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All Natural Food Finds
I am a HUGE fan of wraps and have been for about ten years. And the very best pairing I have found with a wrap is hummus (hommus). This is a wrap I made with Joseph's lavash bread and garlic lovers hummus. As you can see there is a huge part of wrap left over, that is because these are really large wraps. You can see the size of the wrap when you compare it to the knife. They are 60 calories per half and so I cut off the second half and use it in a separate wrap later. I then roll the rest of it sideways. This wrap has romaine lettuce and Boarshead low sodium ham & swiss.
By Katherine Loughery8 years ago in Longevity
Cancer Is a Cancer
Here's the thing: Cancer isn't just a diagnosis, it almost seems like a life sentence—a stamp on the back of your hand from some loud and violent club that you can't scrub off. You can go through all the treatments, have the surgeries, do the tests, pass the tests, but it will never go away.
By Wyatt Riley8 years ago in Longevity
Coping With Cancer
September 28th, 2017. It's Thursday. I'm in my first week at my new job and I am loving it. My mom has been back and forth from the hospital since August 7th, 2017. She found a lump. It's an abscess. For over a month she went everywhere with a towel in her bra as the abscess was drained. She had seven biopsies. One came back positive, breast cancer. That is all she is told on 9/28/17. My mother has told me not to call her on my lunch break but she will talk to me when I get home. I knew. It must be bad news. I don't remember the rest of my day at work. I only remember going home, up to my mother's bedroom, looking at her and breaking. She didn't even need to say the word and I knew. We didn't know the full diagnosis. Was it terminal? What treatment would my mother have? So many questions but we had to wait for answers. I cried the entire next day at work. I opted to go work, I needed a distraction. I spoke with my new boss, she couldn't have been more understanding and sympathetic. She asked if I was positive on staying in work that day. I was also told any time off I needed for my mother's treatment, etc., I could take. I take every Wednesday off as this has become my mother's chemotherapy day.
By Sydni Kasem8 years ago in Longevity
Aerial Fitness Will Be Your New Obsession
At a young age, my mother used to take me to showcases on the Southbank and around London. She worked with the London arts council and ran her own carnivals within schools, taught dance, marked arts awards training, and generally spent a lot of time around the London creative scene. I've always been artistic, largely due to her. My grandparents on my mum's side are both artists. My dad I credit my musical ear to; he brought me up listening to every kind of music possible, took me to concerts as a child all the way through to now. I was blessed to have parents that loved the arts, and in turn, passed their love on to me.
By Samantha Bentley8 years ago in Longevity
How to Lose Weight
It is essential to losing weight slowly, not quickly. To lose weight too fast can signal impending diabetes, often called pre-diabetes, or having a blood sugar of 100-120. Most normal humans have blood sugars from 70-90, give or take a threshold. For diabetics, it is recommended for them to maintain a non-diabetic average. Eating breakfast and eating, in general, is conducive to weight loss. Being overweight causes many problems from blood sugar to aesthetics. Oatmeal can help weight loss because it isn’t as refined as, say, Kellogg’s Cornflakes. I’m trying to cut cereal from my diet right now because I need to get back to at least 110 lbs. I’m 119.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Foods That Boost the Immune System
Foods play a very important role in boosting the immune system. The immune system does a great job of defending the body against pathogens. Also, it provides resistance to infection and toxins. In order to keep it functioning properly, we need to provide the body with the necessary foods that are super-loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
By Jessica Ijezie8 years ago in Longevity
Yoga for Beginners
Yoga is everywhere these days. We see commercials, ads on TV and social and monthly subscription boxes for clothing and accessories. However, many of you, like me, are too busy, nervous, or uncomfortable to try this ancient form of self-healing and exercise. We are surrounded by pictures and models that don't fit our physique, or flexibility; we see these people and honestly, we scoff or cringe, or both! Of course, we want to wear our leggings, athletic shoes, sports bras and insanely cute high buns, but we don't really know where to go from there. How do we get started? I'm going to answer this question and a myriad of others that I had before I started my journey with yoga.
By Tabitha Peairs8 years ago in Longevity
The Power of the Morning Routine
During the first 30 minutes of our day, we make the decision to either move our day forward or let our day pass us by. When we get up and MOVE, we immediately create momentum and literally propel our energy forward. When we continue to lay down, snooze the alarm clock, and procrastinate until we are borderline late for work, the day has already chalked up a win over our mind and body. The morning routine takes extreme discipline, but its rewards are extraordinary. Don't believe me? Try this plan for just one week and compare your results!
By Renner Winston8 years ago in Longevity
All Natural Food Finds
I absolutely love eggs, but whenever I am a vegetarian, people always question me eating eggs because there seems to be some question about eggs containing underdeveloped chickens... seriously? Let me help you out if you also ask yourself that question. Eggs contain NO chicken. A hen lays one egg a day regardless of whether or not there is a rooster in the coop. So it is an unfertilized egg and contains no chicken. Of course being an ethical vegetarian I do care about where my eggs come from. Whenever possible I buy locally, otherwise I buy from farms I know allow for free range living and good food for their hens. It takes research, but it is worth it not only to get a great egg, but to make sure you aren't getting eggs from a farm keeping their hens in horrible conditions and feeding them garbage.
By Katherine Loughery8 years ago in Longevity
