Watch out for hidden salt
If you think ditching your salt shaker will lower your sodium intake significantly, you're wrong.
About 12% of our salt intake is from the shaker. The rest is hidden in our food. We all know ab ...
Hidden fatty foods to watch out for.
Chocolates, ice creams and potato chips are known culprits that can make the weighing machine go in the wrong direction. But here are some hidden culprits -- high-fat foods that we consume almost eve ...
Major Depressive Disorder
I am a person, a unique complex individual. My diagnosis does not define who I am. It only describes some of the things that I experience. Major depressive disorder is one way to describe how I feel ...
Naked Gym
A gym called Fitworld in the Netherlands recently instilled "Naked Sundays" after requests from some of its nudist members. The inaugural launch was, um, flabby, with only a smattering of middle-aged ...
Organizing meals helps you avoid fast food
Getting organized about eating is one way to avoid the high calories hidden in fast foods, according to the American Chronicle. If you dedicate one day to cooking and freezing your meals for the week, ...
FDA approves food from cloned animals
Rick Weiss at the Washington Post wrote an article today about the FDA approving food from cloned animals. My jaw dropped when I read about this, but it should have been expected. Did you see the ...
Roses teach small lessons in life
I wouldn't eat them, but they smell nice.
Last year we made the effort to eradicate a hedgerow of 10-foot-tall roses from the back yard. Why? Well, because they poke. And because when we put in o ...
Website Review Giving FREE Dissertation Example!
I am doing a dissertation on social work and needed to see some dissertation samples to get an idea of how to write a dissertation. After doing the research over the internet, I found there are quit ...
My story with MS an a bone marrow stem cells transplant
On the road to a bone marrow stem cell transplant in 2006
I was Dx in 2000 at age 28 when I lost my eyesite in my left eye of course. Gained my eyesite back with steroids.
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Do you want to be a more present parent to your child?
Many studies have been made on the multiple benefits of meditation.
One of these benefits is that you become more present in your daily life. By being more present, you are able to be more in tu ...