Food Benefits By Color
Fruits and vegetables have abundant nutrients and health benefits from boosting immune system to fighting against cancer. Check out this chart to learn more about health benefits of foods by color! Which one is your favorite?
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Everyday Poisons… What’s in Your Cupboards?
There are so many toxic things everywhere in our homes! This is a great quick look at where they are, what they are, and how to keep our kids and pets safe from them. Things that we use every single day can be toxic in the wrong hands! (or paws!)
Your Handy Guide To Vitamins
Your Handy Guide To Vitamins Our body needs 13 vitamins: vitamins A, C, D, E, K and the B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and folate). Other than vitamins D and K that can be produced in the body, all other vitamins have to be absorbed from food. Today,
Your Health in One Drop
Healthcare is confusing. It makes managing your health hard. With changing health plans, multiple and disconnected practitioners, and wanting to focus on prevention, we need to take responsibility for our own health. Learn more about the huge amount of benefits we can get from a simple blood test, and with the coming technology, we may
Spices that help you lose weight:
Spices that help you lose weight: Cinnamon Cayenne Pepper Black Pepper Mustard Seed Ginger
10 Weeds That Heal
10 Weeds That Heal- Finding cures to common ailments in your backyard: Shepherd’s Purse Cleavers Chickweed Dandelion Groundsel Mallows St. John’s Wort Self Heal Usnea Yarrow
How to Make a Perfect Smoothie
Smoothie is a smooth combination of fruits and yogurt, and you can have tons of creative ideas when it comes to making a smoothie. Smoothie is a healthy drink and yummy snack and is an excellent source of vitamins, antioxidants and other nutrients. By changing the type of milk/yogurt you use in your smoothie you
How to Replace Salt with Herbs and Spices
High sodium intake from processed and restaurant foods is the cause of many health issues, such as high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke. Decreasing sodium consumption could prevent thousands of deaths annually. In this video you can learn more about how to substitute your salt with natural herbs and spices. These substitutes generally have
More Reasons to Eat Fruit
More Reasons to Eat Fruit: Cherries help calm your nervous system Grapes relax your blood vessels Peaches are rich in potassium, fluoride and iron Apples help your body develop resistance against infection Watermelon helps control your heart rate Oranges help maintain great skin and vision Strawberries can potentially fight against cancer and aging Bananas are
Sitting is Killing You
Extended periods of sitting causes major health problems, from increased risk of obesity and diabetes to cardiovascular disease and cancer. The fact is most of our jobs require extended sitting (behind the desk or the wheel), but we have to leave our seat and take a walk for couple of minutes. When we talk with
Healthy Living Secrets
Here are some important facts: About 80% of the diseases can be prevented or postponed by a healthy diet. Mediterranean diet is a good example of the healthy diets. Learn more about Mediterranean diet, eat fresh, use olive oil and stay away from junk food, and packaged food. Supplements don’t have any benefits for you,
How to Choose Healthy Chocolate
Chocolate is one of the best sources of antioxidants and other nutrients that are helpful for our health. For example, it’s been shown that chocolate reduces stress and the risk of stroke and is beneficial in heart health. Also chocolate is a mood-booster food. Interestingly, chocolate is helpful in weight loss! Check out this amazing
Why You Need To Floss
Flossing is one of the most important components of oral health and you need to floss at least once a day for better results. Even a bad flossing is much better than no flossing. Flossing fights against gingivitis and prevents cavities and lessens bad breath. More importantly, flossing prevents some bacteria that may eventually cause
How Diet Soda Causes Weight Gain and Poor Bone Health
In this amazing video you’ll learn more about the basics of acidic and alkaline foods. In fact, the body needs to balance the levels of PH to survive. A long-term consumption of acid-generating foods may cause a huge load of stress on the kidneys and may cause renal failure, high blood pressure and many other
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7 Effects of Soda
The bad effects of having soda is not only due to its high sugar content and high calories. Even diet soda causes many harms to our body. Soda contains some ingredients that have different known and unknown effects. As an example of these weird effects, a new Danish research shows that drinking non-diet soda builds
Walk your way to better health
More than 6 in 10 people walk for exercise, transportation or even taking out their dogs. The good news is that the ratio of people who walk at least once per week for 10 minutes or more is increasing (from 56% in 2005 to 62% in 2010). The bad news is that less than half
5 Reasons to Drink Green Tea
5 Reasons to Drink Green Tea 1. Contains powerful antioxidants 2. Lessens the risk of cancer 3. Increases rate of fat burned 4. reduces stress 5. It tastes GREAT! To learn more about what tea to drink, click here.
Sense of Well-Being
Aloha Hawaii! Hawaiians had the highest well-being in the U.S for the last three consecutive years. In fact, Hawaii ranked the highest in the nationwide survey in emotional health (how likely a resident smiles or laughs everyday, or if they have a daily stress or worry) and in healthy behaviors (exercising, not smoking and eating
