Fashion genius and yoga devotee, Donna Karan, has just donated $850,000 to Beth Israel Medical Center in New York to test how yoga can help individuals undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
In 2001, Karan lost her own husband and business partner to lung cancer. From his death, she created the Urban Zen Foundation, a patient-advocacy organization [...]
In the US, over a third of the population are considered not just overweight but obese. Many people think the answer is to go on a diet – but it’s not that simple. Report after report suggests that dieting just doesn’t work: when people diet to lose weight, they commonly put it back on (and [...]
The credit crunch, the woes of the housing market, the crash of the stock market…. These are certainly exciting, yet hard times we’re living in.
As families work harder to make ends meet and as others face the possibility of losing their jobs because of this economic downturn, it doesn’t help things to know that food [...]