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Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, and Anne WordsworthNew Society Publishers, 2007, 317 pages, $27.95ISBN: 9780865715424
Friends who found me reading Cancer over the past week were all equally shocked and vocal: "Why are you reading such a depressing book?" they asked. Falling on deaf ears, my replies became increasingly forceful. "It's a preventive approach! Not depressing but solution-based!"
I repeated my tired defence enough times to glimpse fi rst-hand the daunting task undertaken by Cancer's trio of capable researcher-writers. With each page, Armstrong, Dauncey, and Wordsworth are fi ghting an uphill battle to instill optimistic pragmatism where medicine, media, and most folks know only fear and hopelessness.
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Abs of Steel
The other night, while suffering through one of my occasional bouts of insomnia, I was channel surfing at an hour when there is only one type of television program playing-infomercials.
So, I only had two choices; to watch the infomercial or knock myself unconscious with the remote control. Prior to knocking myself out, I watched a few of these infamous ads and was amazed at the number of devices available to guarantee me abs of steel!
While there is obviously a need for abdominal work, there is not a need for all this extraneous stuff to perform it with.
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Fuel for Thought
Global warming is my fault. Before you come after me with sharp, green fangs and cracked environmental knuckles, you might want to say the same thing to yourself.
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Wellness Show 2008
The 16th Annual Wellness Show & February 1, 2, and 3 at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre&promises to enlighten, engage, and encourage attendees in their quest to find balance.
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Let the Light in with Lutein
The macula is the area of the retina where images are focused. It is the portion of the eye responsible for fine vision.
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Beneficial Bilberry
Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), a close relative of the blueberry, is traditionally used by First Nations and in Russian folk medicine to treat a variety of health conditions.
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Get Your Motor Running
Chromium plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism and may also have some benefits in weight loss, athletic performance, and in lowering cholesterol.
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Living an Authentic Life
In a world where success is defined by money, and happiness is just a weight-loss plan away, many of us have lost sight of our most valuable asset: our true selves.
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Face Winter Head On
We do a lot of things to prepare for the winter months-install storm windows, mount the car's snow tires, dig out the snow shovel.
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