Suryanamaskar - a step towards a beautiful you {Health}

Suryanamaskar is a yoga technique done in the morning as a worship of sun god. It is a collection of 12 postures which flow from one to another. It provides all the benefits which yoga provides to the body.  Practice 10 rounds of the exercise early...

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Don't hit me!

Used to be if you claimed that you got cancer because you were hit there (wherever on the body there was), people would scoff. Now researchers are looking into the possibility that a blow or wound could lead to cancer, and paying special attention to...

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Aloevera for Hair: a quickfix {DIY}

A quick fix to make your hair beautiful and style it in a short time is to apply Aloevera gel. Take a little of Aloevera according to your hair length in the palms and apply it to the hair. Massage some of it into the scalp and apply the rest on the...

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Routine Hair Care {Hair Care}

Hair is one of the first thing which gets noticed when you meet a person. It can create or destroy one's personality. It can make a plain person beautiful. But, one needs to take care of their beautiful locks if they want to keep it in good condition...

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Exercises for Healthy and Beautiful Eyes {Eye Care}

Hi all!!!Hope you are all enjoying your vacation. Well, today I have something really useful to tell you all. Its about cleaning the eyes. We all know the importance of keeping our eyes dust-free and giving them time to relax. Morning eye exercises are...

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Do we apply the face masks correctly? {DIY}

Hi All!!!!!So, how are the preparation for festivities going on????? Hope you are all having a gala time........Today, I wanted to talk about the face masks. Every lady uses face masks to rejuvenate her skin but do we all apply it correctly? Are there...

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Keeping skin flawless and beautiful for the festive times {Skin Care}

Everyone is busy in Christmas and New Year preparations. So, how to prepare to look good in the celebrations. Follow the following tips and enjoy the holidays:Drink adequate amount of water, no matter what. People tend to drink less water in winters...

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Living While Black/O, the Tribune

[Is this breast black or white?]For a while, there's been the term DWB--Driving While Black--African-American drivers report being pulled over for this offense. Now we're finding out (again) that it's dangerous to be LWB, especially in Chicago. Today's...

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Soyoyoy

Soy has been another one of those things--unclear whether it's bane or boon to women whose tumors feed on estrogen. The reason is that soy has estrogenic properties. Thus, Dr. Keith Block, who practices integrative medicine, advises women with estrogen-positive...

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Oil Cleansing Method {DIY}

Hey All!!!Good to post again. A few days ago I had talked about OIL CLEANSING. Well, let me introduce to you something which I stumbled across a few days ago. I tried it and trust me, its amazing. I do not know how well it removes make up but it makes...

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How do you solve a problem like tamoxifen?

I take it and don't think about the side effects very often because I can't bear to. The oncologist said to take it so I take it. I know there's a chance of developing endometrial cancer, so I get checked out by the Smooth Gynecologist Who's Younger...

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Green Tea Beauty Uses {DIY}

HiWe all are, by now, aware of the benefits of drinking Green Tea everyday thanks to the marketing of its benefits done so aggressively by everyone from cosmetics to health care professionals.It can provide you with abundant anti-oxidants to slow down...

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Growing Long Eyelashes {DIY}

HiWell, growing long eyelashes seem to be too difficult. Everyone wants beautiful eyes framed with long and lush eyelashes. Such eyelashes are not a natural gift to everyone but you need not despair. Some patience and regularity in your routine can help...

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Welcome to my blog!!!

Hey All!!!I just wanted to post my first blog saying I hope I keep on my resolution to keep blogging. I find it interesting to read others posts and tried on blogging earlier but due to work pressure, discontinued in the middle and it has been a year...

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Ducks in a Barrel

OK, it's not fair to attack the Tribune twice in a row--it's too easy, but I had to point this out. An editor was sleeping when working on an astute review of Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals. The lede is: Looking forward to your turkey dinner?...

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All solutions are individual.

That's what I learned from reading the Chicago Tribune today, specifically, a little wrap-around page touting itself. But wasn't it preaching to the choir? It should be boasting to people who don't have the newspaper in their hands.First problem: A pizza...

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...and now Pap smears...

["Curiouser and curiouser."]Holy Toledo! Now we don't need Pap smears as often. Have we been (the equivalent) of navel-gazing in the past, getting ourselves checked out too often? Our society is paranoid about cancer. Screenings make us feel like we're...

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Who will watch the store now that he is gone?

Dr. Jan Vandersloot.....was our personal hero! He marched across difficult terrain, when going another way may have been easier. He applied himself each day with a renewed fervor.....a renewal of spirit that was infectious. He wanted to make people aware...

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In Memoriam Jan Vandersloot, MD

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9No one exemplified these words better than Jan Vandersloot, medical doctor, environmentalist, and family man. He was generous with his time and his...

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Everything They Told Us Is Wrong...

...or at least it seems so. Now they say that self-exams aren't necessary and that you don't need a mammogram until age 40. I'll have more about this. In the meantime, you can read the study and recommendations here.If you found your cancer via under-40...

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Siapa Pemenang Kontes Cinta Pandeglang

Tidak aneh kalau kita menebak nama pancallok.blogspot.com dalam beberapa hari kedepan akan menjadi pemenang dalam kontes cinta pandeglang yang sudah hampir menghabiskan masa putarannya. Hampir sepanjang perjalanan kontes Kenali dan Kunjungi Objek Wisata...

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Wow! I Told You So???

It's not too often when a highly respected "member" of the community agrees with a very small, yet very vocal, part of the community.For years now, residents of West Newport Beach and the Balboa Peninsula have been complaining about, and opening their...

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Halloween Massacre at China Cove

Bet you thought that title was some kind of joke. Unfortunately not.Akin to what occurred in West Newport when some reprobates decided to bulldoze the dunes, someone has hacked away a fair amount of vegetation at China Cove, including native plants...

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Horrors! Woman touches own breasts on TV!

{Sorry--I couldn't figure out technically how to capture a still of the woman examining her breasts. It is much less sexy than this stock picture from photosearch.com. }It took a while, but I finally found the un-blurred video from the ABC News local...

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Breast Cancer Drove Her to This

[Imagine a red slash through the smiley face]The pinkness and cheeriness of the breast cancer industry made Barbara Ehrenreich note the pervasiveness of exhortations to be positive. This is from Saturday's New York Times, by Patricia Cohen:.....In “Bright-sided,”...

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Self-conscious Narrators

L took the picture of me above and it didn't seem to look like me. It reminded me of young Leonard Michaels (1933-2003), whom I talked about in class on Thursday. He was known for reading student stories aloud and then stopping when they ceased to hold...

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The Need for Health Insurance

At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without universal health insurance.Health insurance is like elementary education. To function properly, it must be universal and to be universal, it...

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Seo : Mudah atau Susah?

Perjalanan kontes seo Kenali dan Kunjungi Objek Wisata di Pandeglang telah memasuki akhir dari bulan kedua. Silih berganti para peserta masuk dan keluar dari halaman pertama, hanya beberapa posisi teratas saja yang perubahaanya tidak terlalu banyak dan...

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Maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe I'm wrong about the reason the original oncologist didn't give me Cytoxan. Maybe there was another reason, which I forgot in my chemo-brain-ness. But I must have been wrong for two years. In June 2007 I wrote: L reminded me that I'm not taking...

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Please vote.

Dear Cancer Bitch readers,I will relate a scenario to you and I'd like you to vote on my response.Today I went to a town hall sponsored by Fancy Hospital. My oncologists (past and present) were there, as well as my surgeon, and they all spoke and the...

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Neighborly

D called at noon when I was finishing up my morning sun salutations and we decided to meet for lunch at 12:30. I rushed out and got into L's car because it was closest to Clark Street and would get to Ben's Noodles faster. I'd gone about 20 feet when...

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Where's your wife?

Cancer Bitch recommends that you do not ask this question. She has asked it twice in the last 2 years and it was awkward in the first case. So why did she ask it again? She is a slow learner.In spring or summer of 2007, she greeted one of her husband's...

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The Passive Cancer Patient

She said, Did you ask your oncologist what she thought about the calcifications?I said, No, I forgot. Then I thought better of it and thought maybe I had asked. I said, I think I did. I keep forgetting about it.She said, It seems you either are at zero,...

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