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5 Surefire & Easy Ways to Reduce Sugar in Your Diet
Sugar may be sweet and delicious, but it may also contribute to an early demise. A huge body of research has found that sugar–particularly added and refined sugar–contributes to a large number of chronic health problems. It leads to premature aging of the skin and compromises your immune system.If you're ready to say sayonara to poor health due [...]
8 Plan-Ahead Meal Prep Tips
Let's face it: The energy required to even think about making dinner every night is more than most of us really want to expend at the end of a long day. And if you're anything like the rest of us, once you finally settle on something that doesn't sound too time-consuming, you still have to go to the grocery [...]
The Biggest Mistakes Women Make When Working Out
Exercise is critical for maintaining good health, but how you exercise is also important. Halfheartedly trotting along on the treadmill while checking Facebook on your mobile device may look like exercise and feel like exercise, but chances are, if your head's not fully in the game, you're not going to reap the benefits you should. Here are some of the [...]
5 Low-Carb Lunches That'll Leave You Afternoon-Alert
A carb overload at lunchtime can leave you feeling sluggish and slow, foggy and flighty, tired and tense. That makes bread, pasta, and pretty much anything processed off-limits if you're looking to perk up your afternoons, but what on earth are you supposed to eat if not a sandwich, leftover pasta, or a sugar-laden frozen microwave meal?Don't worry; we've [...]
3 Health Benefits of Using A Fitness Tracker Watch
Have you ever wondered how far you walked today? Or how many calories you burned over the past 24 hours? Could you use a wrist mounted personal coach to motivate you to “get up and get moving”? A fitness tracker can do all of those things and more.A fitness tracker is an intelligent watch that may be the key [...]
3 Awesome Vegan Dishes in Under 30 Minutes
Going vegan isn't the easiest thing in the world to do since so much of what's in the "normal" American diet is animal-based, but the benefits are seemingly endless. Whether you've decided to shun animal-based foods for ethical or health reasons, joining the 2.5 percent of vegan Americans in enjoying a plant-based diet can lead to a reduced risk [...]
5 Things to Do When Healthy Resolutions Fail
You know how it goes. You get all revved up to cut out red meat, but then you see that rib eyes are on sale for next to nothing. Or, you swear that you're going to start working out the recommended five times a week, but there's always something to hold you back — you're too tired, you forgot your gym [...]
7 Ways to Eat Clean on a Budget
The majority of the food you'll find in the supermarket is of the processed variety, packed full of added sugar, salt, and highly refined ingredients as well as chemical preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, and texturizers. All that junk gunks up your system and leads to overall poor health, lack of energy, weight gain, and premature aging. Eating mostly plant-based [...]
How Does Weather Affect Your Attitude?
If you are like me, you are so tired of looking out the window and seeing long, cold, dreary days. The holidays are over, the decorations are put away and I am still carrying around the extra pounds from the holidays. I just feel blah.Wah, wah, wah.So, to find a way out of this funk, [...]
A Simple Life: The Wilder Way
As a New York Times bestselling author, mother of 6 and farm owner, I don’t have much time for anything that isn’t super important. My mothering motto is, “if no one is broken or bleeding, we are okay.” Nutrition often fell to the end of the priority list because—let’s just be honest, here—who has time to make sure that [...]