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Is Your Mind Killing You?

by emily on December 29, 2011

Managing stress is a vital skill to learn for anyone serious about maintaining high levels of health and energy. (In the process, you also learn how to naturally treat mood swings.) In the ideal world, you would reduce your stress levels down to practically nothing by eliminating deadlines, relationship conflict, dreadful jobs, and so on. [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part Four: The Atkins Diet

by emily on December 28, 2011

So far in our search for a healthy diet, we’ve looked at raw food veganism and the Pritikin program. Next up: the diet that was greatly in vogue in the 1980′s and ’90s, and still hangs around despite its many problems. Known alternatively as a “high protein” or “low carb” diet, the Atkins diet has [...]

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Laughter: The Best Medicine?

by emily on December 26, 2011

“Laughter is the best medicine,” they say, and it is definitely one of the best ways for how to cure mood swings naturally. Norman Cousins, in his book Anatomy of an Illness, reported that watching the Marx brothers alleviated his pain. He also asserts that this daily dose of laughter was one of the reasons [...]

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My Christmas Gift To You: Permission To Eat Fat!

by emily on December 23, 2011

Is there such a thing as healthy fat? Or is it a sinful food you can legally splurge on during the holidays, and must resolve to give up come New Year’s? The main problem with the fat in conventional Christmas treats is that it tends to be trans fats, that hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable [...]

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WIG Episode 13: The Podcast Is Changing Shape

by emily on September 21, 2011

Don’t miss today’s episode, as I explain the original intention of the Weird Is Great podcast, as well where the success-oriented podcast is going move.

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Global Warming? Where??!!

by emily on January 4, 2010

(This blog post is a test for Technorati. Please ignore it. RXRZWWXYVNUQ  ) I admit, I was convinced that global warming was happening. Droughts where I currently reside in Texas, little snow where I grew up in Minnesota, etc. This winter, for some reason, I’m not so sure. Could it be that the warmth of [...]

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My Silly Son

by emily on October 14, 2009

I’m not one to jump on every contest that comes down the pike (heck, I don’t have time), but I found out about the Elefun and Friends Silly Photo Contest being held at 5minutesformom.com and couldn’t resist. My husband Jerry and I have already got a kick out of this photo (and similar ones) of [...]

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