5 Ways to Wind Down from a Rough Week
Once you clock out on Friday evening, you feel tired and drained from a rough week. Thankfully, you can unwind and de-stress using a variety of quick and simple techniques. These are all natural and they will help you to find your inner calm in no time. This allows you to refresh and rejuvenate your mind and body for...
Banish Congestion with Super Spicy Peppers
For some, they are a delicious treat. For others, they are something to eat on a dare. Yet others avoid them like the plague: hot peppers. Whether you love them or think they're too intense, spicy peppers contain a wealth of health benefits, and it may be worth adding some to your meals, even in tiny amounts! The heat quotient...
Quit Smoking to Cut Your Heart Disease Risk in Half
We know you know: smoking is a terrible habit that can viciously deteriorate your health. This is no secret. Everyone and their mother knows that smoking cigarettes raises heart disease and lung cancer risk, as well as the risk of numerous other illnesses. However, have you thought about the way in which your body recovers once you quit? Sometimes, people...
One Soda a Day Can Age You Five Years
Are you STILL drinking soda? If not, kudos! If so, even just one in the afternoon, you may wish to take a second look at all of the research. In the past several years, soda has been strongly linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, tooth decay and certain cancers. If that's not enough to convince you,...
Exciting Innovation: Smog-Eating Buildings
If you live in the city, especially a huge metropolitan area, then you know that on those smoggy days, it can be rather uncomfortable breathing outside. However, a very cool new development from Alcoa Architectural Products poses a small-scale solution: panels to coat buildings which actually consume surrounding smog. The company's website states, "patented HYDROTECT™ technology protects our planet...
11 Reasons to Stand on Your Head
Headstand (Sirsasana) is often called the king of all yoga poses because it provides so many benefits. Here are 11 reasons to practice standing on your head. Increases Your Focus Whenever you invert, the blood flow to your brain increases. This can help to improve concentration, focus, and mental functioning in general, allowing you to keep your mind clear and sharp. Reduces...
3 Board Games that Can Destroy Your Family
Ah, the holidays. Second and third cousins that you can’t remember the names of. That drowsy feeling of eating too much, choking turtlenecks, eggnog and board games. Board games, fun for the whole family, right? Sometimes not so much. What started as an innocent bit of fun while waiting for the turkey to cook turns into a test of wills, a...
Healthy Holiday Travel Tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59f0kfzTte0&feature With the holidays fast upon us many people are gearing up for some travel - either by plane, car, bus or train. No matter how you travel, let's face it, it can be hard on your health. Oftentimes we come back from a trip feeling drained and sickly. This is common as travel can definately compromise your immune system....
The Grass that Busts Stress
For fragrant, exotic winter meals, and soothing, stress-busting teas, pick up a few stalks of lemongrass today. Lemongrass, also known as cymbopogon, is a fibrous, razor-like grass which is best known for adding flavor to Thai dishes. However, lemongrass has many more uses than flavoring a green curry. This herb, while lesser known in the West, has been used...
9 No-Excuse Healthy Meals You Can Make in 10 Minutes or Less
You don't need to spend hours slaving over a hot stove to make a nutritious dish - these easy meals can be made in 10 minutes or less, eliminating the common "no time" excuse. Green veggie breakfast smoothie A smoothie is one of the easiest ways to throw together a highly nutritious meal in just minutes. There are literally hundreds of...
