Tag: Longevity
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Briana Chandler: Fitness Icon And Business Woman
Dressed in black yoga pants and a matching top, along with sleek runners and wearing black headphones around her neck, Briana Chandler fits in seamlessly with the Camps Bay crowd – until you hear her Minnesota accent. Her sculpted shoulders were framed with shiny ebony locks hanging loose down her back. Wearing no make-up, she…
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Olive Oil The New Viagra? New Study Shows It Might Be
Olive oil is the staple of the healthy Mediterranean diet – and one that countless studies have credited with being the healthiest in the world, due to its ability to prevent a number of chronic diseases by lowering high blood pressure, high blood sugar, as well as bad cholesterol. Interestingly, a recent study, printed in…
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Essential Oils For Healthy Hair: Our Top 8 Favorites
Essential oils have become staples in every home due to their natural healing properties. Shampoos and other hair products are filled with toxic ingredients that can strip the hair of its natural oils, which often leads to hair challenges such as dandruff, frizziness, a dry scalp, and hair loss. Oils and hair care While it…
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Fashion And Comfort: Can We Have It All?
It’s a sentence we’re heard thousands of times – fashion isn’t about comfort, it’s about looking good. We see it on the runways, we’ve seen it countless times while re-watching The Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty – if that was your guilty pleasure TV show. And even though we’ve come a long way in…
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Rock Climbing Could Be The Ultimate Full Body Workout
Rock climbing is a sport that truly tests you in both strength and stamina. Both climbing and bouldering, the name for climbing on low rock formations without a rop, involves nearly every muscle in your body. And if you’re afraid of heights, it might be the best way to face your fear. Any kind of exercise…
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Vinotherapy: The Beauty Benefits Of Bathing In Wine
If Cleopatra could rationalize bathing in milk and honey – and since then baths have been filled with all sorts of different elements, from ground oatmeal to herbs and spices – we really shouldn’t be surprised at the idea of bathing in a bottle of Merlot – or in this case, Tinta Barocca. Enter vinotherapy,…
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Strawberries Secret: Can They Be Key To Gut Health?
Turns out, there’s more to strawberries than just Wimbledon. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a medical term used to define conditions that cause inflammation in the gut – most notably ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. These two conditions cause inflammation in the gut. Painful symptoms include watery (often bloody) diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss,…
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Kombucha Benefits: Why Fermented Tea Is Good For You
If your love of fermented foods knows no bounds, then it could be time for you to pick up and enjoy a cup of fermented tea, known as kombucha. Kombucha is a bubble, sour-tasting fermented tea dating back to ancient China. While commonly made from black tea, kombucha can also be fermented from green tea.…
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Lavender Ice-Cream Recipe For Relaxation
Lavender flowers are naturally fragrant, and we’ve been using them in different ways for centuries. They’re an excellent addition to tea infusions, lemonades, syrups, aromatic beverages, and in baking or cooking. It has a fresh and floral scent, which is perfect for perfumes and body sprays. Lavender essential oil is very useful in aromatherapy and has a ton…
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How Toxic Is Your Shampoo? What To Look Out For
As an industry, hair is major, to say the least. Every year, hundreds of new products are released, all with the promise of amounts of products that will deliver thick, luxurious and envy-worthy hair. While shampoo and conditioner may be great for the look and feel of your hair, the ingredients some of them often…