In This Issue:

• Four Simple Steps to a Low-sodium Lifestyle
• Ten Skin Problems Of Pregnancy
• French Bead Flower Making - A Vintage Craft Is New Again
• Feng Shui Bedroom Basics for Teens
• Facial and Body Clay Masks -All You Ever Wanted to Know About Facial Clay Masks
• Recipe Box: Blueberry Gingerbread
• Recipe Box: Broccoli and Beef Strips Asian Style
• Reader's Tips: Party Ice Cubes 

Four Simple Steps to a Low-sodium Lifestyle

Implementing a low-sodium diet is a challenge because sodium is everywhere. The typical American eats a high number of processed foods such as frozen dinners, boxed noodle and rice dishes, canned soups and canned vegetables, all of which are very high in sodium. So, even if you do not add salt while cooking or use a salt shaker at the table, you are probably eating too much.

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Ten Skin Problems of Pregnancy

Pregnancy brings with it many changes, emotionally, physically, and mentally. From a mental and emotional standpoint, you're preparing to adopt a new role of parent, with all its accompanying responsibilities. Physically, of course, you're dealing with changes in the shape, function, and movement of your body. While we have a society-wide belief that pregnant women are always glowing, that, unfortunately, is not always the case. No where is this more evident than in the skin problems of pregnancy.

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French Bead Flower Making - A Vintage Craft is New Again

What do Marie Antoinette, Madame Pompadour, Napoleon's Josephine, Princess Grace, Princess Caroline, Patricia Nixon and William Randolph Hearst have in common?  They all owned French Bead Flowers.  Where do these realistic glass-and-wire treasures come from?  Who first made them, and why?  How did the custom of funeral wreaths originate?  Find the answers and learn the surprising history of Bead Flowers, from medieval Europe to modern America and beyond.

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==========SHARED QUOTES==========

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."

~ Og Mandino

Shared by: Bert M.

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 ==========HARVEY MACKAY==========

• If You Want To Be Happy, Practice Compassion

==========RECIPE BOX==========

Something Different: Blueberry Gingerbread

Good Food, Good Health: Broccoli and Beef Strips Asian Style

Feng Shui Bedroom Basics for Teens

Feng shui is a wonderful way to create improvements in your life simply by aligning the items in your bedroom. These can include your bed, your desk or computer, even your stereo.

Properly aligned, you can expect to see improvements in your relationships, your studies, and your health. You might even find a new love as a result! Use these tips to get your room in harmonywith your life.

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Facial and Body Clay Masks - All You Ever Wanted to Know About Facial Clay Masks

Facial Clay Masks are part of a complete skin care regime and should be included at least twice a week in your daily skin care regime. There are however clays, and then there are high quality, premium cosmetic/beauty clays...

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==========PT FORUM & READERS QUESTIONS==========

Q: I need some help with my herb garden.

Do you remove herbs once they start flowering? My basil is flowering like crazy and I found that my flat leaf parlsey's leaves changed shaped once that started to flower too.

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==========NUTRITION WISE==========

Q: Is it true that early nutrition can influence a child's risk of asthma and allergies?

Q: What do you suggest when people undergoing cancer treatment start to dislike food they used to enjoy?

Q: Can the irises of our eyes signal nutritional deficiencies?

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/nutritionwise.html

Protect Your Smile with Smart Food and Drink Choices

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/nutritionnotes.html

==========DIRECT ANSWERS==========

Relationship experts, authors and columnists Wayne and Tamara Mitchell offer up common sense advice about life and relationships. 

• Hard Lessons

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=========READERS'  TIPS=========

Party Ice Cubes
by Marlys Thomsen

When I did big parties, I would make ice cubes out of some of the punch recipe and freeze in the sundae cups from McDonald's.  You can fill the cups fairly full and freeze.  They do not dilute the punch as ones made of water would.

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==========FEEDBACK==========

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~ Kelsey Provoost

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Ally McNeal, Rosemary Kurtz, Kathryn Weber,
Danny Siegenthaler, Bert M., Marlys Thomsen, Kelsey Provoost, AICR,
Harvey Mackay, Direct Answers.

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