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Gluten…Evil or Not?
Gluten…Evil or Not? Ah gluten…it gives breads, cakes and cookies such great texture. Lately though, there has been a lot of negative press about gluten. I decided to address this in my latest TV show on Thin Strong Healthy. This edition is titled Gluten…Evil or Not? I hope you’ll take a look! “] Helping You Achieve Major Wellness! Cheryl A Major, CNWC Certified Nutrition & Wellness Consultant I’m Cheryl A Major, and I work with people of all ages and challenges to help them understand how and what to eat to get healthy quickly and deliciously. Download your 10 Tips for Healthy Eating on a Budget, and get started right…
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What Do Sugar and Cocaine Have In Common?
What Do Sugar and Cocaine Have In Common? Here’s a scary fact for you to ponder… When scientists took MRI images of the brains of people consuming sugar and highly addictive drugs like cocaine, the same pleasure centers in the brain started lighting up. Sounds pretty, scary, doesn’t it? But what does the similarity between sugar and cocaine actually mean for your brain and your overall health? First of all, sugar is truly addictive. What that means to you is that consuming sugar will alter your brain chemistry, and over time you will start to crave more and more sugar. The urge for your next sweet “fix” comes more frequently,…
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Green Tea – here’s a great tasting way to enjoy it!
Green Tea Green Tea tastes terrible! Or at least that’s what a client of mine told me the other day. So…I decided to write a post and share it with all of you about how I used to agree with her, but now I’ve learned to make a delicious rich hot cup of green tea that you just might love! I’ll tell you how I do it in a minute, but first, I want to extol the virtues of green tea. It’s amazingly good for you. Did you know that arthritis doctors say one serving of green tea can help ward of an attack of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? In fact,…
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Detoxing for Better Health
Detoxing for Better Health Detoxing for better health…will a body detox make you feel better? When you detox your body by feeding it high nutrient-dense food, or even by eliminating all food for a period of time, you help your body heal itself. Controlling exactly what you put into your body will help rest your organs, stimulate your liver, promote elimination, improve circulation, and refuel your body with high nutrition. I have a FREE report for you on how to detox the body. It’s waiting for you on the right hand side of the web site. Here’s what a detox can do: Increase Energy – If you want to bring back…
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If You Hate to Diet, Check This Out!
If you hate to diet, read this There are a couple of recurring themes I hear from people when I try (and I always try) to impress upon them the importance to their long-term health and well-being of switching to a healthier, cleaner diet. Those themes are: I hate to diet; I don’t want to give up the foods I love; and how do I get started…it’s so hard to change! I’m glad you asked, because we’re going to talk about these three challenges in this post! First, I understand you hate to diet. No one enjoys it. Garfield once pointed out that diet is “Die with a T”…Dieting screams misery…
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Increase Productivity Naturally…what are you eating today?
Increase Productivity Naturally I just read a fascinating article in the Harvard Business Review, and I couldn’t wait to share it with you! It’s about how to increase productivity naturally. We all know food affects us in many ways. Our food choices dictate in large part our health, our longevity, and how we feel on a daily basis. In this article, a study published just this month in the British Journal of Health Psychology was discussed; it really drives home how important our food choices are for our mental state and how important they are for our productivity! Yes, what you eat can actually make you a more productive person! Here’s one of my…
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BPA and you…this is a crucial read for your future health!
BPA and You BPA and You…If we tested you for BPA, would you test positive? 93% of us would! Can you believe it? 93% of us!! If you think that’s not important, allow me to put that into perspective. BPA (bisphenol A) is an endocrine-disrupting industrial chemical. In the vernacular, that means BPA messes with your hormones. Let’s discuss what BPA does to us and who should avoid exposure to it, how BPA is used and what products contain BPA, and what to look for if you want to avoid exposure to BPA (I’ll give you a great resource to use to find out if your favorite products contain BPA).…
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In memory of Geoff Hoff…
In Memory of Geoff Hoff… I knew Geoff Hoff longer than I’ve known anyone else online. He led the “Red Group” I was in when I signed up for Pat O’Bryan’s course: “Wow! This is Easy!” back in 2010 or thereabouts… Along with learning, Wow!…this isn’t easy… it’s a lot of work, I also learned that Geoff was a remarkably patient, earnest and caring person. Later, I reconnected with Geoff through Connie Ragen Green. I joined his Wednesday night call and met several other great people through him who were also developing online businesses, and learned so much. He became my techie go-to guru person; I depended upon him to…
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Change Your Mindset to Relieve Stress… and live a longer, healthier life
Change Your Mindset to Relieve Stress Laugh – Laughter reduces stress and helps keep your heart healthy. It improves blood flow, reduces inflammation in your arteries and may actually reduce cholesterol and blood clot formation. If you don’t laugh much, make a point of laughing. Check out Youtube for some old Dean Martin Roasts (which are hysterical…I dare you not to laugh! Just watching those guys laugh cracks me up), find a humor website to follow, call a silly friend, read a funny book and watch funny videos. Laughter relieves stress as well! Besides, it’s fun to laugh and be silly sometimes. We live in a very serious world. Take…
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Change Your Diet to Live a Longer, Healthier Life!
Change Your Diet to Live a Longer, Healthier Life! During this series of blog posts, I’ll share 36 ways to increase your life span. Many of these steps require diet and lifestyle changes. In order for these changes to be effective and to truly become part of your day-to-day routine, you’ll want to take it slowly and tackle one change at a time. Lifestyle experts suggest that it takes two to three weeks to create a new habit. As you read through the next 36 longevity tactics, identify a few that would be easy to integrate into your life. Focus on one of them at a time. When you’ve adopted…
