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Dieting Is All Or Nothing
2008-03-01 01:21:00
TONY DEAN, known as The Meanest Man of Diet ing, and the author of The F.A.S.T. Diet (Families Always Succeed Together) lives with his family in Omaha, Nebraska. After the Dean family of eight had lost 500 pounds, they decided to make an impact on their community and helped a group from their home city lose 4,000 pounds. Now the Dean family is taking this crusade from city to city, helping people lose weight using the F.A.S.T Diet. Guest Blogger Tony Dean--It has always astounded me how articles, books or news stories promising TIPS for dieting success are almost always read. In 2006 I helped my family of 8 ages 23-60 lose 500 lbs. The following year I helped a random group of more than 100 volunteers in Omaha, Nebraska lose 4000 lbs. How did I do it? I did it by NOT giving them TIPS. Modern day dieting is an all or nothing proposition and one or two tips never make a measurable difference.The information in the dieting market right now is so convoluted it is no longer clear where we...
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For Weight Loss There Is Always Hope
2008-02-29 12:30:00
Lisa Delaney, a former fat girl, was 70 pounds overweight with a spluttering career and a non-existent love life when an epiphany involving a half-gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream made her vow to change it all-- for good.  That was 20 years ago.  Today she is a successful writer and editor at Health magazine and the author of Secrets of a Former Fat Girl.  Lisa has also held positions at Cooking Light and Prevention magazines, and has added to Vogue, Men's Health, Men's Journal, and Reader's Digest.Guest Blogger Lisa Delaney--There’s been a lot of talk about hope lately: new hope, false hope, hope backlash, hope-aholism. I have no idea whether a surplus of hope can change the direction of our nation, as a certain presidential candidate suggests. But I do believe that hope, and its cousin, confidence, is the answer to what is arguably our nation’s number-one health problem: the obesity crisis. I am not a researcher, a health “expert” w...
More About: Weight Loss , Diet , Weight , Exercise , Obesity

Tattoo Your Eyeball?
2008-02-28 21:33:00
Recently, tattooing with its ink and attention has grabbed the hearts and eyes of youth.  Ink is not just being applied to the skin, but injected over the white of the eye.  Tattoo ing of the cornea has been practiced for over 2,000 years to correct corneal scarring and leucomas. It is acceptable if performed by an eye surgeon or ophthamologist.  There is a difference.Dr. Steven Maskin --  If you value the gift of sight, stay away from tattooing the white of your eye. The risks are many including perforation of the eye with subsequent retina detachment and infection with permanent loss of the eye. If that’s not bad enough, the tattoo pigment may cause inflammation and pain. And if the pigment was injected into a blood vessel and traveled back toward the brain, well this could cause a stroke. Steven L. Maskin, M.D., F.A.C.S., a founding member of the International Ocular Surface Society and author of Reversing Dry Eye Syndrome: Practical Ways to Impr...
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Reduce Your Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease By 75%
2008-02-28 12:52:00
Dr. Ralph Felder, author of The Bonus Years Diet, is a chef who is also a doctor and research biologist. Dr. Chef (Ralph Felder) knows good food  and knows what’s good for you and your family. A board-certified internist, Dr. Felder holds an M.D.and Ph.D. from Stanford University where he also completed his medical residency. After a post doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Dr. Felder moved to Phoenix where he is the section chief for cardiovascular nutrition in the cardiology fellowship program at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. In addition he attended the Culinary Arts Program at the Art Institute of Phoenix. He has conducted cooking demonstrations and lectured for the Phoenix Chapter of the American Heart Association and taught workshops for diabetic support groups in the Phoenix area.   Guest Blogger Ralph Felder--The Diet PuzzleWe all want to live longer and healthier lives. And we all understand how important our diet is in helping us to reach...
More About: Disease , Risk , Reduce , Cardiovascular

Get In Shape By Walking In Any Weather!
2008-02-27 19:20:00
Leslie Sansone is the creator of the original Walk at Home program. What started as a few classes in church halls has grown into the number one walking program in the world, grossing over $200 million. Her walking DVDs can be found internationally in retail stores such as Wal Mart, Sam's Club, Costco, Target, K Mart, and Best Buy. Leslie produced more than 100 popular DVDs, several successful infomercials in the U.S. and Great Britain, and has written four fitness books, including Walking The Walk and Walk Away The Pounds. Leslie has been called on by the President's Council on Physical Fitness, the PA Governor's Council, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and TOPS. She has created walking workouts specifically for NutriSystem which are included and recommended as the activity component to their highly successful meal plan program. Leslie Sansone has been featured in popular magazines and publications such as the New York Times, People Magazine, Prevention, Walking Fit, Health, G...
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Hillary's Dilemma
2008-02-27 12:54:00
Dr. Mark Goulston is a former UCLA professor who helps high performing leaders, senior managment and sales people reach their full potential using skills he learned training FBI and police hostage negotiators. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and writes the weekly Tribune syndicated career advice column, "Solve Anything with Dr. Mark" and columns on leadership for FAST COMPANY and Directors Monthly . He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, and Today. Mark Goulston is the author of Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior,  Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and PTSD for Dummies. For more information vi...
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A Life Saving Mineral--Magnesium
2008-02-27 00:21:00
Dr. Carolyn Dean MD, ND, is the author and coauthor of 15 books, including an eBook titled VidaCosta Good Health Encyclopedia.  Proficient in both conventional and alternative medicine, Dr. Dean serves as the medical advisor to YeastConnection.com, medical director of VidaCosta Spa el Puente in Costa Rica, and offers customized consultations for health by phone. Guest Blogger Carolyn Dean:Magnesium deficiency, according to current research, triggers or causes the following 22 conditions:Anxiety and Panic attacks AsthmaBlood clotsBowel disease including constipation and IBS-constipation, and cramping.CystitisDepressionDiabetes, Syndrome X, and Metabolic Syndrome, which includes high cholesterol Fatigue, Chronic Fatigue SyndromeHeart disease including heart attack and heart failureHypertensionHypoglycemiaInsomniaKi dney disease including kidney stonesLiver disease including gall stonesMigraine headaches16. Musculoskeletal conditions17. Nerve problems (tics, numbness, tin...
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Red Yeast Rice: Not Your Best Bet For A Natural Statin Alternative
2008-02-26 13:28:00
Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D., LDN, nutritionist and author of Cholesterol DOWN (Three Rivers Press), has spent many years counseling patients on wellness, weight loss, and cardiovascular prevention. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Obesity and the International Journal of Sport Nutrition. Dr. Brill maintains a private practice specializing in cardiovascular disease prevention, and also privately consults on nutrition with such clients as Proctor & Gamble and The Sports Club LA-Miami.Guest Blogger Janet Brill--Red yeast rice, or red yeast, is a substance produced naturally during the fermentation of the yeast Monascus purpureus by certain fungi that grow on rice. The medicinal use of red yeast rice dates back to A.D. 800, during the Tang dynasty in China, when red yeast rice was ingested primarily as a remedy for digestive ills. Present-day use of red yeast rice continues in Asia as both a culinary staple and for its healing properties. The deep r...
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Add Volume To Your Food And Lose The Weight!
2008-02-26 01:23:00
Dr. Barbara Rolls is a veteran nutrition scientist and author of the nationally acclaimed books, The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan (HarperCollins, 2000), and The Volumetrics Eating Plan (Harper, 2007), both New York Times bestsellers, and rated the #1 diet plan by Consumer Reports in 2007. She is the endowed Guthrie Chair in Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University where she heads the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior, described by US News & World Report as a “quirky culinary empire.” Here she and her staff “cook up” novel studies to help understand what influences people's food intake and food choices as well as their body weight. Dr. Rolls’s research has been published in numerous scientific journals and the “feeling full on fewer calories” principles of her “Volumetrics” books have been featured in a wide variety of health, fitness, and family magazines and websites. Dr. Rolls frequen...
More About: Food , Weight Loss , Calories

Are Rescued Pets Healthy Pets?
2008-02-25 14:51:00
Dr. Shawn Messonnier, DVM the host of the weekly award-winning radio show, "Dr. Shawn-The Natural Vet" on Martha Stewart Radio (Sirius 112 Tues 8-10 PM EST and Sat 9-11AM EST) sits on the advisory board of the Journal Veterinary Forum, and is a holistic pet columnist for Animal Wellness, Body + Soul, and Veterinary Forum. In addition to serving clients in his Paws & Claws Animal Hospital, he has written several books on the natural care of pets, including The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats, The Allergy Solution for Dogs, 8 Weeks to a Healthy Dog, and most recently Preventing and Treating Cancer In Dogs.Guest Blogger Shawn Messonnier--Many people are interested in adopting pets that have been rescued from natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina a few years ago. While these pets certainly need a good home and can make wonderful companions, it’s important to use your head and not just your heart when opening your home to one of these special creatur...
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Swallow And Fib? A Doctor Speaks Out About The Dangers Of Supplementation
2008-02-24 13:56:00
Julie K. Silver , M.D. is on the medical staff at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is an award-winning writer and the author of many books including Super Healing and After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger. To learn more about her work go to www.JulieSilverMD.com. Guest Blogger Dr. Julie K. Silver--All medical doctors know that our patients take supplements and don’t tell us about them. Even when we ask. That’s a dangerous policy, and a new study highlights some of the reasons why. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers reviewed 32 studies published between 1999 and 2006. Not surprisingly, they found that cancer survivors take more supplements than the general population. Here is some material taken from my books Super Healing (Rodale) and After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger (John s Hopkins Press) about the issue of supplements:1. A common belief among s...
More About: Breast Cancer , Supplement

Valerie Bertinelli Is Losing It
2008-02-24 03:49:00
FIRSTLOOK--Monday afternoon Valerie Bertinelli comes clean about living a lie on Oprah .  Launching her new book, Losing It: Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, the television actress will discuss her former life with the talk show hostess.  Married for twenty years to rock star Eddie Van Halen, Ms. Bertinelli experienced some of her darkest days while filming Touched By An Angel. They'd fought for years about his drinking.  Turning her misery into a "reason for eating," jalapeno-and-cheese poppers became her medicine, sometimes eating several each evening.After trying many diets and regaining the weight, she discovered that only she could solve her problems.  On the brink of accepting herself as an overweight person, Ms. Bertinelli found Jenny Craig.  April 4, '07, she appeared on the front cover of People magazine as a size 14 at 172lbs, admitting, "I'm fat."  Resolving to stick with her diet, and encouraged ...
More About: Diet , Queen Latifah , Overweight

Is There Sex After 70, 80 or Even 90?
2008-02-23 12:30:00
Christiane Northrup, MD is internationally recognized for her empowering approach to women's health and wellness.  A leading proponent of medicine and healing that acknowledges the unity of the mind and body, as well as the powerful role of the human spirit in creating health, she is the bestselling author of Women 's Bodies, Women's Wisdom ; The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change; and Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health. In addition, Dr. Northrup has received many awards for her work, and sits on the Advisory Boards for Heal Breast Cancer Foundation, Pilates Health, and Family Circle.  A few of her favorite charities include Mercy Ships, Girl Scouts USA, Children's Hunger Fund, and The Red Web Foundation.Dr. Christiane Northrup--Senior s say, "You bet!"Who says old age slows down your sex drive? Does the “winter of your life” really ...

Does My Kitchen Make My Butt Look Fat?
2008-02-21 23:34:00
BestSelling author and international organization expert, Peter Walsh, recently launched his new book--Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More on the Oprah Show. The focus of the book explores the relationship between the clutter in homes and how it affects weight, eating habits, and health. As part of the Oprah & Friends network, Peter Walsh hosts a weekly national radio program characterizing himself as part-contractor and part-therapist. During the last three years, the author also starred as the tough-love professional organizer of the TLC show Clean Sweep. Peter Walsh--There is one thing that my years of helping people declutter and get organized has taught me – and that is that you can’t make the healthiest choices, the best choices, for you and your family in a clutter, messy disorganized home. It just can’t be done! A great reality check when it comes to kitchens – and I use this all the time with cl...
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Nice Girls Don't Lead...Leadership Is A Woman's Art
2008-02-21 13:07:00
Dr. Lois Frankel literally wrote the book on coaching people to succeed in businesses large and small around the globe. Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office and Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich are international bestsellers translated into over twenty-five languages and featured on the TODAY Show, CNN and CNBC, in the New York Times, USA Today, and in People and Time Magazines. BusinessWeek named Corner Office one of the top ten business books of the year and ABC Television purchased the rights to it for a comedy series. Her most recent book, See Jane Lead , furthers the premise that women make natural leaders for our time and explains how to harness your own leadership talent. Learn more about Dr. Frankel at www.drloisfrankel.com. Guest Blogger Lois Frankel--When I was in graduate school working on my doctorate in counseling psychology, there was a book I was required to read that changed the course of my life.  You would think that icons like Jung, Freud, or Maslow...
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Why Hillary Is Losing
2008-02-21 12:31:00
Dr. Mark Goulston is a former UCLA professor who helps high performing leaders, senior managment and sales people reach their full potential using skills he learned training FBI and police hostage negotiators. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and writes the weekly Tribune syndicated career advice column, "Solve Anything with Dr. Mark" and columns on leadership for FAST COMPANY and Directors Monthly . He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, and Today. Mark Goulston is the author of Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior,  Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and PTSD for Dummies. For more information vi...
More About: Bush , Hillary Clinton , Obama , Clinton , Baby Boomer

Interview: Kacy Duke Personal Trainer To Red Carpet-Ready Celebrities
2008-02-21 12:04:00
Celebrity Fitness Trainer Kacy Duke, cofounder of Equinox Fitness Clubs, is the author of The Show It Love Workout: Celebrate the Body You Have, Get the Body You Want. New York magazine named her as one of the top ten fitness gurus in her native New York City. Kacy Duke’s red-carpet ready clientele includes: Denzel Washington, Julianne Moore, Yoko Ono, Kirsten Dunst , Iman, Bruce Willis, Lenny Kravitz,Gwen Stefani , Greta Cavazzoni, Anne V, and Mary J. Blige.A mother of a young man, the seemingly ageless Kacy Duke insists, “It’s not how old you are, it’s how old you feel.” Kelly Jad'on:  Kacy, is fitness only for the wealthy?No, no way. It’s the easiest thing for everyone to have. It’s like breathing and requires no equipment. You can do pushups or run outside. Though physical results aren’t instant, you get a sense of accomplishment by exercising and eating the right foods. That’s instant—it’s getting in the game...
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Blood Transfusions For Pets
2008-02-20 17:00:00
Dr. Shawn Messonnier, DVM the host of the weekly award-winning radio show, "Dr. Shawn-The Natural Vet" on Martha Stewart Radio (Sirius 112 Tues 8-10 PM EST and Sat 9-11AM EST) sits on the advisory board of the Journal Veterinary Forum, and is a holistic pet columnist for Animal Wellness, Body + Soul, and Veterinary Forum.  In addition to serving clients in his Paws & Claws Animal Hospital, he has written several books on the natural care of pets, including The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cat s, The Allergy Solution for Dogs, 8 Weeks to a Healthy Dog, and most recently Preventing and Treating Cancer In Dogs.Guest Blogger Shawn Messonnier--Occasionally dogs and cats need blood transfusions. Most commonly the need arises as a result of acute blood loss (for example, in a pet that is bleeding internally or externally from some sort of trauma.) Sometimes pets with blood disorders, such as immune destruction of the red blood cells or platelets, also nee...
More About: Pets , Blood , American Red Cross

Are You Listening Hillary? Maybe You Should Be.
2008-02-20 13:30:00
Dr. Mark Goulston is a former UCLA professor who helps high performing leaders, senior managment and sales people reach their full potential using skills he learned training FBI and police hostage negotiators. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and writes the weekly Tribune syndicated career advice column, "Solve Anything with Dr. Mark" and columns on leadership for FAST COMPANY and Directors Monthly . He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, and Today. Mark Goulston is the author of Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior,  Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and PTSD for Dummies. For more information vi...
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How To Save Money For A Crisis
2008-02-20 13:18:00
Robert Pagliarini has a Master's Degree in Financial Services and is a Certified Financial Planner. and has been featured on ABC's 20/20 and appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, NPR's Marketplace. In addition, he writes a monthly column in Affluent magazine and is the founder of Pacific Wealth Advisors.Robert Pagliarini's remarkable #1 Bestselling Personal Finance book, The Six-Day Financial Makeover: Transform Your Financial Life in Less Than a Week! gives people the motivation and tools they need to make profound and lasting changes in the way they deal with money—in a matter of days. Guest Blogger Robert Pagliarini--A dear friend of mine was having a problem and didn’t even know it. When faced with a situation such as this, you have to be careful about how you go about “enlightening” your friend. My friend’s problem was this . . . she was spending too much. More s...
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Inside Today!
2008-02-19 14:51:00
Sell Your House In One Day!Are Toxins Taking A Toll On Your Health?Are Kids Getting Fatter?Cut Costs On Expensive Unnecessary Pet CareCan You Get Control of Your Drinking?Obama V. Clinton: The Smiles Have It!Living and Loving With Herpes
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What Are The Most Powerful Words In Personal Finance?
2008-02-19 11:33:00
Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar, co-authors of ON MY OWN TWO FEET: a modern girl’s guide to personal finance, are best girlfriends with a combined 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. At various points in their careers they have worked as financial analysts, portfolio managers, and client servicing/marketing executives for leading investment management firms with billions of dollars in assets under management. Both Manisha and Sharon earned MBA degrees from Harvard Business School and are Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders. Manisha received her BA in American Studies from Wellesley College and lives with her husband in Houston, TX. Sharon received her BA in Economics from Rice University and lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco, CA. Manisha and Sharon’s financial literacy advocacy work has been featured in such publications as THE NEW YORK TIMES, BUSINESS WEEK, and US NEWS & WORLD REPORT. Manisha & Sharon are al...
More About: Personal , Personal Finance , Finance , Save Money , Words

The Mind of a School Shooter
2008-02-17 02:52:00
Dr. Mark Goulston, member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, is the best selling author of three books and writes a column on leadership for FAST COMPANY, Directors Monthly, Knight Ridder Tribune, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, and Today. Mark Goulston helps high performing leaders, senior managment and sales people reach their full potential using skills he learned training FBI and police hostage negotiators. He is the author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and PTSD for Dummies.Guest Blogger Mark Goulston--When you lose the capacity to empathize with human beings, people become objects to like whe...
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Violence In Illinois--It's The Rage
2008-02-15 18:42:00
Dr. Mark Goulston, member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, is the best selling author of three books and writes a column on leadership for FAST COMPANY, Directors Monthly, Knight Ridder Tribune, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, and Today. Mark Goulston helps high performing leaders, senior managment and sales people reach their full potential using skills he learned training FBI and police hostage negotiators. He is the author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work and PTSD for Dummies.Guest Blogger Mark Goulston--You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to recognize potentially violent teenagers. Yo...
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Who Are You Really?
2008-02-13 20:12:00
Oprah's Book Club has catapulted A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle into the one of the top slots of  Best Seller s at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the USA Today Best Seller List. Advocating her audience read the new non-fiction book, Oprah and the author will together teach an online class about how to awaken yourself.  You won't be setting the alarm clock a little earlier, but will need to be available on Monday evenings for the event.Eckhart Tolle writes that the purpose of A New Earth is to "bring about a shift of consciousness."  It is a book "about you."  He believes that the history of humanity is a history of madness, ie. wars, slavery, conquest, destruction of the natural world, etc..  He has a point here.  We must, he says "evolve or die."  In doing so, we will take on a new religion, spirituality, ideology, mythology, or belief system.  If the human mind remains structured as it is, unchang...
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The AfterShock For Kenechi Udeze
2008-02-13 15:36:00
Jessie Gruman , PhD, who has personally survived four life-threatening diagnoses, is the author of After Shock : What to do When the Doctor Gives You – or Someone You Love –- a Devastating Diagnosis and President of the Center for the Advancement of Health . Guest Blogger Jessie Gruman--News that Minnesota Vikings defensive end Kenechi Udeze has leukemia generated a spate of messages wishing him in his coming battle against the blood cancer, which is not as devastating a diagnosis as it once was. The survival rate has tripled during the past 40 years.Nevertheless, the shock of news of a serious illness can really knock you for a loop: shock that your plans are shattered, fear of pain, sadness at the suffering your illness causes those you love and fear that you might lose your life, even with such an optimistic prognosis.And in the midst of this maelstrom of emotion following a serious medical diagnosis, every patient must make decisions that are vital to their future...
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Trans Fat Makes You Fat
2008-02-12 20:18:00
Robert Ferguson , M.S., C.N., Performance Nutritionist to the Boxing Elite and Founder of the Food Lovers Fat Loss System  .  Mr. Ferguson is the author of Conquering The Munchie Monster.  Robert Ferguson--     & nbsp;               ;      &nbs p;     We know that trans fats are unhealthy, but can even a little make you fat or slow down your desire to be lean? The answer is yes. Equal to all fats in calories, research has shown that trans fats can block protein synthesis - hindering your body from building lean muscle tissue. This also equates to a slowed metabolism.Unfortunately, there's not a lot of research on trans fats and their relationship to weight gain except for what was presented 3 years ago at the American Diabetes Association conference in Washington. Monkeys fed a diet high in trans fats gained much more weight that those...
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10 Habits of Happy Couples
2008-02-12 19:52:00
Dr. Mark Goulston is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and is the best selling author of three books and writes column on leadership for FAST COMPANY, Directors Monthly, Knight Ridder Tribune, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, Today.  He is the author of The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship.Dr. Mark Goulston-- 1. Go to bed at the same time. Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn't wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while t...
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Change? We All Can Do Something To Improve Our World
2008-02-12 19:26:00
Sam Davidson is a speaker, writer and dreamer who tells the stories that need telling in order to motivate others to change the things that need changing. In 2006, he and co-founded CoolPeopleCare, a social awareness Web site that connects individuals who want to change the world with opportunities and ideas to do so. Having worked and consulted in both the the for-profit and nonprofit worlds, his approach to impacting one's world is believable and, even more importantly, doable.  New Day Revolution , his first book, shows how small changes in the daily routine make a big difference in our communities and ultimately--the world.Guest Blogger Sam Davidson:There's a rumor going one - a very nasty one.  And while it may be particularly dirty, it's one that's easily believed.  In that case then, it's grown to mythic proportions as more and more people believe it.  Time and again, people are duped as they buy into the speculation that in order to save the wor...
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Nice Guys Finish First Because They Don't Play Games
2008-02-12 12:38:00
Founder of online dating consulting service E-Cyrano and author of Why You're Still Single: Things Your Friends Would Tell You If You Promised Not To Get Mad and  I Can't Believe I'm Buying this Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating, Evan Marc Katz has established himself as America's leading dating expert. In addition to being a regular contributor to Match.com’s Happen Magazine, he was the co-creator, editor in chief, and advice columnist for JDate’s JMag. Evan was also named Harlequin Books’ 2006 Romance Report media spokesperson, doing interviews about mastering real-life dating encounters. Guest Blogger Evan Marc Katz--Just got off the phone with a client and became inspired to write this piece.My client is a nice guy. Mid 30’s, intelligent, successful, and serious about finding a relationship.We’ve been working together for a few months and he’s been lamenting his lack of success.I reiterate old them...
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