It’s no secret that exercise has multiple health benefits. Exercise strengthens your muscles, bones and joints. Exercise helps you burns calories and reduce body fat (important for weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight.) Exercise improves your cardiovascular (heart) health. Exercise helps with your flexibility and agility. Exercise has an amazing anti-aging effect on your body and …
Category: Detox
Nutrition Foundations: Clean Eating, Nutritional Balance & Portion Control
Before I get into a single detail about nutrition, I want to paint a picture to illustrate why it’s so important. Here goes… The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a study to uncover the leading cause of death and disability in the United States. The result? The leading cause of death and disability in …
Daily Detox Practice: Drinking Warm Lemon Water First Thing in the Morning
Your body is equipped with several internal organs and systems that are designed to eliminate toxins like your digestive tract, lymphatic system, colon, liver, kidneys, lungs and skin. When your body is overrun with toxins, however, the systems in your body can’t compete and toxins end up lodged within your cells, internal organs, skin and fatty …
Meet Me at the Water Bar: Ninja Tricks for Getting Adequately Hydrated Each Day!
It’s no secret that drinking enough water each day is critical for enabling your body to work properly. In fact, the benefits of adequate hydration are HUGE, which is why I wrote this detailed blog about them. Even though we know how important it is to drink lots of water, it’s estimated that around 75% …
Here’s Why Adequate Hydration is Critical to Your Health!
Did you know the majority of the human body is made of water? That’s because water serves as a lubricant for just about every function in your body…from your heart to your brain to your muscles and joints, and so much more! Water also plays a critical role in flushing toxins out of your system …
Why It’s Important to Detox Your Body Daily
A very lucrative industry has been built on products that promote body cleanses, detoxes and “resets.” The core problem with most of these programs is they focus on temporary and extreme behavior changes like: “Only drink this juice for 5 days.” “Take 4 of these pills three times a day for 2 weeks and drink a gallon …
Common Side Effects From Detoxing Your Body
Body detoxes have become very popular for helping people cleanse their systems, build immunity, lose weight, prevent disease and just feel all-around better. Unfortunately, many people don’t stick with a daily detox routine, because they experience uncomfortable side effects at the beginning of the detox process. It’s important to know that any discomfort and unpleasant side …
Essential Oils 101: What They Are & How To Use Them
If you’ve ever enjoyed the floral smell of a rose bush or the minty aroma of a peppermint leaf, you have experienced the natural magic of essential oils. This is because essential oils carry the distinctive fragrance or “essence” of the plant from which they came. They are created simply by extracting the aromatic compounds from the …
Detox Pedicure: Simple, Inexpensive & Totally Natural!
I cringe at the amount of money I used to spend going to salons for pedicures. I remember looking at the blue-colored water they soaked my feet in and the bottles of mystery ingredients the spa tech slathered all over my legs and feet, and wondering what the heck was in them. More than once, …
Save Money, Reduce Waste & Ditch Toxic Plastic With These Reusable Food & Beverage Transportation Products
Every year when back-to-school time rolls around, I see people scrambling to buy their kiddos a new lunch box and water bottle for the school year and stock up on baggies. And during years of working in an office setting, I saw loads of co-workers burn through disposable water bottles and plastic bags like crazy…and microwave their meals in warped plastic …