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7 Tips to Add Mindfulness to Your Routine and Reduce Stress

AUTHOR // CCA Staff Team Mindfulness; it’s become a popular topic for mental health and well-being, but what does it actually mean, and where does it come from? Mindfulness, a form of meditation, has its roots in Buddhism. It is one group of many meditation techniques that originated in Eastern religious or spiritual traditions. Today,

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The Moral and Scientific Opposition to GMOs

AUTHOR // Charles Eisenstein Is the engineering of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) a dangerous technology posing grave risks to human and ecological health? Or are GMOs a potent new tool in the onward march of modern agricultural technology in its race to feed the world? In a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post, “Avoiding

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Musculoskeletal Pain and School Bag Use

Musculoskeletal Pain and School Bag Use: A Cross Sectional Study Among Ugandan Pupils. Mwaka ES, Munabi IG, Buwembo W, Kukkiriza J, Ochieng J. BMC Res Notes. 2014 Apr 9;7:222. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-222. Background: All over the world there has been an outcry by parents, school officials, and health professionals concerning the carrying of backpack loads beyond

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