Can Happiness Improve Your Health? I think especially today in the chaotic world in which we live, it’s important to ponder the question, “Can Happiness Improve Your Health?  Happiness is an important ingredient in any healthy life. Many studies indicate happiness does play a major role in your health, whether it’s living a healthy lifestyle or reducing the amount of chronic pain – happiness is the solution to many of our health woes. Encourages Healthy Living According to studies, happier people are almost twice as likely to eat more fresh vegetables than people who say they are not happy. Eating more produce definitely improves your health over eating a diet…

I’d rather wake up to coffee cake…I recently received an email from a very popular cooking show saying, “Wake up to coffee cake, apple fritters, etc.”  It made me realize that it truly is all about good food choices. I’ll be honest with you.  I would love to wake up to coffee cake and apple fritters, but then I would be depressed again, probably fighting the pounds and inviting a host of oncoming chronic illnesses that would make me miserable now and in the coming years. If coffee cake and fritters aren’t on the breakfast menu, what in the world is?  Delicious food and good food choices, that’s what!  I’ve…

How is your eye area…this isn’t just for the ladies out there… When we talk about skin care, the assumption is the subject is for women.  Increasingly however, men are taking better care of their skin including their eye area, and so it should be! One universal caution when buying any creams, lotions and/or cosmetics or any personal care products for that matter is to please keep in mind that your skin is your largest organ;  it’s critical to your long term health that you use products made with good quality ingredients on your skin.  A general rule of thumb I use for myself is to note if it is…

Getting Off Antidepressants As I get closer to finishing my book, which is the focal point of my work at the moment, I am on high alert for great information to pass along to you about depression including getting off antidepressants! If you have ever taken antidepressants as I have and have tried to get off them, as I have, you know it’s not an easy thing to do.  It takes some time, can be dangerous and gives you some nasty side effects along the way. I have a friend who has been on them for decades and cannot get off them.  She has tried repeatedly and has not yet…

Five Steps to Good Gut Health – part 2 of 2 In the last post we talked about eating whole, unprocessed foods and identifying and eliminating food sensitivities and allergies… how to improve gut health. Here are steps 3 – 5 to help you along the way! Step #3 – Balance the Bacteria As previously mentioned, there are millions of bacteria in your gut and the vast majority of these bacteria are essential for your good health. When we’re in our mother’s uterus, we’re free from bacteria. The process of being born immediately exposes us to bacteria. Scientists believe that the first few months of life essentially set the tone…

What about losing weight and Hara Hachi Bu? You need to know what I know…I don’t say that to be arrogant.  I say it because I desperately want to help so many people. First of all, I don’t like to talk about losing weight.  Losing is associated with finding.  Too many of us find the weight we lose and then often find even more of that weight.  I want to help you “release” your unwanted weight so it’s gone…so you know how to live and to eat so you don’t find it again!  Hara Hachi Bu. What does that mean, and how can it help? Hara Hachi Bu is a…