Category: Health & Beauty
Let’s Get Rid of Those Dry, Sand-like, Rough Hands!
Here’s the scoop. If you’re a mom (especially an at-home mom), you tend to have your hands in water a lot. The first symptoms of softness deterioration usually show up after the birth of your first child. Children cause you to constantly wash your hands. You wash your hands before you change the baby and [...]
pH Balance: What is pH and Why Does Yours Matter?
pH is one of the most important things your need to learn about in terms of health or disease. In order for your body’s cells to function at peak capacity, your body needs to ensure that its pH levels-especially your blood-are in a slightly alkaline state (that means with a pH of slightly more than [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup: Does it Deserve its Bad Rep?
To some, high fructose corn syrup is known as corn syrup on steroids. Do we really need to stay away from this powerful sugar alternative? Discovered in the 1970s, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) became a much-used ingredient in American processed food products. Because high fructose corn syrup is sweeter than sugar, keeps products fresh [...]
Teens and Dieting: Is Your Adolescent on a Dangerous Diet?
The teen years are a time of exploration. Body image and self image seem to play a large part. Is your teen’s self image strong enough to avoid the pitfalls of dangerous diets? Teen years are tough enough without the added media pressure to look thin. Teenagers undergo both real and imagined pressures of school, [...]
Achieving Personal Goals: Chart Success with a Personal Goal Log
Most people have goals but fail to achieve them because they don’t write their goals down and chart their progress. Here’s one method to help achieve your set goals. Creating a personal goal log is the second step to success. The first step is determining the goal. Rather than put the cart before the horse, [...]
Fighting Gingivitis
Having healthy teeth requires more than just brushing and flossing. If you want to have healthy teeth, it’s time to take a look at what you’re putting into your mouth. Mention the word gingivitis and most people think that they’ve got to brush their teeth to prevent it. Yes, it is true that proper brushing [...]
Personal Action Plans: The Road Map to Success
Some of the most successful people in the world attribute their success to writing down their goals and reviewing them daily. Why not learn from the best? Everyone has the ability to become abundantly successful. Some of the most successful people in the world attribute their success to writing personal action plans in one form [...]
Essential Fatty Acids: Omeag 6 & 3
In the article Trans Fats 101, we talked about the three types of fats (Saturated, unsaturated and Trans Fats), and that the healthiest of the fats are unsaturated fats of which there are two kinds, poly unsaturated and mono unsaturated. This article will take it one step further and discuss polyunsaturated fats in a bit [...]
Trans Fats 101
How much do we really know about trans fats? We know that they’re present in processed foods and we know that they’re bad for us, but do we know what they are and why they’re bad for us? I believe that if we become educated on such matters, we can help ourselves and teach our [...]
Is Zero grams of Trans Fats Really 0g?
You’re shopping in the grocery store and pick up box of cake mix, read the nutrition label see there is a big zero (0 ) next to trans fats (this you can read even without the aid of your reading glasses which are sitting home on the counter). You toss the mix into your shopping [...]
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