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How to detox using Swedish Bitter

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Today I want to talk about detoxing with Swedish Bitter. Swedish Bitter, as you may know, is a old recipe from the 1500's. It was first produced by paracelsus and then later discovered by Maria Treben.If you don't know who Maria Treben is, I will ...

Beat Stress with these 3 tips

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As the holiday season kicks in, the stress levels tend to rise. Here are some ways you can stop stress in its tracks and keep calm even through long lines at the supermarket.SLEEP #1 Sleep keeps us healthy. By getting a full nights sleep, yo...

Are air fresheners toxic?

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TOXIC! Yes! Not only are they toxic for you and your family but also for your four legged friends. Cats and dogs, just like humans, also have lungs and we are creating a toxic environment for them if we are using air fresheners. What kind of air f...

Are cold showers good for your immune system?

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Cold showers, yes! You may be wondering what’s so special about a cold shower? Oh, wait. Before I get into the benefits of a cold shower, I should explain how I came about this subject. Well, it all started a couple of years ago, in my ...

Does your Lip Balm cause Cancer?

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Lip balms, everyone uses them, in fact daily. Especially when it’s cold outside, our lips become dry and then we reach often for a lip balm to protect our lips.Not all lip balms are so to say “healthy”. In mainstream lip balms su...

The benefits of immune massage oil

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The cold season is here and some of us, especially in Southern California, are not accustomed to colder temperatures.After all, we have warm weather almost all year around. As soon as the temperature drops, we feel it and it takes sometime getting...

Bitter Break - Giving your liver a break for better digestion

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Giving your liver a break is easier than you think. Bitter foods are not everyones favorite but can be very beneficial to your health by keeping your liver functioning at its optimal level. During the holidays we tend to eat more sugar. It is tem...

Top Health Trends 2015

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Lets get started! A great way to start of the year is to form healthier habits. Whether those habits are riding your bike to work instead of taking the car or walking 30 minutes a day or swapping out a banana for a chocolate bar. Ok ok, these are...

Health benefits of Marshes or Moor

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Moor, fen, marsh, or a swamp; they are the most healing and beneficial bodies of water. Those muddy looking waters, who would want to jump into that? Well, after I clarify how healing and beneficial these moors and marshes can be, ...

The Importance of Water and Salt

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Author: Dr. Barbara Hendel: Doctor and author, leads a day hospital for regulatory biological therapies, Health care and regeneration in Herrsching / Upper Bavaria Germany Source: © Bunte Magazin How important is clean water and salt for the...

Detox your taste buds

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Whether your starting a new lifestyle or keeping up with the current one i.e. keeping healthy, eating right, and exercising. Detoxing can keep your taste buds clean. What do I mean by clean? Well, some people do not know the difference between MSG...

Grandma's home remedies

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Remedies are very popular because they work. Best of all, you can relieve annoying symptoms such as runny nose and cough in a natural way. Most ingredients such as onions, vinegar and salt, we usually always have at home because they are the basi...

Weight loss check in #1

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How is your week going so far? Are you eating every two to three hours? Remember eating every two to three hours will help you burn calories faster and avoid feeding your body too many calories at once making you feel too full. Eating small meal...

Myths about Water & Health

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Myth #1: 2 Quarts of water daily (64oz) is all adults need to stay hydrated. Actually, the current recommendation is 1/2oz per body weight. So if you are 150lbs, you would need 75oz of water a day to be adequately hydrated. The larger the person...

Holidays and losing weight

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So the holidays are coming up and I’m pushing for at least 10 pounds of weight loss. Here are some tips and tricks to get you ready for the holidays as well as fighting from picking up that last piece of pumpkin pie. My mother and her siste...

Is Meditation beneficial

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Meditation has been around for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations practice meditation. Researchers speculate that primitive hunter-gatherer societies may have discovered meditation and its altered states of consciousness while staring at th...

Vegetables that can prevent Cancer

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A very interesting study from Richard Béliveau, Ph.D, states that certain vegetables inhibit certain cancer by up to 90% (animal study). 34 vegetables were used on 8 different tumor cell lines derived from the stomach, kidneys, prostate, b...

Is Plastic Killing Us?

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Water is a necessity for us humans. Today water is becoming increasingly scarce and if you haven't traveled outside of the U.S you will certainly find many countries who have unclean sources of water or little to no water because the water is bein...

Hormones in plastic PET bottles

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It has been known of plastics with Bisphenol A (BPA) has hormone altering activities but now a new study confirms PET plastics to release endocrine interrupting chemicals. So the plastic bottle you are just sipping your water from most likely has ...

Acidosis, Acidification the indirect base of all diseases

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Took a visit to the Alternative Practitioner, Heilpraktiker. A quick check up was conducted, to find out I'm as healthy as they come with strong organs. What great news this is! Alexander then says; "wait, one moment, I see a little more acid...