Try These 6 Facial Acupressure Points For Better Skin
Acupressure has been used to beautify the skin for thousands of years because it enhances muscle tone and increases circulation. Just like acupuncture, acupressure incorporates the same pressure points and meridians. But acupressure uses gentle to firm finger pressure instead of needles. And if used properly, acupressure will help make your skin glow! In fact, the right pressure on...
Beware: These 3 Household Chores Are Damaging Your Lungs
Although I’ve never heard anyone declare doing chores as their utmost favorite activity, most of us like to at least keep a tidy home. Depending on your personality, household chores can either be an extreme nuisance or a therapeutic activity. No matter where you’re at, it turns out doing certain household chores can damage your lungs. Regular exposure to...
Green Tea + 4 Other Home Remedies For Painful, Chapped Lips
Dozens of things can contribute to icky, chapped lips such as exposure to cold air, breathing with an open mouth, licking your lips, dehydration and using irritating cosmetics. Use these five home remedies to get baby soft lips no matter what season it is. A word about commercial lip products Before we dive into natural remedies, please consider ditching your...
6 ‘Superfoods’ To Stop Wasting Money On (And What To Buy Instead)
Stop munching on that overpriced kale! Every few years, some new miracle superfood is marketed as a magical cure for every ailment under the sun. Whether it’s chia seeds or goji berries, there’s always some new fad coming down the pike. While most so-called superfoods are indeed perfectly healthy, the benefits can be exaggerated to ridiculous levels. Don’t buy...
Ladies: 15 Early Warning Signs Of Lupus You Shouldn’t Ignore
Lupus is a shape-shifting disease that can masquerade as any number of maladies. It’s a potentially life-threatening autoimmune disorder that can strike anyone, at any age, in entirely unpredictable ways. Although it is a hard condition to diagnose it is critical to catch it early. Therefore, being able to recognize the symptoms of lupus is critical. With that in...
Dentists Get Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans To Have This Unnecessary Procedure
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans spend around $2,000 on veneers to make their teeth look whiter and to hide imperfections. The custom-made shells are extremely thin and are bonded to the front of the teeth in order to change their appearance. However, the procedure comes with risks, and there are much more affordable alternatives. In America, the cost of being...
Eat What You Want And Still Lose Weight? Try This 5-Step Process
Mindfulness is catching; it seems like people mindfully practice just about anything these days. And why shouldn’t we? We’ve have been using mindfulness techniques for centuries. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that mindfulness only happens on the meditation cushion, but that’s simply not true. Mindfulness is the practice of directing your attention to the present moment...
5 Amazing Health Benefits Of This Ancient Ayurvedic Cooking Oil
As health experts finally begin to lift their long-held (and unjustified) ban on saturated fats, the popularity of coconut oil and grass-fed butter has skyrocketed in recent years. But while these two fats are undoubtedly superfoods, there’s another type of fat that just might be even healthier: ghee. Similar to clarified butter, ghee is made by slowly and gently heating butter...
3 Reasons I Don’t Always Wash My Organic Produce
If you’re anything like me, you walk into any supermarket with a distrustful squint in your eye and a mind that’s fully focused on ratting out misleading marketing and food that seems healthy but is actually a disease-ridden trap. For others, such an approach to a casual stroll down the supermarket aisles might seem a little over the top, but...
10 Scary Ways Climate Change Is Impacting Your Health
There’s a lot more at stake than the loss of some beach real estate as we battle with climate change. In fact, no matter where you live, you’re experiencing the effects. Whether it’s increased seasonal allergies, more aggressive diseases, or living in a flood region that used to be arider, we are dealing with the effects of climate change...
