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From My Heart- April, 2010

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Goals and Contemplations

Last autumn a friend of mine invited my husband and me to travel with him and his wife this spring back to his homeland,Vietnam.  We try to take one good trip every year and it was my time to choose the destination. My husband gamely went along with the idea although he was not his typical exuberant, adventurous self.  I hit upon the idea of incorporating some travel to Thailand while we were in that part of the world and vacationing for maybe a week at one of the islands there in hopes this might entice him with our trip.  My husband is a REAL WATER LOVER.  I mean he’s sailed for years, has taken numerous vacations in the Caribbean, and even has to get in the hot tub every day we’re at our house in San Leon.  When he discovered the islands we were considering were at the same latitude as most of his beloved Caribbean islands, he perked up BIG time! Just a couple of months prior to our vacation, some friends of ours told us we should also consider Siem Reap in Cambodia so we added that country to our itinerary as well. [Read more…] about From My Heart- April, 2010

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From My Heart- January, 2010

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

“I feel immensely blessed to have a chance to get it right.”  Oprah Winfrey

Generally from January until mid-February the gym is fairly crowded and then the crowd falls off their New Year’s resolutions and life becomes normal again.  Oprah admitted all the things she vowed to do last year, she didn’t:  more balance and time, daily workout, etc.  After meeting Charla Nash, the woman who was violently attacked by a 200 lb. chimpanzee last February, and hearing her story, she stated in her magazine, “No more excuses.”

For years I didn’t make New Year’s resolutions.  I thought they were “dumb.”  However, what I realized was I was setting goals and accomplishing many of them but wouldn’t it be better if I actually wrote them down so I could refer to them as the years passed?  Many of us are quick to judge ourselves harshly but what I’ve learned is we’re human and we just need to practice.  [Read more…] about From My Heart- January, 2010

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From My Heart- September, 2009

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The Buck Stops HERE!!!

(In lieu of my regular newsletter in which I provide the latest research and information regarding good health, I decided to address Healthcare Reform this month.)

The United States is ranked 48th in the world for life expectancy coming in behind countries like Japan, Australia, France, Canada, the U.K., etc. For the first time in history children being born in the U.S. will not have the same life expectancy as our generation!  It will be shorter.  Notice several of these countries practice socialized medicine.  Japan is ranked 3rd in the world for longevity.  While we espouse our country having the greatest healthcare providers, we are ranked so far behind how the Japanese are faring in real time health!   How can that be?  How can we have the latest in diagnostic equipment and excellent practitioners but still rank so poorly as a developed nation?

 What is Japan doing differently?  [Read more…] about From My Heart- September, 2009