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Staying healthy, for most of us, follows the same basic strategy — moderation, moderation, moderation. Still, it’s no guarantee that something won’t afflict you sooner or later. When you get sick, it can wreak havoc financially and otherwise, and having a support system becomes critical. While researchers try their hardest to cure ailments (for the greater good or personal gain), it is up to us to be smart patients, and demand for what’s best for us.

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Six Things I Might Never Understand.
Sarah Smiles Awhile

1.)  How some people can go days and days or sometimes weeks without washing their hair.  I just don’t get it.  As a hairstylist, this has been one of the most elusive things for me to try and understand about people.  I’ve come across many perfectly put together people, who just don’t like/or want to have clean hair.  Maybe the natural oils give them more body or control over their hair, or maybe they just like the organic smell of dirty hair. Okay, so I love Edward too, but Robert Pattinson is said to go weeks without washing his hair. Even though I'm Team Edward, I've got to say EEEW. I once overheard a boss telling a client, “You only need to wash your hair once a month.”  The client said, “Wow, really?!”  To which he replied, “Oh yes, I haven’t washed my hair in over two months.  I just rinse it out, and layer more conditioner on it.”  Uhhhh…Say what?!  I may never understand this concept.  I think I

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Whose business is your fitness?
Food Blogger on a Diet

Photo from Paulh With the new year, the gym is bouncing full of people, and online I”m seeing a lot more health-related activity as well. I wish all the new healthy living – weight loss bloggers & individuals a lot of willpower to keep up the fight and reinforcement to continue on your journey! Last week I came back from my own vacation and I was doubly glad I wasn’t starting something new but continuing the trend. I was really excited to get back to the gym. But I had a very sobering moment. I hadn’t looked at my SO’s photos of our trip last year to Thailand during the same time period (New Year’s). This is mainly because I’m usually behind the camera myself so I spend plenty of time looking back at my own pictures. But I finally saw one, and I saw a terrible terrible picture of myself. I was shocked, really. I remember the trip as being great, and really enjoying Thailand. I knew I was heavier but now looking back at that picture, I didn

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PM’s health numbers ‘pretty good’
I-Witness News

This April 2011 file photo shows Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves as he addressed Vincentian in Taiwan. Gonsalves at the time used a cane and wore an orthopaedic stocking to cope with the flight to Taiwan because of a leg injury. He said this week that he began last July to take care of himself in a more focused way. KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, 66, said on Wednesday that he was feeling good in relations to his heath at the beginning of the New Year. Gonsalves, who, like Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace, has a large, pronounced belly, said he began paying closer attention to his health last July. “I want to say at the beginning of the New Year I feel very good. My numbers in respect of my health are pretty good since July last year when I went on a focused programme of taking better care of myself than I had done hitherto,” he told reporters. “I do all the checks, all the blood tests at intervals. I did in July as I began, in August, in October and I j

7 weeks to wellness: the clean challenge
Jamila Owens-Todd, N.D.

clear the chemicals: Can we truly clean our bodies with harsh chemicals? The toxic-chemical reports are continuously increasing (i.e. Johnson and Johnson’s Baby Shampoo). There are dangerous carcinogens (cancer-causing) being used next to some of the most precious, and most intimate areas of our bodies. Would you use the same soap on an adult that you would on a baby? If not, then why would you throw all caution to the wind with young children. Children, whose hormone systems are in their infancy of developing. Adolescents on Accutane should be a federal crime. If you have truly exhausted the catalogue of natural products for clearing acne or healing damaged skin, then maybe…maybe consider the use of a heavy, prescription drug with even heavier side effects. Explore the alternatives. They exist and with great results. The difficulty with this challenge is the risk of not looking as good as we are accustomed to. Yes, it takes time to get adjusted to more natural makeup products. Finding

Is your Yoga teacher for real?!
Jessica's Ashram
People With Goals
eitheory.com
College girl’s instant beauty drink
Underrated Gems
Mostly Plants….
Livin' Lyssa
Something To Talk About
Angels&Demons
FIERCE Friday: Water Water Everywhere, but Which One to Drink?
GETFIERCE TRAINING
Turning Shades of Green
Maggie Mae's Days
Study: Some Parents are “Stretching” Baby Formula Too Far
fox4kc.com – Kansas City news & weather from WDAF TV – FOX 4

[ooyala code="MyMDVjMzr_xzS7j04lGl5OpSlgwQFZgU"] KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Some parents are diluting their baby’s formula, according to a new study, and experts say that could have some bad health consequences for their children. FOX 4 Medical Reporter Meryl Lin McKean is Working for You with more on how some parents are resorting to “stretching” even though they get some formula free through the government.

Can Vinegar Cure Cancer?
Energy Medicine and Health

Otto Warburg, a nobel laureate claimed decades ago that cancer cannot exist in a well oxygenated environment. Cancer cells operate in order to survive by anaerobic metabolism(without oxygen) and this means that cancer cells live on subsistent levels of energy(ATP) production. In fact cancer cells are typically surrounded by a pool of lactic acid(the by-product of anaerobic metabolism), which on its own can reduce oxygen levels to a mere 5% of the environment of normal tissues. This acid pool acts as a barrier to oxygen being carried to cancer cells, and the rate of removal of the acids must exceed the rate at which they are being generated or else the condition is not curable. Dmso(a penetrant) is a bio-oxative transport molecule that penetrates the body easily, and donates oxygen to low oxygenated tissues. It has been proven, in vitro to convert cancer cells into normal cells. It breaks up the cancer, and the associated acids, by providing oxygen, and allowing the restoration of norma

Unfriend
She BANGS

If junk food had a facebook page, I would have unfriended it. But only after sending one last message. Dear Junk Food, It’s nothing personal. It just hasn’t been a healthy relationship. I find it best if we took a break since I’ve become so dependent, borderline obssessed with you. I need time to figure things out- without you . Sincerely, Me —————————————————– Whoever has had and or is still dealing with weight issues knows what I’m taking about. I got a raise at work? Let’s go out to dinner and celebrate. I got in a fight with my significant other? I’ll drown in a tub of ice cream. And brownies. And donuts. I’m at home, bored watching tv? I wonder what’s in the fridge/cabinet. My world revolved around food! And not the good kind. The past several weeks I’ve been retraining myself and trying to change my relationship with foo

Back on Track
Journey to Healthy

Starting tomorrow I am going to get back on track with this blog. Post as often as possible and show you what I am eating and what my workout schedule is like! I have still lost more weight but I have quite a bit to go!! So I will give recipes and meal plans and my workout routine! Let’s hope it goes awesome!!! Rachel

Man with two hearts survives double heart attack!
Hot chocolate and books

Check this out guys: Man with two hearts survives double heart attack | The Sideshow – Yahoo! News.

Tea kettle or pressure cooker?
daniswisdom

You’re probably scratching your head wondering what the heck this title has to do with self improvement, health, and well-being.  Well, the title itself has absolutely nothing to do with those topics.  However, the concept has everything to do with them all. Stress has been labeled a killer.  However, it’s really not the stress that kills.  It’s  how we handle it.  My question to you is, are you a tea kettle or a pressure cooker? A tea kettle begins “venting” steam when the pressure begins. It gradually releases the steam, (venting), slowly and evenly.  Thus maintaining a safe level of pressure.  A pressure cooker blows steam all at once when it has reached its limit, sometimes even exploding.  When the water reaches the boiling point at atmospheric pressure it begins to boil, but since the produced steam in the pressure cooker cannot escape, the pressure rises.  Thus raising the internal boiling point.  Once the pressure increases to the set level above air pressure, a relief valve op

What’s green and yellow and tastes like forest?
Burn the Manual
31 Day Reset – Day 30 – My eulogy
luvndanaturalme

I am participating in the 31 Day Reset which is a life coaching challenge hosted by Rosetta Thurman on her blog Happy Black Woman. So far I have really been enjoying the challenge and I hope that you enjoy following me along on this challenge. If you are interested in doing the challenge, click here. I am way overdue for completing this exercise. To be honest I did not know what to say about myself. I tried writing my eulogy four different times and it just did not come out right. I decided that this is not the exercise for me. I have enjoyed most of the exercises in this challenge but not this one. Sorry to disappoint.

The Story of a Graduate
ATI Photoblog

We LOVE hearing from our graduates. With every success story that comes our way, we work that much harder to make sure we’ll always have stories to hear. This one comes to us from Justin, a graduate of Highfields.   Justin, we’re so proud of you. Not only are you a wonderful writer, but you achieved something amazing. There are very few people out there who can say they’ve accomplished what you have. Congratulations on graduating from Middlesex Community College! We know you’re going to keep on being an inspiration to everyone around you, and we’re so glad to have had the pleasure of being a part of that. All we can say is WOW!     The best of luck to you,     Your friends at American Training and Highfields             Highfields is a component of American Trainings Mental Health Branch, it is a therapeutic setting that serves at risk youth in Lawrence. There, they learn independent living skills, rec