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With the acceleration in the speed and volume of experience we live on a daily basis we have seen a similar acceleration in the amount of depression, anxiety, ADHD and other mood disorders. Many have turned to medication looking for relief. The use of anti-depressants alone has increased nearly 400% since 1990. Is there another way to address this epidemic? The ancient science of Ayurveda leads us to believe that there is.
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The Mindfulness Movie is a fun and educational journey showcasing the worldwide brain research proving the benefits of mindfulness and the public's increasing awareness and acceptance of the practice. Neuroscientists now tell us that the practice of mindfulness literally changes the brain in positive ways. And it's as simple as paying attention! Throughout the film, we encounter inspiring people and ideas on how changing the way we see can change...
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Choosing life in life's final chapter is the poignant subtext of Next Year Jerusalem, a lyrical portrait of eight nursing home residents who make a pilgrimage to Israel.
Offered a seat on the bus for the tour, we accompany these individuals across stunning Israeli sites and landscapes, from mountains to desert. But the film is less a story about tourists in a foreign land than it is a meditation on the sanctity of the human experience and the wisdom...
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Do you want to maintain, improve and enjoy a happier stress-free lifestyle? In a complete guide to practical reflexology, Melva Martin demonstrates the art of reflexology and shows how it can boost energy and relieve many common disorders. Reflexology teaches that areas on the sole of the foot correspond to specific organs of the body. By massaging points on the foot, reflexology can improve circulation to the various organs. This practical video...
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Silence is Deadly: Living with Hepatitis C is a documentary chronicling the lives of four people and their struggle with Hepatitis C, a potentially fatal liver disease. While exploring the nature of the virus, its treatments, prognosis, and global impact, this powerful documentary further explores what it is to live with a debilitating chronic illness and its stigma, as seen through the eyes of four characters, one being the filmmaker, Kindra Ruocco....
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A solid introduction to Diabetes this Fun-To-Know guide offers helpful tips for how to best deal with the disease. By suggesting manageable changes to the diet and lifestyle nutritionist and host Kathy Tigue provide sufferers with ways to cope. Providing the program's cooking demonstrations is Barbara Seelig Brown the author of "Stress Free Cooking".
11) We Were Here
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The first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the city’s inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to the calamitous epidemic.
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Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline traces the personal journeys of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional biochemist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. Inspired by remarkable discoveries they...
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Featuring leading experts T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., M.D., Neal Barnard, M.D., John McDougall, M.D., Pam Popper, N.D., Doug Lisle, Ph.D., and Terry Mason, M.D., Forks Over Knives - The Extended Interviews is must-see viewing for anyone interested in the powerful relationship between food and health!
14) Bernadette
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Bernadette Scarduzio was born with the most common inherited disease that no one has ever heard of: Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) syndrome. CMT is the number one hereditary neuropathy in the world, affecting 1 in 2,500 people or nearly 2.6 million worldwide. It is a degenerative nerve and muscle disorder which leads the body to deteriorate over time. Sometimes the progression is slow. Sometimes it is rapid. In some cases, it is fatal. There is no cure....
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The Anonymous People is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma and mass participation in widely successful anonymous 12-step groups have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid...
16) Ingredients
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As American food nears a state of crisis, INGREDIENTS explores a thriving local food movement where community, food-safety, and flavor are commonplace. A feature-length documentary narrated by Bebe Neuwirth, the film takes us across the United States, from the urban food deserts of Harlem to the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valleys to the kitchens of celebrated chefs Alice Waters, Peter Hoffman and Greg Higgins.
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Join Rip Esselstyn, former Texas firefighter and author of the national bestselling The Engine 2 Diet, as he guides the White and Wali families through an "Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue." Watch Rip teach these families how to take control of their health. With the life-saving tips in the "Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue," it's easy to own your health - join Rip and learn how to rescue your kitchen today!
18) Food, Inc
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Reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced, and who we have become as a nation. Includes celebrity PSAs, deleted scenes, and Nightline segment.
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Your treadmill session will "fly by" when you take a one hour Virtual Walking Tour to many of the famous sites and locations in London. The sites you will visit during your one-hour Virtual Walk include: the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park; the Prince Albert Memorial in front of the Royal Albert Hall; Covent Garden; Leicester Square; Trafalgar Square; Piccadilly Circus; Green Park; the outside of Buckingham Palace; around Westminster...