Now your entire body is nice and relaxed. Get comfortable in your chair, keeping your feet on the floor. Close your eyes. You’re going to become aware of various parts of your body. You’re going to actually “feel” them. Breathe in and out slowly through your nose, concentrating on your feet. Relax and focus on [...]
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CHICKEN AND RED PEPPER RICE
1 sweet red pepper
2 whole green scallions 1/2- garlic clove
1/4 cup chicken bouillon (more if necessary)
4 ozs. chicken, diced 1/2 cup brown rice, cooked parsley
1/4 cup Mama Fox’s Spaghetti Sauce (optional)
Wash and chop red pepper. Wash and chop scallions into small sections, setting aside green parts. Crush garlic. Saute the crushed [...]
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The Standard American Diet is sad indeed:
Fat: About 45% of our calories come from fat.
Protein: About 20% of our calories come from protein.
Carbohydrates: About 35% of our calories come from carbohydrates.
Refined
Carbohydrates: 50% or more of the calories from carbohydrates come from refined carbohydrates.
Processed
Foods: 75% or more of our total food intake is processed. Cholesterol: [...]
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Description and Possible Medical Problems
Everyone has experienced dry, cracked lips at one time or another, usually during the dryness of winter or the heat of summer. They may feel chapped, raw, and painful.
Sometimes, however, cracked lips may be caused by a vitamin B deficiency. You’ll be able to tell if this is the case if [...]
Description and Possible Medical Problems
Any type of hearing loss will frighten most anyone, but when you also feel as though like the room is spinning, it’s time to call your doctor. You may be suffering from acoustic neuroma, a condition in which a noncancerous tumor grows between the inner ear and the brain. Because the [...]
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Carotid disease is a progressive disease. People who experience monocular blindness—or an inability to see out of one eye—due to carotid arteriosclerosis have already experienced some degree of arterial blockage in their arteries.
If your doctor suspects that carotid artery disease is causing your one-eyed vision loss, he will probably order an ultrasound examination of your [...]
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If you detect a blind spot in the center of your vision, it’s important to see your eye doctor right away. First, he will run several tests to determine the degree to which your vision is affected. If your macular degeneration has not advanced significantly, your doctor may use laser therapy to repair the macula [...]
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From time to time, we’ve all had the feeling that there’s something stuck in our eye and we can’t get it out. Usually, after we examine the eye carefully and try to make it water, the feeling goes away.
But sometimes it doesn’t. If you feel as though there is something stuck in your eye but [...]
It’s not only during the hottest days of summer that your skin can be seriously damaged by exposure to the sun. Dermatologists say you are just as vulnerable to sunburn and sun damage to your skin throughout the coldest days of winter as you are during summer. The reason the skin is in year-round danger [...]
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When your body detects an invading substance it doesn’t like, it reacts— usually by sneezing, wheezing, dripping, and itching. The best way to treat an allergy is to avoid whatever you are allergic to. While that is sound advice, it is not always practical or possible. Most allergies fall into three basic categories: food, contact, [...]