Transform Your Eating Habits: Focus on Adding Nutrients Instead of Subtracting Foods
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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Better Eating Through Adding Healthy Foods Not Subtracting
We have all been there. Telling ourselves that we will eat ‘No more cookies’, ‘No more late night snacks’, ‘No more sugary drinks’. If you are anything like me, this usually lasts for about a week at best before I…
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Why Dieting Doesn’t Work, And What You Can Do Instead
Diets Just Don’t Work
When someone mentions to you that they are on a diet, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
In most cases, we start thinking about what they aren’t allowed to eat on their diet and…
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Be Your Own Best Friend
How is it that we can be a good friend to everyone but ourselves?
If you can be solid as a rock for others, then of course you can be that for yourself too.
In fact, you must be.
Sometimes,…
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Harness the Strength of Mind and Body Using Positive Affirmations
In the pursuit of personal growth and self-improvement, the transforemative power of affirmations as a tool/technique to strengthen both our mental and physical resilience cannot be overlooked.
Affirmations are a powerful and versatile practice with the potential to profoundly impact…
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Leptin: The Hormone Behind Hunger and Weight Regulation
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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Strength Training Exercise For Body and Brain Health
It is a sad fact that 8 out of 10 adults do not do enough proper exercise. This means their muscles do not get worked anywhere near enough to keep vital “growth and repair” hormones stimulated and flowing. The growth…
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Yes, You Can Have a Garden
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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Momentum Matters
Finding the motivation to exercise can be difficult. What and where is this special motivation needed to get out of bed and out the door to your workouts?
If you’re waiting to wake someday with an intense desire to exercise…
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Osteocalcin, the Hormone Believed to Protect Our Brain
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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