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The first step to reducing your back pain is to avoid causing it. There are many different types of postures you can do to ease your back pain. The cobra pose involves lying on your side with your arms by your shoulders and lifting your chest to the ceiling. Other stretches that will help you feel better to include the cat-cow pose, which involves alternating an arching back and dipping it toward the floor. The child's pose requires you to sit...
What does peanut butter do to your body? Maybe the title ruins my chances of stumping you with this riddle. But wait. I’ll give it a shot anyway. What tastes great with chocolate but is just as tasty with celery? It’s not salad dressing, jam, or caramel - it’s peanut butter. I know… duh! People ask me if peanut butter is healthy. Sometimes, they want to know if different nut butter is more nutritious. Today, I’m...
It has long been known that certain foods can help relieve stress. These foods include oysters, green leafy vegetables, and oatmeal. However, the question remains: to manage stress with food, which foods provide the best stress relief? Read on to learn more about these foods. You can even find some great recipes for your next meal. Try out these tips to relieve stress with food! Just don't forget to check out our other articles to learn about...
Deadly Nightshades Atropa Belladonna... Over the last two years, I have noticed the word “nightshades” is increasingly cropping up in dietary debates. I even read this... ...in an interview with the personal chef to supermodel Gisele Bundchen and football star Tom Brady: “[Tom] doesn’t eat nightshades, because they’re not anti-inflammatory. So no tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, or eggplants… I’m very cautious about tomatoes. They cause...
Are you still considering a fish oil supplement? They’ve become very popular over the last decade, but a lot of us are still on the fence. That’s because many of us... ...myself included... are concerned about overfishing, bad science, and heavy metal toxicity. Seriously, the more you read, the more confusing it becomes. It gets better/worse: It gets better/worse: We have to weigh those concerns against the fact that we need omega-3 fatty...
Health Benefits of Ginger and Turmeric Tea How much tea do you drink? The many health benefits of ginger and turmeric tea. When my water intake dips lower than I’d like, I augment my fluid intake with tea. Herbal blends, in particular, have many medicinal benefits and give my system a good flush. The problem is, sometimes I brew a bag and it tastes kind of weak, or stale. Then, I wonder how long that box was sitting on a shelf before I bought...
The “Best” Organic Foods You Should NEVER Eat: The 9 Worst Exposed. How do you feel about your diet? It stresses me out to hear that so many people are feeling guilty about every choice they make. To be clear... ...it’s not because most of them don’t know what to look for. It’s because they later read someone else's assessment of that food item. The “Best” Organic Foods You Should NEVER Eat: The 9 Worst Exposed This Information Age may make...
Why Put Coconut Oil in Coffee I don’t always drink coffee, but when I do, I don’t go to a corner café. I don’t order triple-shot lattes or icy blended confections. And I really can’t handle espresso. The reason I opt for a coffee now and then is because I love getting the energy boost and antioxidants. Most of all, it’s another opportunity to take coconut oil internally. Look, I hate swallowing oils. Oil pulling has basically trained me to...
Fructose the bad, the good and the best nutrition secrets. How many health truisms do you hear on a weekly basis? Drink lots of water. Abs are made in the kitchen. You are what you eat. And one I find myself repeating frequently: Sugar is a dangerous drug. While our parents were more likely to be worried about fat, we’re all about limiting sugar. Do you know anyone on the paleo diet? I do, and I can tell...
The Sirtfood diet has been around for a long time, previously known primarily as the Cabbage Soup Diet. However, recently it has become more popular due to celebrity Adele's significant weight loss to which she has lost almost 100 lbs. So what is sirtfood, you ask? Sirtfood is a food high in sirtuin activators, which is a type of protein that protect the cells in our bodies from inflammation. Some research has shown that they can help regulate...
There are many apps for meditation and mindfulness, but what are the best ones? For many people, the smartphone is the perfect place to practice. Because smartphones are everywhere we go, it's easy to pull them out when we need to practice mindfulness. The app can guide us through meditation with various landscapes and sounds. Here are three apps that are popular among users. All are free. Read on to learn more about them. Best Meditation and...
The Best High Protein, Low Carb Meals: 7 Quick and Easy Recipes Exposed Above all, we have different bodies with different needs. You see, we are all biologically individual. That’s why you didn’t lose the weight by following someone else’s diet to the letter. In my time... ...I’ve tried them all. Low calorie, zero carbs, low fat, no food after 6 p.m., high raw, six small meals a day. Honestly, every variation you can think of. Eventually, I...
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