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Healing Yourself with Herbs: Physical and Etheric

by Thea Summer Deer. If you make a commitment to yourself and to the herbs, and if you are consistent, you will be richly…
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Bottled Baby Food: Expensive, Less Nutritious, and Not Eco-Friendly

by Deborah Niemann. We live in a society that has this thing we call baby food, which is really just food that has been pureed,…
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Selfish Motivation: The Best Reason to Quit

by Karen Pine & Ben [C] Fletcher. Although it's highly likely that the smoker has other people in mind when they draw up a list…
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Stressed Out? What's Your "Stress Score"?

by Matt Mumber, MD and Heather Reed. Stress affects us whether it’s considered good or bad. In physics, stress is a force that…
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The New and Empowering Model of Breast Cancer Treatment

by Greg Anderson. Let’s be clear: surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation can play an important role in cancer treatment. But with…
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Miracle in Thailand: Acacia’s Story

by Nicki Scully. In November of 2005, Acacia was hospitalized and diagnosed with recurrent lymphoma, in her brain, central…
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The Healing Breath: The Heart of Healing & Balance

by Jack Angelo. Life is about change. Our breathing undergoes changes according to the rhythms of our state of imbalance (another…
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Lavender in Your Garden: For Health, Fragrance, Well-Being

by Thea Summer Deer. Lavandula angustifolia, known as true lavender or English lavender, was until recently considered the…
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Calming the Body, Mind, and Spirit using Mindful Exhalations

by Matt Mumber, MD & Heather Reed. Breathing is the bridge between our external and internal environments. The exhalation is…
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Communing with Nature and with the Wisdom of Plants

by Thea Summer Deer. While I first heard the voice of an herb deva in my kitchen that morning, shortly thereafter, they appeared…
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Setting your Intention: Fasting

by Stasia Bliss. Think about how we normally consume. We usually choose to fill our shopping cart full of the foods we habitually…
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How Cubans' Health Improved When Their Economy Collapsed

Cuba's economic meltdown should logically have been a public health disaster. But a new study says that the health of Cubans…
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New Guidelines About Prostate Cancer Screenings: More is Not Always Better

The American College of Physicians has released new guidelines about prostate cancer screenings. Prostate screening and treatment…
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Eating like a Gorilla is Good for You???

by Tana Amen, B.S.N., R.N. We can learn a lot from gorillas. Humans and gorillas share nearly identical DNA and digestive…
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From Struggle to Harmony... in the Here and Now

by Patrick Thias Balmain. Most of us have a relationship to the outside world based on conflict, the power struggle. It is quite…
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Are Your Kids Hooked on Advertising? And Can You "Just Say No"?

Author and activist Anna Lappé (daughter of Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet) takes on the billion-dollar…
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Surviving Breast Cancer & Creating Wellness

by Greg Anderson. Sur­viving breast cancer is not simply about treating illness. It is primar­ily about creating wellness. I have…
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Up to 30 Percent of People in the US Lack Access to Healthy Food

According to a report by The Applied Research Center, 10 percent of black and Latino families lack access to adequate food --…
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Jamie Oliver Fights Obesity One Family at a Time

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an…
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Salt? You May Be Getting More Than You Bargained For!

The expression "salt of the earth" means "the best" or a "worthy person" perhaps implying that salt is the best and a worthy…
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Diet and Food: Is The Food You Eat Providing You With Energy?

by Peter Bane. Our conventional diet is deteriorating in quality because our farming has depleted the soils and polluted the…
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If You Made a Stack of 2000 Calories, What Would It Look Like?

When we are told that 2000 calories are what we should consume, most of us don't really have an idea of what that means.…
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The Hunter-Farmer Food Types: Which One Are You?

by Mark Liponis, M.D. There are two types of people: Hunters and Farmers. Why are there two types of metabolisms that need two…
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Are These Things Addictive? Salt, Sugar, Fat

You may have jokingly said, as you weren't able to put down that bag of chips or cookies, that those darned things were…
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It's Your Divorced Parents' Fault That You Smoke?

If your parents divorced before you turned 18, and today you are a smoker, it may be their fault! What??? A study done at the…
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Is Your Job Giving You a Heart Attack?

by Marie T. Russell. We all know that stress is bad, that working 18-hour-days is not healthy, and that working at a job you hate…
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