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AYURVEDA • MEDITATION • YOGA • WISDOM • RECIPES

Health & Wellness

Health and wellness news, stories, and tips that inspire healthy diets, relationships and lives, and encourage making positive behavior choices.

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What is Anxiety?

The American Psychiatric Association asserts that anxiety is a “normal reaction to stress.” Anxiety can be expressed as nervousness, fear, and increased alertness. Anxiety is an expression of concern for the future. However, when anxiety becomes excessive or lasts longer than what is considered to be normal, it may indicate the presence of an anxiety […]

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The Truth About Your Pain

Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis. (When the mind is ill at ease, the body is affected.) —Ovid It hurts. Your pain is awful. Your misery is unrelenting. No matter what you do, you can’t get rid of it.  You went to your doctor, and he told you that you had a medical condition: degenerative disc disease,

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Link Between Diet and Depresssion

A recent investigation among an Australian Islander population, the Torres Strait Islanders, confirmed those aspects of a modern diet that contribute to major depression and highlighted two specific fats that are highly involved in the development of the disease.  The Islanders that ate more fish, less take-out and fast foods, and subsequently had higher levels

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Managing Diabetes with Yoga

Diabetes is endemic and spreading, as much as we hate to say it, for perfectly preventable and manageable reasons. According to the 2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report, more than 100 million Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. One in four American adults do not know they are Diabetic or predisposed to it.

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What is Chronic Stress?

According to the American Psychological Association (APA), stress may be defined as any uncomfortable “emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological and behavioral changes.” Stress can produce and contribute to negative health and quality-of-life outcomes. Prolonged or chronic stress can be particularly detrimental and has been linked to serious illness and disease. The Mayo Clinic has

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