Healthy Living
Top Five Tips for Healthy Entertaining!
Gathering friends and family together in your home for a big dinner or party is a special time for everyone, but hosting a party shouldn’t have to mean abandoning your healthy lifestyle. Take a look at these top five tips for making your next dinner party a healthy one! 1. Go Natural! One of the […]
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What’s Missing: The Importance of Recognizing Nutritional Deficiencies
Everywhere you turn you hear about the importance of getting a balanced diet or another new study revealing yet another benefit provided by various vitamins or minerals. Yet, even the most well-intentioned, healthy eaters may still be lacking in certain nutrients. If you’ve never evaluated your nutritional levels here’s what you need to know and […]
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Surprising Switcharoos: Easy and Healthy Swaps Anyone Can Pull Off!
Switching to a healthier way of eating can bring with it a litany of changes. And while making major changes to your diet is certainly worth it, if you are new to seeking healthier foods it can seem a little daunting to make changes like ditching your pasta in favor of spaghetti squash (even though […]
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Listen Up! Top Five Tips for Getting Your Doctor to Listen to Your Food Allergy Concerns
These days there is an ever increasing awareness of the prevalence and impact of food allergies. Yet even with this increased awareness, even well-intentioned doctors can sometimes balk when you tell him or her you suspect you or your child suffers from food allergies. The right tips can help you get your doctor to listen […]
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New Year, New You: The Smart Way to Reach Healthy Aspirations
As a New Year begins many of us resolve to make improvements to improve our health of our family. By the time we are just a few weeks into the New Year, real life has often pushed those ambitions aside. Instead of being discouraged by a lack of progress in your goals, take a few […]
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Essential Oils for Health: Help or Hype?
Though essential oils have been used in cultures all over the world for centuries, they have recently gained a resurgence in popularity along with more widespread availability. What exactly are these fragrant oils some rave and some dismiss? And are they worth incorporating into a healthy regime? What Are Essential Oils? Essential oils are the […]
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Is Cross-Contamination Causing You Problems? Five Steps to Guard Against Cross-Contamination
If you or a member of your family has a food intolerance or allergy you know how challenging it can be to avoid consuming the offending food. Yet as difficult as this can be, when you have an allergy or intolerance with a high level of sensitivity the challenge can increase even more so. With […]
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Eat an Apple a Day with these 7 Tasty and Creative Ideas
The phrase ‘eat an apple a day’ is more than just an old saying, it is actually sound health advice. Enjoying an apple each day can give you a daily dose of with vitamins, minerals, fiber, phytonutrients antioxidants, along with a delicious taste! While it’s hard to beat biting into a crisp apple, it’s far […]
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Sweet Poison: The Damage Sugar is Doing to Our Bodies
We’ve been conditioned to think that foods packed with sugars are special “treats”. The problem is treating ourselves with sugar is far more harmful than that temporary treat of a sweet taste. In the Short Term: Energy Crash. Sugar gives us a quick energy burst as blood sugar spikes, but robs us of it just […]
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Top Five Healthy Habits of Happy, Busy Parents
Regardless of how old your kids are, whether you work inside or outside the home, or what your parenting style is, one thing is for sure: parenting is quite the balancing act! And though parenting will always be a balancing act, some habits can help you stay healthier and happier in the midst of the […]
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