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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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Easy Smoothie Recipe
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Super Smoothie!
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Jump-Start Your Metabolism Using These 3 Spices!
Want to Jump-Start Your Metabolism Using Spices? Speeding up your metabolism will help take weight off, and it will also help keep it off. While it’s true some people are born with a faster metabolism than others, just because you might not be one of those faster metabolism people doesn’t mean you can’t convince your metabolism to work faster by making good food choices! As a matter of fact, just adding three spices to your meals can jump-start your metabolism and can help you work toward maintaining a healthy weight. The foods you use to fuel your body are really key to making it work right, so try including these…
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Epigenetics…what does it mean?
Epigenetics…what does it mean? When I was studying to renew my Health Certification, I chose to study a book written by Dr. Jeffrey Bland titled “The Disease Delusion”. Dr. Bland is the “father” of functional medicine; functional medicine is medical practice or treatments that focus on optimal functioning of the body and its organs. It looks at how the organs and systems function together rather than isolating each organ or system for analysis and/or treatment as our current allopathic or traditional medicine does today. He talked about epigenetics, and I wanted to know…epigenetics…what does it mean? Very simply put, epigenetics is the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes…
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Taking an antidepressant? You’re one of millions!
Taking an antidepressant? More than 30 million people in this country, 1 in 7 women, and 20% of women over the age of 40 are taking an antidepressant. We are told depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain; but what if that is not always the case? What if the root cause of our depression is often something we have complete control over? What if it’s caused by inflammation triggered by our diet, our environment and our lack of movement? I sense two results if the preceeding question is true. First, we have tremendous power over how we feel mentally and physically, which is very exciting; and…
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What to do when you slip back into old eating patterns and blow your diet
What to do when you slip back into old eating patterns and blow your diet When you make significant lifestyle changes, the journey is often not linear… There are bumps, disappointments and setbacks along the way. Here are a few thoughts about what to do when you slip back into old eating patterns and blow your diet… If you’re most often at home and rarely eat out or with others, it’s easier to stay on track. This is not how most of us live however. There are holidays and events, parties, dinners out and vacations where we don’t have total control over the food we have available to eat. So…
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Healthy Eating on a Budget – 10 Tips You Can Put into Action Today!
Healthy Eating on a Budget So many people tell me they think eating healthy is a lot of work, is too expensive and so on. Teaching people about easy, healthy eating on a budget has become a mission for me! To that end, I have a gift for you today…but first… For one thing, if you think eating healthy is expensive, just try managing a budget if you get really sick. It just makes sense to me that we all would want to know how to eat to maintain our health. People also think they could never be happy not eating the foods they love. When they tell me this,…
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What Are Complex Carbs and Why Do We Need Them?
What Are Complex Carbs and Why Do We Need Them? Have you heard someone mention “complex carbs”, and you wondered what they were talking about? Basically, carbs (carbohydrates) are either simple or complex. At first glance, you may think that simple carbohydrates are better for your body. They are broken down simply, so doesn’t it make sense that these would be healthy for you? Actually, the opposite is true. The Difference Between Complex (Good) and Simple (Bad) Carbohydrates Complex and simple carbohydrates differ greatly in how they are absorbed by your body. They are also digested differently. Think of simple carbohydrates as simple sugars. Simple carbohydrates are broken down quickly,…
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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…
