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Natural Supplements – Help Your Body 

Vitamins and mineral supplements are a good way to supply your body with nutrients that you might not be getting from your diet. Go down any vitamin aisle in a chemist, market, or health food store. The first thing you will see is all the ‘natural’ supplements and vitamin complex tablets that all claim to provide all kinds of benefits.  There are supplements that claim to help you lose weight without exercise. Does it sound too good to be true? It is.  You have to burn more calories than you consume and exercise will help you accomplish that but I digress.  If you are considering adding supplements to your diet, having a discussion with your doctor will help to determine whether or not...

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7 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Coconut Oil

It is a common misconception that coconut oil is bad for you. People all over the world are experiencing the healthy benefits of using coconut oil. It is actually one of the healthiest oils you can consume. Here are the top seven reasons why you should use coconut oil as an alternative to other common cooking oils. 1. Coconut oil doesn’t turn to fat in your body. Unlike many other common oils, like soy (vegetable) and corn, coconut oil won’t make you fat. Coconut oil contains medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), which are an easy fuel for the body to burn, without turning to fat. Most other cooking oils and fats contain long-chain triglycerides (LCT). LCT’s are usually stored as fat. Since coconut oil is...

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Beginners Guide To Clean Eating

If you’re currently not eating a healthy diet, it can be difficult to start such a plan. However, healthy eating along with some exercise is very important for maintaining a good bodily function and goes a long way towards living a disease-free life. If you struggle with healthy eating, then you know that breaking unhealthy habits can be the most difficult part of the process. Therefore, if you truly want to live the best lifestyle possible, it is important to follow tips to start eating a healthier diet. A great first step when you want to start eating your way to a healthy lifestyle is to rid your home of all temptations that will distract you from following better eating habits. Ideally it...

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Eating The Right Way

When you think about weight loss, what do you think of first? Which aspects of weight loss are important, which are essential, and which ones can you take or leave? You be the judge. Once you begin to move beyond basic background information, you begin to realize that there’s more to weight loss than you may have first thought.  It probably comes to you as naturally as breathing—the art of eating.  However, you might never have been taught to eat well.  This is critically important because, unless you learn to eat well, you may never master the art of weight loss and maintenance.  In our society, certain inappropriate eating habits have become routine.  By attacking these habits, you can increase the likelihood that...

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Eating For Life

Eating is an essential part of life. We cannot sustain life for long without eating, so it is important that we take the time to learn how to eat well in order to have the best life possible. Our views of eating and the eating practices we adopt will affect our lives and our health in significant ways in the months and years ahead. Eating well can literally change everything. Eating can be both a blessing and a curse. Many people struggle with eating because they cannot keep it in balance. They end up eating too little or too much and do not live healthy lives because of it. We all know the dangers of eating too little. Probably everyone has at least...

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10 Ways to Get More Antioxidants into Your Diet

It’s no secret that antioxidants are incredibly beneficial to good health. It’s believed the antioxidants in food can help prevent cancer, reverse or slow aging, enhance your immune system, increase your energy, and improve heart and other organ health. Given all we know about antioxidants and their beneficial properties, it’s amazing more people don’t get enough fruits and vegetables, the primary sources of antioxidants. Experts recommend a minimum of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily but say getting 7-10 servings is best. There are 10 steps to getting more antioxidants into your diet. 1.Breakfast Breakfast doesn’t have to be a hurried toaster tart on the way out the door. Throw some strawberries, berries, and yogurt into a blender; pour your delicious mixture...

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Surviving perimenopause and beyond…

Did you feel like you had your weight and health under control, then Perimenopause hit?  Well, you are not alone! After a lifetime of battling weight and digestion issues, I finally hit a period in my life where I had found something that worked for me.  I had stopped the yoyo dieting, extreme exercising, and found nutrition and body movement that worked for my body.   Clean eating, specific foods, and smaller widows of time for eating was my saviour when it came to nutrition.  Instead of the excessive exercise sessions I had swopped it for walking.   My body absolutely loved my new lifestyle and my weight naturally fell to where it needed to be and stayed there.  My digestion issues subsided, and it...

Worry less

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9 Nutritional ways to fight Stress

Stress is something that most people can identify with and there are many ways for you to fight stress.  Most people will turn to exercise or relaxation techniques, another way to fight stress is through nutrition.  If you’ve been feeling more stressed out than usual lately, it’s important to know which foods are best to choose and which to avoid when it comes to combating stress and helping you to deal with feelings of stress and anxiety. The best way to fight stress is to have a healthy, balanced diet which includes a moderate amount of each of the different food groups. Filling up on foods such as whole grains, leafy vegetables, and lean proteins as the basic staples of the diet is...

Vitamins

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Are nutritional supplements needed?

If you are a person who is interested in eating a balanced diet to enjoy a healthy life, you may be contemplating the use of vitamins and nutritional supplements. There are some definite benefits that can be derived from the proper use of vitamin products and nutritional supplements. However, to make vitamins and nutritional supplements an effective and appropriate part of an overall health diet program, it is necessary to understand how these products fit within an overall healthy eating regimen. Before you embark on any diet plan that includes the use of supplements and vitamins it is important for you to obtain and seek medical advice. Each year people embark on a diet plan that includes the use of nutritional supplements without...

Festive Eating

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5 Tips for keeping healthy around the holiday season

Eat anything in moderation Don’t overload your plate, rather take small portions of the foods you love.  You can always go back for more if you want.  Take your time eating and socialising with your family and friends.  Enjoy the food, it is not a race to get as much food in your body as possible.  Use the same 90/10 approach to the holiday season by selecting healthy options most of the time and integrating the foods you don’t usually eat into the menu.  You will be surprised how this helps and you don’t feel like you are depriving yourself in anyway. Homemade instead of store bought Homemade dishes are always the best option as we know what ingredients we have used to...

Fad diets

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Why Fad diets don’t work long term, plus 7 simple things to change for long term weight loss and healthy eating.

What is a fad diet This is quick fix, short term, unrealistic eating plan.  It is something that you are not able to stick to long term.  It goes against your body natural nutrient requirements by depriving you of certain groups of food, as well as taking anything you regard as a treat and making it a sin to eat or drink.  All this can result in nutrient deficiency, dehydration, uncontrollable cravings and fatigue. If this is not enough, fad diets usually result in you gaining all the weight back and more.  It can take your body a fair amount of time to recover and heal from the trauma.  It makes you wonder why even after us knowing this we still go ahead...