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Is Your Diet Sabotaging Your Wallet? Or, Worse – Your Health?
Is Your Diet Sabotaging Your Wallet? Or, Worse –...
Americans spend a whopping 40 billion dollars each year on weight loss programs. And 97% of these people will gain back everything they have lost – if not more.
Feb 9, 2012
By Alan Freishtat
Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Exercise?: Learning to Run on High
Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Exercise?: Learning...
Reconciling the soul-body split.
Feb 2, 2012
By Pesach Sommer
When Less is More: What Chanukah Taught Me About Good Health
When Less is More: What Chanukah Taught Me About...
Fewer menorahs in my home reminded me that there were more menorahs elsewhere - in the homes of my children and grandchildren. Less here was more, as I realized it often...
Dec 28, 2011
By Alan Freishtat
Exercise and Your Mental Health – Part IV
Exercise and Your Mental Health – Part IV
With or without complementary medication, exercise is an effective tool in treating mental illness.
Nov 30, 2011
By Alan Freishtat
Exercise Your Body to Shape Up Your Mind
Exercise Your Body to Shape Up Your Mind
You'd be surprised how much that 30-minute jog does for your mental health.
Oct 30, 2011
By Dr. Michael Bunzel & Alan Freishtat
10 Steps to Living a Longer – and Better – Life
10 Steps to Living a Longer – and Better...
Spend time with friends and play more Sudoku? Those sound like lifestyle changes we can handle.
Sep 13, 2011
By Alan Freishtat
The Frum Celiac (Finally!)
The Frum Celiac (Finally!)
It's tough to have celiac disease. But it's tougher to have it alone.
Aug 31, 2011
By Moshe Zahler
Affliction from Within: Celiac Disease in the Jewish Community
Affliction from Within: Celiac Disease in the Jewish Community
Part one in a two part series. Next week’s feature article will include The Kosher Celiac, Safety in the Kitchen, Cooking Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free Recipes and additional useful websites Please note: Shira...
May 18, 2011
By Shira Galston
A Story of Hope
A Story of Hope
At fourteen, I was drawn to a small group of older students in my yeshiva. They were clearly the “in crowd” and didn’t sweat the small stuff; small meaning homework, tests,...
Mar 16, 2011
By David A.
Eating Disorder and Orthodoxy
Eating Disorder and Orthodoxy
The higher-than-average incidence of these disorders in the Orthodox community calls for action.
Dec 27, 2010
By Kate Bigam

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