Category: body

Shaping up from within

October 15, 2006 | No comments yet

I haven’t read Victoria Moran’s book “Fit from within,” but I like some of the ideas she has to share on losing weight without diets by integrating a spiritual component. She wrote in part: The people I know who maintain

You can keep going

October 10, 2006 | No comments yet

Have you ever felt depleted, exhausted, too tired to go on, or emptied of desire to continue the job before you? A reader reported that when embarking on a mule ride down into the Grand Canyon, the lead wrangler warned

Maya Angelou’s thoughts on growing older

October 6, 2006 | 1 comment

In April, of last year, Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her 74th birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. And, there on television, she said it was “exciting,” and went on to share some of

Too thin models

September 21, 2006 | 2 comments

“Thin is not in—at least in Madrid,” AP reports. Fashion models with a BMI of less than 18 were turned away from Madrid’s Fashion Week show recently because they were unhealthy and promoting an image that young girls try to

Is bigger better?

September 12, 2006 | No comments yet

I just read the article, “We are what we eat,” by William Saletan in The Washington Post National Weekly, (which I can’t find on the Internet) that says “…thanks to low-cost high-fat food, obesity has become a global condition.” He