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Stephen Lau - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Stephen Lau is a writer and researcher living in the United States. For many years, he had worked with medical doctors and research scientists from all over the world.
His publications include: Younger and Healthier for Longer; All-Round Weight Loss; How To Teach Children To Read; No Miracle Cures; Forever Yin and Yang (a novel).
He has created several websites on health: Are You Healthy?; The Seven Pillars of Wisdom; Longevity For You; Chinese Natural ... [More]
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- Understanding the True Meaning of God's Grace
[News-and-Society:Religion] Religion can be negative to many, who would perceive it as moralistic, judgmental, and even condemning. In short, to many, religion has the connotation of rejection.
- Sharpen Memory Skills to Sharpen the Mind
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] Sharpen memory skills to sharpen the mind to improve memory. Basic memory tools include association, visualization, creativity, and organization. However, there may be obstacles that need to be overcome, and these obstacles, including distraction, lack of focus, inadequate motivation, and stress, can interfere with the process of remembering.
- How to Overcome Difficulty With Words
[Self-Improvement:Memory-Training] Difficulty with words is difficulty in finding words, such as names and familiar words. You know those words, but they are at the tip of your tongue, and you simply cannot retrieve them instantly. Difficulty with words is common, especially as you age. You can overcome difficulty with words by learning basic memory skills to enhance mental processing, by being well prepared to anticipate the difficulty in word finding in upcoming situations.
- God's Love and Love in a Marriage
[News-and-Society:Religion] Jesus led a simple life of love. His life is a model for living in faith and love - in particular, love in a marriage.
- Normal Or Abnormal Forgetfulness?
[Self-Improvement:Memory-Training] As you continue to age, you tend to become more forgetful, such as you don't remember where you put your keys. Is this type of forgetfulness normal or abnormal? Naturally, one of the byproducts of healthy aging is benign forgetfulness.
- How Foods May Affect Your Body Organs
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Foods are not just foods. Be mindful of what you eat. Foods may affect all your body organs in different ways, positively or negatively. In Western medicine, foods are considered in terms of calories, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals.
- Being Both Abundant and Spiritual is the Tallest Order
[News-and-Society:Religion] For centuries, money has been a symbol of exchange of goods and services. But money is also a measure of the meaning and value of different things; for example, if money represents greed and selfishness, it becomes a symbol of evil.
- Living in Faith - The Tallest Order
[News-and-Society:Religion] Living in faith is living a life of spirituality, which demands a major decision in life to be interested in spiritual things, instead of things of the flesh. Living in faith is the tallest order in contemporary living because it involves negating self and subordinating self-will to the will of God. It is a lifelong struggle, but one still needs to make that decision to believe in order to have a personal relationship with God.
- Mastering Proper Posture and Correct Body Alignment to Master Golf Swings
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Golf is about the golf swing. To master golf swings, you need to master golf swing techniques, which include pre-swing basics, a proper setup, adequate mental preparation for the game, proper posture, and correct body alignment throughout the swing to achieve the perfect golf swing.
- Food Therapy in Chinese Medicine
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Chinese medicine is based on balance and harmony, in which food therapy plays a pivotal role through its flavors, energies and movements. For thousands of years, the Chinese have used food science for food cures.
- Body Mind Medicine
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Your mind is directly related to your body. Your mental state affects your physical well being. This body-mind medicine is the foundation of Oriental medicine.
- How to Master Putting
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Putting is the smallest form of the golf swing, but is also the last thing you do to complete the hole. If you master putting, you master the game of golf.
- How to Overcome Time Stress
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Time stress is a major stress factor, detrimental to both physical and mental health. The solution to time stress is deliberate non-doing. Change your perceptions of time to prioritize what is most important in your life, and you will have enough time for everything. Meditation helps you sidestep the flow of time and see the importance of living in the present moment.
- Why We Get Sick - From the Oriental Perspective
[Health-and-Fitness] In Western medicine, health is "absence of disease." Hence, without disease, you are deemed "healthy." However, from the Oriental perspective, "absence of disease" may not be an indicator of "good health." Are you healthy? If absence of disease is health, then how does disease begin? If we know how disease begins, can we prevent it? If disease can be prevented, why do we get sick?
- Can Glaucoma Be Healed Naturally?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eyes-Vision] Glaucoma is one of the major causes of blindness. Glaucoma is due to increased eye pressure. In conventional medicine, most eye doctors would recommend surgeries and eye drops to relieve high ocular pressure in the eye.
- Food Choice and Your Brain Health
[Health-and-Fitness] Your food choice has a direct impact on your brain health. The food you consume today is not the same as the food your ancestors consumed. Today, the food is loaded with chemicals and neurotoxic pollutants, which damage brain health. Today's animal products contain excess iron, which is one of the causes of brain disease, such as Parkinson's and dementia.
- More About Zen
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] Zen is total harmony with yourself and the world around you. Zen is a journey of healthy living, rather than a religion. Zen does not eradicate life's problems, but changes the perspectives of truths through intuition, which is self-awakening.
- Health Wisdom is Knowing Your Doctor and Modern Medicine
[Health-and-Fitness] Modern medicine is a sickness business. As such, modern medicine is not preventive medicine, it focuses on drug therapy, rather than preventive therapy or nutrition therapy. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, once said: "Everyone has a doctor in him." Be your own doctor, and use preventive therapy and nutrition therapy to heal yourself, instead of relying solely on modern medicine, which focuses on drug therapy and eradication of symptoms.
- Is Spiritual Healing For Real?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Spiritual healing is rejuvenation of the body and mind through intelligent or immaterial part of a human being. Illness may involve not only the physical body, but also the emotions, the mind, and even the soul of an individual. Therefore, healing begins with spirituality, which is a reflection of the spiritual virtues suggested by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. It is based on a concept of balance and harmony of energy of the universe.
- The Simple Golf Swing is Not Simple
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Golf is a simple game to play, but difficult to master. Attesting to this, the simple golf swing is not simple at all. To achieve the perfect golf swing, a golfer has to have keen perceptions of the environment, both external and internal. More importantly, the golfer has to master the techniques of the perfect golf swing, which include the swing action and the hit action.
- What Do You Eat?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Healthy eating is knowing what you eat. Many people's food choice is based on convenience and availability, instead of the nutritive value of food. As a result, they end up eating processed food and developing food cravings. Food has to be simple and natural, and not giving you only empty calories. Healthy eating is healthy living: healthy eating focuses on the nutritive value of food to eliminate health problems.
- A Simple Diet To Eliminate Arthritis Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Arthritis pain is joint pain due to joint inflammation. According to the Arthritis Foundation, most treatment programs involve medications, rest, exercise, and means of avoiding joint pain. But arthritis pain medications involve many adverse side effects, which may even be deadly. The Dong's diet is a simple diet aimed at eliminating allergens from your diet, and hence the joint inflammation to avoid rheumatoid arthritis.
- The Philosophy of Acupuncture Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese healing method using needles on the surface of the skin. It is based on the philosophy of Tao or Dao, which states that balance and harmony within the human body, specifically in the human organs, represented in the Five Elements, hold the key to human health.
- Another Perfect Storm - The Dollar Devaluation!
[Finance] Dollar devaluation is the perfect storm that is brewing. A dollar crisis is only a matter of "when" and not "if." Trillions of dollar-based assets are held by foreign governments, investors, and speculators. A change in the perception of the value of the dollar may lead to a dollar crisis. Inflation could contribute to decline of the dollar. Any unsatisfactory Treasury bond auction may also lead to massive dollar devaluation.
- Gastrointestinal Health is Longevity Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Gastrointestinal health is longevity health. Your gastrointestinal tract is where your food is digested and nutrients are assimilated. A healthy gastrointestinal tract with optimum gastrointestinal function is important for longevity health. Chewing food properly and not drinking any liquid while eating, avoiding processed food and sugar, and fasting for internal cleansing - all ensure your gastrointestinal health for longevity health.
- Develop Your Mindset For Loving Kindness
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] Develop your mindset for loving kindness. Form the habit of being nice to others in spite of their behavior. Develop the mindset for gratitude, which will change your response and perspective towards others who offend you. Refrain from giving unwanted advice. See the good in others, and give them the benefit of the doubt. Be forgiving and forgetful of others wrong doing. Live in the present moment to practice loving kindness.
- Why We Are NOT Nice to Others As We Ought to Be
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] It is difficult to be nice to others because we are less than perfect but we expect others to be perfect. Another reason is our pride: it is difficult to admit that our beliefs and convictions may be wrong. Also, our "mine-is-better" attitude makes us judgmental. Furthermore, our culture promotes expressing our emotions freely - hence we do not discipline our negative emotions. Finally, due to face saving, we make excuses for how we misbehave.
- Are You Really Sick? Or Are You Psychosomatic?
[Health-and-Fitness] Today, it is not uncommon to be psychosomatic because life is full of problems, and our "experts" and "specialized" sciences only make our problems worse off. Psychosomatic illness is due to disordered body functions caused by disordered living. Disease is somatic, and an imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. The best prevention is to balance the physical, the mental, the moral, the intellectual, and the spiritual aspects.
- The Dangers of Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is a complex health problem. Obsession with weight loss has led to many potentially dangerous measures to lose weight, such as low-calorie dieting, using nicotine to lose weight, induced vomiting, compulsive exercise, and obesity surgery for weight loss. There are many potential dangers of weight loss, which may lead to development of eating disorders, and even sudden death syndrome. Overcoming overweight can be dangerous.
- Golfing Success - A Life Learning Experience
[Recreation-and-Sports] Golfing success is a life learning experience. When you play golf, you learn about yourself and about life. In life, you have ups and downs; in golf, you have good breaks and bad ones. The ability to cope with any unfavorable situation holds the key to golfing success. Accepting the good and the bad in life is the way of Zen. In golf, knowing the 80/20 rule is the way to play Zen golf for golfing success.
- How to Turn Into Reality Your Wish to Become Younger and Healthier For Longer
[Health-and-Fitness] To be younger and healthier for longer may become a reality, not just a thought, if you will acknowledge your own adequacy and learn everything you need to know about being younger and healthier for longer. The next step is to set goals and commit yourself to achieving them NOW. You may encounter difficulties and disappointments. Just persevere and you will succeed eventually.
- The Differences Between Fasting and a Low-Calorie Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] Fasting is different from a low-calorie diet. The former is body detoxification to control body chemistry and optimize metabolism rate; while the latter is starvation, depriving the body of nutrients and impairing the metabolism rate. Fasting and starvation are not the same, but low-calorie diet is starvation to lose weight to overcome obesity problem.
- Why Obama's Bailout Plan May Not Work!
[News-and-Society:Economics] President Obama's financial bailout plan may not work. The current financial crisis is a complex problem that cannot be fixed simply by pumping more capital into the system. The innate problem is that there is too much capital, created out of thin air. The federal government is simply repeating the mistake of the American people - overspending. Spending more money does not solve the problem of overspending.
- To Be Younger and Healthier For Longer - A Dream For Many, a Reality For a Few!
[Health-and-Fitness] To be younger and healthier for longer is a dream for many but a reality for a few. People want to be younger and healthier for longer for good reasons. Being younger for longer makes you feel good about yourself. Being healthier for longer enables you to accomplish more in life. To be younger and healthier for longer is difficult because the American culture promotes a "quick fix" to any problem, instead of addressing the problem itself.
- To Become Younger and Healthier For Longer is a Complex Endeavor!
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] To be younger and healthier for longer, one needs to have a broader mindset towards the different aspects of the self, which include the physical, the intellectual, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual elements of the self. One's wellness, which is anti-aging, has to be holistic. Therefore to become younger and healthier for longer, one needs to embrace all the elements of the self, not just the physical aspect alone.
- Shedding Bad Golf Habits is Golfing Success!
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Shedding bad golf habits or bad golf behaviors is golfing success. To improve your game, you need knowledge on golf mechanics. However, knowledge is not sufficient: you need a change of behavior. To change bad golf habits, you need to know the reasons for the change, as well as how you may change your bad golf behaviors.
- The Major Differences Between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] The major difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine is that the former focuses on herbal cures, while the latter uses chemical drugs to treat the symptoms of an illness. Chinese medicine is "heal-all" and Western medicine is "cure-all." The best medical system is to use the best of both Chinese and Western medicine to complement each other to keep you younger and healthier for longer.
- You Are Meant to Be Overweight!
[Health-and-Fitness] You are meant to be fat, because society and culture make you overweight. In addition, your bad eating habits may lead to binge eating and eating disorders, which may further aggravate your weight problems, leading to obesity. Your genes don't make you overweight: they merely direct where your fat goes in your body. You are meant to be fat because you make yourself overweight.
- Why Do Some Golfers Cheat on the Golf Course?
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Some golfers cheat on the golf course because they focus solely on the score. Golfing success is a reflection of the attitudes of the golfer towards the self and the game. To avoid cheating on the golf course, identify the purpose of playing golf, which is for enjoyment. Once you can compose yourself, you overcome your desire to cheat to win golf, and you are on the way to mental golf, which holds the key to golfing success.
- Good Food Planning Means Good Weight Control
[Food-and-Drink] Weight control is difficult in modern times due to the busy and hectic lifestyle. However, good food planning will make dieting and weight loss a breeze. Good planning means knowing what to eat, preparing meals and snacks in advance, and taking stress out of eating. Food planning prevents binge eating and helps resisting temptation to unhealthy eating.
- Little Things May Make a Big Difference in Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is more than just eating less. You can lose more by doing little things, such as brushing your teeth to change your mouth's flavor or to stop binge eating; adding spices to your food; changing eating behavior among a group, instead of following that of the majority; choosing dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate; avoiding variety food; and increasing your hours of sleep.
- The Frustration and Futility of Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is a complex problem involving not just the physical body, but also the mental, the intellectual, the emotional, and the spiritual aspects of the self. Most fad diets only address the physical aspect of eating. This explains why many fail in their struggle against weight gain, and only few succeed in overcoming their weight problems.
- Avoid Processed Food and Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] To control body weight, avoid processed food obesity. Processed food is high-calorie and low-quality food that comes in a box, can, or carton. Because it is overloaded with sugar and carbohydrates, it increases your insulin production, which causes your body to store fat, as well as deprives your brain of glucose, resulting in food cravings - thus forming a vicious cycle of binge eating.
- Diet and Your Orgasm
[Relationships:Sexuality] Sex and orgasm are continent on the levels of dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter of pleasure. Fish oil elevates the dopamine level. Serotonin also plays a critical role in sex and orgasm because it improves the mood for sex. But it is not the more the better; serotonin has to be balanced. A diet loaded with soy is not conducive to good sex due to its adverse effect on testosterone, which governs sex.
- Diet and Hair Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Hair-Loss] Your hair loss and your diet are related. Hair loss is primarily caused by hormone imbalance. Sugar is the culprit: it elevates your testosterone levels. To prevent hair loss, consume a sugar-balanced diet, which is a low-fat or vegetarian diet.
- Are You Addicted to Prescription Drugs?
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] Addiction to prescription drugs is common among women, seniors, and teenagers. It is easy to become addicted to prescription drugs. You may become an addict without your knowing it. You cannot overcome your compulsive drug use simply by using your will power: you need professional help, such as medical detoxification, treatments and counseling sessions to deal with problems arising from withdrawal of prescription drugs.
- The American Culture Promotes Accelerated Aging
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Accelerated aging is often a reflection of the culture because accelerated aging has to do with your lifestyle, your attitudes towards health and wellness, and your philosophy of life.The American culture, with its emphasis on high-fat diet, pursuit for material comforts, quick-fix mentality, and fast-lane lifestyle, promotes premature aging among its population.
- Your Yin and Yang Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Chinese health is based on the philosophy of "yin" and "yang", which originates from the principles of the Five Elements: fire, wood, metal, water, and earth. These elements control and complement each other for balance and harmony. In addition, these elements relate to different colors in vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, beans, and grains. A balanced diet requires eating daily all these different colored foods.
- Is an Herb a True Medication?
[Health-and-Fitness] Herbs are Nature's gifts. Many herbs do have their medicinal properties, which can cure many ailments with fewer side effects than pharmaceutical drugs. Indeed, some Western medications do include herbs in their ingredients - a testament to the medicinal potency of herbs. Because there is no regulation of herbal supplements by the FDA, consumers should be knowledgeable of herbs and their medicinal properties.
- Migraines Without Medications
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] Migraines can be prevented through eating pain-safe foods and eliminating foods that are migraine triggers. Keep a diary of all the foods that may cause migraines. At the first hint of an impending migraine attack, massage the large blood vessel in the temple area. In addition, use fever few and ginger, as well as vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, vitamin D, and magnesium, to combat migraines.
- Myths and Truths About Back Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] There are many myths and truths about back pain. Back surgery may cure back pain; the truth is that back surgery may be unnecessary. Back pain may be due to back muscle spasm; the truth is that artery blockage may be the culprit. Back pain may be relieved by bed rest; the truth is that physical activities may accelerate recovery. Back pain may be eliminated by painkillers; the truth is that nutritional supplements may control back pain.
- Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments - Part Two
[Cancer] Conventional cancer treatments are based on the belief that cancer starts as a localized tumor, spreading to other parts of the body, and therefore requiring aggressive invasive treatments. Alternative or unconventional cancer treatments, on the other hand, are based on the belief that a healthy body with a healthy mind is capable of utilizing the immune system to destroy cancerous cells.
- Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments - Part One
[Cancer] There is an array of cancer treatment options - conventional and unconventional. Conventional cancer treatments include cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. They all have undesirable side effects, ranging from damage to heart muscles, leukemia, to predisposition to second cancer. The multi-dollar cancer industry does not encourage or promote unconventional cancer treatments.
- Dealing With Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Dealing with pain is not to influence perception of pain through the use of painkillers, but to deal with the source of pain through diet, exercise, and acupuncture, which not only increase pain resistance but also prevent pain from occurring. Pain is often a warning sign of the imminence of a disease, such as chest pain indicating heart disease.
- Pain Control Through Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Pain control is closely connected with diet. Pain control is to fight pain and to reduce pain sensitivity through foods. Choose pain-free foods as your staple foods, and then add foods that contribute to optimum blood flow to prevent inflammation, as well as foods that are rich in fiber to facilitate elimination.
- Action Plan For Golfing Success
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Golf is a simple game to play, but difficult to master. Only smart golfers attain golfing success through a smart action plan.
- Goal-Setting Endeavors to Treat Bipolar Disorder (3)
[Health-and-Fitness:Mood-Disorders] Bipolar depression requires medications. Do not give up bipolar medications simply because you have gained weight. Like an Olympic athlete, train yourself to cope with weight gain through exercise, diet, and discipline.
- Goal-Setting Health Endeavors For Treating Bipolar Disorder (2)
[Health-and-Fitness:Mood-Disorders] Treating bipolar disorder requires discipline and training of an Olympic athlete. Using substances, such as alcohol, or junk food to get you out of the disorder is not a long-term solution. Instead, use your diet to manage your mood swings: eating pure protein without carbohydrate; eating complex carbohydrate with no protein.
- Goal-Setting Health Endeavors For Treating Bipolar Disorder - Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Mood-Disorders] Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder, fluctuating between episodes of depression and mania. The mood swing is caused by physical, environmental, and emotional stressors in life. To control and overcome this disorder, the patient needs to be able to identify the stressors and avoid them. This requires rigorous training, like that of an Olympic athlete.
- Your Anti-Aging Immune System
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Your immune system is anti-aging. Its B-cells and T-cells protect you from disease and degeneration. To protect your immune system, you need to eat right, smother stress, and exercise regularly. To maintain your immunity, you need detoxification for a balanced acid-alkaline level.
- How to Think Young and Stay Young
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Thinking young is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your brain does not age easily; in fact, it has unlimited and untapped potential. Learn to fully utilize your brain through synaptic plasticity. Give your brain the appropriate workout to maximize its cognitive functions through brain exercises, a diet rich in antioxidants, and hormone replacement therapies it needs be.
- The Health Potency of Tea
[Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea has been a healthful drink for Asians for many centuries. Recent scientific studies have pointed to the health benefits of green tea in heart health, cancer prevention, and oral health due to its polyphenols, which are antioxidant nutrients to combat damaging of free radicals to overall health.
- Cancer Cluster and Health Hazards
[Cancer] A cancer cluster may be investigated into and subsequently identified by authorities when there are frequent outbreaks of a similar type of cancer in a neighborhood or at workplace where there is potential environmental pollution. Given that to prove the existence of a cancer cluster is extremely difficult, you should be vigilant and cautious of the environment you are regularly exposed to.
- How to Control Your Mind in Putting
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] To control your mind in putting, you must learn not only how to empty your mind of instructional thoughts from books, fellow golfers, or your instructor, but also how to narrow down your mental focus. Your brain works better when the mental focus is smaller. Controlling the mind holds the key to getting perfect putts for your golfing success because it controls your confidence.
- How to Become a Confident Putter
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Putting is an important game within the game of golf. A good putter must be a confident putter. To be a good putter, you must learn to forget your mistakes and remember only your perfect putts. Learn to change the way your memory works. Learn to discipline your mind to separate you from your competitors.
- The Art of Putting
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] "The man who can putt can play anybody." Tom Sayers. This shows the importance of putting to the game of golf. Golfing success demands the composite of a great player and a great putter.
- Mercury Contamination of Fish
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Mercury contamination of fish is a health issue. Mercury toxicity is the cause of many health problems and disorders, especially among children and pregnant women. Mercury can never be eliminated from the environment. Most of our exposure to mercury comes from our diet, especially from fish. Bigger fish have more mercury contamination than smaller ones.
- Food Toxics and Health Hazards
[Health-and-Fitness] Food toxics may be a health concern. Food toxicology due to pesticides, growth-enhancing dietary hormones in beef, and food additives may cause cancer, birth defects, and allergies, among others, especially in children. A wary consumer should read food labels, and go organic whenever and wherever possible.
- How To Overcome Your Financial Stress
[Finance] Financial stress is inevitable because financial problems, as any other problems in life, are unavoidable. Integrity, one of the most important core values in life, enables you to see the true value of money, instead of the value of the things money can buy. Integrity enables you not only to confront your financial problems but also to seek solutions, thereby eliminating your financial stress.
- Why Do People Go Into Debt?
[Finance:Debt-Management] Many people get into debt for various reasons, including deficit spending, unforeseeable circumstances, personal choice, self-denial, and ignorance. To stay debt free, you need to have self-discipline to curb unnecessary spending, keep a healthy body and mind, as well as a healthy marriage.
- The Spiritual Aspects of Living Debt Free
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The spiritual aspects of living debt free are based on gratitude, sharing, and trusting. These spiritual aspects should be evidenced in your smart money management founded on the principle that God owns it all and that you are but a steward of God's money and therefore the implicit responsibilities of taking care of your money. Stop spending on yourself, share it with others, and start saving for the future.
- Use the Law to Protect Your Credit and Save You Money
[Finance:Credit-Tips] Be knowledgeable of the laws and regulations that protect your credit and save you money. As a smart consumer, always use these laws and regulations to your own advantage. Always read the fine print before signing any document related to credit and money. If in doubt, always ask. Being smart and knowledgeable is the key to debt free and financial freedom.
- Understanding the Human Side of a Debt Collector May Help You Deal with One (Part 2)
[Finance:Debt-Relief] Dealing with debt collectors requires good communication, which can help you ultimately in the form of special repayment arrangements. The worst option, on the other hand, is to ignore your debt collectors or fail to keep your promises made to them. With a repayment plan and documents organized, call your creditor to deal with your credit card debt. Document the conversation to show your sincerity and goodwill to bring your account current.
- Understanding the Human Side of a Debt Collector May Help You Deal with One (Part One)
[Finance:Debt-Management] Debt collection is commonplace. Understanding a debt collector may help you deal with one. According to Sun Tsu's "Art of War", knowing your enemy (your debt collector) and knowing yourself will help you deal with debt collectors, especially when you are knowledgeable of the laws and your rights. To deal with creditors, be a smart consumer and use your debt collector to help you resolve your financial problems.
- Is Steroid Therapy Right For You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Steroid therapy is the use of steroid medications to treat certain types of disease and disorder, including myasthenia gravis. The major adverse side effects are bone loss, high blood pressure, and weight gain, among others, which impair an already weakened immune system. The author relates his own experience of steroid therapy, and how and why he decides to abandon steroid medications.
- Arthritis and Longevity Living
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Arthritis, common among the elderly, is a debilitating disease due to toxins accumulated in the body, it is not a consequence of aging. To control arthritis, you must firstly detoxify the body, and rejuvenate it with herbs, foods, and a balanced diet to maintain the body's acid and alkaline level.
- Anti-Aging Fasting
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Fasting is anti-aging in that it is the most natural and effective way of detoxification for optimum wellness and longevity. Fasting has many therapeutic health benefits. A regular 1-2 day fast promotes anti-aging. A longer fast may even cure chronic diseases.
- Weight Control And Your Longevity (2)
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight control is almost impossible if your body is toxic. To effectively and permanently reduce your weight, you must first detoxify your body through fasting, foods, herbs, hydrotherapy, skin brushing, and foot patches, and then eat less.
- Weight Control And Your Longevity (1)
[Health-and-Fitness] Weight control holds the key to your longevity. To control weight you need to understand the fundamentals of weight loss, thereby controlling it.
- Diabetes And Your Longevity
[Health-and-Fitness] Often a result of years of abuse to your immune system through a wayward lifestyle, you may develop diabetes as you continue to age. Given that there is no miracle cure, you should control diabetes through a healthy diet and positive lifestyle, instead of depending on medications, which are often unsafe.
- Acidity And Your Longevity
[Health-and-Fitness] Pharmaceuticals are synthetic chemicals, and therefore acidic and toxic by nature. A healthy body has a balanced acid-and-alkali level. An over-acidic body spells disease and premature death. Therefore, a longevity life is a drug-free life.
- Pharmaceuticals And Your Longevity
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] A long life is always drug - free. Pharmaceuticals are chemicals, and therefore acidic and toxic by nature. Rely more on your body's self-healing power than on the short-term symptom-suppressing pharmaceuticals. Given the unreliability of drug tests, the questionable safety of drugs and their toxic nature, refrain from taking any prescription or over-the-counter medication without extra precaution and careful consideration.
- Idleness And Your Longevity
[Health-and-Fitness] Idleness may be sweet, but it has dire consequences on your longevity health. It is common among the elderly to become idle after their retirement. But idleness is conducive to a degenerative mind, which controls an inactive body, hurtling you down the road to a premature death. Keeping your mental sharpness holds the key to your longevity.
- Money And Your Longevity
[Health-and-Fitness] Money and your longevity are interrelated. As you age, you need money not only to pay your mounting medical expenses, but also to live, to retire, and to survive. Your longevity cannot do without money. Longevity living requires you to know how to get free money, how to preserve your money, and how to continue to make money to meet your own needs as well as the needs of others less fortunate than yourself.
- The Importance Of Sexual Health
[Relationships:Sexuality] Sexual health is longevity health. Your sex life holds the key to your longevity. Maintain your sexual activity to stimulate your sex drive, without which, there is no sex, and sex forms an important bond between a man and a woman. If you want to have sex for the rest of your life, focus on how to keep having sex for the rest of your life. Your longevity has everything to do with sex.
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