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Ingredients

1 lb. green beans, trimmed
1 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tsp. grated lemon zest
1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
1. Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add beans and return to boiling. Cook beans until crisp and tender, approximately 2 minutes.
2. Drain and rinse under very [...]

4 oz Safflower oil
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup celery, chopped
5 cups wild rice, cooked a day before and left out overnight (cook the rice with  5 cups of water and 5 cups bullion)
1/2 tsp. rubbed sage
1/2 tsp. thyme
1/4 tsp. savory
1/2 cup parsley, chopped
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup slivered almonds
Heat up the oil in a frying [...]

Whole Health Center is excited about our expansion into Lone Tree this October.  Here are some dates to remember:
October 2nd- 4th: Whole Health Center is closed for our move.
October 5th: Grand Opening for Whole Health Center at Lone Tree location. 
October 17th, 4 pm-8pm: Whole Health Center Open House at new Lone Tree location.  Come tour [...]

Experts say “Smart Choices” foods can be laden with sugar, salt

By William Neuman
The New York Times
A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation’s largest food manufacturers, is “designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices” but also recommends sugar-laden cereals such as Cocoa Krispies and Froot [...]

Movement as Metaphor
Feel how your regular activities can become a vehicle for overcoming your most difficult challenges.
An effective approach to challenges can vastly improve your success in any endeavor.
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From Harvard Health Publications
This gentle form of exercise can prevent or ease many ills of aging and could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life.
Tai chi is often described as “meditation in motion,” but it might well be called “medication in motion.” There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice, which originated [...]

Do you mind your body?
Can you embody your mind?

Explore the Mind-Body Connection

Learn how your mind affects your body:

How you move
How you look
How you feel
Your relationship to pleasure and pain

Feel how your body affects your mind:

Posture affects your outlook
Body language changes how you relate to yourself and others
Do we make choices based upon how our [...]

Qigong (translated as “energy work”) is an ancient and holistic art form that includes exercise of the physical, mental, and spiritual.  In traditional Chinese medicine, it is the physical or exercise component of maintaining health, strength, and wellbeing.
The combination of gentle stretching movements and breathing used in qigong have been shown effective in the treatments [...]