Substituting coffee, soda, and snacks with green tea, pure water and nutritious smoothies will result in more energy and weight loss. By doing this you can lose over 20 pounds in one year without doing anything else.
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Green tea is a wonderful thing. It can help you lose fat, particularly belly fat (the dangerous kind), as well as increase antioxidant levels. Moreover, if you substitute green tea for coffee, you’ll reduce stress by eliminating the cortisol levels that caffeinated coffee produces.
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Pesticides in food is a serious problem. Organic food circumvents this and provides more nutrition; however some conventionally-grown food has few pesticides. Check out the “Clean 15” and “Dirty Dozen”, and watch Dr. Weil’s comments.
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Emotional/psychological struggles are often based upon one of “addictions”, which are addictions to opinions, drama, worry or the past. Which addiction is yours? Each of them can keep you from living a life you value.
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Researchers discover that a protein called HSP10 in our cells mitochondria may hold a secret for longevity. HSP10 helps build muscle, and muscle is one key to living long and strong.
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Healthy, budget food tips. Packaged foods are often more expensive and less healthy than their bulk, volume alternatives. Beans and brown rice offer good nutrition for a fraction of the price of manufactured food. You can eat better and cheaper by buying healthy food in bulk, or fresh food from your local grocer.
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Simply changing when and how often you eat can have a startling affect on reducing your weight and improving your health. As Dr. Hyman talks about in this video. researchers have found that those who eat small amounts of food more often increase their calorie burn (thermogenesis). Eat less more often and eat lean protein are two keys.
Continue readingAll fruit juices aren’t healthy. Far from it. Know the sugar content. Arizona Kiwi Strawberry, Tropicana Grape Juice Beverage, SoBe Elixir Cranberry Grapefruit, Minute Maid Lemonade, Welch’s Mountain Berry and Ocean Spray Cran-Apple all have way too much sugar.
Continue readingMichelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign releases its report to the president: Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity within a Generation. Here’s a look at the report’s table of contents; perhaps there are nuggets in it for you.
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Taking off one’s shoes prior to entering a house is a really good idea. Shoes carry lead, arsenic, pesticides and other evil compounds indoors. Once inside, these pernicious chemical cocktails get absorbed in household dust.
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Oil is fouling the Gulf of Mexico and it fouls many other products you use, wear or consume. Aspirin, women’s nylons, plastic, food additives, golf balls… the petro-chemicals have shaped our world, and often not for the better.
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What does it take to empathize with lesser creatures? Empathy perhaps. All life-forms struggle, in that we’re alike. May a superior alien race look more kindly on us than we do lesser beings on planet earth.
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Pancakes aren’t particularly healthy, but they can be. Use whole wheat flour, flax seed meal, fruit and even zucchini to make it not only delicious, but healthy.
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Plastic water bottles pollute your body and the environment. Is convenience really worth it? Their are great alternatives, from paper bottles to stainless steel.
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On Earth Day, consider all the things you can do to help this planet. Eat less meat, more veggies. Fewer children, plastic. Eat locally grown food. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Check out the details.
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