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Five Immune Boosting Foods
Five Immune Boosting Foods We all know bacteria and viruses cause many illnesses. Your body has the ability to fight these antigens with your immune system. While different behaviors you include in your life affect your immune health, the food you eat is extremely important. The good news is that what you eat is something you have the most control over. Here are five immune boosting foods known to help support and strengthen your immune system. Fish Fish is an excellent source of selenium. Selenium is a powerful antioxidant and is one of the essential minerals for our health and immunity. The daily intake recommendation is 55 micrograms of selenium…
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Are You Ready for the New Normal?
Are you ready for the new normal? I’m not going to wait for everything to be back to normal. The old normal is gone, and in its place will be a new normal filled with challenges as well as tremendous opportunity for those willing to embrace it. The world has shifted dramatically in a speed of light sort of time. For the past five years, I’ve been learning and writing so I could share the changes I’ve been able to manifest in my own life with as many others as possible. That time has come, and I’m ready, are you? While this is very serious and often frightening, we still…
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Chocolate Pecan Turtles
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Refuse To Be Lazy – Use This Time Wisely
Refuse to be Lazy I realize this pandemic, when many are quarantined at home, can be a time to do not too much of anything. My attitude is that it’s a great time to refuse to be lazy! Binge-watching Netflicks and doing jigsaw puzzles come to mind and have been confessed by friends, but today my challenge to you is to use this time and turn it into a gift of time. What is it you have wanted to do, learn or accomplish as soon as you managed to find some spare time? Do it now! Refuse to be lazy! Use this time to learn to play an instrument, read…
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Garlic And Your Immune System
Garlic And Your Immune System Let’s talk about garlic and your immune system. Some people find garlic a bit pungent, and others love it! Regardless of your take on it, garlic is a very important herb you should be adding to your cooking or even eating raw, because of its many health benefits. It’s especially important when it comes to your immune system, and anything that supports your immune system now during our COVID-19 challenge is a good thing! Garlic has many uses in cooking; it’s a great seasoning and adds a lot of flavor. Admittedly, it does have a pretty distinct scent to it. One of the most important…
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Focus On Food & Respect Your Fullness
Respect Your Fullness – Focus on Food! I’d like to share “The Blue Zones” with you. The Blue Zones are 5 areas in different parts of the world…there’s one here in our country in Loma Linda, California. In the Blue Zones, the people live to be easily more than one hundred years old. They are not warehoused either! They are active and engaged. Some of them still work. The author, Dan Buettner, has studied them extensively and has written several books on these people; the study is fascinating and much of their success is because of their focus on food. The reason I bring them up is that they practice…
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19th Century Weight Loss Fad
19th Century Weight Loss Fad Have you ever heard of a 19th century weight loss fad? Do you accept the status quo and believe your health should deteriorate as you age, or do you demand more for yourself? Do you buck the system, that is, buck the Standard American Diet, and look for a better way to ensure your long-term health going forward? What do you want for yourself? What do you seek for yourself? What do you demand for yourself? I want to know, because I’ve been on a quest for better health through healthier eating for the past seven years. In the beginning, quite frankly, it was dumb…
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What is Stress Eating?
What is Stress Eating? Do you ever wonder… what is stress eating? It’s a bad habit many of us have become accustomed to, where we eat bad foods, and we overeat them when we feel stressed. It might make us feel more comfortable temporarily and more in control of our life, but we are only hurting ourselves. Here are some things to know about stress eating. How Stress Eating Can Develop First of all, it helps to know exactly how stress eating develops. Not everyone who has large amounts of stress will use eating bad foods to feel better or to hide negative feelings. However, someone who often turns to…
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Hunger and Fullness Cues – Learn to Recognize Your Hunger
Hunger and Fullness Cues Binge/Restriction Cycle It’s tough to restrict your food intake and stay on a diet. Last week we discussed this. When you diet, you ultimately get to the point where you just can’t take it anymore and give in to the cravings for the foods you’ve been trying to eliminate. The odds are you will binge on them, get angry with yourself and just give up until the next diet comes along. It’s important to understand the concept of hunger and fullness cues. Until you understand what the nutrition is your body needs, your cravings will continue. To complicate things, most of the food we can readily…
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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…
