Skipping Meals Can Make You Healthier!

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If you’ve been around the mainstream health community much, you’ve heard the much important advice about not skipping meals. Apparently, it is best for our bodies to eat every 2-4 hours and to graze constantly on small meals throughout the day. More importantly, we should never, ever attempt a workout without a solid protein and [...]

Guide to Getting Great Sleep

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The importance of getting quality sleep is a topic that has been getting a lot of news coverage lately. While it seems common sense that we all need adequate sleep, statistics show again and again that we just aren’t getting it. For some (including me) the idea of ever getting a solid night of uninterrupted [...]

Guide to Carbohydrates- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!

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The most common objection I get when recommending a no-grain diet to clients is: “What about the healthy whole grains? Don’t I need the fiber?” I covered this in depth in my grains post, but it seemed that a more thorough explanation of the role of carbohydrates in the body would be a good idea. [...]

Guide to the Health Benefits of Herbs and Spices

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Sorry to have been MIA for so long! It has been a rather crazy week! I now present to you a post I have been working on for a while… enjoy! Most of us have herbs and spices in our kitchen cabinet somewhere and they often get haphazardly added to recipes and culinary creations. Interestingly, [...]

Gardasil Vaccine May Not Be Effective and Could be Dangerous

For any of you still in the age range recommended for the Gardasil vaccine, or who have daughters that are, I thought this article was pertinent. According to this article, Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher on the Gardasil vaccine, said that the vaccine may do little to prevent cervical cancer and though it is being [...]

How to Lose Weight while Preventing the Flu this Season

As we enter the season of holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc) and the season of flu, two concerns on many people’s minds are flu prevention and weight loss. Luckily, there are some simple suggestions that can help maintain a healthy weight and help bolster the body’s defenses against the flu and other illness [...]

Back to the Basics

Here are several of the most simple, but commonly ignored keys to health and wellness. 1. Drink water. A good starting benchmark for water consumption is to take half of your body weight and add twenty. That is the minimum number of ounces you should consumer, per day. If you exercise, add 8-16 ounces for [...]