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Stressed? Have A Talk With Your Body!
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
Ilana Rubenfeld Ph.D knows first hand what having a conversation with your body means. A gifted violinist at the Julliard School of Music, Rubenfeld was well on her way to become the first woman conductor ...
Obesity and Heart Disease
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
We only have to look at a Titian painting to recognize that at one point in the history of Western culture, fat was considered beautiful. Before the 20th Century, corpulence was touted as a sign ...
The Truth About Senior Moments
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
We all have our moments when the word stays paralyzed in our throat. We can see the face, hear the voice, but we struggle to name who it is we have in our mind. Most ...
Beyond Bra Fit
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
According to O magazine, 85% of women are wearing the wrong size bra. Most of us tend to misread the size of our bust and settle for the bra fit that we think sounds most ...
The New Anti-Wrinkle Treatment
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
We are bombarded on all fronts with new anti-wrinkle treatments and new sophisticated skin regimen that are supposed to take years off the face—microdermabrasion, botox injections, face lifts and laser resurfacing. More than ever, we ...
The Bodysuit
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
If you want to look polished outside, make sure that what you wear inside is up to snuff. The inner world mirrors the outer one, so we are told in philosophical circles; nowhere is this ...
Foods and Supplements that Control Cellulite
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
What creates the cottage cheese effect of cellulite? Simply put, cellulite is caused by loose or weak skin and connective tissues that are unable to keep the fat tissues contained within their compartments. Fat tissues ...
Water Dance:The Holosync Evolution
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
Each morning, for the space of an hour, I am immersed in water. For an hour, I meditate to the Holosync sounds of rain, water, waves, a liquid drumming that rolls beyond the pulse to ...
Using Herbs for Weight Loss
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
In this world of extreme makeovers and desperate diets, there are two definitive actions that bring about effective long-term weight loss—(1) a high nutrition and high protein, low calorie meal plan and (2) consistent, regular ...
Sleep Disorders and Leg Movement
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
Fifteen years ago, I fractured my ankle. It required surgery, the insertion of one metal plate and four pins. My leg was placed in a cast and I was told to keep the leg suspended ...
Hair Loss and Supplements
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
It wasn't until his mid-fifties that my father started losing his hair. I remember the boxes of lotions, creams, heating massage pads that kept coming to his house (much to my stepmother's chagrin). But his ...
Microdermabrasion
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
As a child, I remember watching the eggwhite lady "do" my mother's face; she came by once every two weeks to give my mother an eggwhite facial so that her skin could stay taut and ...
Abdominoplasty : To Tummy Tuck or Not To Tummy Tuck?
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
A friend of mine lost over 60 pounds by eating well and exercising. She looked marvelous except for the extra padding around the abdomen, which refused to budge, despite her exercise and diet regimen. That ...
To Lose the Last 10 pounds
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
One of the most challenging things mothers have to face is getting back into shape after giving birth. I remember when I became pregnant with my first child, I had very unusual cravings that seemed ...
Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
More and more often, I come across cases of nonsmokers who develop lung cancer. My attention is always drawn to news of this nature because my husband passed away at the age of 51 from ...
Eating With Intelligence
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
For several years, I ate a vegetarian diet; the only problem was that my definition of "vegetarian" was too limited; I had a meatless diet, but in the regimen that I kept, there were very ...
The Meaning of Hunger
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
In the weight loss industry, hunger is a dirty word, the villain that must be stopped in its tracks; however, it is this determination to eradicate hunger that has created the worst propaganda for diets. ...
In Times of Stress,Walk Out Of Your Body
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
Straddling the end of winter and the beginning of spring, March has always been a hectic month—a month of reckoning as it were—when last year's issues must be faced head on. Income tax returns must ...
How to Supercharge an Aging Brain
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
My parents were in their early fifties when I turned 22 and the chasm that separated us seemed unbridgeable. My father had his hat and tie on everywhere he went—even when he mowed the lawn. ...
Losing Weight with Sound
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
Every morning I put on my Holosync tapes and meditate to the sound of Tibetan crystal bowls and rain--yes rain. The sounds are soothing, miraculously mellowing. But I make my own sound too--the AHHHH of ...