Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Before the great recession, around 2005, I was recently divorced and working on figuring out my retirement plans. I was meeting with my bank pals, Stan and John. During the process I was asked “How far out do you want to plan?”. My answer was”Until I’m a hundred years old. I’m going to try to [...]

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Most people have experienced a time in their lives when sleep was problematic. Most of us have also known someone who has a serious sleep disorder. Poor sleep affects every part of our lives, psychological, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Having a family member who has battled sleep issues for most of his life without medication, [...]

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Are you just getting started in yoga? Or have you been practicing a long time and would like to practice some at home on your own? Do you have a little one you would like to share your yoga time with? Yoga Pretzels is a simple box of 50 durable and beautifully illustrated cards  designed [...]

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Some people confuse the practice of yoga for religion, or that it is somehow at odds with their own religion. I have never found a book more eloquent yet practical in illustrating the beauty and peace of yoga as a life philosophy. The book is entitled Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened [...]

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Did you know that one in four Americans has high blood pressure? It is estimated that only 70 percent of these individuals know that they have high blood pressure. To help increase awareness and to aid those who are working to lower their blood pressure, Dr. Chad Rhoden of the University of Mississippi Medical Center [...]

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The Anatomy of Stretching by Brad Walker North Atlantic Books (2007) Stretching is the process of placing particular parts of the body into a position that will lengthen the muscles and associated soft tissues. Over 20 years ago, during the first karate kid era, my son Austin wanted to take karate. As a Pop always [...]

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The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell, II You are what you eat. This is today’s topic. I am not a physician, not a nurse (even though I entered that course of study in trepidation and departed almost as quickly in greater trepidation. But I can practice what I preach [...]

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Early this year I got a report in the mail stating that my cholesterol was high.  That was it. Just a piece of paper with a note telling me to come back in three months. It was kind of depressing. I am only 35-years-old. So eventually I got over the depressing part and ran across [...]

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I don’t when it happened, but a few years ago I noticed that the number of calories cited under the Nutrition Facts on food packaging had changed. I remembered it being this: “Percentage Daily Values are based on a 1,500 [to 2,000] calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your [...]

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A Long Bright Future: The Very Good News about Living Longer by Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D. Broadway (August 2009) Today there are about 50,000 100-year-old folks in the USA. By 2050, when I’m a hundred I will likely have a million peers. Can “old age”  be a long life? How many of us will grow [...]

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