By Anita Beauregard
I’m not really sure that anyone else noticed my mood, but I was feeling down, and the slightly dark mood was darkening deeper still. For several days, I felt so alone, even among crowds, and try as I may, I just felt… forgotten. I put on my happy face, and headed [...]

Ultimately I consider life to be about gaining experience and growth through overcoming challenges. It can seem sometimes that we are challenged far more than our neighbor and that our misfortunes far outweigh that which we think we are able to bare. I have had my share of obstacles and challenges in life as I [...]

Here’s another installment in our Sunday tradition of featuring the nutritional guidelines of various religious sects. Today we feature the guidelines of Rastafarianism. The Rastafari movement is a monotheistic, Abrahamic, new religious movement that arose in a Christian culture in Jamaica in the 1930s. Its adherents, who worship Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, former Emperor [...]

By Blane Sheffield
There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things ‘in order,’ she contacted her Pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes.
She told him which songs [...]

By Blane Sheffield
Several months back I bought an older model Jeep Wrangler and have thoroughly enjoyed driving it, especially during the warmer weather when the top and doors come off.
One of the things I quickly noticed about driving an on/off-road style jeep is that the steering reacts very quickly. If you barely turn the steering [...]

Contributed by Blane Sheffield
I promise myself…
To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.
To make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.
To think only of [...]

Do you like to eat raw cherries? I sure do! In fact, I have to be conciensious of not eating too many at one time when I do.
Are you aware of the significant antioxidant and anti-inflamatory properties in those cherries? If not, allow me to share some information with you. If you like cherries now, [...]

As a father of four daughters I have a vested interest in their development of a healthy body image. It seems as if I’m fighting an uphill battle against media’s perception of what is beautiful. It is impossible to pick-up a magazine these days without seeing beautifully perfect people donning not only the cover but virtually every page [...]

I’m fed-up with the Girl Scouts. This time of year you can’t go into a grocery store in America without being accosted by these cute-as-can-be-pint-sized-sugar-peddlers. They get you coming and going.  Normally this would not be an issue for me but for the fact that I love Girl Scout Cookies. Not just one or two [...]

In order to better serve the desire of many athletes, Gatorade is removing high fructose corn syrup from both Gatorade Thirst Quencher and G2® over the next few months. By replacing HFCS with sucrose and dextrose, they say they can offer improved taste and premium quality without affecting the performance athletes have come to expect.

March 3, 2010 – The FDA today warned 17 food makers — including POM and Nestle — that their “misleading” product labels violate federal law. The warning letters say the firms face having their products pulled from grocery shelves if they don’t make changes within 15 days. It’s a new get-tough policy, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg suggested [...]

One afternoon my teenage daughter, Jenna, came into my room and asked if she could have my guitar. I asked her why she want the cheap thing that had been sitting in the corner of my room unused for months. She boldly proclaimed that she was going to teach herself to use it and she [...]

I want to address one of the biggest pitfalls that people fall into when they begin to set goals for improving their health. The pitfall I am referring to is the single largest roadblock to creating a healthy lifestyle for yourself. No one sets out to booby trap themselves before they ever begin but unfortunately many unwittingly do so. More often [...]

Every so often a story is so outrageous and offends the sensibilities to such an extent that I have to spend extra time processing the absurdity of it all. Our nation has declared “war” on childhood obesity according to Michelle Obama. So here is how we now wage “war” in America these days. We embrace the [...]

Make no mistake about the motivations of BOTH these companies. It is about marketing pure and simple. Such is the lure of the almighty dollar that a company that markets itself as trying to help obese people would team-up with the devil. Weight Watchers and McDonalds are in bed together. Who would’ve thought? Well okay, I [...]