This is your body without
Sleep
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Vegetarian Atheletes
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Is your Sunscreen good for you?
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Putting
Meat Back in its Place
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Skip
a Burger, Save the Planet
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'GREEN'
CLEANING SOLUTIONS
People
can clean their homes with products from the pantry:
vinegar, baking soda, borax, Castile soap, cream of
tartar, hydrogen peroxide,and lemon juice,.
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Stock
up on Lentil Soup
Source: Health
Magazine
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Plastic
Again?
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Breakfast Still Most Important
Meal
by
John Vogel | October 24, 2007
Mom
always said that getting a good breakfast "under
my belt" was the best way to start off the day.
And today, even local schools are learning that a breakfast
a day keeps boredom at bay.
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Never Feel Tired Again
8 Tips for Getting a Restorative
Rest
Source: Redbook
Magazine
When
you have a lot to do (um...always), usually the first
thing to get squeezed off your agenda is sleep.
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School Lunch
From Youth
Radio.org
"Two years before, my dad was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. I
remember thinking I don't want anyone else in my family to die or to become sick." By
Miriam Archibong
I decided to take a stand against my school's lunch
options this year.
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Vitamin D!
Most adults are simply not getting enough vitamin D for good health. During
the winter months, people don't spend enough time in the sun to get optimal exposure,
particularly in northern latitudes.
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Dance Off Those Calories
Monica Neave: BellaOnline's Exercise
Editor
Just 20 minutes of disco dancing, ballroom dancing,
or square dancing burns 114 calories, while fast dancing
like ballet or twist burns around 125 calories, and slow
dancing like the waltz or foxtrot burns 62 calories.
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The Better Fitness Walk
Learn proper form techniques
to make your walks more efficient.
Source: Cooking
Light By Gin Miller
Fitness walking is an excellent way to tone muscles and
burn calories. In fact, you can burn almost
as many calories with a vigorous walk as you can
running, and fitness walking is much less stressful
on the body.
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Take a Hike!
Access your inner Mountain Lion
and get moving!
Source: Seventeen
Ick.
The gym is always packed, and whenever you're doing your
lat pulls, there always seems to be an ex-football player
in a too-tight tank top sighing impatiently, waiting
for you to finish. You want a workout, but breathing
the re-circulated air in the gym is not your idea of
a healthy activity. Do you really need to sacrifice your
emotional well being for a workout? No way! If you want
a workout that will let you breathe fresh air, connect
with your inner self, and burn serious calories, hiking
is your perfect match!
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15 Ways to Maximize Your
Lunch Hour
Don't let your break become an
extension of your already overburdened day.
Source: Reader's
Digest
Take a Mental or Physical Break
Although the lunch hour was originally designed for just
that -- lunch -- today we spend our midday break running
errands, pecking away at a computer keyboard, or returning
personal phone calls.
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Students Urge Cosmetics Companies
to List Toxic Chemicals
Source: Breast
Cancer Fund / Marin Independent Journal By Richard
Halstead
A group of Marin teens visited Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's
Sacramento office yesterday to urge him to sign a bill
that would require cosmetics manufacturers to disclose
cancer-causing ingredients in their products.
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Politics enters plan for tsunami
warning system
By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY
HONG KONG — As a deadly tsunami approached
the Thai beach resort of Phuket on Dec. 26, the only
warning came from a little British girl who had the good
sense to pay attention in geography class a few weeks
earlier.
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Work Out
Your Issues: Legs
Source: Health.com by
Petra Kolber
In your quest for great-looking thighs and
calves, who better to emulate than a group famous for
strong, beautiful legs: dancers. These ballet-inspired
moves will strengthen and tone all of the muscles in
you upper and lower legs—and
might even add more elegance to your stride. Try these
moves 3 times per week, gradually increasing to 3 sets
of each per session
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Article >>
Miss Perfect - Not Really
Source:
BeingGirl.com
How many of these statements would you agree
with?
If you wake up in the morning and your bangs
look weird, your day is ruined.
A B- plus or A-minus on an exam
in one of your better subjects is upsetting.
It doesn't
pay to try out for the school play because chances are,
they'll never pick you.
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Famous
Vegetarians: Natalie Portman
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Kids helping kids, students
band together to raise funds for children of the tsunami
Source: Save
the Children
Students across America continue to let children of
South Asia know they care about them after the tsunami
hit their region on December 26th. Scores of students
have banded together in small towns and big cities to
help children half a world away by holding a variety
of fundraisers from fashion shows to penny collections
to send to Save the Children's Asia Earthquake / Tsunami
Relief Fund.
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Archive 2004
Cows Are Vegetarians
Source: Amys
The first book written for vegetarian kids that demonstrates
through easy to understand language the powerful and positive reasons for
being a vegetarian. It explores the choice to become a vegetarian and how
this choice has an effect on the environment,the animals and health. Delightful
illustrations and a whimsical wrap around cow cover enhance the book. Ages
6 through 12.
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Sip on Soup in the Fall!
Source: Amy's
What
can be more comforting than a bowl of warm nourishing
soup? Amy's organic soups taste homemade because
they're make from wholesome, natural ingredients. Amy's
soups will warm you on those crisp fall days.
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Famous
Vegetarians: Tobey Maguire
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Celebrities get Charitable
Source:
Elle Girl
Drew wants you to vote, Leo wants you to drive a hybrid car—everyone
in Hollywood has a cause. Flip through our gallery of activist celebrities
and find out what's near and dear to the stars' hearts.
Read
full article >>
To
Discover and Defend
By
Maryann Hammers :
Natural Health Mag
Instead of setting off fireworks on Independence
Day, employees and guests at Mauna
Lani Resort on Hawaii mark the occasion by setting
turtles free.
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Article >>
Some things you may
not know about Apples!
Source: hdra.org.uk
People have been eating apples for over 8,500 years and growing apple trees for
at least 4000 years.
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Your Body Image: the Media
Source: girlpower.gov
You are beautiful and unique. It's
wonderful living in a world where there are so many
different types of people. Sometimes the media doesn't
represent these differences. Don't let the images of
girls and women in the media be your standard of what
is "normal."
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Article
The ABCs of Veggies
Source: healthyhighways.com
Find a fruit or veggie for every letter
of the alphabet with these cute cartoons! It might be just
the thing that will get your little brother or sister to
eat healthier!
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Give your hair body
Source: Organic
Style
If you crave more body (any body!) but are wary of perming, we don't
blame you. (Who wants thatch-dry poodle curls that break off after a few weeks?)
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Stressed Out?
Source:Teenmag
Dark circles are forming under your eyes. There’s
a zit near your nose and your hair is looking limp and lifeless.
Why? Could be you're stressed out.
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Amy’s Road Map to a Healthy
Vacation!
Source: Amy's
During the summer months millions of people set
out on vacation. However, if you are a vegetarian or
just want to avoid eating fast food at every meal, traveling
can sometimes be a chore.
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Coffee - Good or Evil?
Source: Amy's
Caffeine can
* keep you up for an extra hour of fun (or studying), but you might
crash harder once it wears off.
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What's In Your Beach
Bag this Summer?
Source: Amy's
Expert Advice on Sun Safety for Your
Skin, Hair and Lips
(ARA) - With the arrival of summer, many people look forward to spending
time outside in the sun. Whether you're playing sports, gardening or just lounging,
using the proper skin protection products can help prevent sun damage.
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Sun Damage & Lip Care
From "It’s Your Health"
We hear about the dangers of too much sun exposure all
the time, but the statistics still shock. About 90% of
the 600,000 new cases of skin cancer reported each year
are sun related. Your lips are one of the most vulnerable
parts of your body. Because they are on your face and
they are almost always exposed to the sun, hats, sunglasses
and scarves; the accessories we often use to provide
protection, generally don’t shade the lips. Young
lips are even more defenseless.
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Article >>
The Protein
Misconception!
Source: The
Veggie Table
There is a popular misconception that meat is the only
real source of protein, and thus that a vegetarian diet
is inherently unhealthy due to a lack of protein. It
is impossible to stress how untrue this is. Read
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7 Back-to-School Stress Busters
Source:
Justine Magazine by Dr. Gilda Carle
Starting
a new school year, with academic pressures and relationship
issues, can stress anyone out. But there’s good
news: you can convert the stress that debilitates you
into good stress that actually pushes you to succeed.
Here’s how!
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