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December 8, 2009

What Is Vitamin B12 Deficiency? What Causes Vitamin B12 Deficiency?

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Vit­a­min B12 is cru­cial for the proper for­ma­tion of red blood cells, as well as the health of nerve tis­sue. Vit­a­min B12 defi­ciency, or B12 defi­ciency, if left untreated can result in ane­mia, as well as irre­versible nerve and brain damage.

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This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

October 16, 2008

Your Nerves Need Plenty of Calcium

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Excerpt from Bragg’s Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force Book — Chap­ter 5
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We are gen­er­ally more defi­cient in cal­cium than in any of the 30 other min­er­als the body needs to main­tain health and suf­fi­cient Nerve Force. Cal­cium lev­els in the cor­rect pro­por­tion give us sound teeth, strong bones, nerves of steel, good mus­cle and skin tone, a reg­u­lar heart beat, an erect pos­ture, a sharp mind and healthy vital organs. If your blood cal­cium level drops too much you may become ner­vous, cross, moody, depressed, grouchy and irri­tated. Cal­cium helps con­trol your health and moods as it shapes your entire personality.

Cal­cium is all-important for proper func­tion­ing of the nerves. This min­eral helps to trans­port impulses through the nerves from one part of the body to the other. With­out cal­cium, you would not be able to pull your hand away from a hot stove, get out of the way of an oncom­ing car or even taste the food you eat! Cal­cium defi­ciency may cause cramps or con­vul­sions, heart pal­pi­ta­tions or a slow pulse. Cal­cium also helps main­tain the body’s del­i­cate acid-alkaline bal­ance, Bragg Vine­gar helps also.

Cal­cium defi­cien­cies can be read­ily rec­og­nized by stunted growth, decayed teeth and brit­tle or porous bones which show up in x-rays. It is more dif­fi­cult, how­ever, to rec­og­nize cal­cium defi­cien­cies that pro­duce changes in the soft tis­sues. Yet these are the warn­ing signs which we must learn to detect in order to pre­vent unnec­es­sary mis­ery and phys­i­cal handicaps.

Only 1% of the body’s cal­cium is used by the soft tis­sues. But if this essen­tial 1% is lack­ing it flashes a dan­ger sig­nal of cal­cium defi­ciency. The most notice­able sign is extreme ner­vous­ness. With­out the proper amount of cal­cium in the blood, the nerves can­not send mes­sages. Ten­sion and strain result. It is impos­si­ble for the body to relax. This is appar­ent in chil­dren who are highly emo­tional. It shows first in a mean and unpleas­ant dis­po­si­tion, fret­ful cry­ing and tem­per tantrums which later devel­op­ing into mus­cu­lar twitch­ing, spasms and even convulsions.

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

September 10, 2008

Love and Survival

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Excerpt from Build a Pow­er­ful Nerve Force — Chap­ter 1
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Famous Dr. Dean Ornish, M.D. states how you feel emo­tion­ally can affect you physically:

“In my work with car­diac patients over the last 20 years, I am con­vinced that love and inti­macy are at the root of health and ill­ness; there is such a thing as the heal­ing power of love.”

UC Berke­ley Sci­en­tists stud­ied patients who were under­go­ing coro­nary angiog­ra­phy. Those who felt the most loved and sup­ported by fam­ily and friends, had sub­stan­tially less block­age in the heart arter­ies. These find­ings are sim­i­lar in Swedish research. More than 1,700 men and women between the ages of 29 and 74, were stud­ied for 6 years. Those who were more iso­lated with low emo­tional sup­port were four times more at risk of dying pre­ma­turely. Clearly, sci­en­tific stud­ies have proven that the capac­ity to nur­ture and be nur­tured — to have a lov­ing heart is a vital link to a long and healthy life!

If we will only let her, Mother Nature will com­fort us and bring us joy. Let us try to under­stand her with the minds of ser­vants … but enjoy her with the open and glad hearts of chil­dren. To have over­all pow­er­ful Nerve Force we must learn the great Laws of Mother Nature and live by them. That is what this book is all about. Its pur­pose is to show you how to live by the Laws of Mother Nature and God and reap the rewards of Health and Hap­pi­ness. The king­dom of heaven is within you! Make your heaven here and now!

By trust­ing in Mother Nature and obey­ing her laws, under­stand­ing your phys­i­cal machin­ery and the way to care for it, you can build a pow­er­ful Nerve Force that can bring you unbe­liev­able hap­pi­ness! No mat­ter how low you feel men­tally, phys­i­cally and emo­tion­ally, know that the body is a self-cleansing, self-repairing, and self-healing instru­ment. Give your body a chance and its recu­per­at­ing vital forces can make you a new healthy person!

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

August 18, 2008

Fear of the Loss of Love

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Excerpt from Build a Pow­er­ful Nerve Force — Chap­ter 2
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When your Nerve Force is at a low ebb, you are inclined to develop an infe­ri­or­ity com­plex and can eas­ily lose your self-confidence. As you start to feel infe­rior you begin to fear that some­one else may take away any­one who is near and dear to you. There is just one way to defeat this gnaw­ing fear. You must build your Nerve Force so high by nat­ural liv­ing that any feel­ing of infe­ri­or­ity will leave you for­ever! Jeal­ousy is some­thing all humans must fight. We can love some­one, but that does not mean that we own that per­son. As you build your Nerve Force, you will see the wis­dom of let­ting every per­son live their own per­sonal life.

Build your Nerve Force so high that you will be above jeal­ousy and the fear of los­ing your loved ones. Love is the strongest force in the world! Give love and you will be loved in return. Remem­ber that you can never lose one whom you love and who loves you. If you do lose your beloved to some­one else, you may be sure that he or she was not really your beloved in the first place! You must remem­ber that there are plenty of fickle peo­ple in the world and there is no use cry­ing over their loss. In such cases, one might do well to remem­ber this wise clas­sic saying:

‘Tis bet­ter to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all –
or bet­ter still, its para­phrase:
’Tis bet­ter to have loved and lost – Lots better!

The fear of being alone and unloved – although it haunts many peo­ple – is a ground­less one. There is always some­one who needs your love and who needs to love you. “Seek and ye shall find.” All you need is the con­fi­dence that comes with health and a pow­er­ful Nerve Force!

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

July 20, 2008

Herbs — Garlic — Food Supplements Mother Nature’s Healers

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Excerpt from Bragg’s Build Pow­er­ful Never Force Book — Chap­ter 2
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Our book gives you a pro­gram for healthy and reward­ing liv­ing. When you fol­low The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle you can build a strong and healthy heart. This takes you down the path to increased con­fi­dence, cre­ativ­ity and vital­ity! Please remem­ber, you can always strive to live a more healthy, pos­i­tive life. In build­ing a health­ier and stronger heart don’t for­get the mirac­u­lous heal­ing gifts avail­able from Mother Nature’s king­dom. For thou­sands of years peo­ple around the world have used herbs and plants as med­i­cines, ton­ics and reme­dies. Many of them are renowned for increas­ing heart health. Today, sci­en­tific research sup­ports the tra­di­tional use of many of these med­i­c­i­nal plants. Herbs such as gar­lic, ginko, hawthorn, bil­berry, gotu kola and rose­mary have been tra­di­tion­ally used and sci­en­tif­i­cally researched for the treat­ment of heart and cir­cu­la­tory con­di­tions. Here’s a brief descrip­tion of some of the most effec­tive herbs. In addi­tion to The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, make use of these mir­a­cles of the plant world or your heart’s health and fit­ness. Remem­ber to con­sult your health care pro­fes­sional before sub­sti­tut­ing herbs in a pre­vi­ously exist­ing con­di­tion. The key to a healthy heart is pre­ven­tion and The Bragg Healthy Heart Program.

Gar­lic — The Herb that Low­ers Cho­les­terol
Gar­lic is one of nature’s great mir­a­cles. No other med­i­c­i­nal plant is more effec­tive in the treat­ment and pre­ven­tion of ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis! No won­der there has been increased research involv­ing gar­lic and car­dio­vas­cu­lar health. Research shows eat­ing gar­lic reg­u­larly decreases serum cho­les­terol and dan­ger­ous triglyc­eride lev­els! Peo­ple who eat gar­lic reg­u­larly have health­ier arter­ies and blood than those who don’t. This is why peo­ple in France, Greece, Italy, etc. (who tra­di­tion­ally eat lots of gar­lic) have a lower inci­dence of heart attack and dis­ease than peo­ple in the United States.

Ginkgo — Improves Blood Flow to Brain
Over the last 40 years, Ginkgo has been one of the most sci­en­tif­i­cally researched med­i­c­i­nal herbs in the world today. Sci­en­tists know that Gingko Biloba (leaf) Extracts (GBE) dilate arter­ies, cap­il­lar­ies and veins, which increases blood flow.Therefore GBE reduces blood clot­ting and clog­ging of the arter­ies. GBE’s strong car­dio­vas­cu­lar ben­e­fits are local­ized in the brain. Increas­ing evi­dence sup­ports the GBE effec­tive­ness in treat­ing ail­ments asso­ci­ated with too lit­tle blood flow to the brain (such as short-term mem­ory loss, senil­ity, short atten­tion span and depres­sion). Look for GBE sup­ple­ments in health stores.

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

Herbs — Garlic — Food Supplements Mother Nature’S Healers

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Excerpt from Bragg’s Build Pow­er­ful Never Force Book — Chap­ter 2
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Our book gives you a pro­gram for healthy and reward­ing liv­ing. When you fol­low The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle you can build a strong and healthy heart. This takes you down the path to increased con­fi­dence, cre­ativ­ity and vital­ity! Please remem­ber, you can always strive to live a more healthy, pos­i­tive life. In build­ing a health­ier and stronger heart don’t for­get the mirac­u­lous heal­ing gifts avail­able from Mother Nature’s king­dom. For thou­sands of years peo­ple around the world have used herbs and plants as med­i­cines, ton­ics and reme­dies. Many of them are renowned for increas­ing heart health. Today, sci­en­tific research sup­ports the tra­di­tional use of many of these med­i­c­i­nal plants. Herbs such as gar­lic, ginko, hawthorn, bil­berry, gotu kola and rose­mary have been tra­di­tion­ally used and sci­en­tif­i­cally researched for the treat­ment of heart and cir­cu­la­tory con­di­tions. Here’s a brief descrip­tion of some of the most effec­tive herbs. In addi­tion to The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, make use of these mir­a­cles of the plant world or your heart’s health and fit­ness. Remem­ber to con­sult your health care pro­fes­sional before sub­sti­tut­ing herbs in a pre­vi­ously exist­ing con­di­tion. The key to a healthy heart is pre­ven­tion and The Bragg Healthy Heart Program.

Gar­lic — The Herb that Low­ers Cho­les­terol
Gar­lic is one of nature’s great mir­a­cles. No other med­i­c­i­nal plant is more effec­tive in the treat­ment and pre­ven­tion of ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis! No won­der there has been increased research involv­ing gar­lic and car­dio­vas­cu­lar health. Research shows eat­ing gar­lic reg­u­larly decreases serum cho­les­terol and dan­ger­ous triglyc­eride lev­els! Peo­ple who eat gar­lic reg­u­larly have health­ier arter­ies and blood than those who don’t. This is why peo­ple in France, Greece, Italy, etc. (who tra­di­tion­ally eat lots of gar­lic) have a lower inci­dence of heart attack and dis­ease than peo­ple in the United States.

Ginkgo — Improves Blood Flow to Brain
Over the last 40 years, Ginkgo has been one of the most sci­en­tif­i­cally researched med­i­c­i­nal herbs in the world today. Sci­en­tists know that Gingko Biloba (leaf) Extracts (GBE) dilate arter­ies, cap­il­lar­ies and veins, which increases blood flow.Therefore GBE reduces blood clot­ting and clog­ging of the arter­ies. GBE’s strong car­dio­vas­cu­lar ben­e­fits are local­ized in the brain. Increas­ing evi­dence sup­ports the GBE effec­tive­ness in treat­ing ail­ments asso­ci­ated with too lit­tle blood flow to the brain (such as short-term mem­ory loss, senil­ity, short atten­tion span and depres­sion). Look for GBE sup­ple­ments in health stores.

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

May 23, 2008

Youngsters Have Stress Too

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Excerpt from Bragg’s Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force Book — Chap­ter 10
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A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that teenagers aged 13 to 17, from afflu­ent homes regard­less of their race or gen­der, had more stress than those from mod­est homes. Wealthy young­sters often have less per­spec­tive on the strug­gles of life, and there’s lots of pres­sure to keep the family’s sta­tus — get­ting into the elite schools, good grades and liv­ing up to their par­ents’ aca­d­e­mic expec­ta­tions, etc.

Atten­tion Deficit Dis­or­der — ADD
ADD is not caused by a bug or dis­ease. There is no lab­o­ra­tory test that can iden­tify it. ADD is a con­di­tion brought on by depleted and exhausted nerves. Peo­ple with ADD live at a low rate of vibra­tion — the vic­tims of a weak­ened nerve force. They have lit­tle energy to pay atten­tion, to com­plete tasks or to ward off worry and frus­tra­tion. Doc­tors, teach­ers and psy­chi­a­trists pre­scribe drugs like Ritalin at an ever increas­ing rate. Although almost 8 mil­lion school chil­dren are tak­ing Ritalin, ADD is still the fastest grow­ing child­hood dis­or­der in the U.S.! Drugs might mask some of the symp­toms of Nerve Deple­tion, but do not replen­ish Nerve Force. ADD suf­fer­ers need to build up their Nerve Force, raise their rate of vibra­tion and take con­trol of their lives! Not sur­pris­ingly, more and more stud­ies are find­ing that drugs are a dead-end in the treat­ment of ADD. Instead, they are find­ing that peo­ple are renewed to health only when they replen­ish their reserves of Nerve Force. This is accom­plished, not through drugs, but through the kinds of changes in diet and lifestyle that we out­line in this book. Aus­tralian researchers found that ADD chil­dren began replen­ish­ing their Nerve Force after they were put on a nat­ural diet free of col­or­ing, preser­v­a­tives, etc. A sim­i­lar study by the Cor­nell Med­ical Cen­ter recorded a 73% improve­ment with ADD patients. Unnat­ural and altered foods tax the ner­vous sys­tem, as do highly sweet­ened and processed foods. Chil­dren are at a greater risk of harm from this kind of diet. As our foods become more processed and refined, our chil­dren become inat­ten­tive, unfo­cused, unhealthy and unhappy.

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

January 23, 2008

7 Ways to Keep Blood Sugar Levels Low

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Excerpt from Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force Book — Chap­ter 5
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Aus­tralian researcher Dr. Jen­nie Brand-Miller cites in her new book The Glu­cose Rev­o­lu­tion, that when you eat a car­bo­hy­drate — any sug­ary or starchy food — your blood sugar goes up. If it rises slowly, that’s ideal; how­ever, if it soars quickly, this could lead to seri­ous health threats.

Researchers at Har­vard Med­ical School have also cited that a spike in blood sugar can dou­ble or triple your risk of devel­op­ing Type 2 (adult onset) dia­betes. Dr. Brand-Miller has cre­ated a Glycemic Index that ranks foods based on how quickly they raise blood sugar. High-glycemic-index foods make blood sugar jump; low– glycemic-index foods cause a slower rise.

Eat health giv­ing legumes with aban­don, such as lentils, soy­beans, lima and kid­ney beans, etc., for they pro­mote a grad­ual blood sugar rise and have a low-glycemic index.

Don’t worry about car­rots spik­ing blood sugar. Wide reports that car­rots are bad for blood sugar are wrong.

Add Bragg Apple Cider Vine­gar or fresh lemon juice to foods. Stud­ies show only a few tsps in a salad dress­ing, over veg­gies, etc. helps lower blood sugar because the acid slows stom­ach emp­ty­ing and pro­motes bet­ter digestion.

Eat­ing organic brown rice, lentils and whole grain pas­tas are best. They help nor­mal­ize blood sugar and reduce appetite as well as help in the weight loss because they are filling.

If you snack, choose fresh organic fruits, even pop­corn, never eat jelly beans — they spike your blood sugar.

Eat fresh, organic veg­eta­bles. Think of salad veg­eta­bles as “free” foods, with no sig­nif­i­cant impact on blood sugar or weight. It’s best to avoid fatty foods, sug­ars, meat, etc.

Avoid all processed, refined foods: refined breads, cere­als, cook­ies, crack­ers, desserts etc. These refined starches zip through your diges­tive tract, rais­ing your blood sugar.

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

January 12, 2008

Build “the Will to Win” In Your Life

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Excerpt from Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force — Chap­ter 3
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Life and Nerve Force flows through nerves at all times. The more power you fur­nish to your nerves, the health­ier and more well-balanced you will be. You’ll get more out of life and have a greater chance of reach­ing the goals you wish to achieve! We all want to develop a strong mind in a strong body. We all want to be suc­cess­ful in life and reach our dreams and ful­fill our life goals. We’d like to share with you the ingre­di­ents of a win­ning philosophy.

We’ve seen it proven in the suc­cess­ful peo­ple we have known. You’ve prob­a­bly heard the phrase “The Will to Win” so many times that it has become a cliché, but stop and look at it afresh and real­ize its true sig­nif­i­cance. You must have this “Will to Win” if you are going to build pow­er­ful Nerve Force in your body. This is the indis­pens­able first ingre­di­ent in this pro­gram. There’s no bet­ter time to build your “Will to Win” than dur­ing your med­i­ta­tion and prayer periods.

Tell your­self over and over that noth­ing and no one is going to stop you from build­ing pow­er­ful Nerve Force! Dur­ing your morn­ing med­i­ta­tion and prayer tell your­self that you are not going to let any­one drain you of your emo­tional energy — no mat­ter what they do. If some­one tries to irri­tate, nag or tor­ment you, you are going to have the “Will to Win” over such cir­cum­stances. That “Will to Win” will keep you from stoop­ing to another person’s low level. Don’t let any­one drag you down to their sorry level of emo­tional insta­bil­ity! It’s not always pos­si­ble to avoid peo­ple who are so mis­er­able, unhappy and low in Nerve Force that they want to drag oth­ers down into the same state.

Build your Nerve Force and make your “Will to Win” so strong that you will not be affected by these neg­a­tive personalities!

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

December 30, 2007

Looking Good Means Feeling Good

Excerpt from Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force — Chap­ter 10
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Every­body feels hap­pier when they are look­ing good, and tak­ing mul­ti­vi­t­a­min and min­eral food supplements.

They con­tribute specif­i­cally to your health and good looks!

Vit­a­min D con­tributes to the strength and den­sity of bones. A lack of vit­a­min D can lead to osteo­poro­sis, which often affects the pos­ture, rea­son old­sters do bet­ter with some “vit­a­min D’s sun­shine” and a good mul­ti­min­eral with cal­cium, boron and mag­ne­sium, etc.

Vit­a­min A con­tributes to healthy skin, hair, eyes and strong, durable bones and tooth enamel.

The B vit­a­mins — niacin, riboflavin, B6, B12 and also mag­ne­sium help to pre­vent growth retar­da­tion in young peo­ple. Niacin and riboflavin help pre­vent skin rashes, lip sores and lip cracks and pro­tects your nerves.

Vit­a­min B com­plex vit­a­mins pro­mote nor­mal func­tion­ing of the brain and help in resis­tance to stress.

Folic acid improves brain func­tion, helps lessen depres­sion, anx­i­ety and low­ers homo­cys­teine level.

Vit­a­min C (and Ester C) is a pow­er­ful antiox­i­dant which fights dis­eases, colds, flu, etc. (includ­ing can­cer) and helps pre­vent high blood pres­sure and blood clot­ting. It’s vital for tis­sue growth and repair (espe­cially bruis­ing), helps reduce cho­les­terol lev­els and increases the absorp­tion of the min­eral iron.

All of the vit­a­mins and min­er­als listed above, and many more which are found nat­u­rally in The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle Diet will help you main­tain a health­ier, hap­pier body and a more peace­ful mind!

This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.

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