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Eating and Exercising Challenges – I have them too!
Eating and Exercising Challenges I’m no stranger to eating and exercising challenges, but as frequently happens, I was in a group recently talking about diet and healthy eating; someone said to me, “Oh you’ve never had a weight problem. This is easy for you…” I thought I would address this today. It’s not always been easy for me, and I remember quite a few years ago, I was very unhappy with my job. My solution was to go home and bake, from scratch, an apple turnover for four…it was delicious… I ate it all myself in one sitting in my den, by myself, while watching Mash reruns. I put on…
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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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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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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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Bentgo Boxes
Bentgo Boxes – You Want to Go Get This Now! One of my coaching clients, who is a very smart lady, has turned me on to something I absolutely have to share with you immediately! Bentgo boxes! She asked me if I had heard about Bentgo boxes, and I had to confess I had not. They are plastic, and I don’t pay any attention to plastic containers anymore unless they are bpa free because of the dangers of exposure to bpa. Just as a reminder, BPA (bisphenol A) is an endocrine-disrupting industrial chemical. In the vernacular, that means BPA messes with your hormones. BPA studies show it is linked to…
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What Do Sugar and Cocaine Have In Common?
What Do Sugar and Cocaine Have In Common? Here’s a scary fact for you to ponder… When scientists took MRI images of the brains of people consuming sugar and highly addictive drugs like cocaine, the same pleasure centers in the brain started lighting up. Sounds pretty, scary, doesn’t it? But what does the similarity between sugar and cocaine actually mean for your brain and your overall health? First of all, sugar is truly addictive. What that means to you is that consuming sugar will alter your brain chemistry, and over time you will start to crave more and more sugar. The urge for your next sweet “fix” comes more frequently,…
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Eating out healthy – What are the best choices?
Eating out healthy…What are the best choices? This is a perfect topic as I just returned from being away at a conference for about a week. Although I had a refrigerator and ate breakfast in the room with my usual foods, dinner and lunches with the group were a challenge. What follows are some thoughts and suggestions for eating out healthy whether you’re at a conference or just having a meal out with friends and family. First of all, you need to be aware you really surrender control over your food whenever you eat out. If that’s not an issue for you, so be it. For me, I like to…
