Category: Wellness Blogs
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Dehydration: Why You Need To Load Up On H20
The amount of fluid in our body affects the way our cells function – meaning that dehydration can interfere with healthy aging. According to nutrition expert Linda Drummond, we don’t feel thirsty until we’ve lost about 1% of our body weight in water. If dehydration continues, we experience greater thirst, discomfort and loss of appetite.…
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Embracing A Healthy Lifestyle In Your 30s Can Lower Heart Risk
Creating healthy habits, such as losing weight and kicking your cigarette habit in your 30s and 40s, could potentially reverse the natural progression of heart disease. Deciding to embrace healthy lifestyle changes can control and perhaps even undo damage to a person’s heart, suggests lead investigator Bonnie Spring, a professor of preventive medicine at the…
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Give Your Liver a 9 Day Detox
Never mind diamonds, your liver is your best friend. It is the greatest multi-tasking organ, and as a result its function – or dysfunction – has an incredibly important impact on how you feel. When you overindulge, your liver works hard behind the scenes. It breaks down and eliminates toxins and excess hormones, balances your…
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How To Set Up Your Bathroom For A Good Night Sleep
Do you sleep enough. Our sleeping patterns are heavily influenced by our hectic and stressful lives. Sleep is the golden chain that ties our health and bodies together, it therefore becomes a massive concern when poor quality sleep becomes a modern trend. Studies show that one of the keys to getting a good night’s sleep…
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The 9 Defense Mechanisms: Are You Self-Deceiving?
First defined in detail by Anna Freud, Dr Freud’s daughter, in her book The Ego and The Mechanisms of Defense, Defense Mechanisms are, more often than not, the way in which we protect ourselves from the anxiety caused by acknowledging our weaknesses. This self-deception has become commonplace in our day-to-day relating and is the cause…
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Vitamin Sea.
From as early as the 4th century B.C. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine recommended the sea as an important natural source of healing. The sea’s many naturally healthy properties were used in thalassotherapy and hydrotherapy to actively treat diseases of the body and mind as well as maintain good health and longevity. Centuries later, as…
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Tickling As Therapy? Don’t Tell My Brother Please.
As strange as it may sound, tickle therapy is becoming a global trend. Much like a massage, you still have to lie on a bed in a warm, dark and peaceful room. However instead of having a professional masseuse hack the tension out of your shoulders. You’ll now have the same professional masseuse… well… tickle…
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17 Things That Will Happen If You Drink Apple Cider Vinegar Daily
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Boost Your Health With These Six Easy Stretches
You can boost your health with these six easy daily stretches by Casey Chiang. Casey is a yoga instructor and co-owner of Zen Hot Yoga World. She’s also a full-time advocate of the high court and member of the Johannesburg bar, so she knows what it takes to find balance in a busy schedule. As a…
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Dr Tara Swart’s 5 Brain Health Habits For Better Leadership
Dr Tara Swart is a neuroscientist and leadership coach with a unique brain health angle on what it takes to be a better leader and achieve success. Her aim is to teach people why optimal brain functionality is important in a leader. Explaining that it strengthens your decision-making and improves your performance at work. She says that improving…