Tag: health
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Insomnia Cure: Protein Powder for the Temple Body
Badami Cave Temple Columns, photo by Mukul Banerjee; creative commons license. If the body is a temple, then we need to be aware of when we’ve let it fall into disrepair. Nothing makes its normal upkeep more difficult than lack of sleep. For the past three years or more, I’ve had chronic insomnia. Rarely has…
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Body Positives: Getting Personal but Keeping It PG
***Me, late 20’s. New mom.*** In a world where we, if no one else, know all the millions of physical flaws we carry on our bodies and are reminded of our inadequacies in almost any women’s magazine, is it possible to love your body? Don’t we women constantly look for what’s wrong instead of…
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Saturdays Are Made for Cheating
Photo by jouste. I thought this was a very clever Five of Swords tarot reference. On this new eating style of mine, the rule is, I get to cheat once a week. I suppose that’s a bit bizarre but there are two reasons for it: I would rebel too much against a diet that…
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Body Image: Are You a Temple or a Tool?
Photo by Howie Berlin Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at all. She said that she…