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Beauty, Health and Happiness--A Way of Life.


BEAUTY, HEALTH, AND HAPPINESS

By Lily lily, common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the earth and particularly abundant in warm temperate and tropical regions.  of Colorado

Lily of Colorado lives as she preaches--happily, peacefully, and doing what she loves: running a small, ethical skin care products line. For the first third of this book, she is quite stuck on the happiness part. She chats away, offering a pep talk and sounding like a best girlfriend, as if the reader is trying to stuff her legs into a pair of jeans a size too small, or is guiltily sneaking a cigarette. And it's very sweet: we all need that best girlfriend--the one who will love us no matter who we are or what we are doing. She seems to genuinely care for our mental well-being and believes that as soon as we are happy with ourselves, the rest will follow.

The result is a bubbly, positive book that has a great outlook and a bunch of wonderful ideas about nutrition, rejuvenation Rejuvenation
Aeson

in extreme old age, restored to youth by Medea. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322]

apples of perpetual youth

by tasting the golden apples kept by Idhunn, the gods preserved their youth. [Scand. Myth.
, and inner peace. Although the bulk of the book is about her skin care products, you are invited to take whatever you need from it--it's about your health and your happiness. And if you do giggle girlishly girl·ish  
adj.
Characteristic of or befitting a girl: girlish charm.



girlish·ly adv.
 once or twice while you're reading, don't worry--I did the same thing.

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 0-9669383-0-5) is published by HCO HCO Harvard College Observatory
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 Press. It is 354 pages and retails for $19.95.
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Author:Robie, Meri
Publication:Vegetarian Journal
Article Type:Book Review
Date:Sep 1, 2001
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