Mary Desaulniers
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A runner for 27 years, retired schoolteacher and writer, Mary is now doing what she has always done--being engaged in what she loves--running, weight training, writing, helping people reclaim their bodies by seeing that weight is just matter that needs to be processed. Nutrition, exercise, positive vision and purposeful engagement are the tools used to turn this matter into creative selves. a body well-nourished is a mind well-served~ http://www.GreatBodyat50.com.
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Folk wisdom has always singled out fruits and vegetables as being indispensable for health, but it has only been within the last thirty years that we know why. Science and technology have isolated compounds in plants and vegetables that have literally been our life-savers. These are phytonutrients.Which fruits and vegetables provide the highest sources of phytonutrients?
The whole question of dieting or not dieting is inseparable from us, women, because of our ambivalent relationship with our bodies--we love it and we hate it. The authors of three books on the market explore this issue of body acceptance and provide suggestions on how women can re-think their relationships with their bodies.
Why is color important for our health? The fact that colors have psychological significance and that meditating on them can heal old, emotional wounds is the basis of Dr. John Diamond's breakthrough in Meditative therapy--the Diamond Color Meditation.
This article profiles Sharlene Mclearon, a Blue Matrix Practitioner. The Blue Matrix Energetics is a powerful system of connecting to the Universal Energy Source that comes from an understanding of the body's innate wisdom.
We have a population in North America that is more than 55% overweight. More than 20% of those overweight are considered obese, a situation that can be dire for our Health Care System because obesity is a risk factor for heart disease.
The effect of teen marketing and media images on our teenage population cannot be overstated. It is not surprising then that teenagers of both genders have distorted body images that often lead to unhealthy behaviors.
For more than fifteen years, the morning pages have been my daily writing help, the friend that coaxed me out of fear and inertia about putting words on paper and like the Nike slogan, urged me to "Just Do It!"
Can someone with dementia or Alzheimer's have an unconscious or subconscious awareness that his memory, his identity or sense of self has been lost in the shuffle? Does memory loss mean a total erasure of self?
You can trick the mind to get better sleep. The mind, after all, can be tricked into compliance, especially if you work at re-programming what it understands to be a time for wakefulness and a time for sleep.
There is evidence to show that placing houesplants in a bedroom can produce better sleep.
