http://www.naturalnews.com/024461.html (Opens in a new window) Research is showing that younger and younger girls are having problems with body image. In the above article, it’s suggested that girls get a poor body image from their mothers.  Women who go on crash diets and focus entirely on losing weight or how fat they think they are, even the innocent or […]

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I had to laugh the other day.  First, I saw an open letter from someone in the Corn Refiners Association on the Food Consumer website Letter to the Editor from the Corn Refiners Association.  This person was nice enough to try to say that there is no difference betwen High Fructose Corn Syrup and other types of […]

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Hide the Doritos! Here comes HR With work running the Biggest Loser contest, I found this article very interesting.  My work does not offer free food very often, so there’s not a whole lot they’d be able to do.  However, there are a few things that I find ironic.  First of all, though I freely […]

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It’s been long enough since my last post that I really should post again. It’s also 11:30 and I really should go to sleep. Tomorrow’s Monday and… well we all know what they say about Mondays and back to work. Lately, I’ve been reading a lot about the possibility of a recession.  It’s odd because […]

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Ok, so it’s not too late after all. If you want more information about stopping the Mother’s act I talked about in one of my previous posts, go to http://www.wellnessresources.com/health_freedom.php   Personally, I’d prefer that we really test any of these so-called drugs before we let pregnant women take them. Everyone I know that has […]

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When I was pregnant with my daughter, my hormones were driving me crazy.  With the added stress of working overnights the whole time, I was very depressed.  I asked my doctor about going on an anti-depressant and I was told that there were not enough studies out there to prove that anti-depressants did not harm […]

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Work should get interesting in the next couple of months. I guess the Biggest Loser franchise is making a lot of money… I know the local gym has a Biggest Loser contest going on, and now we received an email from one of the corporate dietitians about one that they’re going to run through work. […]

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