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| Mind Mart offers information about holistic health and wellness. Visit Mind Mart for information about organic food, yoga, pilates, stress reduction and lots more. |
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| How Meditation Helps |
| 2008-07-22 19:30:34 |
It's associated with Eastern monks living like hermits in caves. Even Christian saints are renowned for their ability in this area. What is it?...
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| How Sleepy Are You? |
| 2008-07-21 04:53:13 |
At least 40 million Americans experience chronic, long-term sleep disorders each year and another 20 million experience occasional sleep problems. Experts say we need about 8 hours of sleep, but at least 50 percent of us don’t get it. The National Sleep Foundation reports that 80 percent of working women are exhausted – and that’s [...]...
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| PMS Friday |
| 2008-07-17 19:01:55 |
Do you know what the symptoms of PMS are? Let me tell in in order of my pain threshold. They are tension and irritability, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, anger, depression, food cravings, breast tenderness, bloating, and headaches.
So this will have to pass for a post today–
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit [...]...
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| Natural Alternatives For Stress |
| 2008-07-16 02:35:54 |
Do you have an acne breakout right before a big social event? Does your hair get thin during finals week at school? Does your weight balloon when you’re dealing with an emotional problem? We can thank the hormone cortisol for these reactions.
Although cortisol is a hormone found naturally in the human body, our bodies manufacture [...]...
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| Children and Stress |
| 2008-07-13 22:36:31 |
Wouldn’t it be great to be a child again and not have to deal with stress? As adults we often fantasize about being a child again. Sometimes it seems like stress is coming at us from all directions — work, bills, social commitments — there are many sources of stress for adults. Childhood is [...]...
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| Self Sabotage With Negative Thought Patterns |
| 2008-07-07 22:43:06 |
We’re all guilty of it – negative self talk. Someone complements your appearance and and to yourself you think, Are you crazy? I look like a slag – or something to that effect. Have you ever uttered it out loud? That’s even worse. Most of us have done it more often than we’d like [...]...
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| Cold Sores and Fever Blisters |
| 2008-07-06 03:10:30 |
The dreaded cold sore, aka fever blister, is caused by the herpes simplex virus. Besides being quite contagious, the virus can be resistant to treatment–especially during its dormant phase. Cold sores usually last about seven to ten days. They start out with a tingling feeling around the outside of your lip and morph into red, [...]...
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| Going Organic: Healthy or Hype? |
| 2008-07-02 19:30:37 |
Organic food used to be the exclusive domain of health food stores, but it has gone so mainstream that nowadays most grocery stores stock at least some organic produce. As the general public has become more educated about environmental toxins and pesticides, organic food continues to increase in popularity.
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| Organic Food: Worth the Cost? |
| 2008-07-01 19:30:39 |
If you’re trying to live a healthy lifestyle, one obvious consideration should be organic food. Naturally, food processed with out chemicals would seem like a no brainer. However, in today’s economy people have to make hard choices. Produce at your local grocery store is likely to be much cheaper than that purchased at a health [...]...
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| Probiotic Supplements |
| 2008-06-30 19:30:41 |
Science is starting to catch up with what many people already know — probiotics are beneficial to health. Although they have been in existence for a very long time, mainstream medicine only recently begun to acknowledge their benefits. This has led to their appearance in a number of new food products, and an [...]...
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| Benefits of Probiotics |
| 2008-06-29 16:27:25 |
For most of us, bacteria is a scary thing. It brings to mind thoughts of infections and food poisoning. To those of us who are not health professionals, it may be hard to fathom that bacteria can often be a good thing.
In reality, there are numerous types of bacteria that are beneficial to [...]...
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| Itch Relief for Dogs |
| 2008-06-25 19:30:29 |
If your dog is constantly scratching itself, it could mean it has fleas, allergies, ticks or other skin problems. You have to ask yourself if it’s worth it to use harsh chemicals that will remain in the environment and travel throughout the animal’s system. Because dogs and people generally share the same environment, you have [...]...
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| Raw Food Diet: What Are the Health Benefits? |
| 2008-06-22 02:25:31 |
Raw foodists make vegetarians look like slackers. Devoted followers of this diet are vegans — meaning they eschew animal and dairy products. Equally important, they believe that heating food above the 110-115 degree range destroys nutrients in food and diminishes nutritional value. Healthy food is “living food,” they say — organic, unprocessed and uncooked.
Eating raw [...]...
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| The Green Nursery |
| 2008-06-21 01:34:52 |
The nursery is the focus of expecting parents. While they wait for their blessed event, parents put their energy into making the nursery a unique and comfortable place for their baby. It’s a nice way to pass the time until baby arrives; however, we may unwittingly expose our babies to multiple toxic chemicals in their [...]...
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| Folic Acid and Pregnancy |
| 2008-06-17 00:32:09 |
Having a healthy baby means making sure Mom is healthy. Ensuring you have enough folic acid — especially before conception and during early pregnancy — will help prevent serious birth defects in your baby. Folic acid intake is important for women who are trying to conceive, as well as for those who are not trying [...]...
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| Staying Healthy During Pregnancy |
| 2008-06-15 21:34:40 |
We all know that pregnancy places great nutritional demand on a woman’s body, but your diet isn’t the only thing that affects your baby. Paying special attention to your health will reduce the likelihood of problems for your child, and it will make you more comfortable during this physically taxing time.
Getting Proper Nutrition
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| Paper or Plastic? |
| 2008-06-12 20:21:43 |
Babies have a huge environmental footprint. Since most parents go with disposable diapers (AKA nappies), the impact of this practice on landfills is significant. It takes a disposable diaper 200-500 years to completely decompose. Cloth diapers aren’t perfect — they require water, energy (hot water) and chemicals (detergent). However, many parents look at cloth diapers [...]...
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| Mega List of Environmental Tips |
| 2008-06-10 22:49:34 |
Mahatma Gandhi said, Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. What better way is there to be respectful to our responsibility to our only home by safeguarding it with our actions today? Here are 30 everyday actions that can help.
1. Start a compost bin for kitchen scraps, grass clippings, leaves, [...]...
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| Crazy Busy or Just Crazy? |
| 2008-06-09 13:20:59 |
Remember high school? With the bell ringing every 40 minutes, you were constantly reminded how fast the end of the day was approaching, and whether your task was completed or not you moved on to the next class. Over time, you learned certain techniques to avoid wasting those precious minutes and became better equipped [...]...
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| Natural Treatments for Hair Loss In Men |
| 2008-06-05 22:27:40 |
Why do some men lose their hair and can it be treated? While baldness in men can be genetic, it is also known that it can be attributed to disease. Excessive weight gain or loss within a close period of time is also a factor. An iron deficiency is also a cause of hair [...]...
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| Herbal Help for Erectile Dysfunction |
| 2008-06-01 22:57:20 |
Impotence, or Erectile dysfunction, is defined as the loss of a man’s ability to have and maintain an erection. This can either be due to physical or psychological factors, or a combination of both. Although these psychological factors may be difficult for the man to admit, men who cannot have an erection may still have [...]...
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| Fear of Success or Fear of Failure? |
| 2008-06-01 10:53:14 |
Does this sound familiar? You wake up in the morning; have your coffee; read your list of things to do today; then go back to bed. Is this procrastination, or a more serious problem? If it occurs more than once, it is. However, people procrastinate for a variety of reasons such as; [...]...
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| Preventing Hypertension in Men |
| 2008-05-29 19:30:11 |
Obviously, blood pressure control is key in preventing heart disease. All the usual suspects should be mentioned in controlling blood pressure–exercise, weight control, diet, smoking, and alcohol. While smoking is not a cause of hypertension, it is a contributing factor. Smoking does not cause heart disease, but it does it lead to pathogenic changes that [...]...
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| Herbs to Lower Hypertension |
| 2008-05-27 19:30:59 |
Blood pressure is the force at which blood moves through your arteries as the heart beats. Hypertension is also referred to as high blood pressure, and it’s usually measured with two numbers: systolic which occurs when the heart beats, and diastolic which is between heart beats. Normal blood pressure levels are considered to be [...]...
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| Happy For No Reason |
| 2008-05-26 13:57:15 |
Is your life more hectic than ever? Do you find that you become tired more frequently, lose patience easily, experience moodiness, and are so stressed that you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel? Have you lost contact with your friends? Has fun completely gone out of your life? While we tend [...]...
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| Herbs, Homeopathy, and Hemorrhoids |
| 2008-05-21 19:30:05 |
Hemorrhoids are an uncomfortable, sometimes even painful, condition which is caused by the swelling and inflammation of blood vessels and veins in your anus and rectum. There are two primary types of hemorrhoids: Internal and external.
Internal hemorrhoids often cause no pain or discomfort, however they can cause bleeding during bowel movements. External hemorrhoids however, tend [...]...
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| Dangers of Wi-Fi |
| 2008-05-19 21:43:54 |
Have you ever wondered why your cell phone gets hot when you use it? It’s because the cell phone is emitting microwaves which cause it to become hot. These days if you question the safety of wireless technology, you’re in danger of being branded a Luddite. It would seem that wi-fi has become the acceptable [...]...
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| Can You Create Happiness With Your Thoughts? |
| 2008-05-17 11:09:09 |
Believe it or not, it is within your power to create positive thoughts allowing you to accomplish anything you set out to do. Can you really think yourself happy? The answer is a qualified yes. Here are the ways in which positive thoughts can help you accomplish many things in life.
Positive thoughts produce [...]...
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| Mindset and Health |
| 2008-05-07 20:59:38 |
No one likes a Pollyanna, but do you ever find yourself envying someone with a healthy positive attitude? Positive thinking is a powerful tool. Our minds control all of our thought processes and can be the catalyst for living a happy and positive existence or living life with a doom and gloom attitude. Here [...]...
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| Things You Can Do for Mom on Mother’s Day |
| 2008-05-03 19:30:31 |
Most women have full time jobs, too many responsibilities, and a to do list a mile long. If this sounds like your Mom, why not do something for her rather than just buying a gift? Most women would prefer spending quality time with their loved ones rather than just receiving a gift that may be [...]...
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| More Natural Flea and Tick Control |
| 2008-04-26 19:30:04 |
As previously mentioned, many flea and tick medications warn us to use rubber gloves when applying. Often the package warnings say to apply in a well ventilated area, or while wearing a mask. Surely something so toxic shouldn't be put on our closest friends and companions. Thankfully, there are many ways to naturally help control [...]...
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| Unstrange Minds |
| 2008-04-26 10:59:19 |
What’s behind the autism epidemic? Is autism truly on the rise, or do the new statistics simply reflect the growing awareness of the condition, the expanded definition, and other factors? If autism is on the rise, as most experts believe, what is causing the increase? Anthropologist Roy Grinker explores autism in his book, Unstrange [...]...
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| Herbal Remedies For Seasonal Allergies |
| 2008-04-23 19:30:40 |
Another allergy season is upon us. Millions of people are running to their local pharmacies to find relief from red eyes, irritated throats, and sneezing. Millions more are going to the allergist to get even stronger medications. Actually, the irritated eyes, throats, and noses are the body's attempt to keep toxins from entering its system. [...]...
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| Flatulence: Herbs For Gas |
| 2008-04-21 19:30:37 |
Flatulence. Farting. Gas. Whatever you call it, it's socially unacceptable. Nevertheless, it's a very common occurrence for both men and women, though many males grow up believing females don't pass gas. Some individuals, however, have more problems with flatulence than others. Oftentimes this is caused by dietary habits or sensitivities to certain foods....
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| Keep Your Dog Healthy Naturally |
| 2008-04-19 19:30:19 |
One of the best ways to add additional nutrition to your dogs meat based diet is to simply give them supplements. Kelp for instance, is packed with minerals and nutrients that are essential for any animals health. Garlic and onion are also packed with vitamins and nutrients, plus they have the added benefit of helping keep fleas and ticks away....
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| Carnival of Healing #134 |
| 2008-04-19 00:51:12 |
Salutations! Welcome to the 134th Carnival of Healing. This is the Carnival's
first stop this year at Mind Mart, and I'm always pleased to host this popular
Carnival. As always, the submissions are full of wisdom and insight. If you
haven't done so already, check out the wonderful job done last week by Yael
Ernst [...]...
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| Using Herbs to Boost the Immune System |
| 2008-04-14 19:30:25 |
Taking herbal supplements is an excellent way to help boost your body's immune system. Herbs are a form of food. In fact, herbal supplements are simply dried and ground plants which are then put into a gel capsule for easy swallowing. This means they're very much like a condensed version of healthy vegetables and fruits, [...]...
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| Sunblock, Sunscreen and Other Skin Toxins |
| 2008-04-12 19:30:22 |
The sun's UV rays penetrate the cloud cover regardless of what season it is. The sun produces two types of ultraviolet (UV) rays--UVA and UVB. These rays cause cancer, sunburn, and premature aging. Additionally, UV rays sensitize the skin so it reacts to medications, soaps, and cosmetics.
In order to protect yourself from the sun, most [...]...
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| Carnival of Healing |
| 2008-04-12 13:53:22 |
The Carnival of Healing will be making a stop at Mind Mart next Saturday, April 19. Please submit your thoughts related to healing and wellness here by Friday, April 11.
I look forward to gleaning wisdom from your posts, and don’t forget to check out this week’s carnival being hosted at Chinese Medicine Notes....
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| Depression Primer Pt. 3 |
| 2008-04-09 19:30:06 |
Since the side effects of many antidepressants are more than many people are willing to accept, alternative medicine has become popular for treating depression. There is much evidence to show that non traditional methods can be very effective in treating some forms of depression....
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