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Beat Those New Year’s Resolution Blues & Make Change Stick
February 1st, 2013Keeping New Year’s resolutions is often difficult. Once they dissolve, frustration and the feeling of being a failure sink in. But changes can be made! If you want to make changes stick, here are seven initial steps to start you on the path.
1) Intention, Intention, Intention
A Personalized Plan Is the Key to Weight Loss Success
January 1st, 2013Most of us have lost weight by dieting only to gain it back again. The problem with diets isn’t that they don’t work, it’s that they don’t last.
How to calm cravings, remove temptations, and learn to prioritize
Holistic Tips to Boost Your Immune System
January 1st, 2013The immune system is responsible for deciphering safe from unsafe pathogens and regulating inflammation in our bodies. It is the body’s protection against bacteria, viruses, cancer, and other illnesses. A complicated and intricate system, we are just beginning to understand the influence our lifestyle has on it.
Condition Spotlight: Inflammation
January 1st, 2013Did you know there is both good and bad inflammation? The term “inflammation” most likely brings to mind thoughts of pain, swelling, and redness in response to an acute injury or wound. But pain is not always bad: this is the body’s way of telling us something is wrong and must be addressed in order to heal.
Cooling down chronic inflammation
Shifting the Diet Paradigm
January 1st, 2013I have early memories of the word diet, most of them bad. As a kid, I remember adults talking about diets as something you had to go on when you could no longer see your toes. Diets were akin to wearing a hair shirt next to the skin, a sort of penance to make right years of gastronomical sins mortal and venial.
How best-selling diets differ (and how they are the same)
9 Natural Ways to Get Out of Libido Limbo
January 1st, 2013Many women confide in me that they have deep negative or anxious feelings about their sexuality. The number one question I get is, “Why do I have so little desire?”
In several recent studies, roughly one in three women reported low or no sexual desire. Other studies have found even higher percentages of low libido among women, particularly women over 50.
If you're in libido limbo, take heart. There are many ways to regain the sexual excitement and desire of youth, no matter how old you are.
“Lack of Exercise” Could Be a Classified Medical Condition
November 1st, 2012Diabetes, high blood pressure, and joint pain are just a few characteristics of obesity. What if the lack of exercise were treated as a medical condition? Would obesity numbers go down? Mayo Clinic physiologist Michael Joyner, MD, argues that it should be and they would.
From the Inside Out
October 1st, 2012Beauty comes from the inside out—in more ways than one.
Sure, genetics are involved, but you’ve got a very large role to play to decide which genes get expressed and which ones lay dormant!
Tips for natural beauty and skin care
Nutrition and Fitness Go Hand-in-Hand for Adolescents
October 1st, 2012Adolescence is an important time to make healthy habits that will last a lifetime, like choosing foods rich in vitamins and minerals and adopting a regular exercise regimen.
In a new study, researchers have found that adolescents’ blood levels of various micronutrients correlated with how well they performed in certain physical fitness tests.
Health Tips: Why to Seek a Personal Trainer
May 1st, 2012Exercise and nutrition are the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and are principles worth adopting at any age. However, starting the journey toward better health is never easy. As someone who understands these limits, and as someone who also counsels people about the importance of being fit, I recognize these challenges.
Make an investment in your own health.
