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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Ever wish there were a happy pill to spritz up your spirits when you’re out of sorts? To make you laugh when you’re feeling down? Or to calm your nerves when you’re about to bite someone’s head off? Well, get this: There are several things in your kit…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBody fat found under the skin - and particularly on the buttocks - may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests. The study contrasts this subcutaneous fat with visceral fat, which is wrapped around the organs, and raises t…
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from Sheryl Karas @ Spiritual Counseling, Perfume, Healing and MeCame across something interesting today—a list of reputable organizations, universities and foundations doing research into the use of intuition, Reiki, and other alternative (and very alternative) approaches to healthcare without excessive negative …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingPizza and spaghetti bolognese could become new tools in the fight against sunburn and wrinkles, a study suggests. A team found adding five tablespoons of tomato paste to the daily diet of 10 volunteers im…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Mothers-to-be reported cravings for odd combinations of food, the most common being pickles and peanut butter, followed by marmite and ice cream. Other combinations mentioned included tuna and banana, and fried eggs with mint sauce.”"She said cravin…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“British scientists have shown that actively remembering your last meal suppresses appetite and reduces the desire to snack on junk food. They have also shown that concentrating on food while eating - rather than grabbing a meal in front of the TV - m…
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from Sheryl Karas @ Spiritual Counseling, Perfume, Healing and MeIn several earlier blogs I wrote about the scary experience I had with an undiagnosed wheat allergy. A medical intuitive figured it out, she was right, and that actually helped to launch me into my current career — medical intuition is part of what my…
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from Sheryl Karas @ Spiritual Counseling, Perfume, Healing and MeThe company that has brought the world Agent Orange, aspartame, Bovine Growth Hormone, PCBs, Round-up herbicide, and 90% of the world’s GMO crops. Better living through chemistry? Or illness, death, and worldwide biodiversity destruction on a massive l…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The total collapse of Gabriel Torres’s life and career has distressed the few people in the AIDS Establishment aware of his plight. “It’s just one of the biggest tragedies I’ve ever seen. This is a guy who had absolutely everything going for h…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Just 20 minutes of housework a week boosts moods while regular exercise in middle age can slow down ageing, according to research.Two new studies added to the weight of evidence on the benefits of taking exercise.The first showed how just 20 minutes o…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking March, 31, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics i…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking March, 31, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics i…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“If the mere thought of trudging round ice-bound playing fields at school was enough to bring you out in a cold sweat, the idea that exercise makes us happy might sound perverse. But, beyond the (potential) mood-lifting effects of fresh air and scenery…
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from Sheryl Karas @ Spiritual Counseling, Perfume, Healing and MeRecession, recession. That’s what everyone’s talking about and it’s hard to watch the news these days and remain calm. I woke up today wondering what Divine Guidance would tell people about this situation.”Well, it would depend on the specific set of c…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSlaves of Fashion”Moving on from size zero, the big look right now is the “sacrificial virgin”: the trembling ingénue straight out of school, all gangly and underdeveloped. “”With their blonde hair, pale skin and eastern European features, some ar…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“This week’s theme: lesser-known counterparts of common words. nocebo (no-SEE-bo) noun A substance producing harmful effects in someone because it is believed to be harmful, but which in reality is harmless. [From Latin nocebo (I will harm), f…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The largest study to date to examine the nutrient content of organic food has found that it is generally more nutritious than conventionally grown produce. The four-year study led by Professor Carlo Leifert of Newcastle University is known as the Qual…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“An analysis of dozens of studies involving thousands of patients revealed that some of the most widely-prescribed anti-depressants work little better than dummy pills. The drugs studied - including Prozac, Seroxat and Efexor - were little more effect…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Just before sleep, the brain “replays” recent events, producing dreamlike sensations and “crazy” thoughts, says Dr Stickgold. He suggests that this could explain the benefit of the power nap.This short period of “thought marshalling” rather than prolo…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“[A]nger management courses could help wounded people to leave hospital sooner.”"An American team has found that being unable to control and vent anger harms healing, according to a study published in the journal Brain Behavior and Immunity by Jean-Phi…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“MUSIC has the power to delight the listener, improve well-being and uplift the soul. But sounds have more malign uses too. The beauty of the music produced by the Sirens of ancient Greek legend drew unwary sailors to their doom on the rocks. And in Br…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingVisit to the dentist’s office today, at 3.20 PM. Solace is, time will pass. It will be all behind me in a couple of hours. Moreover, it is only a check-up. And, I have an excuse to do absolutely NOTHING before ánd after, the entire day. Cleaning the m…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Komisaruk’s lab has also studied the brains of women who say they can bring themselves to orgasm with thought alone. For some it’s a sexual thought that does the trick, he says, but for others it’s more abstract - something that has to do with focusin…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“My breasts took over my sense of self. I was never unaware of them, and everything I did physically, I did in terms of them: from walking into a room (slumped), to driving the car (seatbelts were impossible), to sleeping (flattening one side or the ot…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingStretch the plastic. For decades, scientists assumed that humans were born with all the brain cells they’d ever have. Then, in the 1970s, researchers showed that new brain cells and neural pathways form through the end of life. “This was the beginning …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingLeading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, a study suggests. An active lifestyle has been linked to lower rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. However, the latest research suggests that inactivit…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“[Susan] Sontag had declared when she was a sixteen-year-old student at the University of Chicago that death was not going to cut her own life short, an interestingly precocious preoccupation at an age when people normally sense themselves immortal. Sh…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Americans eat about the same amount of meat as we have for some time, about eight ounces a day, roughly twice the global average. At about 5 percent of the world’s population, we “process” (that is, grow and kill) nearly 10 billion animals a yea…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Even a 90-minute nap can significantly improve our ability to master new motor skills and strengthen our memories of what we learn, researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel reported last month in Nature Neuroscience. “Napping is as effective a…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs’ true effectiveness, a new analysis …
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