Every November all Bodacious Women in the United States get to vote - for our next President, members of Congress, and other elected positions. This is especially true after reading the following by Jane Saks, Director of Advancement at the College of Architecture and the Arts in Chicago. I honestly had no idea how much our foremothers went through so that women in the U.S. had the right to vote. At one point Woodrow Wilson and his cronies tried to persuade a psychiatrist to declare activist Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. The doctor refused. He said Alice Paul was strong and brave. That didn t make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity. Now, from Jane Saks: The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the...

Now I ve always thought that pain is mostly mental, it just makes sense. I ve got myself into trouble with that statement before, but here is why I bring it up: I just finished writing several articles on different Diseases and Illnesses. ricies. Where I m going with this: After you look at pictures, read and write on these different topics, you start to feel unclean and a bit sick yourself. Why is that?Why is it that some people will faint when they give blood, and others can be surgeons. A quick question. Do you believe that it is possible to give yourself a headache. Or a sore leg. a headache, or a stomach or a pimple or a. It s an interesting idea but after writing this article I haven t been able to stop itching my head: Pediculosis, is the technical term for infestation of lice. Lice are parasitic insects...

There are many arthritis signs and symptoms. Arthritis is a disease that is characterized by inflammation of the joints. It is the most common disease in the United States and is classified as a rheumatic disease. This condition means that different individual illnesses with differing factors, treatments, complications and prognosis occurs. They are similar in that they have a tendency to affect the joints, muscles, ligaments, cartilage and may affect internal body areas. Arthritis signs and symptoms include pain and limited functions of joints, joint swelling, joint stiffness, tenderness or pain when touching a joint and warmth and redness in the joint. Arthritis can attack joints in almost any part of the body. Different forms of arthritis such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can cause changes that...

Do you know someone struggling with his or her nicotine addiction. Well you re certainly not alone. There are 1000 s of Americans that constantly quit smoking and start smoking again. They try several quit smoking programs and actually succeed in quitting. Then for whatever reason, stress, lifestyle change, death in the family, they begin to start smoking again. This article covers in great detail nicotine addiction and ways to beat it. Do you know someone struggling with his or her nicotine addiction. Well you re certainly not alone. There are 1000 s of Americans that constantly quit smoking and start smoking again. They try several quit smoking programs and actually succeed in quitting. Then for whatever reason, stress, lifestyle change, death in the family, they begin to start smoking again. This article...

From the time you were a newborn how well you thrived depended in large part by how much you were lovingly touched. I was born two months premature in Trinidad in 1965. I was only 4 pounds and had to be in an incubator for my first few weeks of life. The doctors told my mom not to get attached to me because I only had a ten percent chance of surviving. My mother didn t believe them. And touched and loved me and willed me to live. I grew into being a 6 3 , 200 pound man in almost perfect health. Such is the power of love, such is the power of touch. We tend to get touched less and less as we get older, although our primal need for touch never diminishes. Touch deprivation is a significant form of sensory deprivation. Most of us wouldn t dream of going weeks or months without opening our eyes, or keeping our ears...