4 Non-Toxic Ways To Color Your Hair
Do you know your natural hair color? The answer may seem obvious, but according to one study, one in six UK women have been dyeing their hair for so long, they no longer know what their natural color is. In terms of frequency, participants colored their hair on average every 8.2 weeks. In the United States, a 2008 study by...
Learn How To Relax And Let Go With These 5 Mind/Body Apps
Although yoga, meditation and mindfulness are some of the most ancient health practices out there, thanks to technology we can incorporate them easily into our modern lives. There are a number of apps you can download to your smartphone or tablet that are designed to help you focus, re-center, relax — even get a quick yoga practice in —...
7 Slimming Smoothie Recipes
Fast and delicious, these healthy smoothies are easy to make and will help keep you energized, detoxed and focused on slimming down. Drink to your health! -Katherine Marko Katherine Marko is a freelance writer, author and blog creator. Her areas of expertise include food, health, style, beauty, business and nutrition. Marko holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, a diploma in photography,...
What Research Says About the Dangers Of Teeth Grinding
For those of you who have a partner that grinds their teeth in the night, you know how awful it can sound. Perhaps you even have woken yourself up before, with the sound of grinding resonating in your ears. Well, this “habit” is not only unpleasant to listen to and experience, it's also potentially dangerous. Signs that you're grinding teeth You...
Top 6 Places To Raise A Healthy Family?
The best places in the US to raise a healthy family have several factors in common. They all have excellent public school systems, little crime, clean water and air, lots of parks, recreational space, and activities to keep children healthy in body and spirit. For practical purposes, they must offer ample opportunities for parents to make a living without...
Will You Move Abroad? Where Are Americans Fleeing?
Americans have long made their homes in other countries. But now that’s happening more than ever before. According to the US Treasury Department, 3,415 Americans renounced their citizenship and moved to another country, a 14 percent increase from 2013. Renouncing your passport is not the same as simply living abroad. It means you cease to be an American. Why quit...
11 Facts About The Heart You May Not Know
What is the size of two fists clasped together, beats 100,000 times a day and pumps approximately one million barrels of blood in a lifetime? The answer: the heart. It’s a highly muscular organ that is essential for human life. Unfortunately, we often focus on the complications of heart health, due to rising rates of heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. The...
Could Coffee Help Protect Your Liver From Alcohol?
Another noteworthy benefit has been added to the list of perks that coffee may have for your health. New research has found that drinking your daily java may help protect your liver from alcohol-related cirrhosis. While a little bit of alcohol may actually be healthy, we all know that overdoing it on the spirits is extremely dangerous in a...
6 Life-Changing Habits To Build Into Your Day
What if you could have the best day ever, every day? Take a moment now, and think to yourself, what would make today the best day ever? Research shows that many of the things that make us feel satisfied with our day are actually within our own control. As a response to the question above, you might have said something like, “Today...
Things Hippies Got Right
Today hippies can be identified by little more than a disinterest in makeup and penchant for natural hairstyles. In their heyday, however, being a hippie meant more than a preference for alternative hygiene. Hippies were an important counterculture of the sixties, and as a group they stood for something. A handful of the values and propositions once considered “hippie...
