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What Does Cortisol Have To Do With Weight Loss?78

What Does Cortisol Have To Do With Weight Loss?

There has been a lot of information about the hormone sometimes called the ‘fight or flight’ hormone. This hormone, cortisol, is one thing that makes it difficult to lose weight. Perhaps for that very reason there has been so much emphasis...

4 comments    weight management cortisol
Do You Need a Gym Membership?57

Do You Need a Gym Membership?

Look at all that beautiful, shiny equipment just waiting for you to use it and transform your body into a rendition that would make Adonis jealous! Listen to all those undertones of music through headphones, television sets overhead, grunts and...

0 comments    exercise workouts gym membership
Legionnaires' Disease. What Is It?76

Legionnaires' Disease. What Is It?

I was a brand new RN when this outbreak occurred. In 1976 in Philadelphia at the American Legion Convention of all places. It is actually a severe pneumonia..and a bacterial one (much worse than the viral type). The actual bacterium is...

6 comments    bacterial pneumonia
So Mad I Could I Don't Know WHAT!74

So Mad I Could I Don't Know WHAT!

I think I have calmed down a little... The things I write are not going to win me a Pulitzer What I write gives me joy and peace Seeing them on Hub Pages means I have reached a level of professionalism with my work It shows...

22 comments    heartbreak plagiarism
Do We Live and Live Forever?66

Do We Live and Live Forever?

I couldn't resist this question. It is an ancient question; one everyone has thought of, discussed and wondered about since time began. What does that mean you ask? Well...let's start with free will. I will even start a second line of thought and...

6 comments    love free will higher being
Roger's Journey of Survival and Despair71

Roger's Journey of Survival and Despair

The man and woman looked into each other’s eyes; the woman tilted her head to the left, the man to his right. The woman sighed, her chest nearly heaving. The man dropped his shoulders in defeat. “I will go tonight.” His voice broke on the...

10 comments    short story hunger
The Long Bike Ride Past the Mountain Creek66

The Long Bike Ride Past the Mountain Creek

Cinthia knew all the stories about the top of the mountain. She and several of her friends even went camping at the pass one weekend and told stories that night then went hiking all over that pass the next day. Nothing out of the ordinary and...

11 comments    mythical creatures
Is Learning to Read Music Really That Difficult?68

Is Learning to Read Music Really That Difficult?

I was trying to remember how I learned to read music the other day. Sitting at my keyboard, I looked at the notes on the page and thought what is about the written form of music that I love? And did that love come on its own or was it thrust upon me...

7 comments    putting it together
Is There Something in That House?60

Is There Something in That House?

Carly was having a wonderful morning. The weather was perfect for January in the desert, which meant there was no wind and the sun was warm and bright. She was riding her cruiser her Harley bell tinkling on the handlebars, she had already seen a...

13 comments    ouija board years later
Do You Love Rocks and Stones and Pretty Gems?68

Do You Love Rocks and Stones and Pretty Gems?

I arrived for the first time in my beloved desert town in February of 1979. I was…well, a bit younger than I am today. Just being able to look around and above me at the desert and the mountains continues to make my heart holler out with joy. It...

4 comments    tucson gem show
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