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Transform Your Eating Habits: Focus on Adding Nutrients Instead of Subtracting Foods
August 8, 2024
Awesome recipes, Brain foods, Disease Prevention, Health Bank Account, Metabolism, Self-Care
A Healthy Diet
When it comes to trying to eat a healthier diet, many of us focus on subtracting the “bad” foods from our diet. We cut out sugar, fat, gluten, grains and processed foods, thinking that this will automatically…
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Leptin: The Hormone Behind Hunger and Weight Regulation
April 14, 2024
Anti Aging Exercise, Belly Fat, Brain foods, Disease Prevention, Health Bank Account, Healthy Balanced Eating, Hormones, Self-Care, Self-Discipline, Weight Loss, Wellness
A recent survey showed that many people believe they are living a healthy lifestyle even though two thirds of us are overweight and one third of those obese. Most people believed it was a lack of exercise that contributed the…
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Yes, You Can Have a Garden
October 23, 2023
Brain foods, Disease Prevention, Foods that Build Lean Muscle, Health Bank Account, Super-foods, Wellness
If you have never grown vegetables before and always wanted to grow your own food, but don’t have the time or space for a full-size outdoor garden – container gardening is a good place to get started. You don’t need…
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Osteocalcin, the Hormone Believed to Protect Our Brain
February 13, 2023
Anti Aging Exercise, Brain foods, Depression, Disease Prevention, Health Bank Account, Hormones, Metabolism, Mind Power, Proper Exercise, Self-Care, Wellness
Hormones are “chemical messengers that coordinate different functions in the body.” Most of us are aware of and relatively knowledgeable about a handful of them such as estrogen, testosterone, oxytocin, serotonin, melatonin and cortisone.
But did you know there is…
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Peppermint Green Power Slice
November 30, 2022
Awesome recipes, Brain foods, Disease Prevention, Foods that Build Lean Muscle, Health Bank Account, Healthy Balanced Eating, Healthy Raw Desserts and Treats, Super-foods
Vegetables are nutrient powerhouses bursting with color and flavor. They provide our bodies with important vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and fiber, all essential nutrients to creating healthy, balanced diets, so it makes sense to include them in our diets in…
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Enjoy Your Daily Health Shake
July 28, 2022
Awesome recipes, Brain foods, Health Bank Account, Healthy Balanced Eating, Healthy Raw Desserts and Treats, Heart Health, Self-Care, Wellness
Who doesn’t want to live a long, healthy, vital life? One that we’re an active participant and not sitting on the sidelines? What’s the use of having our “senior years” if we can’t enjoy them? Living is about the quality…
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Are You Building Your “Defensive Army” or Tearing it Down?
May 4, 2022
Brain foods, Disease Prevention, Health Bank Account, Healthy Balanced Eating, Heart Health, Self-Care, Super-foods, Wellness
For optimal health and wellness it’s ultimately important that we are including foods that are rich in antioxidants.
Antioxidants are substances such as vitamins that help to prevent free-radical damage to the body by neutralizing the oxidation process and reducing…
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Are You At Risk for Cancer?
April 11, 2022
Brain foods, Disease Prevention, Health Bank Account, Healthy Balanced Eating, Super-foods, Wellness
Most cancers can be prevented. When a person has cancer it usually indicates that there are nutritional deficiencies at work. These could be due to environmental, food, genetic and even lifestyle factors.
Most people don’t realize it but everyone has…
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Key Behaviors for Permanent Weight-Loss
February 28, 2022
Anti Aging Exercise, Brain foods, Healthy Balanced Eating, Motivation to Exercise, Proper Exercise, Self-Care, Super-foods, Weight Loss
When it comes to being healthy, losing weight and slimming down where should your focus be? Exercise or diet?
Both. Weight loss is achieved by burning more calories than you take in or consuming fewer than you burn.
Permanent weight…
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Micro-Nutrients Matter
February 28, 2022
Brain foods, Healthy Balanced Eating, Healthy Raw Desserts and Treats
Nutrients are chemical compounds that are found in all the foods we eat. All the functions of your body systems like breathing, thinking and even your beating heart, require energy and this energy comes from nutrients.
Nutrients can be broken…
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