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Mary McCauley - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
As an author, my interests run the gamut from attitudes about life, to zinc to fight colds. I write about everything and anything including short stories, articles, micro-mini bios, poems, travel, philosophy, mind and body, health, fitness, politics, and anything else that may 'tickle' my fancy.
I study and research metaphysics, philosophy, mainstream ideas and sometimes 'way out there' ideas. I believe in a Creator, no matter what name you call him/her. Like Plato and ... [More]
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- The Power to Change Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] You have the power within you to fulfill your dreams. The problem with most of us is not knowing precisely what we want, or vacillating from one want to another before implementing a program to create it.
- Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Entrepreneur
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Not everyone who wants to be their own boss can be. Being an entrepreneur is hard and there are many factors to consider. Even if you have the capital to finance the business, you can't be sure that it can give you high profits in the future especially if you don't know how to handle certain business situations.
- Stress and Skin Problems
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Anxiety and stress create a hormone called 'cortisol', which can cause inflammation that breaks down and destroys collagen--a type of protein that connects and supports bodily tissues such as skin. Collagen works with keratin to provide the skin with strength, flexibility, and resilience. Stress breaks down and destroys collagen--which in turn leads to aged looking skin and wrinkles.
- Can Curry Cure?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Curry has been used for thousands of years to treat a variety of ailments from stomach cramps to throat infections and is being revived as a healing agent by recent research. It's been found that curry's main substance, turmeric, works similarly to non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like Celebrex because it inhibits the effect of COX-2, a body chemical that causes pain.
- Paprika For Health?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Recent research is finding the healing properties of Paprika. More than just a spicy spice!
- Is Container Gardening For You?
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Whatever the reason, container gardening is easy and useful. Container gardening has become an American hobby, for some a passion. Even if you have space for full sized gardening, containers can be used in various spaces to add color, control weeds and they can reduce the amount of time needed to keep up a larger garden.
- Liver Toxins and Belly Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Detoxification] Reliable research indicates that one in three of us is carrying excess fat due to a sluggish liver caused by toxins. This creates fat build up around our abdominal area. Science has shown that abdominal fat can lead to a person's risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer.
- Is Turmeric a Spice Or Medicine?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Science is beginning to realize what the ancients said about using food for healing is true. "Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food." - Hippocrates.
- Cut Expenses Easily
[Finance:Budgeting] You can reduce your living expenses in ways that don't really hurt. Many expenses you have on a daily basis are small but combined they add up. You already know that cutting out the fancy coffee latte or not eating out can add more $$$$$ to your budget.
- Important Test For Heart Disease
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] I have had heart problems since 1985, when I had my first angio plasti at age 48. Now, at 71, I've had numerous angio plastis, heart catheterizations and have 6 stents in my heart. Until recently, I thought most of my problems were genetic and cholesterol related.
- Detox! Why?
[Health-and-Fitness:Detoxification] Do you find times when you feel less than your best? It's not a cold, or flu or anything you can determine, you just feel sluggish, achy, bloated and just plain 'not so hot'? Believe it or not, this can be a sign of toxic buildup in your body.
- What Can Fat Do For Your Heart?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The American Heart Association has recommended eating healthy fats to maintain a healthy heart. Some of those healthy fats include monounsaturated fats like olive oil and some polyunsaturated fats containing linolenic acid such as canola oil and nuts. These types of fats are considered Omega-3 fatty acids and when eaten they have been found to lower triglycerides and improve blood vessels.
- Six Steps to Better Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Most of these elementary steps are basic to overall good health. Most of us don't follow them regularly and that's the key. We need to memorize them and make a point of taking these six steps daily, without fail.
- Karma - Reaping What You Sow! So They Say!
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] Karma. The act of reaping what you sow, or getting what you give. I'd been going through some difficult times and a friend told me it was probably my karma.
- The Miracle Drug - Can it Be True?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] This substance has been studied and proven to help prevent and treat cancer in numerous ways and has been known to change tumor cells into normal cells, preventing cancer from spreading to other parts of the body. It has been proven to reduce the incidence of heart disease and stroke by lowering cholesterol levels and helping to maintain good blood pressure.
- Change of Life - It's Natural
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Menopause, or the permanent end of menstruation and fertility, is a natural biological process, not a medical illness. Even so, the physical and emotional symptoms of menopause can disrupt your sleep, sap your energy and - at least indirectly - trigger feelings of sadness and loss. It doesn't have to be.
- Benefits of Cinnamon
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] According to Chet Day's, Health and Beyond, New scientific evidence has shown that cinnamon might be a treatment for type 2 diabetes. A recent study in the Diabetes Care journal revealed eating a half teaspoon a day daily reduced the level of blood sugar in those with type 2 diabetes. In addition, the same study found that cinnamon was able to reduce triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, and total cholesterol in the same study participants.
- Longtime Queen of the Romance Writers
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you've ever thought of writing a romance novel, you can't go wrong reading Barbara Cartland. She had the magic formula that all romances contain. For many years, Barbara Cartland wrote more than 723 books, and was considered the most prolific author of the 20th Century.
- Can Spices Heal?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Can spices improve your health? Is it possible something you have in your pantry or on your spice rack can make a difference in how you feel physically? My research over the years to improve my own health led me to many healing modalities that often compliment our health care systems. Among them are spices. My favorite of all is cinnamon. Please note, I am not a medical expert, health care provider, or healer.
- The Essence of Me?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] There is within me a private place, a crevice of the mind not revealed to anyone. Stored there are a multitude of thoughts, dreams, experiences, hopes, and desires. In quiet moments I retreat to this private room of my mind to sort out and select the thought most pertinent at the moment.
- Six Steps to Happiness
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Easy steps everyone can take to improve all areas of their lives. From happiness to health and wealth, various aspects of living better, of being better, and of having the best life ever are contained in the various steps presented on eZine.
- Can You Live on a Luxury Cruise Ship and Get Paid For it Too!
[Travel-and-Leisure:Cruising] Could working on a cruise ship be for you? Or for somebody you know. It's a great job. You not only get to cruise free but you get paid to do it, can save money since all living expenses and travel expenses are free.
- Foods For Fighting Flab
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you fighting flab or just want to eat healthier? Tired of going throw countless diet books and articles to find the perfect foods for you? According to vast research, these are the best foods to fight flab and be fit. You just might get a healthier heart along the way!
- The Secret Something Within - A Life Changing Novel
[Self-Improvement] They have come to learn how to change their lives. They each have heard about Anon and his gatherings that have enabled others to fulfill their dreams, change their lives, become all that they wanted to be. Now it was their time. The first night there are only four but more will come. Anon knows that more will come to his gathering.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson from the 'Look Who's Talking Series'
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] Such an ado was made at my passing from this life. Surely people knew that I was ready for the journey. Near the end, my memory failed, and my mind was not as keen and agile as it had been. I no longer wrote, nor could I converse with a degree of competency. Time had taken its toll, but I had been ready and I knew I was about to embark on another journey.
- Benjamin Franklin, 7th in the, Look Who's Talking Series
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Not a native of Philadelphia, Mr. Franklin was born in Boston. He was apprenticed to his printer brother and soon hopped a schooner to Philadelphia. The rest, of course, is history!
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - 6th in the, Look Who's Talking Series
[Arts-and-Entertainment] It is said that upon meeting Ms. Stowe, President Lincoln said, "So you are the lady who started this great war?" Her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", shich she claims was dictated to her by God, certainly had an influence on the conditions of the times.
- Swedenborg, 5th in the "Look Who's Talking" Series
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] Swedenborg was an inventor, assayer, philosopher and to an extent, a psychic. Hie psychic abilities gave him entry into many of the prominent homes in Europe.
- Hypatia, 4th in the Look Who's Talking Series
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Hypatia, was a beautiful woman who travled extensively drawing crowds to hear her philosophies of life.
- Aristotle - Third in the Look Who's Talking Series
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] Aristotle was a student of Plato, who as you know was a student of Socrates. You will find he expanded upon the basic learning in the great halls of Athens and proceeded to delve into the mysteries of the animal kingdom.
- Socrates and Plato
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] This is the 2d in a series of mini bios, from Ms. McCauley's series entitled, "Look Who's Talking". The articles are written to people of today, the author hoping the glimpse will entice people to read more about the characters.
- Hello, I am Confucius
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] I've written several articles about some of my favorite authors, philosophers, and various people in history. They are written in the first person, as if each one is speaking to pople today. I hope they are a glimpse that will entice people into reading more about each one.
- Thinking About Attitude
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Attitude, has a way of preening itself, often without awareness of the individual...
- Group Leaders Travel FREE
[Travel-and-Leisure] Travel by land, travel by sea, be a group leader and you travel free. Are you a member of a group? A reunion group?
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