Articles By Mary Desaulniers

We focus a great deal on what to eat, when to eat and how to eat. But do you know that eating with someone is just as important for your health? In our fast-paced, hectic world, families are finding fewer moments for meals together and they are missing out on an opportunity to feed the body both physically and emotionally.

In the face of far too many television commercials harping on drugs to control cholesterol level, reading the Good Doctor is like getting a breath of fresh air because of his recommendation that common foods can lower cholesterol.

If I have to pinpoint the most important resolution to make for the New Year, it would be this--finding ways to de-clutter my life. Stress as we know it does not only come in the form of mental anguish. Much of it is experienced through the clutter we have in our daily lives: unnecessary commitments that are standing in the way of doing what we really want to do.

Folk wisdom has always singled out fruits and vegetables as being indispensable for health, but it has only been within the last thirty years that we know why. Science and technology have isolated compounds in plants and vegetables that have literally been our life-savers. These are phytonutrients.Which fruits and vegetables provide the highest sources of phytonutrients?

The whole question of dieting or not dieting is inseparable from us, women, because of our ambivalent relationship with our bodies--we love it and we hate it. The authors of three books on the market explore this issue of body acceptance and provide suggestions on how women can re-think their relationships with their bodies.

You've heard it many times--laughter is the best medicine. And people all over the world are experiencing the healing effects of laughter through laughter yoga, the brainchild of Dr. Madan Kataria from Mumbai. Just what exactly is laughter yoga and what are its benefits?

Why is color important for our health? The fact that colors have psychological significance and that meditating on them can heal old, emotional wounds is the basis of Dr. John Diamond's breakthrough in Meditative therapy--the Diamond Color Meditation.

This article profiles Sharlene Mclearon, a Blue Matrix Practitioner. The Blue Matrix Energetics is a powerful system of connecting to the Universal Energy Source that comes from an understanding of the body's innate wisdom.

Dieting can be an eating disorder as serious as binge eating. Given the impact of body image on women's consciousness, it is not surprising that eating disorder is becoming a critical problem in our age of affluence.

We have a population in North America that is more than 55% overweight. More than 20% of those overweight are considered obese, a situation that can be dire for our Health Care System because obesity is a risk factor for heart disease.

The effect of teen marketing and media images on our teenage population cannot be overstated. It is not surprising then that teenagers of both genders have distorted body images that often lead to unhealthy behaviors.

For more than fifteen years, the morning pages have been my daily writing help, the friend that coaxed me out of fear and inertia about putting words on paper and like the Nike slogan, urged me to "Just Do It!"

Can someone with dementia or Alzheimer's have an unconscious or subconscious awareness that his memory, his identity or sense of self has been lost in the shuffle? Does memory loss mean a total erasure of self?

New research tells us that "harmless" senior moments are actually symptoms of Alzhemier's. However, there are steps we can take to circumvent this debilitating disease.

Bra fit is just one aspect of getting the right bra. We must consider need as well. No more is this more evident than in the relationship between form and function in bras.