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...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining...
...McCall, it should be said, is a true believer who teaches at the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Center in Boston. But more mainstream physicians seem ready to agree. At New York Presbyterian, all heart patients undergoing cardiac procedures are offered massages and yoga during recovery. At Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, cardiac doctors suggest that their patients enroll in the hospital's Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, which offers yoga, among other therapies. "While we haven't tested yoga as a stand-alone therapy," says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz, the center's director, patients opting for yoga do show...
...care enough to send the hairy beast," accompanied by a drawing of a fat, furry, grinning monster. And my personal favorite, which I gave at least 5 times to each of my (long-suffering) parents: "I love you. Almost as much as I love chocolate." (Hey, we're Presbyterian. This is what passes for an embarrassing outpouring of sentiment in our house...
...vigils at border-crossing points and often goes out into the desert to dispense toiletry kits and water bottles to people crossing over. The Rev. John Fife, an activist in Tucson, has earned three felony convictions for harboring immigrants and now permits the newly arrived to bathe at his Presbyterian church...
...leader has a one-on-one conversation with him to see if he is ready to be "saved" then and there. That practice has been criticized by mainline churches, even as they applaud the Fellowship's other activities. Says Rosalie Potter, head of evangelism and church development at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): "It would be hard to expect a child of four or five to have a conversion experience with integrity." Fellowship leaders say that attitude underestimates the spiritual aptitude of kids. "I'm not saying a child is going to understand what Calvinism is," says Fournier...