Excess

The Balanced Life

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

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Paul Spector, M.D.

How can we understand our relationship with excess? How do we continue to believe that more money or cars or shoes or food or sex will make us happy? Why are we the only animal that can be made ill by our appetites?

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Chew Your Way to Losing More Body Fat

Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C. | Posted 04.17.2012

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Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C.

Three research studies from the last few years have explored an interesting tool that could potentially be used to combat the obesity epidemic in our culture.

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PHOTOS: SKWAK's Grotesque, Adorable Excess

Posted 11.23.2011

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Via Beautiful/Decay: If you’ve followed Beautiful/Decay you know that Skwak has collaborated with us dozens of times creating apparel, posters, g...

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Slowly Balancing Our Goals and Lives

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Setting Goals, Philosophy, Life Goals, Pace, Enough, The Balanced Life, Running, Excess, Self-Knowledge, Work-Life Balance, Jogging, Philosophers, The Inner Life, Goals, Home News
Tom Morris

Philosophers have never been known for speed. You can't go that fast in a toga, or a tweed jacket. We take our time. A professor at Yale once explaine...

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When a friend's gifts are over-the-top

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Dear Irene, A friend of mine spends a lot of money on gifts even when it's not a special occasion. She is not wealthy and her husband recen...

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The Architect's Dilemma: Part 2

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cameron Sinclair

Will architecture retrench to just super-rich clients or is there a role to play for the expanding architecture into realms that are more relevant to the current climate?

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The Architect's Dilemma: The Architecture of Excess vs. an Architecture of Relevance

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cameron Sinclair

There has been a split forming in the profession for quite sometime. While some pushed the boundaries of how to build, a new younger group of professionals began to question why we build and who to build for.

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Reflections on Reconciliation: Paradox of Excess & Deprivation

Terry Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Terry Leach

I wonder if Captain "Sully" Sullenberger's colleagues' pensions are secure. Somehow, I doubt it. Although airlines were the companies we used to loved to hate, airline employees are part of the family, too.

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Learning To Live Without Your Eight Inches

Tracey Jackson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tracey Jackson

There are many who say we were not the savers grandparents were. There is truth to that. But we were also earners and innovators and for the most part good citizens.

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Help For Oprah: 'Tis the Season of the Binge

Eli Davidson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Eli Davidson

The more you demean yourself for having a 'food mistake' the more you fuel having a binge. One binge fuels the next and all of a sudden you can't fit in your Inauguration dress.

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What Does the "It Bag" Have to Do with the Economic Crisis? More Than You Think

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melissa Biggs Bradley

Deluxe was published last year, but it is an interesting book to be reading in this time of tumbling markets, as they will surely bring the curtain down on an era of excess.

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