Stressed Out? Try this Smoothie and Blend your Way to Health Series 2

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.

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Prevent Injury: Proper Body Mechanics of Standing Up and Sitting Down

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.

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Why Am I Passionate about Juicing?

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.

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Reduce Stress and Improve Health with Abdominal Breathing

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.

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10 Secrets to Making a Healthy Smoothie!

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.

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High Blood Pressure? Try this natural remedy!

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.

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Juicing for Health: Get Started Today!

Juicing is a great way to counter our fast-paced, stressed-out lifestyles and promote health. We are inundated with poor, processed food choices and a rushed and frantic lifestyle that has wreaked havoc on our health. We don’t provide our bodies with the basic nutrition and miracle-working phyto-nutrients they need to survive, let alone thrive.

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Using Food as Medicine: Introducing Phytochemicals

At Holistic Health with Holly™, organic plant-based food is our alternative medicine of choice: natural, simple, safe and effective. What is it about vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains that make them such powerful little healers?All plants contain molecular compounds called phytochemicals — “phyto” comes from the Greek word “phuton” meaning “plants.”

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GERD or Acid Indigestion? Try this Tums Alternative!

If you have GERD or acid indigestion, Beware Over the Counter Medications!It is an eye opening fact that nearly half of all Americans in the U.S. now suffer from occasional, or chronic acid-reflux (GERD – gastroesophageal reflux disease), or ulcers.

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