Healthy Living
Healthy Living
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Improve Memory Function
Can you Improve Memory Function Once You Have Started to Lose it? It’s understandable to think that once you begin to lose your memory, you might not be able to improve memory function. However, in most cases there are practices or solutions for dealing with memory lapses, and you can actually improve your memory. You may want to consult your health care professional to receive an accurate diagnosis and a recommended treatment. A doctor may be able to determine the cause of your memory loss. Memory loss can be reversed, depending on the cause. A few of the types that can often be reversed are caused by depression, thyroid problems,…
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My Husband’s Cholesterol Ruined Our Vacation
How My Husband’s Cholesterol Ruined Our Vacation How would you feel if you flew 3000 miles for vacation and spent it watching your husband sleep off the side effects of a prescription cholesterol medication? It was 2012, and we had come out to California for my niece’s wedding. After the event, we headed down to San Diego to enjoy a few days of vacation before heading back home to New England, but my husband’s cholesterol ruined our vacation. This one particular day, we had decided to walk around San Diego. It was hot and gorgeous, with that California sun beating straight down much as we remembered it did in Italy.…
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Body Tension Activities that Soothe Stress at Any Age
Body Tension Activities that Soothe Stress at Any Age When you’re under stress, you experience tension in your body, especially in your muscles. This muscle tension keeps them from relaxing in the manner they are designed to function. That why it’s important to find body tension activities that soothe stress. This is not a physical condition, but is a physical reaction to the emotional fallout that’s caused by stress. This is why you can have backaches when you’re stressed – or stiff shoulders or neck pain. Your body is taking on your stress. Because stress is absorbed into your body, it can cause the aging process to accelerate. There are…
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Brain Health for Entrepreneurs
Brain Health for Entrepreneurs This is a guest post from Connie Ragen Green on the topic of brain health for entrepreneurs. Be sure to check out all she has to offer…books, training and so much more at https://ConnieRagenGreen.com As we near the end of the decade I thought it would be helpful for me to share some ideas with you about brain health and optimization. I always thought that if I avoided risky behaviors and did not have injuries or illnesses that affected the brain I would be alright, but it turns out there is much more to it than that. It’s the combination of eating the right food and…
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It’s not just about food…check your cleaning products too!
It’s not just about food… It’s not just about food…It’s about what you put on your skin, what you wash your clothes with and what you use to clean. This became no more certainly apparent than a few years ago when the manager of a pub in the neighboring town of Burlington, Massachusetts was overcome with toxic fumes and died as a result. He was a thirty-two year old man, a new father and his life was snuffed out by toxic chemicals. When I first read about it, the report was that he was cleaning the floor with bleach when the chemical accident occurred. My fear was that he had…
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Words to Eat by…Enjoy Every Bite
Words to Eat by…Enjoy Every Bite! Every Tuesday I email the people on my list who want to learn from me, and I send them “Two Tip Tuesday”! This is a short email with two important tips for them to add to their healthy eating/healthy living arsenal. This week, I sent them this advice…Words to Eat by…Enjoy Every Bite! Your first tip today is to eat healthfully most of the time. Avoid sugary processed food and go for healthy salads and small amounts of lean protein and fresh vegetables. That may sound like a no-brainer, but it sets you up for your second tip. Tip two is, when you go…
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Keep Your Brain Young
Keep Your Brain Young When you think about aging, your thoughts may wander to images of being less able bodied, slower and older in appearance and to physical health problems. Let’s discuss some ways to help keep your brain young! There is another side to growing older that is not thought about quite as much but can be even more devastating than physical challenges. That is the effect that aging can have on your brain. Just like your body, you brain can begin to age as well. How can you protect your brain into your healthy older years? Here are some strategies and suggestions that may be able to help……
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Are You At Risk For Diabetes?
Are You At Risk For Diabetes? With diabetes reaching epidemic proportions in our country, I read everything I can about preventing the disease. For me personally, one of my great grandmothers was diabetic (hyperglycemia), and I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in my late twenties. I am acutely aware that having hypoglycemia can lead to developing diabetes, so I am very careful. I am at risk for diabetes. Additionally, the impetus for me “disappearing” my chronic depression was that my husband had been driven to pre-diabetes by the statin he had been taking for years. That’s what lead me to this life of healthy eating and of teaching…
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The Blue Zones and Longevity
The Blue Zones and Longevity One of my current favorite authors is Dan Buettner who writes about the Blue Zones. If this is a new term to you, the Blue Zones are five areas around the world where people live to be one hundred years old or more. And, they are active, healthy and social! In an article I discovered on getpocket.com, Andrew Merle writes about his discovery of Dan Buettner and his book The Blue Zones Solution. The article is titled, “What to Eat to Live to 100”. Merle writes, in part: Most of the book focuses on food because, as Buettner says, “food may be the best starting point…
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How to Avoid Getting Old Before Your Time
How to Avoid Getting Old Before Your Time… How to avoid getting old before your time? Don’t buy into advertising and programming. If you are approaching fifty or older, this brief article will connect the dots for you, and if you are younger than fifty, I hope you take careful notes! They are coming to get you, and I want to point out three things you need to be aware of. Awareness is key, and you can decide not to take a ticket and get in line for the whole aging thing that they lay on us. You know…the programming that is subtle and not so subtle to expect to be…
