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How To Increase Health, Wellbeing, Spirituality, And Financial Wellness

I want my lens to speak to anyone that struggles with health, wellbeing,spirituality, and financial wellness. I am a female nurse and ecommerce entrepreneur and I hope to encourage more women to do the same. Also, become a squidaholic like me. There are many aspects to our health, which requires a holistic view. We have to examine every facet of our lives and environment that can affect our health. We want to learn healthy behaviors and live quality lives.

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For a natural need like exercise, getting fit at the gym is rather unnatural. People crowded on row after row of machines? Running around in circles on a track? Take a break from the artificial fluorescent lighting of your local fitness center and get back to nature. Try volunteering to help clean up trails and parks in your area: you'll be active while enjoying the great outdoors and giving back to society.


If you're unsure of how to get out there to start conserving nature, it's OK. Outdoor retailer REI coordinates service projects for local areas in need, from trail building, restoration, and maintenance to park and waterway clean-ups.


It's as easy as finding a local event and signing up: no membership fee, no monthly commitment. And volunteers are always in demand. Many trails deteriorate over time due to foot traffic and weather conditions, and erosion and mud have overtaken an unfortunate number of trails. With your help, great strides can be made to help preserve local parks and trails. And after you've assisted in the preservation, you can enjoy the fruits of your efforts by using the trails for hiking, jogging, or mountain biking. Plus, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you contributed to your fellow joggers' experience.


Along with helping your community, you'll be getting your own benefits as well. We're talking burning 182 calories every 30 minutes you spend planting trees, and 132 calories for every 30 minutes of removing invasive and overgrown plants. Depending on the intensity of the clean-up, volunteering could even rival your aerobics class for number of calories burned!


As if that isn't motivation enough, many of REI stores offer extra perks. For Phoenix's South Mountain Park trail construction, Whole Foods provides lunch and REI offers a prize draw. In Austin, Texas, help clean up Barton Creek, and Clif GreenNotes will treat you to a Ben Kweller concert after you've gotten down and dirty with your inner do-gooder. Many stores offer goodie bags to volunteers, and free snacks and water are usually provided - although some request that you bring your own bottle to reduce waste, of course.


Start giving back to get fit! Visit www.rei.com/map/store for more information or to sign up for a volunteer event near you. - Abby Mercure

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Healthy People 2010 

What we're doing as a society to get healthier

Healthy People 2010 Home Page
Healthy People 2010 is a national health promotion
and disease prevention initiative.Its goals are to increase the quality and years of
healthy life and eliminate health disparities.
A Healthy Weight
A Healthy Weight
The Weight-Cancer Link
AICR's second expert report, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, has confirmed the relationship between excess body fat and increased cancer risk. According to the scientific literature, there is convincing evidence that body fat increases risk for cancers of the esophagus, pancreas, colon and rectum, edometrium, kidney and breast (in postmenopausal women). Because of the overwhelming evidence, AICR recommends maintaining a healthy weight throughout life to best reduce your chances of developing cancer. Read the full list of AICR's Recommendations for Cancer Prevention.

Laboratory studies help to explain why being overweight increases your cancer risk. The fat we store on our bodies is not an inert mass. Fat cells produce estrogen, which promotes cell growth. They also produce a variety of proteins that cause inflammation and insulin resistance, which in turn promotes cell growth and cell reproduction. Fat at the waist is even more active in producing these growth stimulants. So overweight people - particularly if they are apple-shaped - have high levels of substances circulating in their blood that stimulate cell division. The more often cells divide, the more opportunity there is for cancer to develop.

AICR experts stress that this potentially dangerous condition is preventable. In fact, maintaining a healthy weight may be the single most important way to protect against cancer. At a time when two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, making changes to lower your cancer risk by preventing weight gain is more important than ever

Home Safety 

How common cleaning products could be a ticking time bomb in your home or office!

If your home or office is typical, it already has dozens of cleaning and personal care products that contain harmful chemicals. Recent studies have revealed that most households/offices contain over 63 hazardous products that together contain hundreds of chemicals. These chemicals have the potential to greatly harm or even kill your children, your pets and you, should they accidentally not be used with the utmost caution.

Could these tragedies happen in your home or office?
When little Jennifer Smith of Salt Lake City, UT was but a year old she crawled over to the dishwasher while her mother was unloading the dishes. She put her small finger in the detergent dispensing cup and ate a finger full of wet but un-dissolved commercial dish detergent. In minutes her face was red and blistered, the inside of her mouth and tongue were burned white. Luckily she was rushed to a nearby hospital emergency room for quick medical attention. She recovered in a few days.

Another documented case was a 20 month old boy who had to be fed through tubes for five months and suffered through many operations. Again, the culprit was dishwasher detergent.

This is only two of thousands of cases reflecting children ingesting and being exposed to, what most consider common household products, terrible life threatening consequences.

It is estimated that the U.S. Poison Control Center has nearly 1.5 million reported cases of accidental ingestion of poisons every year. Sadly most of these cases were under 12 years of age.

Have you ever wondered what the strong odor in the cleaners isle of your supermarket is?
Ingestion is only one of three major ways that these products enter the body. Inhalation is even for more dangerous because when breathed in these harmful chemicals go directly into the blood stream and can quickly affect the lungs, heart, brain liver and kidneys.

By the way, that strong smell in your supermarket cleaner isle is caused by what industry experts describe as "out gassing". Out gassing is the vapors escaping from the "sealed" containers on the supermarkets shelves. Which obviously are extremely harmful to your health.

Have you ever been literally driven out of your bathroom shower while using one of the most popular tile cleaners? These types of cleaners must contain strong chemicals in order to do the job. The job may get done but you are at risk from the strong vapors that are generated. By the time you have exited the bathroom the chemical vapors have entered your blood stream and are wrecking havoc with your health.

Where are your rubber gloves?
Do you know that one square centimeter of skin (the size of a dime) contains 3 million cells and 4 yards of nerves? How do you think nicotine and hormone replacement patches work? Do the chemicals somehow enter the body from the patch through the skin to do their work? Of course they do.

This same absorption occurs every time a cleaning product touches your skin. By the way, if your baby happens to crawl across your nicely scrubbed kitchen floor, even several days after, the skin will pick up and absorb whatever harmful chemicals happen to be in the cleaner.

Consumer Beware!

Why isn't the consumer informed and protected from the potentially dangerous chemicals contained in cleaning and personal care products?

The government has very limited power to regulate and require proper testing.
Products that kill 50% of lab animals can still get designated as "non-toxic".
Of 17,000 household chemicals only about 5,100, or approximately 30%, have been adequately tested and less than 10% have been tested on the nervous system.
No law requires manufactures to list the exact ingredients on the package label.

Veriuni All Natural Cleaners!
Just imagine your peace of mind if you never had to be concerned again about your family suffering from the misuse of harmful cleaning chemicals.

Veriuni's environmentally safe cleaning products provide a powerful answer to the harm that ingestion, inhalation and absorption of common household products. Veriuni's products combine all-natural ingredients and vigorous cleaning action for the ultimate in consumer safety and environmental health.

All-natural, gentle and powerful, Veriuni Cleaning Products use only citrus-based oils, as well as ingredients from corn and other replenish able materials. They contain no dyes, artificial fragrances, or pesticide residues. Even our packaging and labels are constructed solely from recycled materials.

The news is incredible, Veriuni's line of environmentally safe cleaning products work like no other cleansers on the market today. Consumers everywhere, including those at businesses, hospitals and schools are switching to environmentally, safe, effective cleaners to increase health among family members, clients and employees.

"Our company has been using the All Purpose Cleaner for over four years now. It has no hazardous chemicals and my employees love the fresh orange scent. Your cleaner is truly an all in one product that works on every surface in our bakery from floors, walls, equipment, counters, baking pans and dishes."
B. Rooden

Just how good are these cleaners?
The Veriuni formula is used exclusively by the over 30 National Parks, a few which include Yellowstone, Grant Teton and Yosemite. The formula was also chosen by the City of Santa Monica after conducting tests for the most effective and environmentally safe cleansers for the city's cleaning needs. Warner Brothers and Fox Studios, the University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ and world-famous resorts have also chosen these products to clean their facilities. And most recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is testing these same products for use on its fleet of air and water quality testing ships.

"The staff had high marks for this product which completely removed organic stains and all trace odors from carpet and upholstered furniture without emitting any noxious fumes or leaving any residues. No other product performed all of these tasks better."
B. White

Now, Veriuni makes these safe products available to you, for use in both your home and your office. A powerful, effective and non-toxic alternative to traditional cleaners.

"The Bathroom Cleaner really does a good job on soap scum in the bathrooms. We have a number of children that come through our business on a daily basis. I wanted our cleaners to be safe for them and the environment. We chose your products because they have no hazardous ingredients. I don't want to dump that stuff into our septic system."
K. Stevens

Start protecting your health today!!
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Wellness And Nutrition 

True or False...almost all wellness deficiencies are part of the normal aging process. There's nothing you can do about it.

True or False...all required nutrients are obtained from your average daily food intake, therefore supplementation is a big waste of money.

The answers? False and False!
There are two major problems with the current food supply, they are:

We eat too much...estimates are that 61% of the population is overweight, and
We are not getting the minimum amounts of the building blocks (nutrients) that our bodies need for good health.

Have you had your spinach today?
In 1948 you could buy spinach that had 158 milligrams of iron per hundred grams. By 1965, the maximum had dropped to 27 milligrams. In 1973 it was averaging 2.2. That means you would have to eat 75 bowls of spinach to get the same amount of iron that one bowl might have given you back in 1948. We have to have cobalt to process vitamin B12. We need vitamin B12 for healthy red blood cells. Sadly most of the vegetables that supply cobalt in the diet now test zero.

The top soil over most of the land used to grow fruits and vegetables is very depleted. This in turn produces crops that are severely low in the necessary vitamins and mineral that our bodies need for optimum health.

The typical daily diet does not supply the necessary proteins, vitamins and minerals to properly replace the dying cells in our internal and external organs. If we fall short our immunity system is weakened leaving us vulnerable to sickness and disease.

So...are you getting the 20 essential amino acids, 14 essential minerals and 13 essential vitamins in your daily diet to insure your "good health"?

Who's looking out for your health?
Our fast paced lifestyles have prompted the food industry to produce products that satisfy consumer demand. As a result, these quick to prepare processed foods do not contain the proper nutrients to maintain good health. The fresh food part of our diet is totally eliminated and is replaced with high calorie low nutrient substitutes that promotes weight gain. Too often the consumer purchases food based on price, taste and convenience.

Mass media advertising promotes the processed foods that the food industry is offering. This advertising over shadows conventional education which is grossly lacking. Today a person can go through the entire educational system and not have one class in nutrition.

Easy access to "sickness care" (more commonly known as health care) and employer supported health insurance has promoted a mind set that the doctor is responsible for the health of the entire family.

Governmental support of public health is dictated largely by the food and medical lobby. Their agenda is for large sales and profits which most times do not line up with prevention, wellness and sensible diets.

Pay for good health today, or pay for bad health tomorrow!
Take control and responsibility for you and your family's health. The first step is to insure they get the basic nutrition through proper diet and exercise. It is almost impossible to get a daily balanced diet so the logical answer is to allocate a portion of your food budget to include a supplement product that supplies the recommended daily minimums. This should not be looked at as an additional expense but part of your grocery list of required items.

Veriuni Nutritionals...all the health insurance you need!
Veriuni Flagship Nutritional Products

Veriuni's Liquid Nutrition offers you a great tasting peach-flavored liquid multivitamin that supplies 100% of your daily vitamins and minerals. The liquid, unlike many tablets, is highly absorbed by the body so that all the benefits from your investment are realized. Veriuni Liquid Nutrition consists of all natural ingredients taken from plants and the earth itself, with no fillers or binders.

Just one ounce of this unique supplement taken daily supplies 127 of the best vitamins, minerals, herbal complex and amino acid complex available.

Veriuni's Advanced Antioxidant formula helps to combat the harmful free radicals that enter the body through the food we eat and the air that we breathe. This product is a highly concentrated natural extract derived from grape seeds. It contains a number of unique beneficial flavonoid compounds which have demonstrated many times the antioxidant activity of vitamins C and E in in-vitro studies. They act as free radical scavengers, help resist blood vessel and skin damage, inhibit inflammatory enzymes and inhibit histamine formation.

Be sure to put these two Veriuni Nutritionals on your shopping list TODAY!

Fill your shopping basket with Veriuni Nutritional Products. Have the peace of mind that you are investing wisely in you and your family's health today and for the future.

Don't gamble on the most precious asset you have (your good health) and place your order today.

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Lavendar 

The lavenders (Lavandula) are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region south to tropical Africa and to the southeast regions of India. The genus includes annuals, herbaceous plants, subshrubs, and small shrubs. The native range extends across the Canary Islands, North and East Africa, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Arabia and India. Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens worldwide, they are occasionally found growing wild as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range. However, since lavender cross-pollinates easily, there are countless variations within the species. The color of the flowers of some forms has come to be called lavender.

Essential Oils 

What is an Essential Oil?  Peel an orange, walk through a rose garden or rub a sprig of lavender between your
fingers, and you are instantly aware of the special aroma of that plant. 
Technically, what is that smell?  Well, it is essential oils that give flowers, fruits and herbs
their distinct aromas.



The oils are derived from various parts of the
plant.  Some come from seeds, bark, root, leaves, peel, flowers, wood,
balsam or resin.  Also, some plants produce numerous oils, such as one from
the flower and another from the leaves.  Different oils from different parts
of the plant may yield different results.



Essential Oils have been used for thousands of years for bathing, healing and perfumes.



How do Essential Oils Work?  They can be used in numerous ways to treat skin complaints and conditions, once absorbed
into the bloodstream they can be beneficial to the circulatory system and
inhalation is an effective way to treat nose, throat and lung ailments and they
may be applied externally for stomach and digestive complaints.



Immune System:  Virtually all essential oils have bacterialcidal properties, and by promoting
the production of white blood cells, they can help prevent and treat infections
illness.



Nervous System:  Some oils are known to have a balancing or normalizing effect on the systems
of the body.  Some are relaxing, uplifting, or reviving.  Some work
more on an emotional level as others on a physiological level.



The Mind:  Essential oils have been used throughout history for their power to influence the
emotions and state of mind



Essential Oils and/or Aromatherapy should not be used in lieu of a doctor's care,
none of the below essential oils are to be used to self diagnose or 'treat' oneself
for ailments.


All Essential Oils Should be Avoided by those whom are pregnant or nursing.

**EXTERNAL USE ONLY - NOT FOR CHILD USE - ADULT USE ONLY**



We use 6 oils in our products, 4 are 100% pure essential oils,


the other 2 are cosmetic grade fragrance oils*



Grapefruit - *Aroma:: Fresh, Sweet Grapefruit Citrus*   Citrus x Paradisi; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of chills, colds, flu, depression,
headaches, performance stress, circulation, stiffness, water retention, acne.



It shares the nutritional qualities of other citrus species, being high in Vitamin
C and a valuable protection against infectious illness.  Grapefruit oil
has astringent and skin conditioning qualities.   It is said to have
a toning effect of the skin making this oil suitable for treating cellulites. 




Lavender - *Aroma:: Crisp and Clean Lavender Flower*   Lavendula Angustifolia; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of stress, calming, skin conditions,
headache, migraine. See .



This amazing plant is used for acne, athlete's foot, comforting the stomach, as a
disinfectant, for headache and migraine relief, healing burns and insect bites,
an insect repellent, scenting linens, stiff joints and sore muscle relief, sunburns
and more!



Lemongrass - *Aroma:: Fresh Grassy-Citrus With Earthy Undertones*  Cymbopogon Citratus; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of fever, relieves nervous exhaustion,
stress, muscular pain, poor circulation, acne, athlete's food, excessive
perspiration, opens pores.



It relieves some of the symptoms of jetlag, clears headaches and helps with nervous
exhaustion and stress-related conditions.  helps tone the muscles and slack
tissue, relieves muscle pains and helps with poor circulation. It has great
benefits as a muscle and skin toner, assists in clearing up oily skin and acne
and revitalizes the body and mind.



Peppermint - *Aroma:: Cooling, Refreshing Peppermint*  Mentha Piperita; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of circulation, colds/flu/fever,
cramps, nausea, fainting, headache, migraine, vertigo, acne, ringworm, scabies.



Has natural healing powers that can improve your well being. Peppermint has been
used through the ages to treat a wealth of ailments. It is used for gastrointestinal
disorders as well.  Many claim it can also help with the common cold,
respiratory problems and migraine headaches. There are psychological peppermint
benefits as well. Its vigorous scent is a mental stimulant and can bring clarity
to the mind.



Rose - **Aroma:: Soft and Warm Rose**  Cosmetic Grade Fragrance Oil



It takes 60,000 rose blossoms, picked in the early hours of dawn as they are unfolding,
to gain 1 oz. of Rose Essential Oil. The harvest is rushed to the distiller
and the oil crafted immediately. For this reason the price is as much as $1300.00
per oz for the pure oil.  To keep our costs low we use a high quality fragrance oil.



Vanilla - **Aroma:: Warm Vanilla**  Cosmetic Grade Fragrance Oil



After a few years of reduced harvests, the price of Vanilla Essential Oil has sky-rocketed,
and is now comparable to the precious oils such as Rose. This of course
has caused most vanilla products to now contain synthetic vanillin instead
of the real thing.  For this reason the price is as much as $330.00 per oz for the pure oil.  To keep our costs low we use a high quality fragrance oil.

Chapter Excerpt 

It's A Jungle Out There And A Zoo In Here

The Jungle

My Life as a Working Mother

In between cheering for Billy Jean King and singing "I Am Woman," I went to college and graduated with a double major in math and computer science. In keeping with my feminist life course, I had chosen two of the more nontraditional female courses of study that I could find. However, I do have to admit that I had also calculated that I would find the most favorable boy/girl ratio in my math classes. How's that for sisterhood?

After graduation, I went to work in the avionics department of a large computer company. My main job while there was modeling- no, not like Cindy Crawford-I did mathematical modeling of pressure transducers. The avionics group produced computers that are used on airplanes-you know, those black boxes you always hear about. Each transducer had slightly different characteristics over pressure and temperature ranges, so the flight computers were programmed to adjust for these differences. My job was to write software that would "fit" each transducer with an equation that matched its output. To collect data on each unit, we would run them through temperatures from minus forty degrees Fahrenheit to about two hundred degrees in huge industrial ovens. It was probably my most productive kitchen work to date.

I met my future husband my first week of work. I had had orthodontic surgery a few weeks before I started my new job, so my jaw was wired shut and I could only nod and smile. I was his dream girl.

By the time the wires came out and I could talk again, it was too late. We were in love. We were married the following year. We knew we wanted children right away, maybe two or three. I got pregnant and expected to continue working through my pregnancy and then search for day care. I honestly didn't think that I would even consider staying at home. I remember my mom saying to me, "Well of course you'll want to stay home with your babies." And I remember looking at her as if she had sprouted horns.

But life had different plans for us. My mother died of breast cancer that summer. When things were looking particularly bad for Mom, her doctor gave her some alternatives. She could cease treatment altogether, or they could do more surgery and extend her life for a short while longer, but the cancer had gone beyond any hope for a cure.

"Could you keep me alive long enough to see the baby, until October?" she asked the doctor.

The answer was no, and so with that prognosis, my mom decided that her fight was over. She died June 30. I was six months pregnant and at her side when she died. "You are going to be the best mom in the world" were among her last words to me.

A couple months later I went into labor. It was a little early, but my obstetrician didn't seem to be too concerned, even when she observed that the baby was breech. Everything switched into high gear. The staff became quiet and efficient, prepped me for surgery, and wheeled me in for an emergency C-section. Just before they put me under, the nurse asked, "What would you like us to tell your baby when he gets here?" "Just tell him to be healthy," I answered.

Mike arrived at the hospital just after the birth. He was armed with his video camera, ready to tape those first precious moments. The nurses met him in the hall with bad news. Our baby boy had just been born and he was going to die. There was nothing they could do to save him. His condition was what the medical community calls "incompatible with life."

There are times in life that you can't possibly be prepared for. The death of a baby is one of those times. They put Mike in scrubs and brought him into the delivery room. I was still under anesthesia, so he was alone. The nurses asked if he wanted to baptize the baby. He did, but we had decided to wait until we saw our baby before we made a final decision on his name. Since I was still asleep, Mike didn't want to make that decision without me. The nurses brought him a bowl of water and Mike baptized our baby, saying that we didn't have a name picked out for him yet but that God would know him when he got there.

I was awake by then and the doctor told me the news. I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep. It had to be a dream. "I don't think she heard you," the nurse said, "tell her again." So it wasn't a dream. "No, I heard."

Mike was holding our son, and I got a chance to hold him too before he died. Looking at his precious face and not being able to do anything for him was the hardest thing I've ever done. I was his mom. Aren't moms supposed to fix everything for their kids? Here I was, a brand-new mom, and I was already screwing up.

The nurses took Polaroids, our minister arrived, we held our baby a little longer, and then they took our son away. I guess my mom got to take care of her grandson after all.

Now, even on the craziest days, when the house is a wreck and I have way too much to do, I think back to that day. Having held my son as he drew his last breaths, it's pretty hard to get upset about crumbs in the car or fingerprint smudges on the windows.

I got pregnant again after several months, and at the end of a stressful, anxious pregnancy, our daughter Nicole was born. She was perfect and healthy. I knew then, after all we had been through to have her, that I didn't want to leave her to go back to work. But I didn't want to quit working either, so I started searching for alternatives. At first my husband and I worked split shifts, and then I did contract engineering work from home for my old employer. I hadn't quite reconciled myself to the idea that I might just quit work. I felt that I had invested so much in my education and career; I didn't want to just walk away from it all. But even with all our creative scheduling and solutions, I always felt torn. I liked working, and we enjoyed the things we could do with the extra income. But when we worked split shifts, my husband and I hardly ever saw each other, meeting just for a short baby handoff. I felt that neither one of us could completely devote ourselves to our careers, and we were always having to make compromises. When the baby was sick, one of us would take time off. Working overtime was out of the question. We were viewed at work as not being completely devoted to the company, and we couldn't completely devote ourselves to our home lives either. Mike's boss (who had a stay-at-home wife) even commented that he knew he couldn't count on Mike to do after-hours projects because Mike "always had to run off to day care."

When Nicki was about three, I returned to work full-time. Even after everything we had been through, I couldn't become "just" a mom. Whenever I thought about staying home, I could hear Helen Reddy and Billie Jean King in the back of my mind saying "After all we've done for you, this is the thanks we get?" I read all the books, the articles, the magazines; I watched the TV interviews. If other working mothers were successfully "having it all," then I wanted to have it all too. So we hired a nanny-she was a friend of the family and Nicki loved her. We then licensed our home for child care, and our nanny took care of a couple neighborhood children too. Nicki got to stay home every day, and she had her friends over every day to play too. But I still wasn't happy with someone other than me taking care of my daughter for the majority of her waking hours. We continued to try to have another child, but after more losses, a total of six pregnancies and only one living child, we just couldn't do it anymore. We decided that Nicki would be an only child.

In 1992 my husband got a job offer that moved us from Minnesota to California. Nicki started kindergarten that year, and then I found a job with a software company. With Nicki in school, I assumed that fitting a full-time work schedule into our daily routines would be easier. It wasn't. There were still sick days, school holidays- tons of school holidays-business trips. I learned the language of school calendars, minimum days, superminimum days, supersecret minimum days. It took a personal computer just to keep track of when I was supposed to do drop-offs and pickups. The stress of it all was hard on the three of us, and still neither Mike nor I could fully devote ourselves to either our careers or the family. We searched for balance, but it was elusive. Nicki was growing up so quickly, and I was sad that I was still missing so much of her life.

Living in California gave us a new appreciation for the natural lifestyle, and we decided to forgo chemical birth control in favor of a more natural calendar-watching method, using condoms during the "danger days." I decided I'd just pick some up where I always shop- the warehouse shopping club. Of course, one can't buy just one or two of anything at the warehouse store, so my only choice was a case of condoms. Twelve boxes, 12 condoms in each. . . sounded about right to me! The young cashier couldn't believe I was buying 144 condoms and set them aside until everything else had been rung up. She held them up high for the entire line behind me to see and said, "These aren't-like-yours, are they?"

Yes, you little vixen, they were indeed mine. But I might as well have-like-given them to her, because a month later I was pregnant again. And after an anxious nine months, we prepared to deliver another beautiful, healthy little girl. I investigated the maternity policy at my new job and we checked out local child-care alternatives. We were so far away from our old friends and family, and I couldn't imagine leaving my new baby with a stranger. Maybe this time I would stay home for good.

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New Igo GREEN Tip of the Day 

Our environment is important to all of us and the cleaner the better. Think about going green for a day. Health transcends our home, bodies. You can save money in medical bills by adapting to a healthier enviroment, home, and body.

5 Reasons Global Fitness Promises 40lb Lost In 12 Weeks 

Achieve Peak Fitness

Reason #2
They will develop your very own personalized nutrition plan.
It's the way the stars do it. Not with ridiculous hit-or-miss fad diets. Not with one-size-fits-all diets that don't really fit anyone. Your very own nutrition plan. With foods you like. Meals plans that are delicious, simple, and varied. Created expressly for you by nutritional experts who check in on you to make sure you stick with it (see Reason #3).

Customized works. You'll lose fat fast. Lots of it. For good. While you firm up and strengthen lean muscle (see Reason #2). Thousands of Global Health & Fitness members already have, and as you'll see on this site, we have hundreds of incredible success stories to prove it!

Reason #2
We'll design your own personalized fitness plan.
One that fits your schedule. With exercises tailored to your fitness level, your body type, the equipment you have (or don't have) available. Which, in combination with your personalized nutrition plan, will give you the lean, firm, sexy body you've only dreamed about.

Reason #3
You'll have your very own online personal trainer.
This is key. When you become a GHF member, you'll be assigned one of our four Certified Personal Trainers - either Julia, Darin, Janet, or Roger. For the next 12 weeks, he or she is yours. To coordinate your diet and fitness plans. To get you off to a great start. To answer your questions. To be your coach, advisor, support-team, and cheering section throughout. And to hold you accountable so you don't stray. One person in constant e-mail contact who will oversee your journey to the fabulous fitness that has so long eluded you. What an advantage!

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Yoga (Sanskrit, P?li: '') refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India.For the uses of the word in P?li literature, see Thomas William Rhys Davids, William Stede, Pali-English dictionary. Reprint by Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1993, page 558: [http://books.google.com/books?id=xBgIKfTjxNMC&pg=RA1-PA558&dq=yoga+pali+term&lr=#PRA1-PA558,M1] The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.Denise Lardner Carmody, John Carmody, Serene Compassion. Oxford University Press US, 1996, page 68.Stuart Ray Sarbacker, Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga. SUNY Press, 2005, pages 1-2.Tattvarthasutra 6.1, see Manu Doshi (2007) Translation of Tattvarthasutra, Ahmedabad: Shrut Ratnakar p. 102 In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox (?stika) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its practices."Yoga has five principal meanings: 1) yoga as a disciplined method for attaining a goal; 2) yoga as techniques of controlling the body and the mind; 3) yoga as a name of one of the schools or systems of philosophy (); 4) yoga in connection with other words, such as hatha-, mantra-, and laya-, referring to traditions specialising in particular techniques of yoga; 5) yoga as the goal of yoga practice." Jacobsen, p. 4.Monier-Williams includes "it is the second of the two S??khya systems," and " abstraction practised as a system (as taught by Patañjali and called the Yoga philosophy)" in his definitions of "yoga". In Jainism it refers to the sum total of all activities?mental, verbal and physical.

Major branches of yoga in Hindu philosophy include Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha Yoga.Pandit Usharbudh Arya (1985). The philosophy of hatha yoga. Himalayan Institute Press; 2nd ed.Sri Swami Rama (2008) The royal path: Practical lessons on yoga. Himalayan Institute Press; New Ed edition.Swami Prabhavananda (Translator), Christopher Isherwood (Translator), Patanjali (Author). (1996). Vedanta Press; How to know god: The yoga aphorisms of Patanjali. New Ed edition. Raja Yoga, compiled in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and known simply as yoga in the context of Hindu philosophy, is part of the Samkhya tradition.Jacobsen, p. 4. Many other Hindu texts discuss aspects of yoga, including Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Shiva Samhita and various Tantras.

The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings,For a list of 38 meanings of the word "yoga" see: Apte, p. 788. and is derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj," meaning "to control," "to yoke" or "to unite."For "yoga" as derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj" with meanings of "to control," "to yoke, or "to unite" see: Flood (1996), p. 94. Translations include "joining," "uniting," "union," "conjunction," and "means."For meaning 1. joining, uniting, and 2., union, junction, combination see: Apte, p. 788.For "mode, manner, means," see: Apte, p. 788, definition 5.For "expedient, means in general," see: Apte, p. 788, definition 13. Outside India, the term yoga'' is typically associated with Hatha Yoga and its asanas (postures) or as a form of exercise. Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy is called a yogi or yogini.American Heritage Dictionary: "Yogi, One who practices yoga." Websters: "Yogi, A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic."

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1. Subscribe to a magazine covering natural health, vegan or vegetarian lifestyle
2. Declare a "meat out" at least 1 to 2 days a week (that includes ALL dairy/liquid meat)
3. Once a month buy a book on natural health and nutrition, especially recipe books
4. I buy the reverse osmosis filtered water from a local outlet for about 35 cents a gallon.
5. Get a high quality juicer and search the web for some good juice recipes
6. Get a quality herbal laxative and drink at least a quart of non-filtered, no sugar prune juice every week
7. Increase your water intake to 64 ounces a day (pee a lot)
8. Include a bounteous garden salad in your diet every day, lots of color and variety
9. Have a couple of vigorous exercise and/or walking sessions 5 times a week (15-30 minutes)
10. Try at least two new foods each week; healthy is the key determinant.
11. Eat only fruits before noon or whole grain cereals
12. Eat your highest protein meal between 2-4 PM
13. Stop eating before 8 PM.

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