Jumpstart skin repair with more raw foods

Glow-Food: Jumpstart skin repair with more raw foods

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  Want vibrant, glowing skin? What you eat is just as important, if not more important than the products you use on the surface. Our skin is a window to our health. And the foods that promote healthy skin also promote a healthy body overall. Here are a few suggestions to achieve a glowing complexion: Hydrate: Drinking plenty of water …

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What Your Posture Can Tell You about Your Health

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It’s a chicken-or-egg question: What came first, the stress that caused bad posture, or the bad posture that enhances a foul mood? Our emotional and physical health are intertwined; awareness of one often leads to straightening up the other, Our bodies are designed for movement and stability. As we age, we create muscle imbalances from bad habits in how we …

The Power of Consistency

The Power of Consistency: Yoga as a Lifestyle

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“Yoga in America is becoming what it needs to be. We cannot step backward from those ways of doing things [in India], because we never had them to begin with.” – Nina Moliver The practice of yoga, which began about 5000 years ago in India, has become a booming $27 Billion industry in the U.S., with more than 15 million …

Food is Medicine

Food is Medicine

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What did people do before the giant pharmaceutical corporations took a stronghold on the ‘health and wellness’ field, trying to convince us that the best way to heal our bodies is to ingest chemical cocktails packaged in pretty little pills? It is simple. They used food as medicine instead, and in many traditions such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine and …

Perfect Combo for Pain and Stress

3 Ways Massage and Acupuncture are a Perfect Combo for Pain and Stress

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  We’ve all been there: When stress takes a toll, your muscles tighten, pain radiates to other parts of the body, your head aches, your mood worsens and your relationships suffer. You may think to go get a massage for some relief.  Adding an acupuncture treatment may actually enhance the results and get you feeling your best: Here are three …

MELT Method Can Help You Live Pain-Free

How the MELT Method Can Help You Live Pain-Free

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What can you do with a few foam balls? Apparently, a whole lot of good stuff for your brain and body. In the New York Times bestselling book The MELT Method, author and body worker Sue Hitzmann teaches an easy self-care method that promotes a healthy conversation between your brain (i.e thoughts, emotions, feelings) and your connective tissue and fascia. …

RECONNECT

RECONNECT: You are your most precious resource

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It’s easy to put ourselves on the back burner in our overscheduled and over-committed lives. Remembering to pause for self-care “timeouts” is not only life-affirming, it’s necessary for your physical and mental health. In the end, you are the driver of your life and the richness of your journey is solely up to you. Sante Avant Tout! + pause and …

Men are Practicing Yoga

Why More and More Men are Practicing Yoga

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It’s a peculiarity of western culture that yoga is practiced primarily by women. Here, it’s often thought that men do sports and women do things like yoga and stretching. Ironically, many men have reported that their first yoga class has often ‘kicked their ass’ and that it requires a lot more strength than they imagined.  In its origin countries, yoga …

Men's Health

Men’s Health for Each Season

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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”— Benjamin Franklin If we didn’t change the oil in our car for 10 years, some very major, costly issues would come up – the kind that could be easily avoided if we’d just changed the oil. We do regular anti-virus scans to catch the bugs that can crash and wreak …

HEALTH(IER) BBQ RECIPES

HEALTH(IER) BBQ RECIPES for the SUMMER

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SIBO friendly recipes for the grill that you’ll love! Sibo? Who’s that? And why are they coming to dinner? SIBO stands for Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth. Think of them as the friends at your party that wreak a bit of havoc in your gut. Your gut always has bacteria, and that in itself is not a bad thing (think pro-biotics, the …

Performing Activity

High Performing Back = High Performing Activity

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Care for your active body starts with a healthy lifeline. Most folks don’t realize how essential chiropractic care is to your overall health. Far too many people still believe that chiropractic care is needed only when one has a severe headache or low back pain.  Truth is, millions of folks get adjusted regularly to improve their health and their body’s …