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Diets and Nutrition
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Written by Michelle Minnaar
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
 Dr Agatston, a leading American cardiologist, originally created the South Beach diet for his heart patients. While his main aim was to improve their heart health, he discovered that as a side effect of the diet they also lost significant amounts of weight. Agatston has also published a book about his plan, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss which is growing in popularity by the day.
He claims this isn't a low-carb or low-fat diet - instead it focuses on eating the 'right' carbs and the 'right' fats. In fact, the South Beach Diet is based on the GI Diet. In practice, the diet severely restricts carbohydrates in the first two weeks, before gradually re-introducing those with a low glycaemic index. Plus it recommends swapping saturates for unsaturates.
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Written by Michelle Minnaar
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet is a book by Scarsdale, New York physician Dr. Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker, originally published in 1979. The book became a bestseller and as of 2006 was still in print. Tarnower contends that conventional diets are too slow and too complicated for most dieters to follow. That may be true, but the reality is that the best way to lose weight, or body fat, is slowly.
Styled after the 1972 Atkins Diet, the Scarsdale Diet specifies a very specific diet which is supposed to be followed exactly. Unlike Atkins, however, Tarnower calls for dieters to eat less fat so that as the body "demands more fat, it pulls it out of the fat storage areas." This diet promises an unreasonable one-pound-per-day weight loss while you limit your food intake to specified amounts of fruits, vegetables and mostly lean sources of protein. It encourages the use of artificial sweeteners and herbal appetite suppressants to speed up weight loss. The Scarsdale Diet is 43% protein, 22.5% fat, and 34.5% carbohydrates.
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Spiritual
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Written by Veronique Cartier
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
 As meditation is becoming more and more widespread with countless techniques, schools, with resources everywhere such as books and CDs let us recap what the benefits of meditation are and how meditation can help you... |
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How to meditate to relieve stress effectively? |
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Written by Veronique Cartier
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
It IS possible to relieve stress through meditation if you have the courage to sit and do nothing.
Firstly, meditation is a technique which uses internal focus to restore internal balance. There are many different techniques so you can pick and choose which one appeals to you the most. Some involve repeating a mantra, others focus on the heart centre or compassion, other use prayer, others simply request to witness what is arising moment to moment without grabbing onto anything or labelling, other techniques involve devotional singing such as kirtan, etc, following your breath... You name it, they are all out there. There is bound to be a technique which suits you. At the end of the day, they all have one and the same aim and that is to turn your awareness inside, there the real show is going on.
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Written by Michelle Minnaar
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
Dr Lisa Sanders, who is on the faculty of Yale University Medical School, offers a customized eating and exercise plan that puts paid to hit-or-miss dieting forever. Over the past 6 years, she has analysed more than 700 weight-loss programmes and uncovered the ultimate scientific truth about dieting: sustainable weight loss is possible only on a diet that fits your food preferences, satiety signals, lifestyle and medical profile.
The Perfect Fit Diet is a customised dieting strategy built around your life and your preferences. In recent research, food preference has emerged as a key factor in satisfying hunger, and thus, in dieting success.
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Lifestyle check - is your life holistic? |
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Written by Veronique Cartier
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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Has anyone noticed how much more complicated our lives are than those of our grand-parents? Theirs may have been tougher in some ways, we have a lot more choices in a lots of ways but at the same time it is easy to get very confused if we try and live the way our ancestors did. Today's society requires that we live life in a more holistic way to be able to deal with all the stresses coming left right and centre. By addressing the areas of your life which may need rebalancing, you can ensure that you get to most of what society today has to offer rather than crumble under the stress and confusion of lot of people are suffering from. |
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Written by Michelle Minnaar
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
The No-Grain Diet was developed by osteopathic physician Joseph Mercola. He claims that overconsumption of grains and sugars is the cause of many degenerative diseases, such as diabetes and cancer as well as obesity. The purpose of the diet is mainly for optimum health, and is claimed by its adherants to improve or heal those diseases. Recently, he is calling this diet the "Total Health Program" including a 3-stage "Nutrition Plan".
Metabolic Typing is based on the assumption that each person has a unique way in which food is metabolized in the body, making it impossible to find one diet which works for all people. Three metabolic types are distinguished as Carb, Protein or Mixed Type, depending on the ratio of carbohydrates, proteins and fats each type of person is supposed to require in his daily diet. The diet is then adjusted to those metabolic types. This part of Mercola's diet appears to be identical to the Metabolic Typing Diet by William L. Wolcott.
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Life Coaching
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Written by Piercarla Garusi
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
 I remember once after one of my talks, someone came up to me asking: ‘You were saying that I can have what I want. Well, what I want is peace; how can I have it?’
And my answer at that time was: ’Start from the world around you.’ But now I think I have another answer also …
At the moment there is a lot of talking about global warming, hunger and poverty, but I would like to focus the attention also on something else.
Sometimes I hear people who are concerned about the society we live in, and it seems as if society is something outside them…something created by the Government, or anyway other people. The truth is that each one of us is constantly creating our society.
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Scientific Explanations for Remote Viewing |
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Psychics and Mediums
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Written by Gerald O'Donnell
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
 Eighteenth and nineteenth century physical science had completed and embellished the "golden age of a mechanistic and deterministic models of the universe" where the universe and its constituents are ruled by rigid interactive forces that can be measured, phenomena that can be predicted using mathematical tools, and where the universe or any system operating within it is made of the sum of its parts.
Light was thought to be an electromagnetic wave vibrating in an undetected, and later experimentally disproved media: "the ether", at certain rates of vibration that would define its color. It was part of the electromagnetic wave spectrum that allowed one to perceive an electromagnetic wave as heat, light , radio waves, or other electromagnetic radiations depending on the frequency of its vibrations. This spectrum had been well-defined by the equations of the English physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1864.
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Diets and Nutrition
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Written by Michelle Minnaar
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
The Kensington Diet is based on Dr. Hay’s food combining diet.
By practising proper food combining the diet can resolve the following conditions:
Abdominal distension, acne, allergies, anal itching/haemorrhoids, arthritis, asthma, bags under eyes, bloating, blood pressure, body odour, burping, cellulite, cholesterol, lacking clarity of thought, cold extremities, cold sores, cold seats, colon health, complexion problems, confidence problems, dark circles under eyes, duodenal ulcer, eczema, eyes sensitive to light, fatigue, fingernail problems, flatulence, fluid retention, food cravings, food intolerance, gall bladder problems, hair condition problems, hay fever, headaches, hunger pangs, hyperactivity, hyperglycaemia, hypoglycaemia, indigestion, insomnia, irritability, joint pain, joint swelling, lack of appetite, lack of energy, libido problems, low back pain, melancholy, depression, migraine, mood swings, mouth ulcers, muscle aches, muscle cramps, muscle tension, muscle tone problems, nausea, neck and shoulder pain, nervousness, pallor, peptic ulcer, persistent thirst, PMS, psoriasis, psychological disorders, puffy eyes, rhinitis, self-esteem problems, sensitivity to cold, sinus conditions, size changes, skin quality problems, sleep problems, stress, temperament problems, tinnitus, weight gain, weight loss, yeast imbalance.
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