The right salad dressing can transform a salad from boring to delectable. Unfortunately, dressings can also add extra calories and unwanted ingredients such as preservatives, artificial flavors, and colors, and more that you may want to avoid. A simple solution to this is to make your own sal
When it comes to heart health markers, many are aware of maintaining healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels. But triglycerides? Not so much. Yet, triglyceride levels are a marker of heart health too. Here’s what you need to know, and better yet, what you need to eat to keep your trig
We were built to run. Researchers believe that the shape of our bodies evolved to make us extraordinary endurance runners, which helped us to both chase prey to exhaustion and evade predators. Also, our tendency to sweat helps our bodies dissipate heat. Our spring-like Achilles’ tendons and
When you’re striving for a healthy lifestyle, you may know some of the basics: eat well, exercise, avoid smoking and excessive alcohol, etc. However, something more subtle is at work when it comes to adopting and maintaining a realistic, healthy lifestyle…it’s your mindset. How you thin
Do your knees pop every time you stand up? Do you experience discomfort in your joints when you walk or run? Pain in the joints is common, especially as we age. For some, taking a medication, topical agent, joint support supplement, or wearing a brace might help. Others may need occasional in
Setting boundaries with the people we love is powerful. It’s also difficult. Yet, this necessary act is ultimately what allows for healthy, loving relationships. What Are Boundaries? Quite simply, they’re the limits and needs we define for ourselves and express within relationships to fee
Despite what many healthcare practitioners would have you believe, losing your memory or developing mental fog in your forties, fifties, sixties, or even seventies isn’t normal – it’s a sign of trouble. Serious memory loss isn’t inevitable with advancing age. If you’re experiencing
It has been said that “recycling turns things into other things, which is like magic.” In the U.S., we need to work more of this magic. These statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency speak volumes: Of the world’s 2.12 billion tons of municipal waste generated each year, the U
Did you know the Earth is like a giant battery? The surface of the Earth has an electrical charge (a negative one). Since this natural, electrical energy comes from the ground, electrical systems must be “grounded” for safety purposes. Dangers of Being Ungrounded One of the main jo
Getting enough healthy fats into your diet can have lasting benefits for your health. Many health problems are linked to low healthy fat consumption. This is because healthy fats have an important role in reducing unhealthy inflammatory status in the body. In this article, we’ll discuss the