by Dr. Mark Starr — Oprah Winfrey’s metabolism has been up and down — and up again. Adventures with the bathroom scale and swings in energy eventually got her focused on her thyroid. In her magazine, she wrote: “My body was turning on me. First [it was] hyperthyroidism, which sped up my metabolism and left […]
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Three tips to fire up your business intuition
March 5, 2012
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by Nathalie Ekobo — Using your intuition to guide you is not necessarily what you would first think of when creating a plan for your business. After all, this kind of knowingness is not taught in school. Business calls for logic, plan, structure and action — nothing to do with following a hunch or a […]
Welcome to the land of odd
March 1, 2012
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by Dr. Kenneth Muhich — In a recent U.C. Berkeley Wellness Letter (Volume 28, Issue 2, November 2011), the chair of the Editorial Board, John Swartzberg, M.D., went off on anyone and everyone in complementary and alternative medicine, including one of their own, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Suzanne Somers, a spokesperson against many of the unsafe […]
A drop in the ocean
February 26, 2012
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by Ada Porat — One reason we get intimidated by the process of living is that we think our part is not grand enough. After all, the movers and shakers featured in the media are usually big and powerful. We hear about philanthropists such as Bill Gates who has spent millions to find a cure […]
March 5, 2012
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