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Mary Desaulniers's Articles in Skills

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  • Are Middle Aged Men More Prone to Heart Disease?
    Heart disease is no longer the disease of overweight, highly stressed middle-aged men. All of us are empowered to view coronary problems as something we can change through lifestyle and dietary intervention
  • Eating with Intelligence
    We need all the macronutrients in our daily diet—protein, carbohydrates and fats. But we also need to eat with intelligence so that we can choose the most low-fat sources of protein, the best sources for low glycemic carbs and essential fats.
  • How to Make Sleep Your Weight Loss Buddy
    Recently, sleep deprivation has been identified as one of the major problems of our internet culture. Not coincidentally, obesity (despite the many diets that are around) is at its highest level. The connection between sleep deprivation and weight gain is no longer in the realm of conjecture. Several studies show a direct correlation between sleep and weight.
  • How to Supercharge an Aging Brain
    Recent research suggests that the post 40 brain decline is essentially myth.Like any other muscle, the brain can function at its peak capacity when it is used consistently, even after midlife. What are the steps we can take to ensure a strong and healthy brain in our later years?
  • In Times of Stress,Walk Out Of Your Body
    Instead of succumbing to the sweet song of victimization( who does not enjoy the "poor me" chant?), a more effective strategy when confronted by stress, is to walk out of your body because that immediately places your pain in perspective.
  • Losing Weight with Sound
    Sound is not just used to bring a sense of inner peace; sound actually has physical applications that can reduce pain and reverse the progress of disease. Can we not use these applications for weight loss as well?
  • The Good Doctor’s Advice on Controlling Cholesterol--Naturally
    In the face of far too many television commercials harping on drugs to control cholesterol level, reading the Good Doctor is like getting a breath of fresh air! That's because he recommends common foods and supplements that can lower cholesterol levels naturally.
  • The Meaning of Hunger
    Sometimes hunger is not simply hunger for food. It is hunger for the emergence of a new self, hunger for a birth that, like any other birth, is a labor in progress. Are we serious enough about our well-being to confront our hunger, turn its energy around so that it serves, rather than stifle, us?
  • The Power of Thoughts on Plants and Water
    We now recognize that there is not only power in our thoughts, but power in the thoughts of the natural kingdom. As humans, we have arrogantly secluded ourselves from the plant, animal and mineral worlds, thinking that we have been the only species privileged with thought and power.
  • To Lose the Last 10 pounds
    Most post-partum women have a difficult time losing the last 10 pounds of their pregnancy weight. The author examines why agonizing over these last 10 pounds is meaningless and what these last 10 pounds may mean to a new mother.
  • Water Dance:The Holosync Evolution
    The writer entertains the spiritual,psychological and emotional changes that have emerged in her since her experience with Holosync meditation.
  • Women, Dieting and The Search For Perfection
    The whole question of dieting or not dieting is inseparable from us, women, because of our ambivalent relationship with our bodies—we love it and we hate it. The authors of three books on the market explore this issue of body acceptance and provide suggestions on how women can re-think their relationships with their bodies.
  • Writing Help And Morning Pages
    For more than fifteen years, the morning pages have been my daily writing help, the friend that coaxed me out of fear and inertia about putting words on paper and like the Nike slogan, urged me to “Just Do It!”
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