Month: May 2014

Wonder doesn't disappear on its own. We let it go. And we don't have to. In fact, our creativity, imagination and well-being thrive on a degree of being delighted, amused and in awe of the world around us.

The stress and strain of constantly being connected can sometimes take your life — and your well-being — off course. GPS For The Soul can help you find your way back to balance. GPS Guides are our way of showing you what has relieved others' stress in the hopes that you will be able to identify solutions that work for you. We all have de-stressing "secret weapons" that we pull out in times of tension or anxiety, whether they be photos that relax us or make us smile, songs that bring us back to our heart, quotes or poems that

When someone you love is sick, it's like you're sick. My family suffered through my illness perhaps worse than I did. Now that I know this — I realize that I have a responsibility primarily to my patient but also to their family. Because in the end, everyone suffers together.

On the heels of research suggesting too much running could lead to an earlier death, two new studies say too much high-intensity exercise could lead to heart problems. The first, conducted by German researchers, followed more than 1,000 people mostly in their 60s, who had existing heart disease and had enrolled in an exercise program to prevent further heart health issues. As hypothesized, the least physically active people were at increased risk for heart problems and earlier death. …

Got a success story of your own? Send it to us at [email protected] and you could be featured in our I Lost Weight series! Name: Amanda Clay Age: 33 Height: 5'3" Before Weight: 250 pounds How I Gained It: I was diagnosed with a thyroid condition at 13, and from there I slowly started gaining weight. I was always a pretty active person, but my weight just kept going up. I see now all the mistakes I made when it came to food. I was on the run most of the time, so ordering out became really what I did.

By Taylor Wells, the founder and owner of Prana Power Yoga™ (with five studios in Massachusetts and New York), author of Create the Best Life Ever and a United Nations Yoga Peace Ambassador. Are you flexible? I don't mean, “Can you touch your toes?” Because honestly that's not important to me. When it comes to yoga, it doesn't matter if you're “flexible.” That's a myth. What matters is that you show up. And breathe. And do your best with breath. With a clear intention. Allow me to explain. I believe that emotional, mental, and spiritual flexibility are virtuous and

Reckitt Benckiser Group’s pharmaceuticals unit will develop and sell XenoPort Inc’s drug to treat alcohol use disorders, the companies said on Thursday. Under the terms of the exclusive global licensing deal, XenoPort is entitled to $20 million up front, followed by another $5 million upon the transfer of certain technology and materials and aggregate payments of up to $70 million upon Reckitt’s achievement of development and regulatory milestones, and $50 million for commercial milestones.

When it comes to cereal choices for kids, we might as well be feeding them dessert. The Environmental Working Group, a public health nonprofit organization, reviewed the nutrition labels of more than 1,500 cereals, including 181 marketed to kids. Cereals with cartoon characters on the box were found to have the most added sugar. In fact, two thirds of the products analyzed by the EWG contained more than a third of the sugar kids should consume in an entire day in just one serving. The average serving packed about as much sugar as three Chips Ahoy! cookies, according to the

A healthy weight-watcher's diet should have fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy … Food experts say healthy eating is about balance.

Honey bees, crucial in the pollination of many U.S. crops, are still dying off at an worrisome rate, even though fewer were lost over the past winter, according to a government report issued on Thursday. Total losses of managed honey bee colonies was 23.2 percent nationwide for the 2013-2014 winter, according to the annual report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the \"Bee Informed Partnership,\" a group of honeybee industry participants.

By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Pfizer's potential takeover of AstraZeneca poses a threat to British science unless the U.S. drugmaker can give more concrete, enforceable guarantees on jobs and investment, politicians scrutinizing the deal said on Thursday. London-based AstraZeneca has rejected a $106 billion offer from Pfizer and expressed concern that Pfizer would shut down important research to save costs should the two merge. But it has also said it would have to consider an offer if the price was right, and Pfizer has said it could up its offer. Over two days of parliamentary questioning, Pfizer Chief Executive Ian Read defended his five-year commitment to complete AstraZeneca's research center in Cambridge, retain a factory in the northwestern English town of Macclesfield and put a fifth of its research staff in Britain if the deal goes ahead.