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In winter, the days are dark and people tend to spend a lot more time inside. Even those Central Oregonians who extol the virtues of the outdoors for everything from spiritual to physical health tend to spend more time indoors than they do in the summertime. I mean, most people aren’t eating a lot of […]
When setting out for a run, no matter the distance, many people turn to music as their companion. It gives the body adrenaline to keep pushing and even helps distract from the pain or the number of miles left ahead. When I run, I like to have a mix with a variety of genres and […]
Yes Bend, we know you’re pretty fit. So this Fit Week, we mined the local area for some out-of-the box sports and activities that might not already be on your radar. Check out those stories from our Feature section, as well as stories from elsewhere in the issue! Medicare For Us Medicare for all in […]
If you feel yourself coming down with a case of the winter blues, don’t worry, there are plenty of remedies that don’t require a trip to the pharmacy. Dr. Natasha Rudd, a naturopathic practitioner at Sage Health Center, shares some tips to help keep stresses away naturally. According to Rudd, stress is best managed through […]
Essential oils—the concentrated, extracted oils of plants—have long been used for medicinal purposes. In fact, modern medicine relies heavily on organic matter as a blueprint for medications. While essential oils are often used topically or for aromatherapy, some also ingest essential oils as an internal medicine. If essential oils will be making their way into […]
Most people are familiar with meditation in the broadest sense—quieting one’s mind through a particular discipline. The use of crystal bowls to create powerful sonic waves is less commonly known. But practitioners say it can be transformative. And it has history. Though crystal bowl meditation became popular in the healing community in the 1980s, the […]
Soylent is an ironic name for a food replacement company. Obviously the creator of the product has seen the film from 1973 called Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston. The movie takes place in a dystopian future where most of humanity survives by eating processed foods including Soylent Green, made from super fresh human corpses. Bob […]
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