Is Your Drinking Water Toxic?
Water is by far the beverage of choice, especially if you are a health conscious individual who fully understands the power of water to nourish and sustain life. While the human body can go about 3 weeks without food, it can not survive for more than 3 days without water. Water is essential to every bodily function. No other...
Shroom It Up! Why Vitamn D Supplements Just Aren’t Working For You
Every tissue within the human body requires vitamin D to work properly. Without enough vitamin D, we become deficient and our health suffers. Vitamin D is needed for optimal bone and muscle strength, the nutrient also plays an essential role in modulating our immune system and fighting off infections like the flu. Research indicates that this powerful vitamin works...
Humans Have Over 50 Million Of These and We Were Built to Work Them Out!
Have you ever stopped to think of just how heavy your head really is? The average human head weighs somewhere between 10 -12 pounds and must remain balanced over the spine in order to avoid neck, back and shoulder pain. The key to this stability rests with the muscles in the neck and shoulder region. They have the huge...
Don’t Like the Way You Feel? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
New Year's resolutions, just like any other resolutions are not really an accurate prediction of one's behavior. The word resolution means a firm decision to do or not do something. However, there are two parts to every resolution. There is thought, and there is action. Many people have great intentions or great thoughts, but they are not supported by...
Jet Fuel Exposure Can Cause Disease For Generations to Come
With another Earth Day now behind us, it is evident that more people are becoming increasingly aware of environmental pollution and toxins. Chemicals have found their way into everyday products used by millions of Americans and toxic-related illnesses are on the rise. The alarming truth, now surfacing, indicates that you don't even have to come in direct contact with...
Use These 4 Methods To Fight Out of Control Stress
Stress has been called "the silent killer" and can lead to heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and other serious medical conditions. The term stress is a derivative of the Latin word stringere which means to draw tight. Stress can change blood sugar levels, encourage mood swings, fatigue, high blood sugar and metabolic syndrome. According to Heartmath, more and more...
Are We Eating The Life Out of This Planet?
The way our nation eats is costing us our planet’s health. Aside from the highly detrimental effects of our eating habits on our health, our environment is suffering greatly from our use of pesticides and GMO crops. Today, most crops are grown with the aid of one synthetic chemical or another, and GMOs are becoming the norm in America,...
2 Of The Most Toxic FDA-Approved Poisons
Since 1930, many Americans have trusted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to tell us what foods are safe to eat and what products are safe to use. According to their mission statement, posted on fda.gov, “the FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products,...
5 Healthy Foods That Will Boost Happiness Levels
While many things may cause you to feel "blue" and grumpy, there are some foods that are known to have an uplifting effect on brain chemicals. The first thing many people head for when they are a little down is sugar. Sugar, however, is destructive and consuming sugary foods at any time only leads to poor health. Although the...
Eat More Traditional Fats for Better Health
Your grandmother and her mother, and her mother and so on, probably consumed a great deal more fat than you do today. However, although fat consumption has decreased, heart disease has increased. There is something dramatically wrong with this picture. What is wrong is that fat, good healthy natural fat, has been misrepresented in a way that has made...
