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Food for Thought | Health Trivia 
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Self-care is the answer to our Health Care Worries

This website is dedicated to hooking you up with unlimited ways to take good care of yourself, your family, your community and our planet.

Wellness works at work, at home and on the go, addressing stress issues, desk exercises, ergonomics, weight loss, hypnosis, anti-aging strategies, depression, meditation, aromatherapy, feng shui and other alternative and integrative medicine.

Joyful living can be your reality!

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Work-well tip for the Week

Eye Eye !

Imagine the technology of your eyes. I wonder if you can.

Many of us demand our eyes to work whether they're up to it or not. When was the last time you gave your eyes the credit and care they deserve?

It's not too late. Here are 6 easy, worthwhile tips:

1. Look at nature or photos of nature--it's eye arresting.
2. Place cool cloth on your closed eyelids--or cucumber slices (left over from lunch?-ha!).
3. Close your eyes for 1 minute or so (not in traffic).
4. Blink rapidly for eye lubrication.
5. Squeeze shut and release, 3-4 times (repeat often).
6. Lean back and place a quarter between your eyebrows to smoothe your brow releasing tension that soothes your eyes. (Many headaches are eye-strain related.)

Affirmative self-talk

"My eyes are precious. I bathe them with healing energy, releasing tension and pressure."

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R&R for Gardeners

Ease back into Spring

It's been awhile since you've used those muscles--don't hurt them!

Handle your body like you would a garden tool--regular upkeep is necessary for efficiency.

• Begin in 15 minute increments
• Cross-train by varying your jobs. Don't bend over too long! Mix it up.
• Everytime you stand up from a seated position, arch back slightly to extend those anterior muscles--you don't want your spine to shrink.
• Drink water to keep your joints lubricated.
• High-step when walking through the house to keep your knees flexible.
• Stretch upward, lifting your ribcage away from your hip bones.
• Take measures to prevent allergy-overload (see above)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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R&R for Travelers

Arch OFTEN for back health

Do you have back and/or leg pain when you travel?

Make sure you stop often and when you do, be sure to stretch backwards, opposite the position you've been in for an extended length of time.

Your vertebrae are connected in the front, back and sides by tiny muscles which compress disc tissue when they shorten and shift. Standing and arching back will lengthen the anterior muscles, allowing the disks to slip back into place.

It only takes a few seconds and can be incorporated into how you get up EVERY TIME. It's the little things, you know?

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Greetings & Gifts that Grow

Keep the Print, Plant the Paper

Greetings that Grow™ are the 2-in-1 eco-friendly way to show you care. You keep the photograph and plant the seed paper.

Every item in this shop was made using handmade plantable paper (made of recycled papers)and embedded with herb, fruit, vegetable, or flower seeds. All you have to do is add water, sunshine and ♥, then watch your paper grow!

Since opening the Greetings that Grow™ shop, I have begun designing lines of shaped cards, like this plantable flower seed purse (view). I am in the process of adding more shaped cards, as well as a larger selection of herb, vegetable, fruit, and flower seed cards and journals.

I have also established a rewards program called "Gifts for Growers™" (learn more)

 

Know your Food Source

Oct. 8, N.Y. Times, editorial

Editorial
Standing, Stretching, Turning

Americans are becoming increasingly aware of how and where food is raised. With that should come real concern. The mantra of industrial farming has always been efficiency, but efficiency has come to mean a pregnant sow — millions of them — confined in a gestation crate barely 2 feet wide and only as long as she is. It means veal-calves rendered virtually immobile in crates barely large enough to contain their bodies. It means endless rows of laying hens kept in battery cages so small that the birds cannot even stretch their wings.

Would you vote for the right to be able to sit down and turn around and raise your arms? (more)

Health Trivia

Q: What's the strongest muscle in your body?

A. Gluteus Maximus

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WorthyCauses/WorthySite

FreeRice.com

This is great fun--try out your word skills and feed mouths too. At this site you are given a multiple choice of definitions to match with a word. Each correct answer adds to the amount of rice being donated.

FreeRice is a sister site of Poverty.com. Our partners are the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the United Nations World Food Program.

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide education to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site.

Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your education can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.

Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide.

FreeRice.com

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Teleseminars

Posture and Carpal Tunnel: Gini Maddocks and Kathryn Merrow

Air Date: Thursday, 04/02/2009 12:00 PM (available live and thereafter)

ginimaddocks

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