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Overnight Oatmeal

This is a great recipe that can be prepared in advance. If you work Monday-Friday, you can make five jars on Sunday, keep them in the...

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7 Great Ways to Eat Healthy Without Losing the Taste

While you may be very interested in changing your diet so you can enjoy better health, you're probably a bit concerned about having to...

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Boost Your Energy with Healthy Options

You’ve probably heard news stories about people being rushed to the hospital as the result of using commercial energy drinks. If you need...

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Natural Ways to Get Rid of Headaches

Headaches. We've all had them. They can suck the life and productivity right out of us. Studies have shown more work days are lost due to...

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What is Self-Care and Why is it Important?

Defining self-care is easy because it’s the opposite of self-sabotage or self-control. To successfully achieve self-care, you must have a...

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A 5-Step Process for Conquering Your Caffeine Addiction

Caffeine addiction is common. There’s something unsettling about knowing you’re addicted to a substance. It’s also challenging to quit....

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Common Chemical Food Additives You Want to Avoid

Wait! What’s in that delicious muffin you’re eating? Maybe, a lot more than you thought! Chemical additives are used to affect flavors or...

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What is Aromatherapy?

Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts or essential oils. These oils and extracts have a wide variety of uses,...

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What the First International Sleep Poll Discovered About Getting Better Rest

The first poll ever conducted on international sleep habits makes for interesting reading. It’s full of practical information on how to...

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Free Yourself from Information Addiction in 4 Steps

It’s amazing just how much information we have access to at any given moment! Unfortunately, though, in this day and age, information...

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Balance Your Blood Sugar and Enjoy a Multitude of Health Benefits

It’s important to control your blood sugar, even if you aren’t diabetic. Balancing blood sugar and insulin levels lowers the risk of many...

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Aging Well: 4 Antioxidants You Should Know About

Do you ever look in the mirror and wonder, "What happened?" What happened is that you grew up and matured! Although you may want to look...

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How You Can Slip Exercise into Your Everyday Routines

Many people say that they simply don't have the time to exercise. While this may be perfectly true in a fast-paced world, there are...

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What You Need to Know About Food Safety Practices

There are about 76 million cases of food-borne illness each year in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control. Most...

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Great Ways to Strengthen Your Health by Reducing Salt in Your Diet

If you're like most Americans, you may be endangering your health by eating an excessive amount of salt. Too much salt can put you at...

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What is Golden Milk and How Can It Strengthen Your Health?

Although golden milk is recently becoming more well-known in the USA, it has been popular in many Asian countries for quite some time....

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Top 5 Ways to Get Your Family to Eat More Vegetables

Does your family cringe every time they see you pick up broccoli in the grocery store or try to use it during dinner? Do they avoid...

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9 Benefits of Taking a Daily Walk

It’s not necessary to train like an Olympic athlete to be healthy. In fact, too much exercise is actually less healthy. The maximum...

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Top 7 Ways to Defeat Belly Bloat

Belly bloat isn’t easy to beat. You try to diet, exercise, and wear different clothes. You try supplements, pills, and shakes. Yet, the...

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Strategies to Help You Kick a Bad Habit

We all have them: those negative behaviors we do over and over again. In some cases, we don’t even know why we have those bad habits....