Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Feb 9, 2012, 10:00 pm
Excessive consumption of soft drinks – such as Coke, lemonade, flavored mineral water, Powerade, and Gatorade – are linked with an increased chance of asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Zumin Shi, MD, PhD, of the University of Adelaide, and fellow researchers intervie...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Feb 7, 2012, 9:02 pm
Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica ranks amongst the slowest-growing and longest-lived plants in existence, according to Carlos Duarte of the University of Western Australia in Perth.  Duarte estimates the minimum age to be between 80,000 and 200,000 years, projecting the origin of the c...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jan 31, 2012, 1:13 pm
by Tara Powers This article is about clarity of purpose for you, your team, and your business. It includes simple yet powerful steps that when discussed, analyzed, agreed upon, and written down, will provide a clear expectations and a compelling direction for 2010. The steps outlined in this artic...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jan 28, 2012, 11:42 am
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA), which can cause serious, life-threatening infections of the bloodstream, skin, lungs, and other organs, and is resistant to a number of antibiotics, has been found to be more prevalent in grocery store raw pork products than previously th...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jan 15, 2012, 9:30 pm
by Zoe Training staff During the past several years, David C. Sanford has answered the demand by global companies to provide insights into how to successfully understand and communicate effectively with Indian nationals. Having spent more than thirteen years living and working abroad including ass...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jan 9, 2012, 7:50 pm
Humans cannot achieve greater mental functions – such as attention, memory, or intelligence – without trade-offs elsewhere, according to research by the University of Warwick. Researchers wanted to know why we are not getting smarter than we are given the adaptive evolutionary process. Their f...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jan 5, 2012, 5:22 pm
Bt corn, one of the nation’s most widely produced crops, is thought to be losing its natural resistance to the western corn rootworm, a pest that feeds on the roots of corn and could potentially wreak economic havoc if it continues to spread. Currently the infestations remain isolated, but conce...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jan 2, 2012, 8:34 am
by Jeff Thredgold, CSP The U.S. Economy What we now call the Great Recession officially began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009.  It was the longest, the deepest, and the most painful recession since the Great Depression. By my count, that suggests that the current U.S. economic expansio...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Dec 28, 2011, 8:43 pm
Elderly people who had diets higher in levels of vitamins B, C, D & E and Omega-3 fatty acids did better on mental acuity tests and showed less brain shrinkage than those who ate a diet consisting of junk food, according to research by scientists from the Oregon Health and Science University in Port...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Dec 5, 2011, 2:05 pm
by Zoe Training staff When Tara Powers isn’t busy running her own training and development organization, she is also managing her other venture, Mama Means Business, a resource that coaches and supports “mompreneur” businesses, providing already proven resources that help women launch success...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Nov 14, 2011, 11:08 pm
by Mike Faber Dede Osborn is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She’s also a student of Hawaiian leadership and values, and is the author of the paper Leadership Styles in Modern Hawaiian Organizations: Island Culture at Work. Looking at a variety of lea...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Nov 7, 2011, 2:58 pm
by Zoe Training staff Jayne Gnadt, a seasoned professional with an extensive background in project management, is also an energizing and memorable keynote speaker who shared some insightful gems with us in this interview. What’s your favorite topic(s) to present on? Why? I love to speak on mot...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Oct 23, 2011, 5:15 pm
by Tiffany Dahlberg One of my favorite tools that I use when I teach college students or train Project Management, Business Analysis, or Leadership for organizations is the Team Contract. The team contract is a document outlining agreements about how the team will work together. Team contracts con...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Oct 17, 2011, 12:42 pm
by Zoe Training staff Starting with a strong foundation in accounting, Dan Chenoweth has a broad background in American and international business. His focus on general management issues inherent in today’s changing business environment involves organization leadership; business process analysis ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Oct 4, 2011, 11:32 am
by D.J. Vanas The magical, mystical glue that holds teams together is trust.  With it, we see people follow their leaders through the fires of change, challenge, doubt and fear.  Without it, people won’t follow their leader to the bathroom.  But how do we build that trust and strengthen our re...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Sep 26, 2011, 10:59 am
by Eleanor Hubbard Ten years ago I was a professor of Gender in the Sociology Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Almost every semester, I taught a course in Sex, Gender, and Society and several times during that course I invited a M2F post-operative transgendered person, “Terr...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Sep 20, 2011, 7:05 pm
by Zoe Training staff Matt Baca is not only an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Colorado, he also likes to call himself a “Corporate Trainer with a Humorist Twist,” providing high-energy, highly participatory training sessions for international business students and professionals in universiti...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Sep 13, 2011, 10:08 am
... you’ve heard yourself say “everyone loved the facilitator but we haven’t seen any measurable results.” The problem usually isn’t the facilitator, the learners, the topic, or the material. ... event. Step 4: ENGAGE Find the right facilitator that will engage your group. Consider ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Sep 9, 2011, 9:12 pm
Our content will soon be moving to BlueHeronHolistic.com, with new content, news, and services. Please stay tuned! Linda Anderson – editor You might also be interested in...Does visualizing eating certain
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Aug 29, 2011, 4:43 pm
by Zoe Training staff Retired from her position as Senior Instructor Emerita from the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Eleanor Hubbard, PhD, is passionate about teaching adults the varied subtopics of diversity, including gender, race/ethnicity, social class, age, a...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Aug 16, 2011, 10:09 pm
by Julie Miller A survey was recently conducted in which over 1,000 professional people were asked what they were most bothered about when it came to writing. The overwhelming answer: Getting started and getting organized. Here are some tips to getting started and getting organized with any documen...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Aug 8, 2011, 3:14 pm
by Zoe Training staff Would you believe part of the Zoe cadre is a team of horses? According to Christina Haxton, who occasionally integrates them into her training sessions, horses are ideal teachers: they are responsive beings with acute awareness of and sensitivity to their surroundings. Like...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Aug 1, 2011, 12:17 pm
by D.J. Vanas I often hear people say that money is the root of all evil.  However, this oft-misquoted biblical text actually says it’s the “love of money” that can be our undoing.  Few subjects are as emotionally charged as the concept of money – earning it, spending it, investing it, lo...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jul 25, 2011, 11:06 am
by Avish Parashar Have you ever heard the expression, “do as I say, not as I do?” Well, as in most cases, that’s a pretty stupid way to go. Let’s look at an example… I went to my local library the other day (which I love) hoping to find some material to broaden my mind – or at least ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jul 17, 2011, 8:53 pm
by Zoe Training staff Have you ever had the feeling that what someone is saying is not what they mean? Is this just intuition, or are you noticing micro-expressions? What are you saying to people by the way you use your hands, position your body, and move your eyes? Anna Conrad, an expert in organi...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jul 11, 2011, 12:42 pm
by Sarah Michel Recently a brilliant friend and colleague described to me how she felt attending a professional meeting where she didn’t know anyone sitting around her as being, “awkward and painful,” when she found herself at a loss for how to break the ice with someone she doesn’t know. ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jul 5, 2011, 7:10 am
by Zoe Training staff A body language expert and teacher of unconscious persuasion skills, Traci Brown shows participants how to use her techniques in all sorts of business negotiations and in interactions with personal clients, and has even adapted the skills to talk herself out of an embarrassing...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jun 27, 2011, 6:46 am
by Julie Miller E-mail has become the most important information vehicle today and its usage increases hourly eclipsing other modes of communication. Of course, therein lies the rub. Because writing-and poor business writing specifically-is now on show for all to see, the pandemic of sloppy writing...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 20, 2011, 5:00 am
The dead zone area in the Gulf of Mexico is forecasted to grow to the size of New Hampshire, approximately 8,500 to 9,421 square miles, due to major flooding on the Mississippi river this spring. If this happens, it will be the largest recorded dead (hypoxic) zone in the Gulf of Mexico since it was...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jun 19, 2011, 3:37 pm
by Zoe Training staff Imaginibbles…Chief Imaginator…Creativi-Tees…these are words that originated from the creative mind of Tamara Kleinberg – an idea tinkerer, serial entrepreneur, nationally published author, innovation artist, and martial artist. She is also a speaker and trainer who hel...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 17, 2011, 6:37 pm
With almost half of all Americans using a prescription in the past month according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, experts are worried about the rampant practice of over-prescribing. And other statistics related to the issue are of grave concern: The majority of patients under a...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 16, 2011, 5:00 am
If you, or someone you know, is 65 or older, researchers are now suggesting the inclusion of more olive oil in your diet to help prevent stroke. In a study by the University of Bordeaux of 7,625 people aged 65 and older, those who regularly used olive for cooking and as a dressing had a 41 percent ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 15, 2011, 5:03 am
Dear EarthTalk: I thought “farm raised” was the way to go when buying fish, to avoid mercury contamination. But are there other concerns about farm raised that make some fish a poor choice for good health? What are the safest fish to buy and which should be avoided? And what about those frozen ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 14, 2011, 12:01 pm
Based on core samples from 55.9 million years ago, when the earth last experienced a rapid period of global warming, our current rate of carbon release is nearly 10 times as fast. According to geologists, rate matters and this current rapid change may not allow sufficient time for the biological en...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 13, 2011, 5:00 am
In Belgium, anesthesiologists who used a combination of hypnosis and local anesthesia, vs. only general anesthesia, found that patients’ opioid drug use was greatly diminished, as well as time spent in the recovery room and the length of their hospital stay. The hypnosis was performed on breast c...
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jun 12, 2011, 4:02 pm
by Anna Conrad Imagine without a head coach. What would happen? Who would guide the team and keep them all working together towards one common goal: to win the game? The same thing is true with your team – they need a good leader who understands what it takes to be a good coach. But what doe...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 10, 2011, 5:00 am
The link between one’s thoughts and improving performance, specifically in sports, is thought to be activated by the use of “self-talk”  - a psychic strategy that triggers a desired behavior through the use of self-addressed cues – words and phrases - mostly by focusing attention and psych...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 9, 2011, 5:00 am
A component of apple peels just might keep the doctor away. Ursolic acid, a natural compound found in the peel, is believed to correct gene signatures that lead to muscle atrophy, according to findings from the University of Iowa. When ursolic acid was added to the food of normal mice for a period ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 8, 2011, 5:00 am
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that only a handful of outdated coal-burning power plants generate a sizable amount of the mercury pollution generated in the United States? If so, is anything being done to clean these sites up or shut them down? – Frank Pearson, Wichita, KS Our nation’s coal-fired p...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 7, 2011, 5:00 am
One of green tea’s beneficial compounds has been found to increase the number of “regulatory T cells” that play a key role in immune function and suppression of autoimmune disease. Green tea is known to have anti-inflammatory properties, boost immunity, and prevent cancer. Researchers who ar...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 6, 2011, 3:41 pm
I’ve written before about Project Kaisei, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the plastic debris floating in the world’s oceans. They’re organizing their next big expedition to the Plastic Vortex,
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - Jun 5, 2011, 7:37 pm
by Zoe Training staff There are thousands of doctors and thousands of professional speakers, but few of them are both a doctor and a speaker. Brad Nieder, MD, is one of them. Brad combines his humor-filled doses of medicine with wellness advice to entertain audiences from the healthcare industry ac...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 2, 2011, 10:31 pm
Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, brought about by moderate to heavy moderate combat, experienced up to 50 percent reduction of their
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - Jun 1, 2011, 7:52 am
Dear EarthTalk: Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it purport to do and has it been signed into law? – Megan Wilson, Austin, TX The Safe
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - May 31, 2011, 2:02 pm
The U.S. FDA recently found 71 out of 78 canned foods tested were contaminated with bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA. One can of green beans contained as much as 730 parts
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Linda A. posted an article on Zoe Training & Consulting Blog - May 31, 2011, 12:13 pm
by Don Cooper, The Sales Heretic™ Not long ago I received a menu in the mail from a local Chinese restaurant. On the front of the tri-fold mailer is a proud proclamation in large type: “$1.38 Chinese Food.” Sure enough, all of the appetizers and most of the entrees listed inside are indeed ...
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - May 28, 2011, 5:00 pm
The side effects shown on the list that accompanies prescription drugs now averages 70 reactions per drug, posing an overwhelming problem for physicians as they try to weigh the risks
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - May 26, 2011, 5:00 am
Yogic breathing, postures, meditation and relaxation techniques that are part of a regular yoga practice helps breast cancer patients with improved physical functioning, better general health, and lower cortisol (stress
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - May 25, 2011, 5:00 am
Dear EarthTalk: What is “tar sands oil” and what is the controversy over possibly building a pipeline for it from Canada into the United States? – Bill Berkley, Omaha, NE
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Linda A. posted an article on Holistic Future - May 24, 2011, 5:00 am
The American Psychological Association says in a new study that praying among Americans about health issues has risen dramatically in the past three decades; it notably increased by 36 percent
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