Health, Home & Happiness shared a post recently about what to look for in a healing crisis when you are making the transition to a healthier life. According to this post, a healing crisis is:
“…the body’s sign of being overloaded and overwhelmed with the changes that are taking place on the road to becoming healthier. This is often due to the body suddenly recognizing and eliminating toxins that otherwise had just been sitting there.”
Yesterday on Nourishing the Soul, a blog about healthy body image, they shared a beautiful post about creativity being a gift in the process of learning to love your body. The author’s own struggle with body image lead her down a path of negative thoughts and stories that she wasn’t pretty and didn’t have the “right” body. We’ve all been there at times, but she shared some practical tips and ideas for overcoming that type of negative thinking.
Blogher’s Food section editor, Genie Gratto, interviewed celebrity chef Jamie Oliver about May 19th being the first ever Food Revolution Day. It is:
“…a day of action designed to help everyone think about where their food comes from, consider making healthier, less-processed choices about what they put in their bodies, and gather together to share those ideas and meals as a community of cooks and eaters committed to eating well.”
We all know that water is important for our health, but have you ever considered the water you bathe in as being important to your health? Cold Showers provide a lot of health benefits, and although it could take some getting used to compared to your hot morning ritual, but if you get used to it, your health could deep the benefits. According to this recent post by Organic Soul, cold water can provide many health benefits.
The Eartheasy Blog shared a post earlier this month on understanding plastics by the numbers, so that you can make an educated and conscious decision about the plastics you use and how to recycle them. According to this post, we are used to seeing the chasing arrows with a number inside of them to depict what type of plastic we are using. However, this symbol doesn’t mean that it is recyclable, or even reusable. The information you need to know is about the number inside that chasing arrows symbol, which can range from 1 to 7.
If you are not familiar with Cannelle et Vanille, you should go to their site and explore immediately. It’s a feast for your eyes and your palate as she is both a foodie photographer and a gluten-free cook with a cook book coming out in October. Her about page reads:
“I am Aran, a Basque ex-pat living in the US since 1998, and this is Cannelle Et Vanille, my baby, my blank canvas for creating anything and everything sweet that comes out of my heart. Why the nameCannelle Et Vanille? Because those are the smells and tastes of my childhood and this blog is very much filled with nostalgia.”
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The dreaded phrase “work-life balance” has me wrestling this month. I’ve written about it before, how to tame your time management and set goals for success, but what if the truth actually is that balanced people don’t change the world ? According to one of my favorite authors and entrepreneurs, Chris Guillebeau, this may be the case.
According to a recent post on the Gluten-Free Society blog which looked at the Standard American Diet and added the caution that it is indeed true what they say: we are what we eat, think, drink and do. The Standard American Diet (or SAD) often contributes to disease, and according to a study from Dr. Jaffe, who is the founder of Elisa Act Biotechnologies, which studies the delayed food allergy response. Dr. Jaffe points out that a reaction to food can take anywhere from 2 hours to 2 weeks from exposure to occur in the human body.
Liberation BC Blog recently shared an article entitled The meat industry doesn’t care about you or the animals discussed how cattle and pigs are given the drug Ractopamine to increase their weight prior to slaughter, however they are not taken off the drug before slaughter.
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Anna Guest-Jelly, of Curvy Yoga, talked this morning about how her job keeps her at her computer for long hours, and since she works from home now, she actually spends more time glued to the computer than when she worked in an office. Over the past few months she had developed pain in her elbow where she rested it on the desk, and the past few weeks it was constant. No amount of stretching could relieve it, until finally she took the day off, had some down time and miraculously her elbow was better.
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