Everybody in this universe wants to lead a healthy life. Most of us are not successful in achieving a normalized body health. Obesity is the main problem for many of us. It is not needed to waste time in gym sweating with the heavy objects. Simply boosting our levels of general daily activity can improve
Month: August 2021
A REAL WELLNESS PERSPECTIVE ON WEBMD’s FRIGHTFUL OXYMORON
WebMD produces a daily E-newsletter called Inside WebMD. Targeted to laypersons, it’s free and informative with tips that help readers recognize, understand and deal with common medical issues. However, the December 18 edition contained a piece about lifestyle that illuminates a common problem when doctor organizations promote healthy behaviors. Doing so, of course, is a
Nutrition Tips For a Healthy Pregnancy
So I got pregnant with no family or friends with kids to give me any tips, and never had any close contact with pregnancy or babies. What should I eat to help my baby develop healthy and strong? I was clueless and went to obstetrician with so many questions that I didn’t know where to
Get Off the Damn Grid in 5 Minutes!
How Will Smith Dropped Kicked the GRID! Who says we can’t change the world in 5 minutes? Imagine human beings who know the true scope of their power–the power to instantly create: non-violence, perpetual kindness & love, sustainable health, free education, food & shelter, and a quality lifestyle for all human beings. Just imagine-is it
We’re Wired to Maintain a Healthy Weight
Suppose you had a “fat meter” that would send a loud “STOP!” message to your brain once you’d accumulated enough fat. Suddenly, you’d have no desire for pizza, ice cream, or potato chips. You’d look at these favorite foods, even smell their enticing odors, and wouldn’t even be tempted. Or maybe you would decide to
Too Much on Your Plate?
When we want to lose weight, we find an eating plan that makes sense to us. We learn the principles, commit to the strategies, eat according to plan and lose weight. This should be the end of the story. But it’s not. For over 99% of people the story does not end there. What happens?
Wear Your Curves Proudly – You’re A Healthy Beautiful Woman
I start my day by hitting the gym for an intense workout session; I do strict diets hoping to shed some weight. I swear I do not do this because my body doesn’t impress me, but because it doesn’t impress the society. Every day is a struggle – a neighbor, a relative and sometimes even
Natural Acne Cures – 5 Healthy Foods That Cause Acne Breakouts
You can cure your skin problem with natural acne cures. There is no need to resort to expensive over-the-counter products. Did you know that there are extremely healthy foods that make acne worse? Your health-conscious diet could be causing your breakouts. These are the most dangerous foods because they are hiding behind the mask of
The 3 Things I Did To Help Me Lose Weight
Have you been looking for help losing weight? Then pull up a chair and buckle down, because this is what you’ve been looking for. In this article, I’m going to show you three methods I did to help me lose weight quickly and easily. First, I took pictures of myself for before and after comparisons.
5 Keys to Speeding Up Your Metabolism to Lose Weight While Eating Healthy Good Nutrition
Daily Quote: “Exercise helps you lose and control weight in two ways. First, by elevating your metabolism you burn more calories. Second, by building muscle – which requires more energy to maintain – you use even more calories. Exercising promotes better elimination and circulation that helps body cleansing!” – Paul Bragg “Breathing deeply, fully and
How To Successfully Keep Up With Your Diet
To keep on top of your healthy diet you need to allow yourself time to eat mindfully. You also would need time to wind down after a hard day at work or doing housework. Also, set aside half an hour per day to do your exercise. How can you achieve all those goals? 1. As
12 Healthy Healing Foods From the Bible
Why does our society seem to seek every way to overcome sickness and disease other than looking in the best Instruction Manual that’s been around for thousands of years? Why do we avoid the simplicity of the basics when it comes to our health? The “basics” I refer to are eating healthy foods, getting regular exercise and
How to Eat Healthy Using Simple Healthy Eating Math
Eating healthy is not complicated. It doesn’t have to be hard. Many of us overcomplicate it and make this WAY harder than it has to be. This makes it easy to get frustrated, throw up your hands and say “screw it!”, and go back to eating fried pooptaters from Applebee’s. So today, we’re going to
Fructose Malabsorption: When Fruits and Vegetables Aren’t Healthy
“Pregnant belly.” That was the most accurate way I could describe how my stomach used to look after eating. No more than a couple of hours after a meal, my abdomen would swell to more than twice its normal size, and the pain in my belly was intense. It often lasted for days, and despite
Healthy Body and Healthy Mind Lead to Good Life
A healthy life is important to lead a good life. Our health is like a wall pre-requisite to draw a picture. We are the architect of our own health. Either we prevent being unhealthy or cure the damage already done. Physical fitness is very vital. Fitness is a relative term. A sprinter should have a different
Eating Healthy Is a Must for Every Serious Entrepreneur
Healthy eating is all about balanced and moderate eating, consisting of healthy meals at least three times per day. Healthy eaters eat many different types of foods, not limiting themselves to one specific food type or food group. Eating healthy requires quite a bit of leeway. You might eat too much or not enough; consume
How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week – 8 Proven Tips That Helped Me to Lose 10 Pounds in One Week
I desperately needed to lose weight for my wedding. I have lost 13 pounds on the first week, and 10 pounds on the second. This is quite a short time for losing weight, and not very healthy, I know. However, this quick weight loss success was a kick-start for my weight loss journey, and it
Healthy Cookware 101: Do We Know Everything About Cookware? Think Again
What might we not know about cookware, right? They’re pots and pans we use every day… That’s where we go wrong. Sometimes the most important things are right in front of us and we still choose to ignore their effect on our lives — cookware is one of those things. In order to cook healthy
Healthy Diet Amidst COVID 19
Maintaining a healthy diet remains an important part of boosting your immunity. While there are no specific foods that can help protect you from the pandemic COVID 19, a nutritious diet can boost your immune system and combat the symptoms. Let me remind you that a healthy diet is not about strict restrictions from food,
How to Stay Healthy Longer
I am promoting healthy living by encouraging everyone to get up close and personal with the food that you eat, have fun getting physical and socialize. Healthy living consist of the steps and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health. My steps include; maintaining a spiritual relationship, eating to live and not living
Noticing and Acknowledging Your Emotions Empowers Change
After eating naturally for 20 years I now know that I used to use food to control my emotions. I was completely unable to cope with a lot of things that had happened in my life. So instead of acknowledging them and allowing myself to feel loss, sadness, and grief I ate instead. This meant
Easy to Prepare Deliciously Healthy Snacks for Children!
As mothers, you are always struggling to give healthy food to your child, who is lured by all the junk food advertised on the TV, or in the form of pamphlets. The ultimate challenge is marrying the health and taste together to give a union that spells a win-win situation for both moms and kids.
If Broccoli Is So Good for Me, Why Does It Make Me Sick After Weight Loss Surgery?
People in pursuit of healthy weight management know to stick close to the veggie tray at parties and buffets. After all, vegetables are good healthy food full of beneficial vitamins, nutrients and fiber. But some vegetables, particularly cruciferous vegetables like the ubiquitous broccoli and cauliflower, can cause severe gastric upset when eaten raw by patients
There Is No Such Thing As A Healthy Snack
“According to data from the Continuing Surveys of Food Intake by Individuals, conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 90% of Americans’ increased calorie consumption since 1977 has come from increased between-meal eating. Calories consumed at meals have stayed about the same.” – Reinhard Engels If you were to look for one single factor that
3 Healthiest Foods for a Long Life, Strong Heart and Healthy Joints
In the quest for greater health and the prevention of disease, people are looking more and more to the quality of the foods they eat. Fast food, fried food, sweets, and foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being replaced by healthier options. Research studies are showing that food is more than mere nutrition
How Goals Nurture and Balance Our Energy
I was recently asked why I found having goals so important. My response was, “working towards a goal helps me monitor my self care”. Caring for oneself should be easy, innate and a priority when we are pursuing an ambition. However, this isn’t always the case. We can find ourselves burned out or exhausted in
How to Fight Overweight And Help Teens Lose Weight
Fighting overweight in teenagers can sometimes be difficult. Usually, children in their teens especially between the ages of 16-19 have some measure of liberty from their parents, and so can go to anywhere they feel like with friends and other acquaintances. Most times they like to visit fast food restaurants when they are hungry and
How To Make Colored French Fries
Everyone loves French fries. However, it is the kids, who are thrilled to eat French fries all day long. However, the fries that are available in fast food outlets are not very healthy, as they contain a lot of unsaturated fat and sodium. So, it is best to make fries as home. However, then you
Orthorexia – Are You Obsessed With Healthy Eating?
Body Trust A few months ago I took an online course at Be Nourished, about Body Trust. It hugely impacted my thinking about my body, weight, diet, exercise. I had put on quite a bit of weight in my early 40s and no matter what I did, nothing would budge it. But in the process
Quick and Easy School Snacks to Pack For Your Kids:
Kids who participate in the whole process of planning, shopping ( if any) and preparing their lunchboxes to develop the ability to choose and enjoy healthy food. Me and Little Ms.K usually plan our week together. This academic year, we decided to plan the menu for the lunch box as well. So, here are some
Restaurant Back Door Security – Protecting People and Profits
They watched from the shadows as the employee propped open the back door to take his nightly run to the trash corral. He did not deviate from the routine the last two nights. It was 1:35 AM, right on schedule. As the young man returned with his empty cart, they pulled the ski masks down
Obesity & Weight Management is a Social Issue
Much has been written about obesity and globesity. Obesity is perhaps the biggest drain on any nations economic resources with a mind-boggling costs to which researchers are yet to put a final figure. But the estimates run into trillions of dollars across the world. Governments across the world is mired in deep bureaucratic mechanisms to
Fast Food in Kenya
After a long day in class I decided to take a walk in town sampling fast food joints so that I can get some snack. Walking through most of the fast food restaurant I realized they all serve the same food items but at different rates. These food items include pizza. Pizza is a pastry
The Values of Ground Provision Compared to Fast Food
Ground provisions are foods that are natural and easily digested by the stomach. Some of these foods are yams, sweet potatoes, eddoes, cassava, carrots and beets. Foods of this nature are great for the body and those people that consume these foods tend to live a long life. Foods like this can be cooked in
Is the Egg a Considered Healthy Food? Find Out the Truth!
A few years ago eggs were thought to be the culprit in producing artery clogging cholesterol in the blood (all of the cholesterol is in the yolk of the egg). But in recent years, the School of Public Health at Harvard University had traced over 100,000 nurses for about 10 to 12 years and could
Childhood Obesity – It May Be Caused By School Lunches
While there are a few model school lunch programs that show how tasty school food can be they aren’t the norm. In fact, if you talk to kids attending the neighborhood school you might find out that either a) the school isn’t following suggestions about healthy food or b) the food is inedible. Here are
Salt Damage in the Landscape
How Salt Damages Trees Salt damages trees through two pathways: via airborne salt spray, as on a busy highway, and via the soil. Salt spray that lands on a dormant twig can enter the tissue through leaf scar and kill the dormant bud. When salt in the soil dissolves, it separates into sodium and chloride
Mesquite Trees in Arizona
Mesquite trees belong in Arizona. As Jay Sharp, editor and author for the website DesertUSA.com, expresses, “the mesquites symbolize our Southwestern deserts” as much as “the Coyote, the Black-tail Jackrabbit, the Western Diamondback, scorpions, the Saguaro and prickly pear cacti.” Indeed, mesquite trees in Arizona are “as blended into the life of the land as cornbread
6 Great Reasons to Visit Grenada in the Caribbean
Grenada is a beautiful island that sits close to Trinidad and Tobago. Most famous for it’s beaches, almost perfect weather and people, it’s also got a ton of great tourist delights. There are many incredible reasons to visit Grenada including the beautiful vegetation, the carnival and laid back vibe. Whatever your motivation, here are the
All About the Chicken Egg
You’ve probably heard the saying “which came first, the chicken or the egg?”. Well, we’ll probably never know what the answer is, but we can learn as much as we can about the Chicken and the Egg. In our case, we’ll discuss about chicken eggs. I am here to answer all the questions you might
Guava: Member of Myrtle Family
Guava is a plant of the myrtle family scientifically known as Myrtaceae. It is represented by the genus Psidium with 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees known. They are native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. They have now well established in the tropics and subtropics in Southeast Asia, Hawaii, the
Tuba the Coastal Drink of Manzanillo
Tuba: a large, valved, brass wind instrument with a bass pitch? Correct, but that is not at all what I’m talking about. The tuba I have in mind is a coastal drink in our area of Manzanillo. This drink is made from coconut palm sap and is sweet and pleasant by itself but can be
The Marula Fruit – African Booze For Wild Animals, Or Total Myth?
Are you familiar with the Marula tree? If not, it’s a beautiful African tree that produces wonderful and tasty fruits! Yummy fruits, which apparently make elephants drunk…? The story has been going on for ages…so much so that it has even become a liquor, called “Amarula” for connoisseurs (very tasty by the way, a little
Edible Plants – Sahara Desert
Researchers have discovered much evidence that supports the Sahara desert having once been a far more damp area, in which 1000s of various animals and plants once thrived. Elephants, wildcats, and giraffes are all portrayed in ancient art from the area. While the Saharan cheetah is occasionally seen in the desert, the rest of these
Learn Facts About the Red Nocturnal Squirrelfish Species of Tropical Fish
A mostly red, tropical reef fish, the Hawaiian squirrelfish Menpachi stays in underwater caves in the daytime, swimming out after dark to hunt for food in the shallow waters over the reefs.They eat crabs, invertebrates, zooplankton and small fish. Because they are active primarily at night, their large eyes are important, as nocturnal creatures. The
Fruit Trees That Thrive in the Arizona Low Desert
Growing Fruit Trees in Phoenix, Arizona In this article I talk about which fruit trees do well in Arizona The first thing I will do is crush your dreams of growing tropical trees. I have seen it done, but the effort far outweighs the reward. If you want a mango or avocado tree in your
Big Sur Wild Forage Foods in Mill Creek
Here in Mill Creek there are an abundance of plants which can be harvested at various times of the year for food and medicine. The first to appear are bracken ferns, which grow to large size. In the fiddlehead stage of early spring, as they are forming little curls, they have tight heads that can
Legend of the Hummingbird Cake
A Victorian cake recipe that is truly exceptional. The perfect cake to take to gatherings…it’s easy, freezes well, serves many. “Impress your friends with this Hummingbird Cake – a recipe that has been passed down through many generations. If desired, crush additional nuts and press them into the sides of the frosting, and put sliced
Tea Personalities – Find the One That’s Right For You
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” Let’s take a look at some other ways tea relates to our different personality types. Hippocrates, the Greek philosopher and doctor discovered that many of his patients had similar characteristic
Palestinian Chicken Soup With Meatballs
Every time I make this soup it reminds me of a common bond with my Jewish friends – chicken soup made with love. Chicken soup made on cold days, and on days when I had cold or flu as a youngster. And from my grandmother, who came from Jerusalem, the Christmas starter. It still is
You Say Merliton, I Say Mirliton – A Merliton by Any Other Name Tastes Just As Sweet!
For those of you not living in either California, Florida, Louisiana or Latin America, you may not be familiar with a merliton. Perhaps the names, chayote, vegetable pear, mango squash, cho-cho, xuxu or christophene ring a bell. They all refer to this versatile gourd-like vegetable that is grown around the world and called by various
Fabulous Native Foods Nutrition: Hearts Of Palm, Banana Stem, Salak And Sago Palm Fruits
A picture depicting a rural agricultural scene of coconut and banana trees fronted by rice fields best sums up the native foods of most Asians. However, few will see beyond the obvious hanging fruits, when the two tropical trees have much more to offer. If you literally get to the core, you will find the
Polynesian Diet Strategies – 7 Tips to Help You Lose Weight Permanently
I am constantly amazed when I hear stories of Polynesians who suddenly passed away from heart attack, diabetes, and even colon cancer, at such a young age. My grandfather was very young when he died from colon cancer. My mother who is now 62 has suffered from a long history of chronic illnesses, arthritis, stroke,
How to Make Love to Him in a Way That He Will Never Forget? These Tips Will Guide You Effectively
Not a lot of men realize that making love is different from having sex. But women understand the concept and this is why they are better able to express love – in bed and without. Here are ways that you can make your man remember your bedroom encounter: Be the master this time. If this
Mango Wood Handicrafts – An Ecological Choice
Illegal logging especially of tropical woods rightly has received negative press in recent years. However, there are examples for the ecologically sustainable use of timber in home decoration. One remarkable example is the use of wood of the mango tree, especially for handcrafted gifts and collectibles from the Kingdom of Thailand. While Thailand is not
Why Some People Are Lactose Intolerant
We all start out drinking milk in one form or another. So why do so many of us seem to “grow into” lactose intolerance? Lactose intolerance, as you may know, results in the digestive discomfort that comes from consuming lactose, the sugar found in milk and dairy products. Most people in the U.S. are born
Foojoy Tea Company – A Review of Many of Foojoy’s Teas
I must start by confessing that there is actually no company named Foojoy Tea Company; Foojoy is a brand name owned by the Eastrise Trading Corporation. The Foojoy brand sells exclusively Chinese teas, and sells both tea bags and loose-leaf teas. Foojoy never ceases to amaze me, mainly on two key points: price and quality,
How to Make Vietnamese Fried Shrimp Chips – Banh Phong Tom
Dried shrimp chips are sold in bags at Vietnamese or any Asian grocery markets. The hard chips are then deep fried in oil, puffing and expanding to about twice the original size. They are very fast to fry, neither messy nor oily. They are used to scoop up salads, break and mix into salad to
How to Cook Shrimp Shantung Style
This dish hails from Asian soil, its simple, easy to prepare, delicious and with very little cooking talent required! The ingredients are very easy to fine and prepare. For beginners in cooking this dish is so simple you can do it with your eyes closed. Thing’s you’ll need: -1/4 cup cooking oil -2 tsps ginger
The Gibbon is the Only Monogamous Ape
The Gibbon The several species of Gibbon are referred to as the Lesser Apes. They are smaller than the Great Apes, the Gorilla, Orangutan, Chimpanzee and Bonobo. The biggest species of Gibbon is the Siamang which grows to about 14 Kg (31 lb). The Bonobo is the smallest of the Great Apes, on average, and