Learn how to create great posture at any age with the Straighten Up Exercise! Good posture is a must-have for everyone as it is a key component for retaining safe mobility as you age.
Stress and Anxiety are insidious critters, but there is a lot we can do for ourselves. Healthy Smoothies is a great one! In this blog, I’d like to introduce you to a smoothie recipe that tastes great and actually helps to lift your mood. Stress is something that everyone encounters, and depending upon how we deal with it, it can lead to or exacerbate illness. However, there is much we can do for ourselves, including exercise, meditation, qigong, yoga, massage, reflexology, and more.
It is a fact that those suffering from chronic illness, quite often, tend to be isolated and lonely. Many times it is by choice. Often the pain and suffering makes it difficult to be around those who are healthy, because it is hard to put on a happy face, or to keep up. You may feel like you’re only a burden to those around you. Resentment or despair often sets in, and it is all too easy to push your loved ones away.
Chronic fatigue (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FMS) are illnesses that can result from a number of contributing factors, such as, dietary, environmental toxins, genetic predisposition, burning your candle at both ends, and unrelieved stress. Learn more about how to heal in blog 2 of this series.
Sitting down and standing up is a common and necessary ability for successful activities of daily living. However, injuries occur frequently during this seemingly simple task. The most common being a low back injury. These injuries are easily preventable. Using proper body mechanics, sitting down and standing up become quite safe and much easier to perform.
Juicing is a great way to get a variety of vegetables and fruit into your diet, along with an abundance of nutrients from the produce into a manageable, drinkable quantity. All these powerful, medicinal phytochemicals, nutrients, and minerals are ready to be absorbed by the body. But, in order to extract the good stuff you do need a good quality, geared or press juicer to do it.
Osteoporosis is a rapidly growing global health concern, and according to the World Health Organization, second only to heart disease. Preventing osteoporosis should be a global health priority. It is also interesting to note that the nations with the highest calcium intake have the largest incidence of osteoporosis. For example, the Eskimos who consume more calcium than any other culture in the world have the single highest rate of osteoporosis anywhere in the world.
In this blog series, I offer tips, techniques and advice on how to reduce and/or eliminate low back pain. Today’s low back pain tip introduces an indispensable exercise called “The Bridge”.
Proper Abdominal Breathing is a Cornerstone for Holistic Health and Wellness. Most people are shallow chest breathers. They breathe air only into the upper third of their lungs and then they’ve already started exhaling. Over time, this type of breathing can take a toll on the body, contributing to creating illness, or keep you from reaching the level of health you desire.
s Your Smoothie Really Healthy? Many people are blending up smoothies nowadays with the hope of getting more healthy. The problem is that what they are making is not actually all that healthy.
High Blood Pressure is a major health issue in the U.S. According to the CDC, as of 2010 – 67 million American adults (31%) have high blood pressure—that’s 1 in every 3 adults.
