Danna Schneider

French Banning the Promotion of Pin Thin Women

There has been quite a bit of talk about regulating the fashion runways over the past two years, after a young Brazilian model died of causes directly tied to her anorexia. In other words, she starved herself to death due to pressures she probably partia... Read >

Avoid These Common Gardening Mistakes

The gardening season is upon us, and the number of novice gardeners planting vegetables, flowers, and shrubs in the wrong place or at the wrong time, and under watering and over watering different varieties, will no doubt put many new gardener's new love ... Read >

How an Infrared Sauna Improved My Health, Skin and Muscle Aches

I first started to looking into purchasing a far infrared sauna about six months ago, when both myself and my boyfriend were fed up with our constantly aching necks and backs from sitting at our desks at our respective office jobs all of the time. Not on... Read >

The Role of Fear in This Faltering Economy

Our economy is definitely going through some "tough times", as our President George Bush recently confirmed in a speech regarding the floundering economy of today. A combination of factors have created a very volatile stock market, housing market, incr... Read >

Lose Weight With These Simple, Effective Strategies

One of the greatest challenges facing us here in the US continues to be obesity and general health issues that are associated with being overweight, which it seems more and more of our population is these days. Recent studies confirm that one of the reas... Read >

Staying Healthy During the Cold & Flu Season

So, in many places here in the U.S., including where I reside here in Northeastern Ohio, it's the dead of winter, and that means more than just blustery cold days, snow and ice. It means the cold and flu season is upon us, full boar, and it's up to us an... Read >

Hate Shaving, Plucking, Waxing? Ways to Get Hair Free for Less

It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman, excess body hair just isn't very attractive or appealing. Heck, these days I think men are shaving and waxing or using some sort of depilatory to get rid of body hair just as much as women are. One of my lea... Read >

Free and Cheap Ways to Get Rid of Acne

The very word "acne" conjures in many people's minds either past or present struggles with self image, embarrassment and feelings of helplessness if they've ever suffered this skin condition, or are currently suffering varying degrees of acne. Our skin... Read >

Costa Rica : The Vacation that Will Change You

My recent vacation in Costa Rica was the first time I had ever traveled internationally, so naturally I was a little nervous about all of the "unknown" factors, like visiting a foreign country whose primary language was Spanish, getting through customs, f... Read >

Getting Serious About Breast Cancer Prevention

Few words produce a fear factor for women as the words "breast cancer". The best protection against breast cancer is knowledge of the ways you can reduce the risk of acquiring this dreaded disease. While it is currently true that there are some very p... Read >

The Breast Feeding Quandry

Today's modern woman is not the same as the woman of the fifties, forties and prior. Today's woman, thanks to the feminist movement and a broadening ideal of what a woman's role is in society, has brought women into the workforce in a big way.Not only th... Read >

More Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck

In this day and age, you'd think that the gap between the wealthy and poor would be closing in, but in fact the opposite of this ideal is currently happening here in the US, and even the middle class is starting to feel the squeeze of living paycheck to p... Read >

Hypnosis for Weight Loss : My Experience

The subconscious mind is a subject of much debate. Some say that it wields more power over our everyday actions than we know, while others discount it as more or less an additional complexity of the vast human mind to be pondered, but nothing so powerfu... Read >

Don't Get Fooled by Wordy Contracts

"Read the fine print" is probably one fo the oldest cliches when it comes to reading documents that are put forth for you to sign, but it is true, and many people will have stories to tell about being burned from signing a contract they did not fully unde... Read >

Stop Losing Sleep, Start Living

Rest and relaxation takes on a whole new meaning when we really begin to udnerstand that sleep is as vital to our well being as the air we breathe and the water we drink. Did you ever stop to think that sleep is something far beyond a time where we dream... Read >