How to Make a Positive Habit Infect You

Have you ever noticed that the friends you spend a lot of time with impact how you act? If they go to the beach a lot, you most likely do too. If they go to the pub a lot, you most likely do too. If they go to the park a lot with their children,

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Good News in Study Results: Nearly all stroke risk preventable

A new Canadian lead study just completed that involved 6,000 participants suggests that 90 percent of the risk of having a stroke is preventable through lifestyle changes.

Dr. O’ Donnell and Dr. Yusuf of McMaster University studied stroke patients from 22 countries over a period of 3 years and their findings suggest ten risk factors

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White Rice and Type 2 Diabetes

In a report published yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine researchers found, after surveying almost 200,000 people, a link between white rice consumption and the occurrence of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the type of diabetes that is typically linked to poor healthy living habits.

The problem with white rice is that

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The Dukan Diet and The French Documentary

Over the years, as I have worked to create systems to help people make and keep healthy eating habits, I have read a lot of diet books. From the older ones like Fit for Life to more recent books like Eat Right for Your Type, The South Beach Diet, The Atkins Diet, The Food Connection

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The Secret Ingredient to becoming Healthy and Fit

There are many ways you can improve your health: increasing your physical activity, eating less unhealthy food, thinking positively, using The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, meditating…but the secret ingredient to becoming healthier is not the choice of the action but your willingness to

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Five Ways to Use Yoga to Reduce Travel Fatigue

A close friend of mine is training to be a yoga teacher so I notice more frequently all things related to Yoga. I came across this article today featuring five yoga stretches to help reduce air plane travel fatigue and since it will be soon be hopefully for you time to travel by plane for

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Exercise as a Means to an End or the End

In a recent posting I titled “what is your obsession” I wrote about the importance of being very aware in our daily thoughts of what we are focusing on. If it is negative obsession we may be attracting more of what we don’t want.

Today, I believe it is also important to note that positive

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What is your obsession?

By chance today I just stumbled on a blog posting over at Randy Gage’s blog titled ‘What are you obsessing about?’ and the title struck a note with me. I believe it is a healthy and wise practice for me and for you to take note of our lives and see what is it we

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