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How a Healthy Lifestyle Benefits Your Mind as Well as Body

We all know that a healthy lifestyle, such as not smoking, keeping your weight down, eating right, regular exercise, and low moderate alcohol intake contributes to long-term health benefits. The recently Continue reading

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Can You Use Acupuncture for Weight Loss?

Everyone is looking for the secret to weight loss, without falling victim to the latest gimmicks. With so many different opinions about how to lose weight, it can be difficult Continue reading

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The Definitive Guide to Chronic Fatigue and Alternative Treatments

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a mysterious condition. There is no known cause. While the symptoms can be debilitating, there is no test to diagnosis it. Women are twice as Continue reading

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What Five Star Restaurants Teach You about Healthy Snacks for Kids

A fine meal at a good restaurant has many details. It uses fresh ingredients and interesting recipes. There is a variety of foods and the presentation is pleasing.
When food Continue reading

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How to Keep Your Teeth Healthy with Acupuncture

When you think of taking care of your teeth, do you think of acupuncture?
You probably don’t and that’s not unusual. Most people believe that brushing, flossing and a trip Continue reading

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Sticking to your New Year’s Resolution: The Trick is Not What You Think

It’s New Year’s again.  It’s time to make a resolution.
And you know the drill. You set goals.  You work on them for a couple of weeks.  You begin to Continue reading

How to Unhook Your Logical Brain and Gain New Insights on Last Year

You’ve probably heard of right-brained vs. left-brained activities.
Right-brained activities are creative, intuitive and subjective.  Left-brained activities are linear, analytical and logical.
It has been a popular myth Continue reading

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Interesting Ways to Help Your Kids Exercise in Winter

It’s cold and dark outside.
You come home with the kids and all you want to do is snuggle on the couch.
Snuggling in winter may be fun (and I’m Continue reading

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The Holiday Survival Toolkit: How to Not Drink at Parties (And Still Have Fun)

The holiday season is upon us and we all know what that means—parties.
Parties at work, parties at church, parties at school, fundraiser parties, caroling parties, Secret Santa parties…
It’s Continue reading

“He who has health, has hope.
He who has hope, has everything.”

- Arabian Proverb