On AlterNet: body

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When the Body Says No: How Emotions Can Cause or Prevent Deadly Disease

Amy Goodman, Gabor Mate, Democracy Now!. January 2, 2011.

Physician Gabor Maté argues too many doctors ignore what was once a commonplace assumption, that emotions are implicated in the development of illnesses and in their healing.

Is Plastic Surgery a New Religious Rite of Passage?

Jeremy Biles, Religion Dispatches. April 25, 2010.

Though it may be a global phenomenon, the roots of this fixation on the body may lie partly in American religion.

Nudism: Stick It to Your Puritan Forebears By Stripping Down

Liz Langley, AlterNet. July 21, 2009.

Nudism might be a marginalized lifestyle today, but eons ago it was all the rage. And no wonder: public nudity is natural, healthy and fun.