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Ever felt your neck when you’ve got a cold…
To see if your lymph nodes were swollen?
That’s the only thing I knew about the lymphatic system growing up. Useful for diagnostic purposes, I guess, but not real exciting. [Read more…] about Why Your Lymph Nodes are Your New Best Friend
Popping handfuls of supplements has never been my thing.
Surely a good multivitamin is enough, I thought.
It’s only been in the past few years that I’ve started to question that thinking. [Read more…] about What Vitamin Labels Don’t Tell You
We gotta talk about coffee.
I know you love your Keurig. Just pop in a K-Cup, and voila! Just like a barista made it for you.
Because otherwise you’ll be waiting endlessly in your car, waiting your turn at the coffee drive-thru of goodness [Read more…] about What You Don’t Know about Your Keurig Could Be Making You Sick
The top 5 ingredients for healthy living, according to the best scientific sources, are:
– Diet
– Exercise
– Sleep
– Sunshine
– Socializing [Read more…] about The Missing Ingredient in a Healthy Life
If you’re going to dance, you’d better do it well.
Otherwise there’s an audience ready to laugh you off the floor.
That’s not much of an incentive to take up dancing, even if studies are showing that it can help you beat the advance of age. [Read more…] about Dance Your Way to Happiness & Health
Know anything better than what pleases you at any given time?
Sexual pleasure is intimately intertwined with health. The circulation and flow of sexual energy affects the mind and body, as well as our emotions. It is the most powerful force that we enjoy, and it is available to anyone. [Read more…] about Better Health Through Pleasure
Back in college, I was putting away my lunch things when my housemother stopped me. “Are you going to put that can back in the fridge?”
I blinked at her. I looked down at the can. “I only used half of it.”
“Put it in a container, then!” [Read more…] about Are Your Food Storage Containers Safe?
Raise your hand if you eat three meals a day, with no snacks in between.
Yeah, my hand isn’t up, either.
I snack all day long instead of having proper meals. I used to think that was a good thing. Keeps my metabolism revved up and so forth. [Read more…] about A Diet Plan That Keeps Pounds Off Permanently?
Give me a break. I’m a modern woman, not Paleolithic.
You’ll never catch me in a cave. I don’t look good in animal skins. I prefer to pick my berries at the grocery store.
So why are about 3 million Americans eating like cavemen? [Read more…] about 4 Things No One is Telling You about the Paleo Diet
For years, I lived with a boyfriend who ate the exact same things I did.
If anything, he ate better than I did. He didn’t have my sweet tooth. I couldn’t resist a few cookies a day, while he snacked on pumpkin seeds and tomatoes. Yet he put on weight and I didn’t. [Read more…] about Why You’re Not Losing Weight
Do you have aches and pains, problems sleeping, and way too much stress?
Then relief might be as close as the supplement aisle.
Massage therapist Rita Woods found that her clients were having a hard time relaxing. [Read more…] about Get Relief from PMS, Stiffness, Stress, Migraines
It came as a shock.
All my life, I’d believed that cheddar cheese was orange.
It was orange! That’s how you distinguished it from mozzarella. [Read more…] about Why Cheddar Isn’t Orange and Other Food Mysteries
I was sitting at a table with a group of remarkable women.
One was a cancer survivor. Another was hypothyroid. One had fibromyalgia, and several others suffered from arthritis.
All were here at this women’s health event for one reason: [Read more…] about Stay Healthy with the Anti-Inflammatory Diet
American cuisine came as a bit of a shock.
I hadn’t been gone that long—20 years, give or take—but stepping off that plane into a world of monster muffins, 30-oz drinks, and endless crinkly packages … well, my eyes went as wide as the waistlines.
Things had changed. [Read more…] about The Simple Snacking Secret that Loses Pounds Painlessly
I had the sweet tooth from hell.
As a teenager, I thought nothing of eating cookies for breakfast.
They weren’t just any cookies. They were healthy cookies. [Read more…] about 5 Ways to Control Your Sweet Tooth
