tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75097254008644900322012-01-31T23:08:00.055-06:00Offering of some musings and pieces of information related to the art and science of Health, wellness and longevity...Prachi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08660332866462363165noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509725400864490032.post-87597641457093605332012-01-31T23:02:00.003-06:002012-01-31T23:08:00.195-06:00

Prachi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08660332866462363165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509725400864490032.post-78082571733350349042011-03-01T08:42:00.001-06:002011-03-01T08:42:00.603-06:00

We all come across the word GMO's in the news nowadays, and how health-oriented communities are trying to fight them back.GMO Warning appeal.......EVERYONE all over the continents read up....so you know what you are being fed in your food for the last 10 yrs....and, it NOT good and Kosher!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTfuAbzAeB8more information onhttp://www.panacea-bocaf.org/

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Finally, modern scientists accept the Yogic teachings of Breathing/Pranayama , and they will SELL it too, at $ 300 a machine...all US hypertensives, get prescriptions from your docs to buy thru ur Health benefit account, better still , learn it free at Yoga/yoga nidra classes ;))RESPeRATE: Nonpharmacological Treatment of Hyperte... [Cardiol Rev. 2011 Mar-Apr] - PubMed result

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Eating veggies and fruits, 5-10 helpings a day, keeps a man healthy, wealthy and wisehttp://www.mypyramid.gov/index.html

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Caloric Restriction Delays Disease Onset and Mortality in Rhesus MonkeysCaloric restriction (CR), without malnutrition, delays aging and extends life span in diverse species; however, its effect on resistance to illness and mortality in primates has not been clearly established. We report findings of a 20-year longitudinal adult-onset CR study in rhesus monkeys aimed at filling this critical gap

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The Sabbatical was not totally intentional, but lot of changes happened in the internal/external world....new home, new job, new location, new friends, new relatives, new contemplations, new lessons.....In the end everything is for a higher purpose......so I surrendered completely and hope to maintain that equanimity....though it is not easy ;)will be more active now since I am back in action....

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Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous Deepavali.May the light of love, compassion, truth and knowledge dispel the darkness, misery and ignorance from our lives.सभी को दिवाली की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें

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You can buy a fruit or a veggie from any market, but always pay attention to the produce codes on the labels. FOUR DIGIT NUMBERS (they all begin with 3 or 4) denote conventionally grown, non-GMO produce (that is, grown with chemical pesticides and fertilizers but not genetically modified)FIVE DIGITS BEGINNING WITH AN 8 means the produce is GMO, genetically modifiedFIVE DIGITS BEGINNING WITH A 9

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wishing everyone a beautiful and blissful Guru-Purnima :)Let us bow in devotion to the supreme remover of darkness from our life.....

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A wonderful pre-meditative/relaxation technique adapted from http://www.swamij.com; as taught by Swami Rama from the Himalayan Masters traditions.61-Points ExerciseThe 61-Points exercise is subtler than the Tension/Release or Complete Relaxation practices (61-points is online). You will find that this leads you to a deeper state of calm and quiet.As you go through the points, you may experience

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"Yesterday I was clever. So I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. So I am changing myself.”

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Fibrocystic breast disease is a condition of breast tissue affecting an estimated 30-60% of women. It is characterized by noncancerous lumps in the breast which can sometimes cause discomfort, often periodically related to hormonal influences from the menstrual cycle.These lumps are smooth with defined edges, and are usually free-moving in regard to adjacent structures. Women with fibrocystic

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This is amazing 3D panoramic photos....just like real lifeGanges Sunrise Boatrideview Panoramic photography of India

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....or whatever colour you want it to be......so go ahead, submerge in your being and experience it's beauty..

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Couple of years back, I got to know an extremely interesting person who was sharing the same row enroute on one of my India trips. We got chatting, and he started telling me about the unusual changes he had made in his life, and the exiting travels, including one he was embarking on at that moment.We kept in touch, and I got to know more about him through emails and reading his blogs....they are

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The MUM Review, 6.Feb. 2002, by Brynne SissomDr. Travis asked his test subjects to read passages from the Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit and in modern foreign languages (Spanish, French, or German). In each case they could pronounce the sounds but did not know the meaning. He measured brain wave patterns (ERG), heart and breath rate, and galvanic skin resistance during two reading sessions and during

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it's good for the universe in every which -ever way!http://www.change.org/ideas/view/vegan_school_lunch_options.

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Wishing every being in the universe a life full of joy, love, peace and Bliss !दुनिया के सारे जीवों को नव वर्ष की शुभ कामनायेंसबका जीवन शान्ति , खुशी व प्रेम से भरपूर हो! .

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'It is never too late to be what you might have been'George Eliot

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"It Is Necessary To Ask Questions That Have No Answers" --J. Krishnamurthy."ऐसे प्रश्न पूछें जिन का कोई उत्तर नहीं हो "--कृष्णमूर्ती .

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A good friend (a monk from Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh) was kind enough to share this beautiful thought with me....and I pass it on for everyone to benefit....A thought ripple manifested - I share with You.....Time is the best Chronicler of Events. It's our actions in the past, which becomes instrumental in helping the world adjudge us, as the Best, the Better, the Good or yet still the Unwanted.

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"Instead of thinking we are born to die, why don't we assure ourselves that we are born to become immortal?"..so said Vallalar, the saint of South India, that supposedly attained the Golden Body of Light (not the physical death). This State has been mentioned in the Rg Veda and, notably, the Taittreya Upanishad and aptly supported by Sri Aurobindo.

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Since Honey is warming to the body, it is excellent to take throughout the cold season.Mixed with different herbs and spices like ginger, tulsi, black pepper, long pepper etc, it wards off the common colds due to excess Kapha accumulation in the body.Despite being sweet in taste, the overall effect of honey is primarily due to it's astringent properties, thereby reducing heaviness/mucus from the

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My Dear Husband does a lot of heavy reading, and happily likes to discuss things which he finds worth contemplating on!He saves me a lot of reading hours by giving me a gist of his learnings:Here is one such lesson, hope you will enjoy it as much as I did:)Ashtavkra Gita : Chapter X1 : SELF AS PURE INTELLIGENCEI.He who has understood with certitude (nishchaya) that change in the form of

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Every day, for the next few days, a new photo will be revealed here from the amazing Hubble Space Telescope.http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/hubble_space_telescope_advent.html.

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There has been increasing awareness regd. the use of CAM in the USA.the irony of the situation is that what we call CAM here (Complimentary and Alternative medicine) is actually the Traditional mainline medicinal healing systems of some civilizations, e.g Indian, Chinese, native american, African, Inca/Mayan and so on....; tested and tried for thousands of years with much benefits and little/no

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http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Garodia,P.

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An interesting writeup about the common foundations of Ayurveda & Yoga in this article. (Article was published in Punarnava Ayurveda's Rishikesh Conference Souvenir) and is available for free download through their website at:http://punarnava-ayurveda.com/article_det.asp?artid=38&act=free.

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I see God walking in every human form. When I meet different people, I say to myself, "God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."- Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa (1836-1886)Let us also try to maintain the awareness of the presence of God in every being!"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest

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Conditions In Which Meditation Has Been shown to be beneficial: The list is NOT all inclusive.Anxiety (Kabat-Zinn & Massion, 1992; Miller et al., 1995)Asthma (Wilson, Hansberger, Chin, & Novey, 1975)Carotid atherosclerosis (Castillo-Richmond et al., 2000)Cancer (Carlson et al, 2004; Speca et al, 2000 )Chronic pain (Kabat-Zinn & Massion, 1982; Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth & Burney, 1985)Coronary artery

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....everything else just 'changes'I have been pondering over this thought over the last few days a lot.......observing things both outside; and the thoughts and the emotions produced inside due to them:)BTW, The 'self' alone is not changing...It is part of Sat-chit-ananda....the timeless, blissful conciousness....that is what is constantly observing the whole play of changes, and registering them

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We were dining out with friends, when one of them raised the discussion about the vegetarian diet and pros/cons.....definitely the pros list was way ahead of the cons, but there are a couple of things to be careful about being a veg*n (vegetarian/vegan)Vitamin B12.The main source of this vitamin in most diets is red meat, organ meats, eggs and milk and milk products like yoghurt. Small quantities

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a trailer to show how processed our food ( and finally we) have become....http://www.processedpeople.com/trailer.htm

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It is amazing how stealthily the GMO's (genetically modified organisms/products) have taken over the market....90% on the corn and soy products available in the market are GMO'S. The major gmo producing companies like Monsanto have destroyed the native vegetation and genes, invaded into the human gene, and in my viewpoint this is definitely a cause of all the modern day malaises of chronic

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A team of American researchers examined whether drinking whole cows' milk with the herb can increase the body's white blood cells, which can boost immunity.Despite positive results, they still want to get MORE research done before recommending it openly....remember, there are no pharma lobbies backing this up, so might be slow in coming up :)http://www.supplementinfo.org/index.php?src=news&

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Thousands of Families Sue Over Vaccine Link to Autism (finally the vaccine industry is being shaken up!)read in detail at:http://www.naturalnews.com/z024322.html.

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There have been enough studies proving the benefits of Yoga and meditations in the recent past: More than 1,000 studies have been conducted to determine whether yoga helps people suffering diseases. Here's a sample from the medical literature:Depression Patients diagnosed with depression showed significant reductions in anger, anxiety and neurotic symptoms after completing yoga classes,

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मेरे ब्लागस्पाट मैं आप सबका बहुत स्वागत है !आशा करती हूँ कि आप लोगों को यह सब पढनें मैं मजा आएगाकुछ अच्छा लगे तो बत्ताइयेगा.....मेरा हौसला बढेगा :)Welcome to my blogspot......I offer some of my musings and informations pieces, hope you will like them....please feel free to give me feedback :)

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