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Chelsea Roff: 72-Year-Old Grandpa Becomes China’s Next Top Model
While most of America’s top models are tall, slender, perfectly-proportioned young women, China’s most popular fashionista may be one very brave elderly gentleman, Liu Xianping, who has been posing...
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Chelsea Roff: CNN: How Yoga Can Helped An Anorexic Recover
Two weeks before my fifteenth birthday, I knocked on death’s front door and begged him to let me in. I’ve written about it here at Intent before — but in short, I was 58 pounds, had just suffered a...
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FullBeauty Project Captures Morbidly Obese Women In The Nude (NSWF images)
Beauty is in the eye of beholder. At least that’s the message these portraits were created to demonstrate. The controversial set of images, captured by Italian photographer Yossi Loloi, make up an...
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The New Flu Shot for Babies: Puppies! (cute pics)
Now here’s a counterintuitive science finding: According to the latest research, babies who spend time around a dog or cat to in their first year of life get fewer colds than those who live in a...
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When Business and Ethics Collide: Yoga Journal vs. Hyatt Boycott
As hundreds of yogis scurried through Embarcadero Center last Thursday, a small group of impassioned hotel workers joined their voices just a few strides away in protest against the Hyatt hotel chain...
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Cute Kitty Responds to Campaign to Kill America’s Cats
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, free-roaming house cats kill around 4 billion wild animals across the U.S. every year. The scientists who conducted the study...
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10 Strange and Little-Known Facts About Charles Darwin
Happy Darwin Day! Today marks the 204th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and in celebration of his life and works I’ve dug up 10 weird facts about the man behind the theory of natural selection....
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Matt Damon: I’m Not Using a Toilet Until The Water Crisis is Solved
Matt Damon has vowed not to use the bathroom until the world water crisis is solved. The multi-award-winning actor made the announcement in a video released on Tuesday, saying that he is boycotting...
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Can Science Tell Us What is Morally Right and Wrong?
This article is a response to Julian Walker’s recent blog on YogaBrains, The Contortionist: Science, Morality, and Extreme Relativism Julian Walker, a fellow YogaBrainer whose thinking and writing I...
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How the Monsanto Protection Act Silently Slipped Into Law
Last week, Congress quietly passed a controversial last minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill that has many food and consumer advocates up in arms. The addendum, which has been...
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Catholic Leader Says Homosexuality is Unnatural: 5 Pictures of Gay Animals...
Last year when Illinois legislators approved civil unions for same sex couples, the Catholic church launched a fierce opposition. Now, with state lawmakers considering a state-wide approval of same-sex...
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Dove Real Beauty Sketches: Why Do Women Hate Their Bodies?
Do women see themselves less accurately than strangers do? According to a study commissioned by Dove, only 4% of women around the world would describe themselves as beautiful. 72% of young girls...
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Will Banning Underweight Models Prevent Eating Disorders?
In 2007, Israeli fashion model Hila Elmaliah died of anorexia at 34-years-old. She had dwindled away to just under 60 pounds when she passed. Elmaliah’s untimely death motivated her friend, Israeli...
View Article#OccupyYouAreBeautiful: Why I’m Camped Out On A Rooftop Yoga Mat
Right now I’m sitting on a yoga mat on the rooftop of 2309 Main Street in Santa Monica, California. Just below me is a giant red wall painted with the words “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL,” and there are two...
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