Tag: Healthy Living
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Study Shows Sedentary Lifestyle Is Worse Than Smoking
While you’re likely doing your best to eat healthily, not smoke and get adequate amounts of sleep- do you remember the last time you exercised? We’re all aware of the many health benefits that come with exercising, but we are often unaware of the potential health concerns that come with living a sedentary lifestyle. A…
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Start Your Day With Motivation: 8 Ways To Wake Up Happier
6 A.M. – the sun is barely up – and Melissa’s alarm bleats its wake-up call. She forces open her eyes and gets up to shut it up, falling back down into the covers and pressing her face into her pillow. There is no part of her that feels any motivation to get up right…
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How To Fight Spring Asthenia Effectively
Spring days are quite a bit longer and warmer than their winter counterpart. Often, this change in temperature and time actually exceeds what our bodies can adjust to without feeling strained. Though there isn’t an exact explanation as to why we get spring asthenia – we know it often has to do with a hormonal…
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Telomeres: Containing The Anti-Aging Breakthrough?
The truth of the matter is quite simple: none of us want to age. In fact, most people are willing to do whatever it takes to stay young for as long as possible. And with good reason – most things become more difficult when we get old, and your quality of life generally decreases –…
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My Bikram Yoga Experience: About The 26 Poses
26 poses done in a heated room in hopes of both cleansing and strengthening the body. The practice of Bikram yoga originating from Asia soon found its way across the world and has quickly been adopted as a meditation tool for the mind, body, and soul. This past Saturday, I was blessed with the opportunity…
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Chocolate Fondant Volcano Pudding: Vegan & Delicious
Lucy Watson, from whose cookbook we extracted this recipe, calls these her ‘melt-in-the-middle chocolate puddings’ – they are spongy, gooey and mouth-watering all round! Chocolate Fondant Volcano Pudding Serves 4 | 45 Minutes, plus 2-3 hours for freezing the ganache Ingredients: 40ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing 30g cocoa powder, plus extra for dusting…
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Food Allergies Solution: Use These Alternatives
Food allergies can be a constant nightmare for approximately 2.5% of the general population, as they make cooking and eating out more of a hassle than they need to be. Allergies are an immune response to foreign materials. Once a food allergen enters the body, the antibody IgE is released and this release triggers responses…
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Flaxseed Crêpes For The Weekend: Vegan & Delicious
If someone made you these crêpes and you didn’t know the ingredients, you would never have known that they were made vegan, because they taste so similar to regular pancakes. Lucy Watson added them to her pancake arsenal, along with the buckwheat and banana pancake recipe, which were beloved by many. Replacing eggs with flax…
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Açai Bowls: How To Make The Perfect Post-Workout Meal
Açai bowls have been all over our Instagram feeds for quite a few years now, and show no signs of stopping being a massive wellness trend. They are pretty, colorful, super-fun, and supposedly the perfect pre-or post-workout meal. Fitfluencers like Kayla Itsines, health coaches, and bloggers alike have long proclaimed their adoration for açai bowls…
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Kate Upton Launches A Meal Plan That Nourishes Your Body
Kate Upton is a supermodel and actress who quickly rose to fame after landing campaigns for Bobbi Brown, Express, Guess, and Sam Edelman. She’s also been the cover girl of many magazines and even with her busy work schedule. She’s managed to maintain a beautiful physique. Luckily, she’s letting us in on her food and…