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Body, Mind and Spirit

Fitness is most often equated with exercise.  But it’s so important that when striving for overall health, we look at not only the body but the mind and spirit as well. I like to think of this as a wheel with three spokes.  One spoke represents the body, one the mind and the other spirit.  When one spoke is broken or missing, everything is thrown off balance. Body is the part where we focus on exercise and eating right.  The type of exercise and eating plan will be different for each person.  It’s going to depend on where you live, … Continue reading →

Swimsuit Shopping: Not for the Faint of Heart

We’ve probably all heard it before. We probably didn’t give it much thought until it actually happened to us. We probably all look back and think, “I didn’t know how good I had it until it was gone.” I’m talking about pre-pregnancy boobs. Sure, some of us who were smaller-chested before pregnancy probably loved the increase in size that came with being pregnant. I was your average C-cup before being pregnant, and I enjoyed the newly acquired curves. During the first few months of my baby’s life, I was too busy with my baby to pay attention to what was … Continue reading →

More Questions to Help Relate to Your Child

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One of my previous articles began discussing how many parents become frustrated with their children and how their children respond to school and teachers. Many parents comment on how they cannot understand their children and their actions. However I think that if they truly think about it hard enough they can relate to their child’s actions. Most parents have been through the same actions and behaviors as their children; however they have forgotten what it was like. I began offering some thoughts for parents to consider when they try to relate to their children about school issues. It may even … Continue reading →

Journey to the Center of… Your Intestines

Sounds gross, but if you are looking for an educational vacation destination suitable for (most of) your family I might just have the golden ticket. You’ll have to fly to the Netherlands to get in, but according to the creators of “Corpus,” the combination amusement park/health museum, your efforts will be justly rewarded. The new family-friendly attraction opened in Oegstgeest (located 21 miles southeast of Amsterdam) two weeks ago and the site is already overflowing with visitors. The structure is home to a 115-foot high seated human figure and all the walls and halls are modeled with fiberglass to resemble … Continue reading →

Listening to Body Signals in Operating Your Business

Our bodies do tell us all sorts of things—tension headaches when we are trying to wrestle with too much stress, a stomach ache when something is wrong or off-kilter, sore eyes when we are pushing ourselves too hard—what sort of signals is your body sending you when it comes to running your home business and why aren’t you listening to them? Sometimes, our bodies send us signals that our brains somehow miss—this is what intuition and gut instinct are all about. Have you ever been in a situation where you met someone who came highly recommended by a friend, and … Continue reading →

Gospel Doctrine: What Christ’s Resurrection Means to Each of Us

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This week’s Gospel Doctrine lesson discusses the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As we ponder this topic, I would first like to address what this significant event means to each and every one of us. Like the Atonement, the events that occurred on the first day of the week many years ago did not affect only the Savior. When He reunited His body and His spirit, He made it possible for each and every one of us to do so likewise. In 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Jesus is called “the firstfruits” of those risen from the dead. Similarly, … Continue reading →

Your Body & Aging

When we talk about fitness, we talk about keeping the body and the mind in great health. When we’re teenagers, we seem like such natural health nuts because being healthy seems to come naturally. So why is it, that aging means we have to work harder or perform harder to get in our best shape? Why don’t we bounce back as easily as we once did? Why is it the five pounds that fell off of us when we didn’t eat for a couple of days, clings stubbornly the rest of the time? We’re Aging – That’s Why There are … Continue reading →

Pointing at our Posture

We’ve talked about posture here before. We’ve talked about listening to our mothers and our grandmothers who told us to sit up straight were doing more than nagging us, they were trying to drill into us a healthy form of behavior that pays off throughout our lifetime. How, do you ask? Well, let me share this little nugget of information with you: Our good posture is the result of natural skeletal balance that is maintained by muscles strong enough to hold us upright. It is impossible for a person to have good posture and not be relatively fit. Good posture … Continue reading →

Weight Bearing Exercises

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is suing the producers of the advertisements asking Got Milk? because they believe the campaign is exaggerating the importance of calcium in the health of bones. Well, we’ve always known that milk is an important source of calcium and that drinking milk provides the body with a source for their daily calcium. Building Healthy Bones Now, don’t shoot the messenger but there is a great deal more to building healthy bones than drinking your daily glass of milk! If you were thinking that she’s going to ramble at us about more exercise and healthy … Continue reading →

Obsessed by your looks?

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Most people are conscious of the way they look. Both the fashion and cosmetic industry is built around people’s image of themselves. The majority of people make an attempt to look as good as they can. It helps them to feel good about themselves. But what happens when this need to look good takes on a life of its own? What happens when we will stop at nothing to change the way we look? Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a condition that probably originated on the same day that mirrors were invented. There probably aren’t too many people who haven’t … Continue reading →