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10 Ways to Take Advantage of Being Healthy While You're Still Young
When you are young, you have so much more energy than you are going to have later in life. However, when you are going through your 20's, it can be easy to take this energy for granted. Instead of just squandering away your health when you are in your 20's, here are ten ways to take advantage of being healthy while you're still young.
By Paisley Hansen7 years ago in Longevity
Being a Vegetarian
After deciding to go on a vegetarian diet two years ago, I have answered my fair share of questions and put to rest concerns from strangers who are worried for my health. Becoming and choosing to maintain a vegetarian life style can be challenging for many reasons. However, if you do it right, it can be so worth it!
By Chelsea Fos7 years ago in Longevity
7 Recommended Healing Crystals for Each of the 7 Chakras
We each have 7 Chakras, or energy centers, aligned vertically in our bodies. Learning about the Chakras and the roles they play in each aspect of our daily lives can be an extremely useful tool while self—healing/freeing ourselves from past traumas. While clearing and balancing your chakras, you will begin to notice many subtle changes and improvements in your life right away. Healing crystals are a widely, commonly recommended tool in chakra work.
By Kristin Wilson7 years ago in Longevity
Sneezes
Sneezes. That weird thing that everyone does randomly. One of those things that can happen at a very awkward time. The involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth. What is this and why does it happen? That uncomfortable, unwanted, and unnecessary occurrence that happens too often, to too many people. Ever thought of why all of a sudden one's body does this weird breathing fast thing that results in one spraying spit out of their mouth while their eyes are closed and being unable to stop it? Me too. Than there is the awkward slew of "bless you" when the person just sits there checking to see how bad their aim was and where their spit landed.
By Shterna Botnick7 years ago in Longevity
Why Is a Cup of Hot Raw Cocoa Good for Your Health on Every Morning?
In the following paragraphs, I emphasize that you do not need to eat bacon, egg, or oatmeal for breakfast if you do not really have time to prepare ingredients. All you should have for an amazing breakfast is a cup of hot pure cocoa served with a little cane sugar, brown sugar to sweeten it. Do not use refined sugar because it contains unhealthy chemical substances, making you put on weight. Please note: you must choose pure cocoa powder which is totally bitter, not Nestle hot chocolate, neither Milo nor Ovaltine brand. Here are the reasons for my statement.
By EDGAR ANH HOAI NGUYEN7 years ago in Longevity
How to Meditate
Do you ever have a hard time falling asleep at night? Do you have a lot of stress and not many ways to deal with it? There is a very simple medicine to fix all of these problems, that medicine is meditation. I refer to meditation as medicine because it will literally heal you. Physical and mental stress result in the production of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol is a very bad hormone and you want as little of it as possible. It can promote anxiety and depression. It can disrupt your sleep. It can even increase your blood pressure! People who meditate regularly say it helps with their stress. they feel this way because it slows or stop or brains from making cortisol and keeps us relaxed and proper.
By Aidan Siperke7 years ago in Longevity
Diet Mistakes Every Newbie Makes
Many people have trouble with their weight loss efforts when they first start out. Diet mistakes are easy to make with all the crash diets that claim losing weight fast is easy, or that viciously cutting calories and eating nothing but one food group will somehow make you skinny overnight. Studies suggest that losing weight in the long run and reducing body fat can be achieved if we avoid these common diet mistake and stick to the basics over the long term. If you want to burn calories, stop asking yourself what's wrong with your diet and read up here on the eating habits you should avoid.
By Morgan E. Westling7 years ago in Longevity
Run for Your Sober Life
Receiving treatment in Southern California comes with many perks. One of the most apparent perks is the beautiful weather that finds a surreal balance along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean. In an effort to change my life for the better, I entered treatment without any grand expectations, just happy to get closer to the shorelines of California than I already was. Surrendering my daily schedule to the care and direction of a treatment facility left me with little free time and created a great appreciation for down time I used to fill with consuming alcohol. Running outdoors, taking advantage of the SoCal weather became a vital part of my life in early recovery.
By Eric Hunter7 years ago in Longevity
7 Benefits of Going Plant-Based
Plant-based. Vegetarian. Vegan. What are they? The main idea behind these lifestyles is that you avoid animal products. Contrary to what you might originally think, there are a stunning amount of health advantages, environmental benefits, and even helpful changes in your moral approach to life that come from switching to each a plant-based diet. These 7 benefits are just a taste of what a plant-based diet can do for you.
By Kari Oakley7 years ago in Longevity
One Cup a Day
It's October 5th, 2018, and today I want to talk about how reducing my coffee intake a few months ago to just one cup a day changed my life. I write this and I still haven't had my morning cup yet. Throughout college, my coffee intake increased, I was always a coffee drinker but in college, it got pretty bad.
By Mariam Tocco7 years ago in Longevity
