Like millions of others, I have been influenced by this great yoga teacher, though I have never met him. I have read The Tree of Yoga. I refer to Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama. I study Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I use props to aid my alignment. I am aware …
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Category:Health
A guide to your body clock.
The BBC offers a handy slide show summarising natural biorhythms. It gives an insight in to why moods and energy levels change during the day. You can see their presentation here and read the main points below. 00:00-02:59 Body enters shutdown Sleep hormone melatonin peaking Minimum levels of attention and vigilance Brain washes itself and …
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Tamiflu and others are expensive and don’t work.
Expensive, convenient solutions can be ineffective. But often the perceived convenience obscures this. The treatment of common ailments often falls in to this category, because natural remedies work effectively. The rapid spread of new diseases, like AIDS, BSE (mad cow disease) and bird flu, raise the fear of pandemics and the willingness to seek strong, …
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Heavy breathing keeps your brain alive …
Mens sana in corpore sanae, again. A study shows that cardiovascular exercise, like running,swimming and cycling, in your 20s helps retain your mental agility in middle age. Activities that maintain cardio fitness led to better thinking skills and memory 20 years on, even after adjusting for factors such as smoking, diabetes and high cholesterol. The …
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Being angry can kill you.
Well, I’m an angry man, and so this comes from the heart. Anger is stressful and that stress can kill you. It killed my friend Gerry. He was trying to help, trying to do the right thing, but someone wouldn’t listen. Again and again. Then after a morning of stubbornness from those he was helping, …
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There’s nothing wrong with hard work, unless …
Working hard is fine, and many people have to work hard just to get by, but whether it’s by choice or necessity when it makes you sick, stressed, stupid, off-balance and disengaged, the balance is wrong. The Washington Post offers 5 reasons why you shouldn’t work too hard, at least from an American perspective. What …
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A “Tidal Wave” of Cancer.
Those are the words used by the World Health Organisation to describe the trajectory of the growth of new cancer cases. They predict a jump from 14 million a year now to 24 million new cases per year by 2035 – about 2.5% growth a year (compounded). That better be faster than the growth of …
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It’s easy to ignore what you put in your mouth.
The Ecologist Guide to Food, written by Andrew Wadsley, is to be published in mid-February. I reckon I know about what I put in my mouth. After all I grow a lot of it in the garden. But I happened to click over to the book promotion page and was reminded how easy it is …
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Don’t Just Sit There!
Do you spend a lot of time at a desk or behind a computer? Check out this excellent pdf poster from The Washington Post, and it’ll help you think about some uncomfortable habits. The health hazards of sitting
We are still not prepared to pay for our planet.
In the past decade there has certainly been a huge increase in awareness and care about sustaining nature in the face of overconsumption by humanity. Now, most people have heard the terms “sustainable”, “organic”, “eco”, “green” and associate positive initiatives with these terms. Sadly we also associate a cost with these terms, a cost we …
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