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A Woman’s Guide to Ensuring Her Man’s Health
It’s hard to explain but it may be true. A lot of men are just not as concerned over personal health as women. This is not to say that men do not have medical concerns. Men can have as many concerns as women. Indeed an average man’s health may be plagued by such concerns as impotence, prostrate cancer, obesity, heart disease, impotence and diabetes among many others.
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Philosophers, poets, and theologians strongly believe that love is the very essence of spiritual experience. Every world religion teaches the importance of giving and receiving love. Now scientific research is beginning to verify the healing power of love.
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There is absolutely nothing in the world that can take the place of sleep. We must not let the body go short on sleep, since there is simply no substitute for it. Experience and observation also tell us that bedtime has something to do with the going and coming of daylight. We are aware of the fact that sleep before midnight is more refreshing and relaxing than sleep afterwards. If we postpone our bedtime mainly to the hours after midnight, we will not derive the healing and strengthening benefits from sleep that we would by going to bed earlier, because the hours before midnight count double.
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Correct Poor Posture Forever By Using The “Alexander Technique”
The Alexander technique came about as a result of one man's effort to heal himself. Frederick M. Alexander, pioneer of the Alexander technique, depended on one of the oldest human tools, plain self-observation, to develop his bodywork system.
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4 Doctor-Recommended Ways To Keep Your Eyes Young & Your Vision Strong
Our eye's ability to focus reaches its peak at around 12 years old, then slowly declines with every year thereafter. By the time we reach ages 35 to 45, many of us begin to notice we're holding reading material so far away that our arms seem too short. It's called presbyopia, the age-related vision change that occurs as your once-flexible lens becomes harder and less clear. Here's what to do when you notice that your vision is starting to get bad.
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Perspiration isn't generally considered desirable. It makes clothes wet and uncomfortable, it makes our skin unpleasant to touch and it often smells bad. But the biological fact is that sweating is essential to good health, especially during exercise.
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Some of the major goals of exercise are to improve muscle tone, strength, and endurance. All of this is made possible by, and requires, the body's energy production-and-use system. Central to that system is a complex molecule called ATP, Adenosine Triphosphate.
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Most diet and exercise programs focus on what kinds of food to eat, which exercises are best for weight loss and toning, etc. That's sensible, since both diet and exercise are the twin partners that have to be adjusted to maintain a preferred weight range and a healthy body.
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The Power Of Using Imagery To Heal Disease
Imagery is a technique that can harness our imagination, memory, and senses to promote relaxation, heal disease, and improve control over life and health. Imagery is based on the idea that our minds can influence the unseen processes of our bodies, such as the immune system. As do many other forms of alternative healing, imagery relies on the assumption of direct and powerful links between mind and body.
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Tai Chi and Qi Gong: Two Powerful Ancient Chinese Exercise Programs
Tai Chi: The most popular form of exercise in China. It developed as a "soft" martial art in the early 1200s. It is now a component of traditional Chinese medicine and is practiced primarily for its health benefits. Tai chi consists of a precise sequence of slow, graceful movements, accompanied by deep breathing and mental attention to achieve balance between body and mind and to focus the qi (pronounced chee), or vital energy. A practitioner's weight is shifted while the body is kept stable and upright.
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The Life-Healing Power Of Meditation
Meditation is one of the most accepted alternative therapies in western medicine. It gained serious attention in Western cultures in the 1960s. As word spread of Eastern masters able to perform remarkable feats of bodily control and achieve altered states of consciousness, people in Western countries became increasingly fascinated by meditation. Health practitioners and researchers became interested in understanding how the mind could evoke physiological changes in the body. Meditation's ability to achieve physical benefits gave way to the beginning of the curiosity and research activity that continues to this day.
