Micro-Nutrients Matter
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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Natural and Organic are Not Interchangable Terms
Is organic food safer or more nutritious?
Organic can be defined as the way farmers grow and process agricultural products like fruits, veggies, grains, dairy products and meat.
Organic farmers practice agriculture that is designed to further soil and water…
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Tasty and Nutritious – Pumpkin Ginger Squares
Pumpkin Ginger Squares
Looking for a new family taste-treat, the perfect treat or dessert the whole family will love, but it must meet your standard of healthy ingredients?
Check out these Pumpkin Ginger Squares. Pumpkin is a very versatile veggie…
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HFCS – An Extremely Bad Sugar
There are two man-made ‘so called’ foods that confuse and throw our natural appetite regulation system ‘out of whack’.
The biggest villain of them all and one that most of us have heard about is “trans-fat”. The other villain is…
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Snacking Does Not Have to be Unhealthy…
Intermittent fasting is a recent health trend. It helps many people to lose and sustain weight loss, improves metabolic health and some claim it adds years to our lives.
And it is easier than most think because our sleeping hours…
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Extreme Diet and Fitness Tactics Don’t Work Long-Term…
Many people, once they’ve decided to shift their lives for the better and adopt exercise and healthy eating will take an “all or nothing at all” approach to both.
What exactly does this mean?
It means they want everything to…
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Time to Stop Child-Hood Obesity…
Obesity and overweight conditions in children has grown considerably and become a serious health problem. In fact, childhood obesity has doubled in children and quadrupled in young adults in the past 30 years alone. Unfortunately, although obesity is easy to…
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What does “healthy eating” really mean?
Maintaining a fit body through active physical fitness along with healthy eating is the key to enjoying a long healthy, vital life. Unfortunately healthy eating means different things to different people.
For some healthy eating means gluten free. For others…
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You Can Kick Weight-loss Resistance
Frustrated with dieting and seem to be stuck at a weight plateau you can’t get past?
The sad reality is, if you’ve been on repeated diets, you’ve likely done a very good job of teaching your body how to store…
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Examine Your Priority List…
Without a doubt, the most powerful way to make important changes in our lives is to spend time identifying our values and priorities and then adjust them based on whether they move us towards our goals or keep us from…
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