While you are sitting on your butt, ponder this. Besides elevating blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol and weight, studies show that too much sitting is also tied to increases in breast and colon cancer. Studies linking 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer to prolonged sitting puts it right up there as a risk factor along with smoking and … [Read more...] about Get off YOUR Butt!
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Grab Your Nuts!
If you are hosting Thanksgiving, consider putting out mixed nuts as part of your appetizers. With anti-aging, blood-pressure lowering, immune, blood vessel and brain boosting properties, a handful of mixed nuts is a great thing to munch on while having a cocktail, enjoying loved ones...and maybe some football, this Thursday. Rich in vitamins, healthy fats, anti-oxidants and … [Read more...] about Grab Your Nuts!
Happy, Healthy and Terrific
With Thanksgiving this week, and the start to the holiday eating, drinking, shopping, visiting, hosting, spending and unfortunately stressing, officially beginning, it is time to take a deep breath and hang on to not only savor the ride, but to come off (or out) of it feeling happy, healthy, terrific and only the better off from all of it. As it gets harder and harder to get … [Read more...] about Happy, Healthy and Terrific
Which Garden Will You Tend?
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the … [Read more...] about Which Garden Will You Tend?
Half Full
There is no question that some people just seem to naturally see the glass as half-full, while the half-empty people sit back and envy the others. In fact, negative thoughts beget negative thoughts, according to David Rakel, M.D., director of the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine program. By training yourself to see the bright side, it will soon become your natural … [Read more...] about Half Full