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Managing a Healthy Gut for Total Health

The condition of our gut has been shown in various studies to directly influence our mental and emotional health. Our gut is like our second brain and impacts our nervous system. Here we look at some more helpful information to help you stay healthy.

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What Are Probiotics? Your Comprehensive Guide to Gut Health

According to digestive experts, our optimal gut flora balance should be about 85 percent “good/friendly” bacteria” and 15 percent “bad/other”. Without enough good bacteria, your gut microorganisms become imbalanced, and your system can become a breeding ground for bad bacteria. Find what probiotic supplement is right for you?

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Refrigerator Thermometers: Cold Facts about Food Safety

Every year the holiday season brings lots of food and lots of leftovers, which need to be refrigerated. Chilling stored foods to proper temperatures is one of the best ways to slow the growth of dangerous bacteria...

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Inspiring Natural Living for Better Health

Our health tends to suffer and sometimes collapse under the weight of convenient living. As we struggle to keep up, certain things often take a back seat and more often than not, it is our well being that we shove to last place. 

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Balanced gut, clear mind!

Think of the last time you felt sick to your stomach because you were stressed, scared or even excited! We now know that there is a very strong relationship between our digestive system and our brain.  The enteric nervous system wraps around all of our digestive systems and it is so complex, big and important that scientists are now calling it the “second brain.”

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Olives. Nutritious and delicious

Olives are grown commercially around the globe, but Mediterranean countries produce most of the world’s crop. Since olives are an integral part of the Mediterranean diet, maybe they should play a role in your healthy diet, too. 

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Be Happy: Achieving Work/Life Balance in a Success-Driven World

In today’s society, there is more stress on people to succeed and do more with less.  Everyone is hustling for that golden ring opportunity, upon which their future lives will be easier and brighter if they can only grab it.  Unfortunately, in the quest to be successful, other things have suffered, such as satisfaction in the victories of daily life, appreciation for simple things.

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Fabulous Fungi!

Mushrooms seem like a vegetable, but they’re actually the fruit of a fungus. Fungi are often depicted as yucky, in many fairy tales and other children’s stories, but some are edible bulbous elixirs that promote good health.

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Healthy Fruits that You may never Try: PAPAYA

Papaya is a delicious tropical fruit which has a great taste, mouthwatering flavor and great health benefits. Originally from the tropics of America the taste and its numerous health benefits made it popular in all the continents. 

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How college recreation and wellness centers are improving student life.

Top U.S. Recreation Centers changing to meet students needs and expectations. Find out how...

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4 ways to eat your way to lower cholesterol

Many people can reduce cholesterol levels simply by changing what they eat. For example, if you are a fan of cheeseburgers, eating less meat (and leaner cuts) and more vegetables, fruits... Here are four steps for using your diet to lower your cholesterol.

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Powerful Super-Foods for your Heart Health

Following the old adage, “You are what you eat,” Americans spent many years afraid of fat. But, thankfully, times have changed. Recognizing the crucial role “good” fats play in maintaining healthy levels of vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients in the body, we now live in constant search for new sources of monounsaturated fat, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. 

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Research on Heart Disease in Women

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Women often experience heart disease differently than men. For example, men have more heart attacks than women, but women have a higher heart attack death rate. 

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Detox part 2: How to Keep Up Your Hard Work After Vacation!

You have done so much to lose a few pounds and looked great.  Now, after a few days off, relaxing with friends or getting through a vacation, we are back home, and sometimes wished we hadn’t had all the drinks and food during our time off. Here are some quick tips to help you during this time to get back to normal within the next week. 

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Tonic Herbs and Radiant Health

Many may not realize that as our skin sags and droops so do our internal organs. Who’s ever concerned with having an “upright liver”? In fact, it is very important that our internal organs are toned and energized. When they are, we have beauty within that radiates outward. 

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The Amazing Benefits of Honey

Honey could be described as the ‘Nectar of the Gods’ for its historic uses for health, vitality, medicine, and beauty. In its most simple form, it is a healthy and characteristic natural sweetener; it is a widely used alternative to cane sugar. We should really appreciate the level of work put in by the amazing bees that produce our honey worldwide - it is thought that it may take around 160,000 bees to produce just one pound of honey!

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Fuelling Your Workouts for Wellness

Exercise fuels us and energizes us; it provides an outlet for clearing out expired energy as well as keeping us fit and healthy. Fuelling ourselves for exercise means that we adopt the nutrition habits that fully support it and enhance our way of life. Here are a few ways that you can fire yourself up for your workouts and wellness.

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How To Consume More Water By EATING It

Contrary to popular belief, it is, in fact, possible to have your water and eat it too! In this article, I will show you 5 very easy ways to do exactly that.

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Becoming a Better you for Better Health

We strive for more of an external beauty in our youth, then as we ‘become’ we realize that true beauty is more of a measure of what is within. That being said, we should always aim to take the best possible care of our external appearance, it all amounts to self-love and self-care something that we should have at the forefront of our minds. How do you promote becoming a better you? Here are a few things to think about on that journey!

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Fresh Produce: Selecting and Serving it Safely

Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet. Your local markets carry a wide variety of nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables. As you enjoy fresh produce, follow these safe-handling tips to help protect yourself and your family.

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Grapefruit Juice and Some Drugs Don't Mix

Grapefruit juice and the actual grapefruit can be part of a healthy diet. Grapefruit has vitamin C and potassium—nutrients your body needs to work properly. But it isn’t good for you when it affects the way your medicines work.

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Safe Food Handling: What You Need to Know

The food supply in the United States is among the safest in the world. However, when certain disease-causing bacteria or pathogens contaminate food, they can cause food-borne illness, often called “food poisoning.” Consuming dangerous food-borne bacteria will usually cause illness within 1 to 3 days of eating the contaminated food. Know the Symptoms.

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Joint pain...is it osteoarthritis?

Your knee aches from time to time. Or maybe your fingers don't seem as nimble as they used to be. Is it osteoarthritis?

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The science of detox

The science of detox is about the science of liver nutrition.  The human body has an amazing ability to cleanse itself of not only wastes created by the biochemical processes within the body but also toxins that originate from outside the body. 

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Happier Hormones for a Healthier You

Our hormones play such a pivotal role in our bodies; they are our ‘chemical messengers’ and we cannot survive without them. They control and coordinate our mood, emotions, metabolism, sleep pattern, bodily functions, fertility and immune system (among lots more intricate and finer details of our well-being). Here we look at a few tips for better and happier hormonal balance.

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Kick Start your Mornings

Have you heard of Kombucha? Kombucha is a living health drink made by fermenting tea and sugar with the ‘kombucha’ culture. It is thought to have originated in the Far East and the benefits may include improvements in energy levels, metabolic disorders, allergies...

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Three Reminders for the Essentials of Life

So what are the essentials of life? Health and happiness! Our body needs clean air, food, water, exercise, and rest, our inner being needs love, relationships, time to play and have fun, and to connect with the essence of life- in tune with our own beat and what makes us happy!

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Get Ready, Get Set, Spring into Action

Regardless of where we live, spring seems to being welcomed changes. More daylight, warmth, and greening growth as our earth re-energizes. 

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Healthy - First and Foremost

Health is something that means different things to different people. Some may see health and fitness as being able to run for a bus without gasping for oxygen, others may see it as living a lifestyle that keeps them looking and feeling good. Here we look at a few ways you can get smarter with your health each day!

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How to Take the Pain Out of Cleaning. 6 easy tips to get the job done without injury

It's that time of year when many people feel compelled to clean their closets, houses or garages. What most people don't realize is that these chores can be extremely hard on their muscles and bones and can lead to aches, pains and injury.

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Homemade Spa Be the first on your block

If I told you that you can create a healthy, healing environment in your own home that everyone will love to experience, would you believe me? Instead of traveling to a spa, you can set up a similar feel in your own space without having to go far.

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Natural beauty is simple...

We can’t travel back in past time to reclaim youthful skin, but we may replenish, restore, and minimize premature aging. No one diet or product can reverse time, but lifestyle habits may help slow the aging process and support a healthy glow. It is said that our skin absorbs what we smooth and slather onto it.

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The color of tea. Pick your favorite!

"How many times has this happened to you? You open a new bag of flavored tea, the aroma is wonderful and you can’t wait to try it. You brew it with anticipation, taste it and then come to the big disappointment. It was nothing like you expected.

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How Diet Can Affect the Color of Your Teeth

How to Whiten Your Teeth Naturally. If coffee, cigarettes, and food have left their mark on your teeth, you’re not alone.  Plenty of people would try anything to get back their pearly whites.

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Accelerate Your Metabolism!

We all want to be healthy and beautiful, and as spring and summer come by, we also want to feel lighter and even shed a few pounds if we can. As we keep looking to lose a few pounds, some of us can reach a point where we feel stuck and sluggish wishing for a faster metabolism.