The Telomere Effect – Book Corner

Jan 26, 2018

The Telomere Effect: a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD and Elissa Epel, PhD, Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2017.  398pp. ISBN 9781455587988.  $17.99 The Telomere Effect: a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel, gives us the science that connects our thoughts and behaviors to the lengthening or shortening of our healthspan.  “Aging is defined as the cell’s progressive functional impairment and reduced capacity to respond appropriately to environmental

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Health Food Paradox – Book Corner

Sep 26, 2017

The old joke is that the difference between those who eat meat, and vegetarians is that vegetarians eat foods that can’t run away. While plants don’t run away, they do protect themselves by making plant toxins designed to kill or immobilize and insect. These same toxins or lectins eaten in our “healthy diet”, over time, make us sick and tired. It turns out that the ability of lectins to mimic other proteins in our body and confuse the body’s systems

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Grieving Mindfully – Book Corner

Aug 31, 2017

There were many ways of breaking a heart…but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream may be.    ~Pearl S. Buck With apologies to Sameet Kumar, author of the book, Grieving Mindfully, I am reminded that all  those affected by  Hurricane Harvey devastation in Texas, now spreading to Louisiana, are not only grieving deaths of loved ones; they also grieve myriad losses, possessions,  displacement, emotional losses including loss of dreams. The emotional and spiritual

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