Clean Eating
Clean Eating
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Gut Health
Five Steps to Good Gut Health – Part 1 of 2 I want to share five different steps over the next two weeks that you can implement today to help you enjoy good gut health. Each of these steps independently will have a significant impact on your overall mental and physical well being, as they are intricately linked. Attempting to adopt too many steps into your lifestyle at once can feel overwhelming. My experience with my coaching clients is that too much at once tends to discourage people from moving forward. I want you to take it easy on yourself, and focus on one step at a time. Set goals,…
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Becoming Gluten Free
Becoming Gluten Free Me So many people have concerns about how gluten affects them. I hear from many of them, and one of the threads that comes through all the time is how confusing it all is. They’d like to reduce or eliminate gluten, but they don’t know who or what to believe and where to begin. To that end, I am teaching a simple two module course that will help answer questions and clear up a lot of this confusion. I call the course, “Becoming Gluten Free Me”, and I’ve designed it to help you understand and more importantly to take action! It will begin in April, and I…
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Thyme tea
Thyme tea…have you ever heard of it? If you’ve never tried thyme tea, I have a new taste sensation for you! If you’ve never heard of it, it’s easy to make and has a host of benefits for your health. It soothes your stomach, so it’s good if you suffer from indigestion; it helps relieve menstrual cramps; helps you sleep, sharpens your cognitive function, boosts your immune system (great during this really tough cold/flu season we’re having), helps heal respiratory issues and protects against chronic disease! The active ingredient found in thyme, thymol, is a powerful antioxidant. Thyme tea helps with cognitive decline and issues associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s…
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Another New Fad Diet – What is the Military Diet
Another New Fad Diet – What is the Military Diet? I was reading an article about a new fad diet called “The Military Diet”. I’m not sure why it’s called that as it has nothing to do with the military or anything to do with how they encourage military members to eat. It’s probably just a name designed to catch your attention as it did mine. I was curious what a “military diet” would look like and read about it, so from a marketing perspective, it works. That’s where it stops working though as it is a very odd approach to weight loss, and from my perspective and based on…
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Organic or Conventional?
Organic or Conventional? Which is better? The short answer is that organic is better for you, but we all know organic is more expensive and many of us try to stick to a budget. This begs the question, which fruits are best purchased organic and which can be conventional? I put together a short video to give you some guidelines to help with your choices when you go grocery shopping…to help you answer the question, organic or conventional…which should I buy? Please let me know if you have questions! Helping You Achieve Major Wellness in Your Life! Cheryl A Major, CNWC I am Cheryl A Major, a Certified Nutrition and…
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What are the Different Kinds of Inflammation
What are the Different Kinds of Inflammation? Recent headlines show that awareness is growing about the connection between chronic inflammation and many serious health conditions. In fact, it appears that chronic inflammation may be the cause – rather than a symptom – of these conditions. It’s important to realize you can eat to avoid inflammation! Did you know there are different kinds of inflammation, and not all of them are bad? It’s true! One type of inflammation actually allows our bodies to heal themselves. Medical experts now believe your diet and other lifestyle strategies can play a major role in the prevention of this dangerous inflammation. I made this quick…
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Avoid Inflammation by Changing the Way You Eat
Avoid Inflammation by Changing the Way You Eat Recent headlines show that awareness is growing about the connection between chronic inflammation and many serious health conditions. In fact, it appears that chronic inflammation may be the cause – rather than a symptom – of these conditions. It’s important to realize you can eat to avoid inflammation! Medical experts now believe your diet and other lifestyle strategies can play a major role in the prevention of this dangerous inflammation. Here’s what you need to know about inflammation. The Facts Acute inflammation. Acute inflammation is good for you! In fact, it’s necessary for the healing process. When you have an injury…
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Exfoliate and Nourish Your Skin with Food from Your Kitchen!
Ten Foods You Can Use to Exfoliate and Nourish Your Skin This week’s article is for all you ladies out there… Do you ever wonder why a man’s face doesn’t seem to age as quickly as a woman’s? Why do we fight the fine lines, and men just don’t? It’s because they shave every day (well, most of them do), and they exfoliate their skin by shaving! Today I want to share with you ten foods you can use to exfoliate and nourish your skin. What exactly is exfoliation? Simply put, it’s the removal of the outermost layer of dead skin cells on the skin’s surface. Those dead skin cells…
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Are You Addicted to Yo-Yo Dieting?
Are You Addicted to Yo-Yo Dieting? Are you addicted to yo-yo dieting? If you lose and gain, lose and gain and then lose and gain again, you may very well be. This is called yo-yo-dieting, and so many of us deal with it on a regular basis. Part of the reason for this phenomenon is the very fact that we are dieting. I counsel my coaching clients not to diet. The very word “diet” screams misery and deprivation. It also screams temporary. We’re good for a while… eat sensibly and lose weight. Then we’ve had enough, can’t take the diet anymore and go off the rails. We gain back all…
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The Truth about Gluten Free – are all gluten free products good for you?
What is the Truth about Gluten Free? If you’re wondering what is the truth about gluten free, I want to introduce you to Dr. Mark Hyman, one of my favorite health gurus. In fact, he is largely responsible for my freedom from the depression that haunted me for decades. In addition, I lost 20 pounds without dieting. A nice surprise! I received an article from Dr. Hyman that I absolutely have to share with you. In it, he says: “Sugar and flour are THE main reason we get sick and fat. They form the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most chronic diseases, sucking the life out of our people and…
