by Lynn Price

Someone once observed, “If you gain one pound a year after you’re married, by the time you’ve been married 50 years, you’ll have gained 50 pounds.”

When I married, my husband and I agreed that after the birth of each child, I had to regain my pre-pregnancy weight before I could get pregnant again. This plan worked well for my first four children. And then we moved to Germany.

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by Danielle Ellis

As the third part of our series on Provident Living, this issue of Desert Saints Magazine focuses on Physical Health. Since our bodies are the means through which our spirits must work and live on this earth, their functionality is key. If we allow our health to break down, we are unable to learn, grow, serve and find joy in all the ways the Lord has promised to us.

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by Dave Ellis

I don’t know how they did it. My parents made raising us kids looks so easy. I feel it was a bit deceptive. We kids, or us kids, whatever, would be playing out back and then my mom would call us in for dinner and POOF it was ready. We’d come home from school and POOF Christmas decorations were up. We’d ask our parents to make some POOF and POOF the POOF was there!

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by Shannon Pointer

Why are we counseled to eat “in the season thereof”?

It’s probably easier on the budget, but as we continue to learn about food, we are learning why, for instance, we should eat strawberries in the spring rather than in January. Strawberries ripen in the spring and they also happen to be a natural blood thinner and a perfect food to prepare the body for warmer weather.

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by Danielle Ellis

Exercise is always on my to-do list. Yet with four young children and a hectic schedule, exercise seems to always get crowded out of my schedule. A few months ago I decided to do something about it.

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By Steve Tracy, MA NAFP MFT

Question: We are a good family but need to help everyone get healthy. While we do everything we are supposed to I worry about the amount of sitting we do between home, school, TV, games, and the types of food we eat. We have tried in the past to eat and exercise regularly but it never seems to last. Do you have some suggestions for helping us make it work this time?

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by Shannon Miller

As a stay-at-home mom of two young children, the phrase “parenting is a sacred calling” isn’t always comforting. The never-ending dishes, vacuuming, and pulling apart fighting children seem anything but sacred. As I was feeling unsettled and unsure about my decision to stay at home, I turned to the scriptures. I found that studying the scriptures increased my desire to teach and be patient with my children.

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Red Mountain Music Company is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get. And this season, they’re making more unexpected music you can’t refuse, as they present “Pure Imagination: The Music of Hollywood.”

Here’s what you’ll be looking at kid: the Red Mountain Choir, the Red Mountain Youth Choir, acclaimed directors Jeffrey and David Skouson, a sensational band, memorable film clips and an array of celebrated movie music. If the force was with you when you saw Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Casablanca, or Breakfast at Tiffany’s, frankly my dear, you won’t want to miss this live performance of music from these and other favorite flicks.

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Much of the dentistry world has recently gone “high end,” with a goal to “sell” patients on as many services and products as possible, whether or not they are really needed.

Dr. Ben Glick, whose brand new office is located on Horizon Ridge Parkway near Gibson Road in Henderson, takes a different approach. Rather than telling patients they must get the most expensive procedure done to a damaged tooth, he explains all the options. “This is what you need, but this would be nice,” is a common approach for him. Giving patients options in their care according to time frame or cost develops a high level of trust.

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by LaRae Free Kerr

My Dad died last Saturday. And I am far from home. I didn’t feel him drift away, and I am already lonesome for him. But as is the nature of our modern world, before I received the news, the documents recording his death were begun.

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by Gail Jackson

For Dave’s March birthday in 1999, the gifts from our children and I included a subscription to a photography magazine, art supplies and accompanying how-to books, jigsaw puzzles, emergency flares and simple emergency automotive supplies.
Our family was giving him things to further his hobbies and give him material to pursue new interests. We were giving him things to help him through what we all thought would be his impending widower-hood, about two months down the road.

I had become very ill in December and continued to decline in spite of medical efforts to discover what was wrong.

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If you’re tired of the high cost of supermarket beef, or are part of the growing group of people who don’t want your family eating improperly fed, antibiotic and hormone filled meat, there is an alternative. It’s natural beef from High Desert Natural, raised on family-owned ranches in Panaca, Nevada.

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Lightstone Studios has just released the sixth title in its popular Liken the Scriptures series of DVDs.

Called “Esther and the King,” the live-action musical portrays the biblical story as seen from the imagination of a modern-day child. “Our hope with this series is that children will learn that they can apply scripture stories to the challenges they face today,” said Las Vegas resident Craig Brooksby, executive producer at Lightstone. “We’re delighted when we hear from parents who tell us that they were not only able to enjoy the movies with their children, but they were able to follow it up with meaningful gospel discussions.”

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by Danielle Ellis

Although there was no smoke, the U.S. Forest Service was fighting a fire. With the dry season rapidly approaching, they got help from more than 250 boy scouts and leaders from the Las Vegas Area Council to reduce the fire danger in the hills and valleys of Mount Charleston.

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by Kara Sommer

I love a great fixer-upper project. I take a lot of pride in my “before and afters.” This time I decided to take a set of lamps that were plain, simple, and uninteresting (not to mention inexpensive) and dress them up a bit. I did this by spray painting them gold and then rubbing a gel stain over it to make them look antique. I updated the lamp shades by gluing lace to them. I also added a beaded by-the-yard trim to complete the look.

This project was easy and fun. Now the lamps don’t seem so plain, simple, or uninteresting anymore. (They are still inexpensive!) Dress up something in your home with a little paint and creativity. It goes a long way!