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Feeling Free
Don’t wait ‘til you’re sick to give your body and mind a break. Here’s how I learned to drop the guilt and recharge myself.
I woke up feeling cranky.  I didn't want to do housework, though the laundry was piling up.  I didn't want to read the work I brought home from the office. I didn't want to do anything that resembled responsible behavior.
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Can Fail at Weight Loss!
I have been exploring and experimenting with the ‘Top 10 Ways to Fail at Weight Loss’ since July 2006, and have found some interesting conclusions for myself..... It probably wasn’t a great time for me to try this experiment as
there are already many changes going on in my life
- but if not Now, when I asked myself?
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Automatic Weight Control
Are you beginning to see a pattern here? Chemo has lots of advantages. One of my favorite continues to be food. You already know I am besieged with friends bearing food and chocolate and all kinds of goodies. The best part is that I can eat them all and not gain an ounce...
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Being Human
Almost every one of us has a fear, be it consciously or subconsciously, of being diagnosed with a disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, or cancer, and the list grows continually. According to studies by Dr Bernard Jensen more than 95 per cent of the world’s population, including a growing percentage of our children, lives in a sub-acute to chronic state of disease, misery and medication dependency.
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MixUp.......
Ever had a day, week, month or even a year when you are wondering..... “What Did I Do To Deserve This?”...... Or “WHY, are things going so wrong for me?” ....Or even simply, “Why, Me?”. Well, I can certainly relate!
Let me give you just a little taste.....
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Health the Natural Way
Earth’s Medicine Cabinet
We are warned constantly about the adverse effects of refining and processing natural food, of additives and of pollution but there is disagreement on certain points, the main one being health foods versus regular food.
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Visit our A to Z
[ Fruit ]
[ Vegetables ]
[ Herbs & Spices ]
[ Vitamins & Minerals ]

[ the Body ]
Think of the body as divided into seven systems:

[ bones ]
[ brain and nerves ]
 [ muscles ]
 [ respiration ]
[ circulation ]
[ digestion ]
[ glands ]

All are connected and interdependent, though each has a special network of its own.

[ Body Type ]
[ Body Posture ]

Stress Makes you FAT!
Until recently, I believed that one of the benefits of stress was that it helped maintain a steady weight and at times could even help reduce excess weight.... However, this is only true if we experience ‘limited’ - very limited periods of stress. Prolonged stress, over long periods of time actually results in the exact opposite, increased weight........
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Breathe stress and disease out of your body
The ancient breathing techniques of China and the Far East are given marvellous names like 'Falun Gong' and 'Qi Gong'. But the basic principle is the same. They all involve 'chi' - your body's energy....... Read More

Interesting Times
With the amount of information so readily available through the internet and other technological resources, people are discovering more and more how important it is to follow a healthy eating regime. Research is indicating that processed food and even the products that we use day to day, like hand creams, deodorants and household cleaners....
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GIGO?
One of the WhyWeight subscribers emailed me with a very true twist of a popular saying: “GIGO” which is “Garbage In Garbage Out”, although in her case, (and in ours too, as often the case maybe), “Garbage In Garbage On my tummy,
hips, bottom and thighs....”
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Dry Brushing for Health
As you get into the habit of exercising,
start the habit of dry brushing too! It takes just a few minutes a day and it will help your immune system tremendously, smooth and tighten the skin and reduce the appearance of cellulite if done consistently.
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Chocolate
The Aztec King Tezozomoc of Azoapotzalco regarded chocolate as a divine substance: he offered distinguished guests cocoa in a tortoise shell that was highly polished and ornamented with gold arabesques. Early on, chocolate developed a reputation as an aphrodisiac. Montezuma is said to have drunk chocolate before entering his harem. The famous botanist Carl Linnaeus got to name the plant and with great perspicacity called it Theobroma cacao, food for the gods. Most of us like chocolate, but some of us (especially women) crave it so much that they are virtually addicted. There may be a biological basis for this.
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Helpful Hints
for increasing your health and vitality
every day we make choices and decisions about what to eat and drink, which directly affects our health - helpful hints are some basic ideas to increase health and vitality
and boost metabolism....
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Hydration Therapy
During the past few months I have been treating patients on a regular basis for the first time in ten years and I have been able to observe many of the trends that have been occurring with the average patient. One thing that has become very obvious to me is the fact that a large number of patients....
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What are probiotics and how can they help you?
When one talks about the digestive or intestinal tract, bowel, colon or gut, one doesn’t always consider the huge intricacies of what goes on within these walls. Besides all sorts of movement of fluids and digestive enzymes inside this complex maze of tubes, big and small, are various types of bacteria, healthy and not so healthy. Our gastrointestinal tract contains more than 400 species of bacteria weighing one and a half kilograms.......
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Apple Cider Vinegar
Scientists have measured ninety different substances in apple cider vinegar, such as thirteen types of carbolic acids, four aldehydes, twenty ketones, eighteen types of alcohols, eight ethyl acetates etc. It also contains minerals, trace elements and vitamins as well acetic acid, propionic acid, lactic acid....
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Allergies and Food Intolerance
Substances in foods, house dust and pollen can cause anything from sniffles to migraine, and even sudden death. Allergies are becoming increasingly common, but they are still not fully understood.....
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Appetite Loss
When a normally healthy appetite goes wrong it can be due to a number of causes, ranging from travel sickness to the common cold, from depression to eating the wrong kind of food. If the appetite loss continues for longer than seven days, see a doctor.......
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Anaemia
The name anaemia is given to a range of illnesses that involve a lack of the oxygen-carrying substance haemoglobin in the blood. Anaemia can be caused by loss of blood, an inability to produce enough red blood cells, or an inherited abnormality
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Fighting age - Vanity or vanguard of health?
As all of us baby boomers are getting older, we strive to keep ourselves together, our limbs supple and to do our best not to look as ancient as Methuselah
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Sleep
At the end of every day, as the sun sets, Nature gives us an opportunity to slow down and reflect on the the day's events, to make a transition from being active and doing into being. This is a slow, gradual change to which our bodies will also respond by calming and settling down, if we allow ourselves...
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The Myth and Magic of Childbirth
There is something which I hold very close to my heart and that is for pregnant women to know that they have choices with regard to childbirth. Birth is one of the most natural processes, yet there is so much fear around it, with women not trusting their bodies, trusting themselves, and I believe that this is because women have become uninformed.....
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Benefits of Progesterone
Being a health conscious kind of person, I am always looking at healthy ways of living and being, which includes not only what I eat, but also what I supplement my diet with, put onto my skin and the way I live generally. With all the synthetic stuff they are adding to our environment, one needs to be aware of what is happening.....
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Overcoming skinniness
In a country were people are caught up with trying to loose weight, us skinny people can get lost. For the most part, women want to be slender and toned and men want to be big and muscular. Well there are both men and women out there who want to put more weight on their bodies......
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The Super 7 Ways To Crush Cravings!
They can strike at any moment -- those pound-packing cravings that can destroy even the best-intentioned dieter in a matter of weak moments. Whether it's French fries or fried chicken, we sometimes get the uncontrollable urge.....
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The Clean Plate Club
When I was a young child, my mom and dad basically let me eat what and when I wanted. As we lived in the bush there wasn’t a corner cafe to buy sweets, chocolates, crisps and ice-cream, so essentially ‘junk food’ was never an issue in my life. I still remember the first time I experienced things like cake and ice-cream.
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Health Tips
Clear up your breakouts and use this all natural remedy to heal your skin. Mix 1 tablespoon honey, 1/4 teaspoon sea salt and 2 teaspoons turmeric into a thick paste. Apply to spots at night and leave on for at least 25 minutes to overnight.
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Vegetables
Experiments have shown that the breaking down and building up of cells - the essential body metabolism - is helped by the consumption of plants and their juices.
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Weight Train and Turn Fat into Muscle
To accelerate your fat loss and increase your muscle mass, you need to train with weights. The benefits of weight training are so positive that I cannot understand why everyone is not doing it.
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21 Days
When I realised that I was putting on weight after maintaining my ideal weight for 5 years... I began to take stock and wonder.... what it was I was doing to cause my sudden 1 kg a month weight gain. After just 4 months, I have put on 5 kg's and so I knew I needed to make some changes..... In a chat with my husband, I had a moment of clarity and knew what the problem was.
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Why Are Beautiful People More Successful?
Just to place this in context - we do not promote the idea that physical beauty is more important than building on your inner beauty or soul, and being a good person - but your external looks unfortunately are also of importance in our modern day life.
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WhyWeight Body Power
"The pursuit of beauty is not narcissistic.
It is an essential way to build up confidence without which there is little achievement in anything.
It gives pleasure, it brings it.
Beauty, today, is not a perfect face or a certain look
- we have left those attitudes far behind.
Beauty now is seen in the way a woman protects, reflects and projects her body power and mental energy.
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