Category: Wellness
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Maternal Instinct
This mother left her toddler alone for ten days and came back to find her dead. Why?
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Deadly Gluttony
The double-edged sword of advanced technology has reduced our need for strenuous physical exertion — backhoes versus laborers’ shovels, television and gaming devices versus neighborhood basketball or softball games — but has made us soft.
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Simple Self-Control
“It’s so hard avoiding sugar,” she says to her friend. “It’s in everything these days.” I think she means for me to hear her excuse loud and clear. She studies my array of produce and remarks, “I can see you’re doing the right thing. You must be healthy. But it’s so hard to be good during…
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Double Cheeseburger
Trappist monks are remarkably long-lived and free of disease. Their abstemious fare, along with prayer, exercise, and fresh air, lengthens their lives through avoidance of chronic disease. In history many great epidemics and plagues that ravaged the neighboring countryside were stopped at the gates of an abbey (see A Popular History of the Catholic Church…
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 