Theanine is a rarely talked about amino acid that offers unique benefits.  It is very safe to supplement with. 

If anxiety and stress trouble you, or if you occasionally need some help sleeping, you’ll want to know about theanine.

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Theanine – An Amino Acid to Help You Handle Stress and Relax Enough to Sleep

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I like apples.  That’s no surprise since most people do.  On average, each American eats 17 pounds of apples a year.  Recently, I’ve been trying to increase my personal consumption to at least the proverbial “apple a day”.

An old Welch proverb ( “An apple on going to bed makes the doctor beg for his bread”)  preceded our “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”.  Mounting research supports these old statements. Continue Reading »
Apples for Health, Fitness and Even Less Cancer

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Demanding perfection often destroys good.  It certainly keeps a lot of folks from succeeding with an exercise program.

Somehow, most people have gotten the idea that a workout needs to be to be at least 20 – 30 minutes long, preferably 45 – 90 minutes, to do any good.  If they can’t get at least that much time in, they don’t bother at all.

That’s a big mistake.  Instead of a perfect workout, the result is no workout at all.

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Any Workout Is a Good Workout

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We all need help sometimes to understand or communicate complex ideas.  There are lots of tools we can use to do that, and metaphors are among the most powerful.  A metaphor indirectly compares one thing to another, implying that they share similar characteristics.  To the extent the comparison is valid, it can help us understand the newly introduced concept.

Metaphors also affect our way of looking at a situation – once we define a comparison, we tend to think in those terms.  This can either serve us or hurt us.

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Metaphors For Personal Power

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