and special events should be a time of great joy, but dieters customarily imagine these occasions with dread and horror. Why? Because celebrations are not celebrations without lots of high-calorie, tempting foods. Does this suggest that you have to become a social-scrooge to duck temptat...
Bread Baking Made Easy
By Beth Scott - 1/4/2008
Don?t you just hate it when you follow a recipe to the letter and when the bread baking is finished the bread not only looks nothing like the recipe book?s picture, but tastes terrible as well? There is no denying that bread baking as with baking anything is a delicate process. Bread ...
The Clichés of Success
By Leslie Fieger - 1/4/2008
The problem with writing about success is that almost everything ends up sounding like a cliché. It has all been said before. It has all been read or heard before. There are no new secret formulas; no new tricks to creating success or being successful; nothing new to write about. If you are reading ...
Team Building - Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts
By Alan Hunt - 1/4/2008
When was the last time that you heard the phrase "variety is the spice of life"? In what context was it used? Was it applied to experiences? Well - it can be. Was it applied to teams? Well - it should be! And team building can help it add that spice. My definition of a team is one in which the who...
Parasites: The Missing Diagnosis?
By Cori Young - 1/4/2008
Parasites, commonly thought of as only affecting those in developing countries, actually affect 1 in 6 people in North America and are the most common disease condition in the world. For many chronic conditions this can be the missing diagnosis. For example, amebiasis can be misdiagnosed as Chron`s ...
Acidophilus: Lactobacillus Acidophilus ABC
By Hector Milla - 1/4/2008
Lactobacillus acidophilus is a lactic acid producing bacteria. Some scientifics think that acidophilus have beneficial effects on digestion and overall health. Acidophilus can be found in yogurt and other dairy products, which named acidophilus as probiotics. Acidophilus aids digestive system, beca...
More Tips on Getting the Best Coffee Maker
By John C. Baker - 1/4/2008
It`s unbelievable, but when you start your search for a new coffee maker, you will find a huge variety to choose from. The first step in choosing the right one is deciding what type you want. This depends on what kind of drinks you want to prepare. Your basic decision here is if you want traditional...
Being Romantic for a Change
By Marwa Ayad - 1/4/2008
Honestly, I do not know anyone who is romantic nowadays other than me and a few people I have met online. Is romance fading from our lives? And why is it always looked at as a silly trivial thing? Are not dreamy romantic people considered losers by some? For me, romance is simply life. I have a roma...
After WLS: Silica Vitamin Helps Slow Hair Loss
By Kaye Bailey - 1/4/2008
The question of hair loss comes up all the time in the LivingAfterWLS community. Is there anything we can do to prevent hair loss or at least decrease the severity of it? Some bariatric centers say there is nothing to be done, that patients have to just live with the hair loss as part of the gastric...
Is There Chocolate After Weight Loss Surgery?
By Kaye Bailey - 1/4/2008
If there is one food people are emotional about it?s chocolate. We love it, want it, crave it, fear it. Thoughts of chocolate evoke tender feelings of comfort and self-pampering. We associate chocolate with happy times and consider it a must-have tonic in times of stress and anxiety. With Valentine?...
Is Your Life A Minefield ?
By John Giagkiozis - 1/4/2008
Why everything has to be so hard? What have I done to deserve such torment and pain? I seems like everything and everyone around me have conspired against me. Every time I manage to find a balance in my life something happens and destroys it all. Its like I?m cursed, yeah that?s it I?m cursed, there...
Garbage In Its Place
By Dave Brummet - 1/4/2008
There is nothing worse than seeing garbage blowing down
the street of your neighborhood, or finding broken shards of
glass at the local swimming hole where children play.
Wildlife is just as vulnerable to garbage and many have lost
their lives after becoming tangled in waste or mistaking
garbag...
Natural Male Enhancement Pills: One Of The Biggest Scams On The Internet?
By Van Whitsett - 1/4/2008
Do natural male enhancement pills really work? The short answer: Some do, some don`t. 99% of them are
rip-off pills which are nothing more than vitamin pills. What you should know from the outset is that some penis pill
companies are being sued and put out of business. This is
all to the consumer`s ...
The Real Deal About The Medicare 2006 Plan
By Bill Rustin - 1/4/2008
Nearly one year after congress passed the Medicare and prescription drug plan, both sides are still debating its supposed benefits, or detriments. Unfortunately, many of the people who will be affected by the Medicare changes still don`t know where to turn. What follows is an initial analysis of wha...
Latest Techniques Deliver Painless Hair Transplants
By Richard Mitchell - 1/4/2008
The recent development of improved hair transplant techniques ensures that patients can now benefit from pain-free surgery.
Unlike the older techniques that could be painful and cause unsightly scarring, the Woods Technique of Follicular Relocation is minimally invasive, painless and leads t...
The Food Industry & the "Porkifying" of America
By Timothy Stelly Sr - 1/4/2008
Obesity in America is an epidemic that not only threatens the quality of American living, but American lives. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that roughly a third of Americans are overweight, with 20 percent of us qualifying as obese. During the last two decades. there has been an annual 1 ...
Managing Anxiety - Anxiety & Panic
By Joanne King - 1/4/2008
Is there really a way to manage your anxiety? The answer is yes. I know of many little nick knacks that can lessen the severity and reduce the amount of attacks and decrease how often they happen. But honestly do you really want to learn to ?manage? your attacks? I?ve got to ask why anyone would wan...
[Emotional Health] Are You Feeling In Control?
By Charlie Badenhop - 1/4/2008
When it is all said and done, do you feel like you stay on an even keel emotionally most of the time? Here is a story about how easy it is to lose one`s emotional balance. Recently, I was coming home from an evening business meeting in Tokyo. I walked a block, and like all good citizens do in Japan,...
The Benefits of Protein Powders
By Scott White - 1/4/2008
I know protein is good for me, but do I need a supplement? Whey, egg, casein and soy ? which one protein is right for me and what does each one do? Let?s get the facts straight. Protein exists in virtually everything that moves and makes sounds, or in almost any animal. Primary dietary protein sourc...
How to be Healthier and Happier In Your Organisation
By Lorraine Pirihi - 1/4/2008
Did you know your work environment can actually make you sick? The affects of airconditioning Research has shown that airconditioning can cause allergies, respiratory infections, asthma, fatigue and headaches. And that`s just a few things. If you don`t believe me, have a look at what some of your wo...
Living with More Energy and Joy
By Lori Radun - 1/4/2008
The most common complaint of mothers today is that they are tired. Being a mom is hard work. I love Dr. Phil. He always says, "Being a stay at home mom is like having two full time jobs." Following that logic, moms who work from home actually have three full-time jobs. It`s exhausting just thinkin...
New Adventures - in Four Hours a Day
By Jan Verhoeff - 1/4/2008
"Can you find four extra hours in your day?" a voice came over the speaker on my office phone, first telemarketer call of the day. I chuckled and answered, "Not this week." "But Mom, you aren`t VERY busy." My daughter adlibs as I turn back to the project at hand. A business plan due the next day, ...
Ephedra Product Ban
By Anna Henningsgaard - 1/4/2008
Ephedra is a naturally occuring herbal dietary supplement that has been marketed as a weight loss drug. The principal active ingredient is an amphetamine-like compound. Because it has been marketed as an herbal supplement and not a drug, you may not have considered talking to your doctor about it, b...
Lowering Blood Pressure Using Acupuncture
By Groshan Fabiola - 1/4/2008
Acupuncture is here for long time. Its authenticity is still a debatable issue. But the recent study that the acupuncture can dramatically lower blood pressure. According to this study, when low level of electrical stimulation was given at specific points on the front legs of rats lower the elevatio...
Ambrotose Complex
By Theryssa Gossman - 1/4/2008
Mannatech`s patent-pending glyconutrients complex, Ambrotose, is perhaps the greatest wellness discover in the last 50 years. By understanding it, you are in a better position to help others realize that they too would have this phenomenal nutrient Ambrotose complex working on their behalf as well. ...
Recommendations For Early Breast Cancer Screening
By Brenda Witt - 1/4/2008
Women need to empower themselves about the benefits and risks of mammography and examine the additional screening tools available today. One current philosophy suggests breast health screening should begin at age 25. Where does this recommendation come from and why is this valid? For MOST women, t...
Stress Management and Creating Balance
By Gwen Stewart - 1/4/2008
The World Health Organization calls stress "the health epidemic of the 21st century." Stress resulting in illness is the causative factor underlying more than 70% of all visits to the family doctor, medical doctors suggest. What is stress? We all talk about it but what does `stress` mean and how ...
Obesity & Social Security: Can One Get Disability for Obesity?
By Jerry Lutkenhaus - 1/4/2008
Social Security has a set of Impairment Listings. At one time "obesity" had an impairment listing. Thus, if the applicant was of a certain height and weight, then the applicant received Disability. For example, if you were 5`2" and 300 pounds, then you were well on your way to winning a Disabilit...
Get Hemorrhoid Relief from Herbal Remedies
By Rudy Silva - 1/4/2008
Here are four different herbs that can give you hemorrhoid relief and help to get rid of your hemorrhoids. Using these herbs is a convenient and cost effective way to treat your hemorrhoid symptoms. Use these herbs just long enough to give you hemorrhoid relief. Once you see that your symptoms hav...
Communication: The Key
By Savio Joseph - 1/4/2008
What is the difference between big hair stylist and normal hair dressers? Why people prefer these famous hairstylists rather than one who works in their nearby salon? Let talk about Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie and Robert Lobetta who actually are the legends not only the hair dressers that`s what th...
Diabetes Is Beatable - Part 1
By Yolanda Yvette McDonald - 1/24/2007
Many people, like yourself, are either victims of or know people who are victims of diabetes. I myself have been diagnosed as Pre-Diabetic, so I have a chance to reverse things if I modify my behavior.
The Cost of Diabetes
"In a recent speech the United States Centers For Disease Control repor...
The Power of Ice
By Louise Roach - 1/24/2006
Using ice to treat injuries is one of the oldest methods of pain control. Proven to be safe and effective at reducing swelling, relieving pain and decreasing muscle spasms, ice therapy is an easy self-care technique that anyone can administer. Every mother knows to put ice on a bruised knee after ...
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