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Natural Awakenings Space & Treasure Coast Florida
Have You Had Your Omega Today?

Apr 07, 2011 01:32AM

While most Americans eat way too much of the omega-6 oils found in meats and most vegetable oils, they suffer a relative deficiency of the omega-3 oils, a situation that is associated with an increased risk for heart disease and about sixty other conditions including cancer, arthritis, stroke, high blood pressure, skin diseases, and diabetes. Particularly important to good health are the longer chain omega-3 fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA) found in fish, especially cold water fish such as salmon, mackerel, herring, and halibut. Although the body can convert alphalinoleic acid, a short chain omega-3 fatty acid, from flaxseed oil it is much more efficient to get them from fish oils. Furthermore, there is evidence that many people have a difficult time converting alphalinoleic acid to EPA and DHA.

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Pain-Free Stretching

Apr 07, 2011 01:28AM

Often forgotten and yet most integral part of stretching, the ‘stretch reflex’, is the body’s built-in mechanism that instinctively shortens a muscle when it is moved too close to its ‘end point.’ This helpful stretch reflex will always activate before pain and will do it every time. If you have pain with stretching you are already past the ‘stretch reflex’ and you are now trying to force a muscle to keep lengthening.

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Healing Anxiety and Depression: An Ayurvedic Perspective

Apr 07, 2011 01:27AM ● By John Douillard, PhD

John Douillard has been teaching Ayurvedic medicine, natural health, fitness, and nutrition for 19 years and has trained more than 2,000 Western doctors in Ayurvedic medicine. John Douillard, PhD currently directs the LifeSpa School of Ayurveda (www.lifespa.com). His books include The 3-Season Diet and Body, Mind, and Sport, which has sold over 100,000 copies and been printed in six languages. His latest titles are Perfect Health for Kids and The Encyclopedia of Ayurvedic Massage. In this article, he discusses depression and anxiety from an Ayurvedic perspective, with a focus on the koshas (which translates from Sanskrit as “sheaths”) and which are described in the Vedic tradition as the layers of human consciousness that exist around the Self, like lampshades around a lightbulb.

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What’s in Your Wine?

Apr 07, 2011 01:25AM

The use of added sulfites is debated heavily within the winemaking community. Many vintners favor their use in extremely small quantities, to help stabilize wines, while others frown on them completely.

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Transition Through Grief

Apr 06, 2011 10:58AM

How could God do this to me? How am I going to get through this? What am I going to do now? Am I losing my mind? Grievers experience many different feelings, physical sensations, thoughts and behaviors surrounding grief, some of them unfamiliar. They sometimes think something is wrong with them. Often people feel like they "just can't get it together." They feel like they are not themselves. And they aren't. What was normal prior to the loss is no longer normal, and their new "normal" hasn't been established yet. It is a time of anxiety, “what ifs,” loneliness, and disorientation. Grieving requires a lot of energy at a time when exhaustion has taken over.

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Work Making You Sick?

Apr 06, 2011 10:56AM

During the energy crisis of the 1970’s, builders started to construct homes and offices that were as airtight as possible. Just a few years later, the World Health Organization suggested that the occupants of up to 30% of new and remodeled buildings complained about indoor air quality. When poor air quality results in health problems, two related terms are used to describe the situation: building-related illness and sick building syndrome.

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Nature Nurtures Health

Apr 06, 2011 10:53AM

According to Roger Ulrich, Professor and Director of Center for Health Systems and Design at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, “A growing body of research is giving credibility to the widely held belief that nature can improve health.” In a recent study findings indicated that individuals recovered significantly faster and more completely from stress when they were exposed to natural settings as opposed to urban environments.

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What Did You Say?

Apr 06, 2011 10:50AM

Ever wonder why even though you repeat yourself over and over, you still wind-up feeling as though you have not been heard? Here are some keys to help develop communication skills that help us be heard as well as hear others.

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Itching To Look Good

Apr 06, 2011 10:45AM

Do you know that 60% of the products women use on their skin are absorbed and deposited into the circulatory system? According to Dr. Hauschka, the average woman absorbs 30 pounds of the ingredients contained in moisturizers over 60 years.

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Hormones linked to Breast Cancer Risk

Apr 06, 2011 10:41AM

Discontinuing hormone replacement therapy may reduce risk of breast cancer. In 2002, a major study by the Women’s Health Initiative was actually halted because Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) with combined estrogen-progestin did more harm and actually caused invasive breast cancer. Also in 2002, another study showed that long-term use of estrogen-replacement therapy can increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer. The good news is researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center recently reported that breast cancer rates plummeted sharply between 2002 and 2003. They speculate that this decline may largely be due to the fact that millions of women discontinued using HRT after the findings from the 2002 studies were made public. Fortunately there are natural alternatives to HRT. In a recent study, 89-100% of the women who opted for alternative treatment of menopause symptoms reported relief of symptoms.

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Nutrition is in Your Genes

Apr 06, 2011 10:40AM

Knowing which supplements will truly support your nutritional regime can be a complex challenge. In reality, your health is the result of interactions between your genes and lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, stress and the ability to manage stress, smoking, and alcohol. It is your genetic makeup that determines which nutrients are used and how they are used. Each of us is a genetically unique individual who reacts to food and environment in a unique way. Small differences in our genes can influence how well our bodies metabolize foods, use nutrients, and remove damaging toxins. These small differences and how we deal with them can ultimately make a huge difference in our health. By adjusting our diet and lifestyle choices to our genetic profile we can make sure that our bodies function at their very best.

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Belly Dancing- Tap into your Inner Female

Apr 06, 2011 10:39AM

Belly Dance is a very beautiful dance form with a long tradition. It is a believed to have originated in the fertility cults of the ancient world. In the Middle East, Belly Dance was danced to prepare women’s bodies for childbirth.

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