Jan 26
So you're thinking about going country? It's time to abandon the
frenzy of city life, drop the 'G' from the end of your verbs and
trade your Gucci for goats. You long to be in a place where
business is done on a handshake, where your backyard is
bountiful and where folks welcome you with warm apple pie and a
smile. You want the simple life.
Over 1.6 million people moved to rural communities during the
first five years of this decade. Several stayed. This migration
continues - reinforced by ...
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Jan 24
Central and South America
Central and Southern America have a rich masking history. One of
the earliest examples dates
from 10000 to 12000 BC. It is a fossilised vertebra of an
extinct lama representing the head of
a coyote. More recent records begun during the conquest of the
area, contemporary excavations
combined with murals by the indigenous people reveal an array of
styles and uses. Most of the
surviving masks are apparently burial masks. Often they are
carved from some form of rock ...
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Jan 19
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease is a
chronic, progressive degenerative, neurological disease of
cattle that has been linked to a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD), a fatal degenerative brain disease in humans. BSE
belongs to a family of diseases known as the transmissible
spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). TSE animal diseases found in
the United States include scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic
wasting disease in deer and elk, transmissible ...
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Jan 09
Due to the constraint of our knowledge at the current time about
rubidium, a rubidium daily value has not yet been established.
The 37th element in the periodic table, a rubidium daily
recommended value for nutrition has not yet been determined.
Rubidium exists in the earths crust, in our seawater, and in our
own human bodies. While there are many nutrients that don't have
a daily recommended value, it is especially important to
maintain a dosage of rubidium, considering that it is a ...
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Dec 31
Commercial "soaps" remove the naturally occurring glycerin that
would normally be found in soap. Glycerin is a natural
humectants that helps your skin retain its natural moisture.
Commercial manufactures use salt to remove the glycerin creating
an even more drying soap. Once the glycerin is removed they sell
it to other companies as it is worth more money that way. And
whom do they sell it to? To the companies that produce lotions
and creams.... The very same lotions that you now need to ...
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Dec 26
Due to the constraint of our knowledge at the current time about
rubidium, a rubidium daily value has not yet been established.
The 37th element in the periodic table, a rubidium daily
recommended value for nutrition has not yet been determined.
Rubidium exists in the earths crust, in our seawater, and in our
own human bodies. While there are many nutrients that don't have
a daily recommended value, it is especially important to
maintain a dosage of rubidium, considering that it is a ...
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Dec 13
SPORTS NUTRITION © Patricia Niland 2005
To realise potential, it is vital that an athlete has the
ability to train consistently. Successful training, over time,
builds a stronger, faster, more efficient body which will
hopefully go on to produce optimum athletic performances. Time
lost due to ill health, is time that a competitive athlete
cannot afford to lose. In the long term the athlete and his/her
coach needs to be conscientious about their own 'care' and
acknowledge that they have a ...
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Dec 01
Bracelets - those tiny colorful ornaments that we wear on our
wrists and occasionally on the upper arm or even the whole
forearm - have been with us since the Palaeolithic man!
Surely something that has followed man since the Palaeolithic
times and has continued to stay as popular as ever is something
that we ought to sit up and take notice. After all, unless it
has value or adds to the well being of man, it would have been
long abandoned and left to oblivion.
Now, the earliest forms of ...
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Nov 29
Because all of us have been brought up eating junk food, well
most of us, it is not easy to change our eating habits. Your
eating habits have developed since childhood based on what your
mothers or fathers cooked and what your psychological make-up
was during that time.
The foods you eat and crave help keep pass trauma and present
anxiety in check. Food helps make you feel good when you start
to feel bad. Eating is a natural defense mechanism that the
brain-body uses to keep you from going ...
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Nov 22
The Mediterranean Diet is now recognized as one of the
healthiest in the world consisting as it does of large amounts
of fresh fruit and vegetables, salads,nuts,seeds, omega-3 rich
oily fish, olives and
olive oil and being
comparatively low in dairy products and red meats.
The people of the Mediterranean region, particularly Greece and
Spain, are very fortunate to live in an area where naturally
healthy food is readily and cheaply available. The incidence of
heart disease and cancer are lower ...
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