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Yoga: Bye Bye Anxiety! (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Yoga, Depression, The Balanced Life, Meditation, Tara Stiles, Pills, Anxiety, Breathing, Relaxation, Living News
Tara Stiles

Use what you need. Rest what you don't. That's efficiency. Think of how well we can function when we are aren't holding tension where it isn't needed.

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Barney Frank Mocks Limbaugh's Drug Use, Sarah Palin On Leno (VIDEO)

Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy

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It's a safe bet that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rush Limbaugh don't have any dinner plans. Frank called out the conservative radio host for his ...

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A Ban on Painkillers Helps No One

Joshua Lyon | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Percocet, Prescription Painkillers, Dea, Prescription Drugs, Banning, Painkillers, Prescription Pills, Vicodin, Pills, Prescription Medication, Fda, Health, Living News
Joshua Lyon

We can't combat painkillers like any other drug epidemic by trying to eliminate the source. The medications must remain available to people who are living with debilitating diseases.

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Recent Heroin Surge: A Major Threat

Joshua Lyon | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Oxycontin, Vicodin, Heroin, War on Drugs, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Prescription Pills, Pills, Prescription Painkillers, Living News
Joshua Lyon

If you're hooked on an opiate, and you find that same high at a much cheaper price, it becomes much easier to justify using heroin.

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Old Drug, New Drug . . . Red Drug, Blue Drug?

James S. Gordon | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Psychiatry, Holistic, Depression, Mindbody Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Natural Approach, Psychology, Ssri’s, Drug-Free, Ssris, Mind Body Medicine, Pharmaceutical Industry, Antidepressants, Prescription Drugs, Meditation, Doctors, Pills, Mind-Body Medicine, Unstuck, Green News
James S. Gordon

This letter of mine appeared in The New York Times yesterday (in somewhat shortened form), under the title, "Alternatives to New Drugs." I thought yo...

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Dueling Docs -- the Vitamin Wars

Janice Horowitz | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Exercise, Women's Health Initiative, Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, Vitamins, Women's Health, Men's Health, Vitamin C, Cancer, Heart Disease, Diet, Physician's Health Study, Vitamin E, Selenium, Healthy Diet, Pills, Whole Foods, Living News
Janice Horowitz

We now know that no vitamin has those powers to prevent disease. Most people are probably relieved to know that they don't have to spend that money on these vitamins anymore.

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It's Like a Free Lunch -- But Without the Calories

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living

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Charlotte Hilton Andersen

"It's a little bit like a free lunch without the calories," says Dr. Ronald Evans, lead researcher of the Salk group. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... exercise in a pill! Wait -- we've been promised this before...

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Schools at Risk: A Unique Perspective

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Education History, Education Reform, Technology, Public Schools, Fertilizer, U.S High School Graduation Rate, Fritz Haber, Pills, Living News
Gerald Bracey

Discussions about the condition of public schools usually center on curriculum, instruction and test scores. A new book by Gene V. Glass reads more like a thriller than an academic treatise.

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