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A tasty new hope for Alzheimer’s

There’s a lot of talk in the media about Alzheimer’s disease, but what is it and why should we care?  Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that typically begins with memory impairment and progressively worsens over time.  It affects more women than men and the average person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s will live 5-10 years after they’re diagnosed.  Unfortunately, Alzheimer’s not only affects the individual diagnosed, but their family as well, since their condition worsens over time which puts a strain

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Forget Discipline; Become Devoted to Your Health.

Devotion to caring for yourself arises from a reverent sense within. There is no endpoint, no goal to care, respecting, and loving yourself. Being motivated from within to be attentive and attend to your Health as an expression of love and respect for your own life offers the gifts of the endlessly unfolding potential of being human.

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It’s Time For A Change

As you might have read from a previous post, I went a whole month eating a strictly vegan diet.  Having been a long-time vegetarian (9+ years), this was not as challenging as I anticipated.  Not only did I survive the month, but I’ve decided…drum roll please…to make the full transition to being vegan. Animal Place / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND                           This is not me but I love

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Fat Is Your Friend?

ucumari / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND With Spring upon us in less than a month, I thought it would be appropriate to briefly touch on a fairly simple way to lose weight.  But first, we must overcome a falsehood that has been drilled into your brain: fat is the enemy.  My hope is that by the end of this article, you will at least question the previous statement. So.  Stop reading and take a moment to get out all your exclamations, protests,

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A New Way To Celebrate Heart Health Month

In honor of February being American Hearth Month, as well as the month in which Valentine’s day takes place, I decided to listen to my heart.  I’ve been a vegetarian for over 8 years now but I’ve been toying with the idea of going vegan for almost a year now.  As you know, vegetarians abstain from eating anything in which an animal has to be killed (ie avoiding meat but eating eggs and dairy) whereas a vegan abstains from eating

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