The Worst Artificial Sweeteners
Are you using artificial sweeteners for weight loss? If so, STOP!!!!!! Here’s Why… While they have little or no calories, they are not helping you to lose weight. Most of these sweet chemicals cause your insulin to rise. When insulin rises, your blood sugar is lowered. Low blood sugar causes you to crave and eat more. Studies have shown that people who consume artificial sweeteners eat more calories than people who don’t. Additionally, this rise in insulin signals your body t
The Shape of Your New Year's Resolution
For many of us, the start of the new year marks the time to take on – perhaps for the umpteenth time – a new diet.
It turns out our success or failure may be closely linked to our ability to shape a plan that conforms to our specific body type. Nutritionists, fitness instructors and health professionals recognize that different body types gain or lose weight at different rates. They have given those types different names and few individuals will fit precisely into a single c
11 Ways to Manage Holiday Stress
For far too many, “tis the season to be jolly” is a bunch of fa la la. But it doesn’t have to be. The holidays can be one of the more stressful times on the calendar, when those who recently have lost loved ones may become acutely aware of their loss; when financial woes, health issues, family tensions or even just the pressure to make the season perfect can turn a time of joy into a time of misery. But although you may not be able to change the stresses and anxieties that ac
Are you Safe from ElectroMagnetic Radiation? 5 Ways to Limit your Exposure
Modern technology has brought about so many changes in my lifetime. The biggest one is that most of us carry our phones around with us wherever we go instead of having it hang on the wall of our home. It’s a great convenience in many ways, but it comes with a price, one that we should be aware of. It’s called electromagnetic field, aka EMF. As you probably already know, the signals that course through our bodies via the nervous system are electric. As children, we were taught
Whose Health is it, Anyway?
We are an arrogant bunch! As Americans, we have always believed in our rights to a better life. We even fought a war to disengage from our former government and then proceeded to demand that we have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We are the masters of our fate, we say. And yet, there is one area in particular, where we have “abandoned the throne”. We give over our power to the medical doctor and insist that they “make us well”. Well, whose healt
