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Three Toxic Cleaning Ingredients – Check Your Cleaning Products for These…
Three Toxic Cleaning Ingredients to Watch Out For to Be Your Healthiest You I thought it might be helpful to discuss three toxic cleaning ingredients to watch out for to be your healthiest you. These are ingredients you will often find in your regular cleaning products and personal care items. The first is sodium lauryl sulfate, or SLS. This ingredient is what makes cleaning products and personal products foam. If you love your shampoo or liquid dish detergent and all the bubbles they make, be sure to check out the ingredients. As lovely as all those bubbles are, sodium lauryl sulfate has been linked to cancer, neurotoxicity, organ toxicity, skin…
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The Health Benefits of Organic Cleaning Products…do you know what they are?
The Health Benefits of Organic Cleaning Products So many people I talk with are trying to live healthier lives by changing their eating habits, but have you ever thought about your living environment and about the benefits of organic cleaning products? Everyone wants a clean living or work environment, but cleaning can be hazardous to your health if you use cleaners with harmful toxins. Exposure to these toxins found in cleaning products can worsen asthma and can cause allergic reactions. You may not even be aware that you’re polluting your home when you clean, but if you check the ingredients posted on the side or back of regular cleaners, you’ll…
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Safe and Natural Ways to Curb Your Appetite
Safe and Natural Ways to Curb Your Appetite It kills me when I see people spending good money trying different gimmicks to curb your appetite and lose weight…like appetite suppressants… when there are so many safe and natural ways to curb your appetite. Did you know there are natural ways you can use to curb your appetite and help yourself be less hungry starting right now? I made this video for you to help you understand the many things you have available to help you get your weight goals on track. You can do this! And I am in it for the long haul to help you!! Helping You Achieve…
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Top 5 Healthiest Dark Green Vegetables
Top 5 Healthiest Dark Green Vegetables Remember when your parents used to load your plate up with veggies and not let you have any dessert until you finished every last bit? They just might have been onto something with all those dark green vegetables. Take a look at Popeye and his spinach. He would down a can and practically lift a car. Impressive wasn’t it? Maybe the general idea isn’t so far fetched. Five of the healthiest dark green vegetables include broccoli, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce and Swiss chard. These vegetables, identified by their dark green color, are rich in antioxidants and usually have large amounts of phytochemicals such as…
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Teach Your Children About Food as the Japanese Do
Japanese Children and Weight Management – Teach Your Children About Food Did you know Japanese children are projected to live the longest, healthiest, leanest lives of all children in the world? Japanese parents know you must teach your children about food. When we live in a country with abundant food, why are we struggling with ever increasing childhood obesity and childhood diabetes? Could it be the food we’re eating? It is! But if it were easy to change and just start eating healthy meals and snacks, this article would be done now. The fact is that our food supply, our SAD diet (Standard American Diet), is killing all of us. …
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Simple Tips for Time Management
Simple Tips for Time Management You may be wondering what time management has to do with health, so bear with me and read on. The interactive world we live in allows for plenty of distractions. There are distractions by our coworkers or our spouses as well as family and friends. Then there are our own vices browsing through the latest sports scores or seeing which band is going to be playing at our favorite music venue. Some of these distractions are welcome, and they should be. All too often, however, distractions can become a nuisance that interfere with our productivity. Here are some simple tips for time management to help…
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Daylight and Depression…are you affected by the days getting shorter?
What about Daylight and Depression…The Days are Getting Shorter… Is there a link between daylight and depression? The days are getting shorter; are you finding yourself less energetic? More apt to go home and get in your jammies, plop on the sofa and turn on the TV? If you are, you’re not the only one. Many of us struggle with feeling less energetic, a bit blue and some of us get downright depressed when the seasons change, and we don’t get enough sunlight. One of my favorite gurus on brain health, Dr. David Perlmutter, has a son who is following in his footsteps. Austin Perlmutter wrote a post I want…
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Depression and the placebo effect
Depression and the placebo effect If you’ve never heard of Kelly Brogan, MD, I have a great introduction for you! Kelly Brogan is a holistic women’s health psychiatrist. She recently wrote a great post on depression and the placebo effect which I want to share with you. As someone who lived with depression for decades, in fact, for most of my adult life, I can tell you her work and her writing are though provoking and cutting edge. She is not a main stream lover of the prescription pad and has wonderful research and ideas to share with those of us who have lived the struggle. In a recent post…
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Eating and Self Sabotage…is it a problem for you?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” – Marianne Williamson I love this quote. In fact, I have it on my wall in my office to remind me not to sabotage myself by unconsciously undermining my progress and my performance by, while desiring success…fearing it at the same time. This relates in a massive way to your diet, your weight and to your health. Let’s think about a few ways this applies to many of us. I have three words for you: sugar, portions and processed food. I know, I know…that’s four words, but you know what I…
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Sugar Addiction, and who in the world is Roger Mason?
Sugar Addiction, and who in the world is Roger Mason? I don’t always agree with everything Roger Mason writes. But…I do think he has some valid points, and I do take some of his vitamins and his mineral products. They are affordable and well done! Today I want to share with you his latest article which is spot on about sugar addiction and sugar substitutes. My favorite part is when he writes: “We have no need at all for sugar in our diets. The real answer is to just stop this sugar addiction. Fifty years ago we didn’t do this. No culture has ever done this. 1 in 3 American children…
