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CARBOHYDRATES
With all the pressures and misinformation regarding low-carb diets, here’s the truth regarding the consumption of carbohydrates:
1) Carbohydrates provide glucose for the brain and energy for working muscles.
2) You should get 45 to 65 percent of your daily calories from carbohydrates.
3) You should...
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Sheena Iyengar’s TED.com speech on The Art of Choosing:
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Life is a jest;
Take the delight of it.
Laughter is best;
Sing through the night of it.
Swiftly the tear
And the hurt and the ache of it
Find us down here;
Life must be what we make of it.
Life is a song;
Dance to the thrill of it.
Grief’s hours are long,
And cold is the chill of it.
Joy is man’s need;
Let us...
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The 5th precept of the Noble Eightfold Path surrounds the way we choose to use our talents and select professions. It states that we should earn our livings legally and peacefully.
This means that we should conduct ourselves honestly, speak with kindness, honor the...
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The forth tenant of the Nobel Eightfold Path is Right Action. Right action covers a wide range of activities and behaviors.
Buddha breaks Right Action down as follows:
1. One should not harm others and abstain from taking the life of a sentient being, including suicide.
2. To abstain from taking what is not given which...
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Right speech may be one of the hardest tenants of the Noble Eightfold Path to follow. It is one that I find challenging at every turn!
Buddha laid out the following guidelines for Right Speech:
1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies and...
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If
By Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated,...
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Right View, as taught in Buddhism, is the beginning and the end of the Noble Eightfold Path. It challenges you and me to look at life as boldly as possible – seeking out the truth of in all matters. It is also the realization that suffering is a part of this life....
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Jen Engevik
