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Addicted to Junk Food?
Are You Addicted to Junk Food? Are you addicted to junk food? No? Let’s try a little experiment: double bacon cheeseburger … pepperoni pizza with extra cheese … doughnuts … ice cream …extra-large order of french fries … potato chips… soda…your favorite cookies… candy bars… If just reading that list of nutritionally deficient foods got your mouth watering and had you searching for your car keys to run out and grab a quick fix, you just might be addicted to junk food. Defining Junk Food – What Is It? Segen’s Medical Dictionary defines “junk food” as any food which is extremely low in essential nutrients, while also high in calories,…
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Guide for Depression – Free for You…I Have Been There…
Admitting Depression and a Free Focus Guide for Depression… When you’re dealing with depression, understanding what you’re dealing with and having a few things you can do to help yourself feel better are really important. As a former sufferer of chronic depression, I put together a Free Focus Guide for Depression to help you do things today that will help you begin to feel better tomorrow. One of the things I’ve had to do in order to help others is to open up about my own struggle with depression. I’ve had to let go of attempts to hide it or feel embarrassed or ashamed because of it. For me, admitting depression has…
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Aging and What You Eat – Sugar
Aging and What You Eat – Sugar Aging and what you eat…does it matter? We all would like to look and feel younger. So many of us think it’s the luck of the draw. Does your gene pool dictate that you will age more quickly than others? Is your rate of aging out of your control? The short answer is you have a lot of control over how you age, and that is very empowering! Today we’ll look at the effect sugar has on aging and will touch on 3 main points to consider…your weight, your body’s acid or alkaline environment and how sugar affects your body’s level of inflammation.…
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How to Increase Productivity – Can you hold a thought for 17 seconds?
How to Increase Productivity I have a powerful strategy to share with you today that will empower you to do focused, efficient things in your everyday life and show you how to increase productivity! It comes from my friend and mentor, Connie Ragen Green, and she practices it to be incredibly productive on a consistent basis in her amazingly successful business and in her life! One thing about Connie is that, unlike many successful people, she doesn’t hold back secrets about her success. She opens the doors wide to show you what she does to be on online powerhouse in her field. That’s exactly what she does in this post.…
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Another New Fad Diet – What is the Military Diet
Another New Fad Diet – What is the Military Diet? I was reading an article about a new fad diet called “The Military Diet”. I’m not sure why it’s called that as it has nothing to do with the military or anything to do with how they encourage military members to eat. It’s probably just a name designed to catch your attention as it did mine. I was curious what a “military diet” would look like and read about it, so from a marketing perspective, it works. That’s where it stops working though as it is a very odd approach to weight loss, and from my perspective and based on…
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Organic or Conventional?
Organic or Conventional? Which is better? The short answer is that organic is better for you, but we all know organic is more expensive and many of us try to stick to a budget. This begs the question, which fruits are best purchased organic and which can be conventional? I put together a short video to give you some guidelines to help with your choices when you go grocery shopping…to help you answer the question, organic or conventional…which should I buy? Please let me know if you have questions! Helping You Achieve Major Wellness in Your Life! Cheryl A Major, CNWC I am Cheryl A Major, a Certified Nutrition and…
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Healthy, Delicious Breakfast Frittata
Healthy, Delicious Breakfast Frittata Putting a healthy delicious breakfast frittata together with a few other items will give you a great start to your day, and yesterday I posted a video showing you how to make a terrific breakfast frittata. In case you missed it, here is a link to the post with the video…believe me, it’s so delicious, you won’t want to miss it! Today I want to share with you another video I’ve put together to show you what I include along with the frittata to create a delicious, healthy breakfast that is easy to make and that you will love! You can use different fruits, and…
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How to Make Quick Breakfast Frittata
Quick Breakfast Frittata I decided to share with you how I make a delicious, easy, quick breakfast frittata without having to start from scratch. This happened because one of my coaching clients told me I need to share more of myself with all of you; that is, more of what I eat to be healthy. What kind of meals helped me lose the weight and the chronic depression that plagued me for years is what she wanted to know. She also wanted to see how I make the meals. It’s hard for me to say “no” to my coaching clients and even harder to say “no” to this particular one,…
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What are the Different Kinds of Inflammation
What are the Different Kinds of Inflammation? Recent headlines show that awareness is growing about the connection between chronic inflammation and many serious health conditions. In fact, it appears that chronic inflammation may be the cause – rather than a symptom – of these conditions. It’s important to realize you can eat to avoid inflammation! Did you know there are different kinds of inflammation, and not all of them are bad? It’s true! One type of inflammation actually allows our bodies to heal themselves. Medical experts now believe your diet and other lifestyle strategies can play a major role in the prevention of this dangerous inflammation. I made this quick…
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Avoid Inflammation by Changing the Way You Eat
Avoid Inflammation by Changing the Way You Eat Recent headlines show that awareness is growing about the connection between chronic inflammation and many serious health conditions. In fact, it appears that chronic inflammation may be the cause – rather than a symptom – of these conditions. It’s important to realize you can eat to avoid inflammation! Medical experts now believe your diet and other lifestyle strategies can play a major role in the prevention of this dangerous inflammation. Here’s what you need to know about inflammation. The Facts Acute inflammation. Acute inflammation is good for you! In fact, it’s necessary for the healing process. When you have an injury…