Breakfast cereals were a terrible invention! Convenient? Yes. Marketing achievement? Sure. “Whole grains” tends to sell well. But dig a little further and you can see why this one meal can derail your attempts to improve your health right out of the gate. The vast majority of breakfast cereals are over 50 per cent sugar. The rest includes highly processed grains and chemical additives. Many of...
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Every woman of a certain age goes through it and every man who loves a woman of a certain age suffers nearly as much! While much maligned and feared in countries like the US and UK, and addressed as if it’s a condition that needs to be treated, elsewhere menopause is celebrated as a normal part of aging and appreciated as a sign of maturity....
Read MoreThe teenage years are arguably the most critical in our development. The habits and attitudes developed during these formative years will be very hard to change in later life. If you don’t teach them, it’ll be mass media driven by big business advertising dollars that will win their hearts.We may think our teenagers aren’t listening to us but actually if a third-party asked a teenager...
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At last, we’re starting to see healthcare solutions that will move the needle in reducing healthcare costs in the U.S. And more importantly, because these solutions act on the root cause of disease, they will actually improve employee health and productivity rather than just managing a diagnosis.What are these solutions? These innovative companies are relying on the concept of "functional medicine". They focus on lifestyle...
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I’m a big car fan! I like fast cars and yes I have to admit I like the type of cars that sound really good accelerating out of a turn and require visiting a gas pump pretty regularly. Even in a season of high gas prices I wouldn’t dream of putting anything less than premium gas in my car as I cherish my car and...
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I’m not a Christian because I grew up in a Christian home. I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home in Leeds, England. We’d probably be considered Conservative Jews in the US. My family still cannot come to terms with my way of life. I’m not a Christian as a way to make some friends. I find it harder in the Christian world where many wives...
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The turn of the new year 2023 saw my husband and I jet off to Maui for a few days to escape the heavy rain in Southern California and rest from a hectic 2022. The prerequisite for our last-minute escape was to avoid LAX airport and limit one plane ride in either direction. Maui is a mere 5 hour flight from Long Beach airport and...
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