Obsession With Healthy Foods

Obsession With Healthy Foods

Obsession with healthy foods, also known as orthorexia nervosa (a non-medical term) is characterized by people who take healthy eating to a new level.  These individuals become obsessed with eating, planning meals, buying only healthy foods, a preparing only healthy foods.  This obsession can be to a point where the individual considers these things their [...] Read more »

Quick Skin Care Tips

Quick Skin Care Tips

Quick skin care tips will keep your skin refreshed and glowing even when chasing children and working out of the home. Skin care doesn’t have to take forever. First of all, make up is not necessary.  It’s great for evening out your skin tone and adding a little color to your cheeks but it is [...] Read more »

Juice Fasting Leads to Better Choices

Juice Fasting leads to better choices

Juice fasting leads to better choices.  It’s one of those things that you hear is true but don’t know it’s true until you do a juice fast. Or, at least, add juices to your existing diet. Now I know that my juice fast wasn’t a true juice fast but I’ve discovered that even modifying it [...] Read more »

Dealing With Anxiety and Stress

Dealing with Stress and Anxiety

Dealing with anxiety and stress isn’t always easy because they are part of our daily lives.  They often serve a good purpose in that they make us aware of situations that could be dangerous.  When the anxiety and stress starts to pile up and make our lives difficult it’s time to take stock of the [...] Read more »

Juice Fast (Modified) Day 4

Juice Fast

Juice fast.  Sounds simple doesn’t it.  Well so far, because I can’t do just juice alone, I’ve only lost a pound. If you read my previous article on this you know I have an ileostomy and that plain liquid goes through in a hurry.  I also have fibromyalgia which, for some reason, makes me crave [...] Read more »

Honey has Many Benefits

Honey.  It has so many benefits.  They range from its sweet, delectable taste to the many health benefits it offers. Buckwheat honey worked better than cough syrup when it was used on 105 kids ages 2 – 18.  It also helped them sleep better.  It was given half an hour before bedtime in the following [...] Read more »

Juice Fasting can be Modified for Better Health

Juice Fasting

Juice fasting is a popular diet and definitely a great way to get all of the vitamins and minerals you need.  The neat thing is that you can juice almost any fruit or vegetable and drink the juices separately or mix them together to create your own taste pleasing blends. There are also recipes available. [...] Read more »

Herbal Supplements can Help Fibromyalgia

Ceyenne Pepper

Herbal supplements can be of benefit to fibromyalgia sufferers.  They can be taken orally or used in creams and lotions to eliminate pain.  Many individuals prefer to take a more natural way of taking care of their fibromyalgia symptoms. Ceyenne Pepper Pain is the most prevalent of the symptoms and can be relieved by using [...] Read more »

Seniors Sometimes Need Simple Food Solutions

Seniors

Seniors can often find it difficult to eat healthy.   Recipes can be found in on line or at stores such as Borders. A cook book with simple recipes would be a great gift for seniors that still likes to cook for themselves and family. Here are some simple ideas that could help someone maintain that [...] Read more »

Illnesses from Food

Illnesses

It has been documented that over 200 illnesses can be foodborne. They are caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins and prions. Wikepedia defines a prion as: A combination of the first two syllables of the words proteinaceous and infectious (-on by analogy to virion) — is a poorly-understood hypothetical infectious agent that, according to the [...] Read more »