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4 ways to eat your way to lower cholesterol

Many people can reduce cholesterol levels simply by changing what they eat. For example, if you are a fan of cheeseburgers, eating less meat (and leaner cuts) and more vegetables, fruits... Here are four steps for using your diet to lower your cholesterol.

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Pilates, a good foundation for kids

Pilates was inspired by children’s flexibility, strength and ease of movement to study the phases of child development in which infants develop muscle control and core stability. Joseph Pilates used this knowledge as a basis to design and sequence his exercise program in a manner that parallels a child’s motor development.

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Powerful Super-Foods for your Heart Health

Following the old adage, “You are what you eat,” Americans spent many years afraid of fat. But, thankfully, times have changed. Recognizing the crucial role “good” fats play in maintaining healthy levels of vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients in the body, we now live in constant search for new sources of monounsaturated fat, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. 

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Research on Heart Disease in Women

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Women often experience heart disease differently than men. For example, men have more heart attacks than women, but women have a higher heart attack death rate. 

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Detox part 2: How to Keep Up Your Hard Work After Vacation!

You have done so much to lose a few pounds and looked great.  Now, after a few days off, relaxing with friends or getting through a vacation, we are back home, and sometimes wished we hadn’t had all the drinks and food during our time off. Here are some quick tips to help you during this time to get back to normal within the next week. 

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Tonic Herbs and Radiant Health

Many may not realize that as our skin sags and droops so do our internal organs. Who’s ever concerned with having an “upright liver”? In fact, it is very important that our internal organs are toned and energized. When they are, we have beauty within that radiates outward. 

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The Amazing Benefits of Honey

Honey could be described as the ‘Nectar of the Gods’ for its historic uses for health, vitality, medicine, and beauty. In its most simple form, it is a healthy and characteristic natural sweetener; it is a widely used alternative to cane sugar. We should really appreciate the level of work put in by the amazing bees that produce our honey worldwide - it is thought that it may take around 160,000 bees to produce just one pound of honey!

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Fuelling Your Workouts for Wellness

Exercise fuels us and energizes us; it provides an outlet for clearing out expired energy as well as keeping us fit and healthy. Fuelling ourselves for exercise means that we adopt the nutrition habits that fully support it and enhance our way of life. Here are a few ways that you can fire yourself up for your workouts and wellness.

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Becoming a Better you for Better Health

We strive for more of an external beauty in our youth, then as we ‘become’ we realize that true beauty is more of a measure of what is within. That being said, we should always aim to take the best possible care of our external appearance, it all amounts to self-love and self-care something that we should have at the forefront of our minds. How do you promote becoming a better you? Here are a few things to think about on that journey!

How To Consume More Water By EATING It How To Consume More Water By EATING It

How To Consume More Water By EATING It

Contrary to popular belief, it is, in fact, possible to have your water and eat it too! In this article, I will show you 5 very easy ways to do exactly that.

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Fresh Produce: Selecting and Serving it Safely

Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet. Your local markets carry a wide variety of nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables. As you enjoy fresh produce, follow these safe-handling tips to help protect yourself and your family.

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Grapefruit Juice and Some Drugs Don't Mix

Grapefruit juice and the actual grapefruit can be part of a healthy diet. Grapefruit has vitamin C and potassium—nutrients your body needs to work properly. But it isn’t good for you when it affects the way your medicines work.

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Safe Food Handling: What You Need to Know

The food supply in the United States is among the safest in the world. However, when certain disease-causing bacteria or pathogens contaminate food, they can cause food-borne illness, often called “food poisoning.” Consuming dangerous food-borne bacteria will usually cause illness within 1 to 3 days of eating the contaminated food. Know the Symptoms.

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Joint pain...is it osteoarthritis?

Your knee aches from time to time. Or maybe your fingers don't seem as nimble as they used to be. Is it osteoarthritis?

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The science of detox

The science of detox is about the science of liver nutrition.  The human body has an amazing ability to cleanse itself of not only wastes created by the biochemical processes within the body but also toxins that originate from outside the body. 

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Happier Hormones for a Healthier You

Our hormones play such a pivotal role in our bodies; they are our ‘chemical messengers’ and we cannot survive without them. They control and coordinate our mood, emotions, metabolism, sleep pattern, bodily functions, fertility and immune system (among lots more intricate and finer details of our well-being). Here we look at a few tips for better and happier hormonal balance.

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Kick Start your Mornings

Have you heard of Kombucha? Kombucha is a living health drink made by fermenting tea and sugar with the ‘kombucha’ culture. It is thought to have originated in the Far East and the benefits may include improvements in energy levels, metabolic disorders, allergies...

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3 Ways to Boost Your Immunity to Feel Great

 Our immune system plays an important role in fending off any external influences that may knock us down from time to time so we can be at our strongest and healthiest from within. What we focus on is often more of what we get, so the key thing is to direct your energy to the right places for better long-term results.

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Three Reminders for the Essentials of Life

So what are the essentials of life? Health and happiness! Our body needs clean air, food, water, exercise, and rest, our inner being needs love, relationships, time to play and have fun, and to connect with the essence of life- in tune with our own beat and what makes us happy!

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Get Ready, Get Set, Spring into Action

Regardless of where we live, spring seems to being welcomed changes. More daylight, warmth, and greening growth as our earth re-energizes. 

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Healthy - First and Foremost

Health is something that means different things to different people. Some may see health and fitness as being able to run for a bus without gasping for oxygen, others may see it as living a lifestyle that keeps them looking and feeling good. Here we look at a few ways you can get smarter with your health each day!

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How to Take the Pain Out of Cleaning. 6 easy tips to get the job done without injury

It's that time of year when many people feel compelled to clean their closets, houses or garages. What most people don't realize is that these chores can be extremely hard on their muscles and bones and can lead to aches, pains and injury.

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The Inner You and Your Timeless Beauty

So earlier in the year we looked at the beauty of each day and slowing down the clock on aging

Isn't black garlic just garlic? Isn't black garlic just garlic?

Isn't black garlic just garlic?

Opting to use the power of natural remedies to encourage and promote a healthy lifestyle is something worthy to aspire to, there may be instances where a more conventional approach is needed but generally, we have what we need literally all around us…

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7 Steps to keeping your body healthy

Very often injuries and illnesses manifest themselves through a lack of care for your body; here are 7 steps to focus on.

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Plant-based diet linked with lowering type 2 diabetes risk

The key is in consuming a plant-based diet—especially one rich in high-quality plant foods such as 

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Bridging the Gap from Ayurveda to Modern Medicine

Arthritis is the # 1 cause of disability with an incidence of 25-30% of the world population. An estimated 50 million adults in the United States reported being told by a doctor that they have some form of arthritis.