This weeks Wellcast features Marianne Williamson “Learning from Change”
Wellcast : Marianne Williamson – Learning from Change
The podcast is 5 minutes 18 seconds in length.
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published nine books, four of which - including the mega bestseller A Return to Love and Everyday Grace - have been [...]
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Posted in Health, Wellness on Sep 20th, 2005
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you went there? How about those keys you keep putting down and forget where you put them?
Research has shown that the biggest halth concern for aging baby-boomers is cognitive dysfunction, mainly dementia and Alzeimers disease.
This article explains reasons why our memory starts to falter as [...]
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Posted in Health, Wellness, Women's Health on Sep 13th, 2005
The director of the FDA’s Office of Women’s Health resigned last week in protest to the agency refusing to allow the morning-after pill to be sold over the counter.
The Morning-after-pill, Plan B, is a high dose Progestin that can prevent an unwanted pregnancy if taken within 72 hours after unprotected intercourse. It can reduce the [...]
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Posted in Health, Wellness on Sep 10th, 2005
Scientists are finding many more benefits from Vitamin D than we once thought.
Here’s a little background on how Vitamin D is absorbed in the body:
Vitamin D is made in the skin. It is then absorbed into the body and converted into 25 hydroxy vitamin D in the liver. It then gets converted into the hormonal [...]
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Posted in Health, Wellness on Sep 2nd, 2005
Have we found a way to ease our fears from another tragedy? How much more can we handle? Many of us are still healing from 9-11. Now that hurricane Katrina has struck, many of us are asking, “What’s next?”
How do we help ourselves and our children cope with such tragic events, especially when these events [...]
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Posted in Health, Wellness on Sep 2nd, 2005
A study published in the Journal of Nutrition this month showed some remarkable effects of pomegranate fruit extract to help reduce the breakdown of our tired over-worked joints.
When enough of the joint cartilage gets broken down, it leads to osteoarthritis, which is painful and can cause swelling and stiffness of the joints. More studies [...]
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