Author Archives: Wayne Woodworth

Is Sleep Vital to Your Health?

Is sleep vital to your health? The short answer is absolutely yes! I have come across several articles recently talking about studies that have indicated how important it is to get enough quality sleep every night. Here are a few: … Continue reading

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Dr. Weil on Magnet Therapy

My wife showed me this article on the benefits of magnet therapy by Dr. Weil yesterday. He doesn’t really say much about it other than that there are some studies that show that magnets work, others that don’t, and some … Continue reading

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Are Trapped Emotions Causing Your Pain?

Have you heard of people having an emotional release during a massage or similar type of therapy? It is fairly common. A lot of times our emotions about an event can get trapped in our body. Over time, those emotions, … Continue reading

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Have You Tried Qigong?

I tried out Tai Chi ages ago and never really stuck with it. One reason was that I only had a video or books to learn it from and nothing other than my interest to get me to stick with … Continue reading

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Conservation – How to Make a Solar Home Work

Conservation is vital to make living in a solar home work. As I have said before, my wife and I intend to build a rammed earth solar home and we are looking for the right piece of property to build … Continue reading

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Starting Over On Our Land Search

My wife contacted a real estate agent on the piece of land near us that we were interested in. By the time they handed it around a few times in their office and decided to call about it someone else … Continue reading

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How to Find the Right Piece of Land for a Solar Home

As I said in my last post, my wife and I are going to build a rammed earth solar house this summer. Finding the right piece of land for this kind of project is very important because you need an … Continue reading

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Rammed Earth Solar House

This blog site has now been officially taken over as a journal for our latest adventure. My wife and I are going to build a rammed earth home. One company that builds this kind of home calls it an Earthship. … Continue reading

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How Much Stress To Your Body From Soft Drinks?

It takes 32 glasses of highly alkaline water to neutralize the acidity of one glass of cola. That should be enough to scare anyone away from carbonated soft drinks, but let me expand on it anyway. Even worse, a lot … Continue reading

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Your Personal Finances Directly Affect Your Wellness

I don’t think that most people realize how strongly their current financial situation and their worries about their financial future affect their physical wellness. Most problems in the body are stress responses, and there are a variety of stresses that … Continue reading

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Did You Get a Flu Shot?

Vaccines are one of the most popular ways for the big pharmaceutical companies to unload their drugs on us. Do you know where the word “vaccine” comes from? It comes from “vacca” the Latin word for cow. My wife found … Continue reading

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What are the Problems of a High Acid Diet?

As a society we have a very acidic diet and it causes us a lot of problems. Acidity in our bodies can be the cause of many of our most severe diseases, like some cancers, and make us more susceptible … Continue reading

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The Insanity in Nutritional Studies

Why perform nutritional studies on heavy smokers? My wife is going through a nutritional consultant program and was reading through some of the questions for her exam. One of the questions asked if increased beta-carotene can increase the risks of … Continue reading

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Are We Sick Because Our Food Is Sick?

My wife was watching an old episode of Dirty Jobs where the host, Mike Rowe, worked in an animal rendering plant. What they do is take animals, like cows, that die of natural causes on a farm and “recycle” it. … Continue reading

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Why Are Magnets Important to Your Health?

Did you know that we live on a giant magnet hurtling through space? It’s true. The Earth has a magnetic north and magnetic south pole and without them no compass would ever get a Boy Scout out of the woods. The … Continue reading

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