Why Can't I Give Up Smoking?
Do you or do you know of someone who struggles with negative addictions. I know that I have in the early days of my life and for me it was "Smoking".
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Julie's Inner Health Smoothie
This is a Great Combination that is going to support your digestive system, relieving reflux and indigestio Whilst supporting your Heart, Circulation, Sugar balance and aiding detoxificatio A Great Start to your Morning: ½ Cup of Almond or Rice Milk 2 tablespoons of Plain Greek Yogurt (do not use fat reduced) (This also aids digestion by improving good bacteria) 2 teaspoons of a Super Green Powder (I use Vital Greens) or a cup of finely chopped kale & a cup of baby spinach 1 teaspoon of Cumin 1 teaspoon of Turmeric 1 teaspoon of Cinnamon 1 teaspoon of Sumac
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Read articleImportant Facts about Processed Foods! The Good & The Bad!
Processing of foods may have well started with the best intentions of finding a way to preserve foods so that they would have a longer shelf life. This way of preserving was using the use of natural ingredients such as salt, sugar and vinegar. Not saying that this was necessarily good for you, but wasn't used for any other purpose than to preserve the foods. Preventing such things as food poisoning when refrigeration wasn't terrible effective and there were no such thing as a freezer.
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Read article5 Easy Tips for Radiant Healthy Skin
Achieve Radiant Healthy Skin – by what you eat
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Read articleWhy Can’t I Become Well? 7 Steps to Changing your Health
I don’t think anyone deliberately wants to be sick and live a life of ill health and disease. However for many there seems to be a great difficulty when it comes to making the conscious decisions to take on habits that they either know or have been told will help them to achieve health and wellness in their life.
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Read articleSimple & Healthy Breakfast Recipes
As you may or may not be aware -Breakfast is the most important meal of the day Breakfast gives you the much needed energy and mental boost for the day. However quite often it can be tricky, getting ready for work, getting the kids ready for school. So often a what is thought easy option may take place. Such as not having any breakfast or having packaged cereals or on the run unhealthy fast food alte atives. Food is your very core base for either a Life of Optimal Health or a Life tragically of Ill health leading to diseased states.
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Read articleDon't Drown Trying to Save Others
Each of us have people in our lives that just seem to Struggle with Life. Everything that can go wrong does. Because you are a caring person feelings of sadness, sympathy and an eage ess to help come over you. How can you help, what can you do? These people can be friends, work colleagues, acquaintance's and even family members. Sometimes even our own children. You know what it is like to overcome hurdles, obstacles, great pain and move on to happier lives where you have risen above and learnt from these experiences in your life.
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Read articleHow Massage Alleviates Harmful Affects of Stress
Nurturing and Caring for One's Self is a Major component is helping us to manage stress in ways that are constructive and supportive of our health and well being. Stress as I regularly mention in my articles and blogs is something that we cannot and are not able to totally avoid. Stress is something that needs to be recognized, also the triggers and how we can learn to identify these triggers. Your body is hard-wired to react to stress in ways meant to protect you against threats from predators and other aggressors, so as to act in a fight or flight manner.
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Read articleRenew your Body by Renewing your Mind
Renewing your mind is about changing your mindset, so as to allow you to have positive thoughts towards yourself, others and Life itself. I have learnt over the years the first and foremost part of working with each individual is to first find out WHY!!!! they want to become well and how they want to change and improve.
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Read articleMindful Nutrition Mindful Eating
MindfulNutrition/Mindful Eating Whether we like it or not it does matter what we eat, for our bodies to receive the right nutrients to function at their best and to be free from disease it is important to be Mindful of what we are putting into our bodies in the way of supporting our nutritional needs so as to help to prevent disease so as to be able to Age Well.
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Read articleAnkylosing Spondylitis – Self Help Treatment
Ankylosing Spondylitis is pain that appears to come from nowhere, you can’t remember doing anything to cause this much pain. It may involve morning stiffness and tightness, often occurs in the major muscle groups such as abdominal, gluteus maximus, hamstrings and quadriceps. You may experience back pain where the stiffness get worse with rest, so you may find the pain worse in the morning, just when you want to get your day started. You might also have pain and stiffness in other areas of your body, such as your neck, shoulders, hips, or feet.r
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Read articleBreak Free from Worrying If Someone Likes You!!
Do you often have an overwhelming and emotional feelings about whether someone likes you or not. I know for many years I did, isn't it horrible the way it just seems to squeeze any ounce of joy, pleasure or happiness from you. Today I want to go through with you about how to stop worrying if someone likes you or not. I would like to point something out here about worry in general if you allow yourself to worry about someone or something have you found this to make things better or worse. I know for me it makes things so much worse. As this does with worrying about people liking you.
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Read articleOvercoming Fear to Achieve Positive Results
It is important to learn how to transform fear into courage by learning how to empower your mind so as to enable you to take charge of your emotions. There are two ways to take charge of fear, this will then allow you to transform the fearful emotion into a positive emotional state: • First it is important to recognize the Fear • Be specific about your fear so that you can address it in the appropriate way.
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Read articleAre Diet Drinks Bad For You? What do they do to Your Body?
At first you may be led to believe that diet soft drinks are a healthier alte ative to those containing sugar. You are told that it saves you the 140-plus calories that are found in a sugary soft drink. So it well may seem a logical choice. However you are being fooled, this is a combined chemical cocktail with a double sword that will lead to disaster. You can still satisfy your urge for something sweet, whilst cutting back on your calorie intake.
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Read articleCacao & Cashew Truffles
As you may or may not know,I love food and even though I have quite a savoury tooth, I have to admit I do like sweet things in moderation too. Enjoy these Cacao and Cashew Truffles A good source of healthy protein, antioxidants and good oils for your body and brain: Plus they taste Great!!! Ingredients: 2 cups raw cashews 1 cup of raw pistachios 3/4 cup raw cacao powder 6 dates, pitted 1 tblespn. Coconut oil ¼ cup Filtered Water 1 cup shredded, dried organic unsweetened coconut flakes 2 tblesp Maple Syrup Preparation Step 1
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Read articleWhy Hypertension is a Symptom: Not a Disease
You may well be aware of the importance of dealing with the primary or base causes that link ill health to disease. You will find the information that I have presented here for you a vital support for you with either the treatment or prevention of High Blood Pressure. Often hypertension or high blood pressure is treated as a disease. However your blood pressure is essentially a marker for blood vessels . As to whether they are affected by inflammation, oxidative stress or insulin resistance.
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Read articleGetting your Family Eating Healthy!!!
You have been working toward making healthier changes to your diet. However you seem to be struggling to get the rest of the family on the same page. You love them and want them to be a part of these healthy food changes with you. This will be both helpful and supportive to you in making changes. Also you want to see them healthier also because you care about them. How do you go about eliminating the junk food that they have become so used to and get them into taking on positive food choices.
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Read articleGetting Serious about the Food you are Eating: 7 Days to Renewed Energy & Vitality
Welcome to Week 6- Where we are Getting Serious about the Food you are Eating: Any one who knows me well, knows that I cannot emphasize this enough to you. It is the very Foundation to you being free from ill-health and disease. What you need to know!
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Read articleSpring into Spring
For the most part we have been looking forward to the coming of Spring. We enjoy the warmer, longer days and watching the plants blossom and grow with new life. The longer days bring about a sense of joy, a renewal of our vision and inspiration to review our goals: maybe set new ones and become creative with our renewed energy to bring them to fruition. As beautiful and welcoming that Spring may be, as spring is, in the early weeks, clients come to me experiencing intense feelings of irritability, sometimes with anxiety and some depression.
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Read articleVitamins Vs Painkillers - What YOU can do regarding initial treatments for common pain problems
It is a common reoccurring question when it comes to pain what is better and of course safer: Vitamins or Painkillers? Having treated a great many people over the years suffering all various types of pain, my primary conce is looking at the underlying causes of the pain: Pain is our body indicator that something is wrong and sends a message to our brain so that it is able to put in the necessary processes to heal the pain.
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Read articleWhat is Better for Your Health: Buttermilk or Yogurt: Explaining the Difference
This is a question that is often asked when working with my clients to improve their diets
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Read article7 Days to Renewed Energy & Vitality: Week 5: Getting Active
Welcome back to Week 5: Let’s Get Active – I will introduce you to some examples of how to get Active Some of them being Passive & Relaxing to Support your Nervous System Whilst Others being stimulating to Support Your Heart and Circulation Implementing Daily Exercise is Vital for a Balanced, Healthy Life No matter your age or level of fitness, implementing these activities will keep you in great physical shape whilst helping to prevent disease See below a choice of activities that you can include into your daily routine.
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Read articleFennel, Apple & Cucumber Salad
Enjoy the Superfood Salad full of Great Nutritional benefits and flavour! Fennel is a Great source of Vitamin C and Beta Carotene. Along with the additional benefits of cucumber and apple. Fennel is known for its anti-inflammatory & antioxidant properties. As well as its balancing effects on blood sugar levels. So is a great food to include in your daily diet, to help manage mature onset diabetes. Cucumbers are classed as one of the world's healthiest foods containing vitamins A, B, C, D and E are all in a fresh cucumber.
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Read article11 Steps to Actively Improve Breast Health
Prevention to me is always far more effective than trying to fix a disease once it has been diagnosed Although many woman now are surviving breast cancer, it is still on the rise and the risk is increasing. This is not just happening with young woman but also with elderly woman as well. This increase raises the obvious question: why have rates gone up? Unfortunately there’s no simple answer to this. Breast cancer is a complicated disease with a variety of different causes.
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Read articleDamaging Affects of Chronic Stress & What to do!
Chronic stress left unaddressed puts your health at risk Chronic stress can wreak havoc on your mind and body. You can take steps to manage and over ride the damaging affects. Understanding our Body Helps Us to Cope Better with Life: Your body is hard-wired to react to stress in ways meant to protect you against threats from predators and other aggressors. Such threats are rare today, but that doesn't mean that life is free of stress. On the contrary, you undoubtedly face multiple demands each day, such as: #Dealing with daily workloads #Finances #Family #Friendsr
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Read articleGreat News about Deformed Fruit & Vegetables: How they will Benefit your Health
I remember as a kid going to the fruit and vegetable shop with my Mum and we would pick out the best looking fruit and vegetables. I guess because they were supposed to be the best for quality. Well that may well have been true back then when we knew that fruit and vegetables, firstly were grown all withi Australia and secondly were pretty much straight from the grower, free from toxic chemicals and poisons.
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Read articleSteps to Alkalize Your System for Vital Health
The Key to your Gut Health is in “Eating a balanced diet” to help keep your system alkalized. This assists in prevention of disease such as some cancers, digestive disorders, bowel, & kidney problems In this article I give you all the information you need to include the correct balance of foods to eat and when, plus a couple of yummy recipes. Prevention of disease not only keeps you healthy but saves a lot of time and energy spent on being sick
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Read articleTwo Major Vitamins to help Manage Stress & Anxiety
How Vitamin Therapy can assist with Supporting your Health with Stress/Anxiety & Panic Attacks Recently, anxiety vitamins have gained new attention. With the proliferation of such health products as vitamin-enriched water, herbal anxiety relief drinks and stress vitamin packets at convenience stores, people are starting to wonder: “What exactly can vitamins do for me?” Can certain vitamins have positive effects on feelings of anxiety? What is the link between vitamins, herbs, and anxiety—and can anxiety be relieved by vitamins and other herbs?
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Read articleGluten Free Eating made Easy for Coeliac Suffers
So you have just been diagnosed with Coeliac disease and it all seems too much as to where will you start we are going to look at some of the triggers and variants to the disease and also provide you with an easy to follow Menu Plan: Coeliac Disease Trigger Foods:
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Read articleCan Vitamin Supplements be Harmful
First of all we need to begin with the fact that not all Vitamins are natural and made out of pure ingredients that are beneficial for our body.
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Read articleLowering your Risk of Cancer
Lowering your Risk of Cancer There always seems to be some research on the horizon to “Cure” cancer which is interesting because apart from the fact that there are a myriad of causes of cancer being from diet, medication, oral contraceptives, hormone medications, drugs, emotional stress & excessive drinking of alcohol, just to name a few. Plus the fact that no health practitioner is allowed to make a statement as such it would then seem an impossibility to have a “Cure” for Cancer. So let’s look at what are some of the areas that will cause or trigger cancer:r
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Read articleHow to Eat Healthy without Feeling Hungry
Understanding the feeling of having had enough to eat and feeling satisfied after eating. Overeating and the temptation to overeat is everywhere in today's society. There is also the temptation to eat easy meals such as take-aways and processed foods. These foods because of their lack of nutritional value will only give us short bursts of satisfaction and shortly after eating we will become hungry.
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Read articleEpilepsy and Seizures: 6 Ways to Restore a Healthy Brain
Restoring a Healthy Brain - Begins with Identifying the Causes, Triggers and Symptoms Epilepsy and Seizures also referred to as “The Irritated Brain” What is epilepsy? Epilepsy is a long-term brain condition where a person has repeated seizures also known as fits. It is thought to affect about 3 in every 100 Australians. Having just one seizure is not considered to be epilepsy — about half the people who have one seizure never have another seizure. Epilepsy is not one single condition. There are a range of different conditions that can cause seizures.
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Read articleThis is “Why” You Can't Get Focused
Do you ever have one of those days, maybe weeks, and months even a year: Where nothing is going according to plan, even if you seem to have had a plan? There are interruptions, just what you don’t need, things going wrong. But you are determined that you are going to achieve something for the day. Even after you have achieved that you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious and unsure how you are going to get back on track.
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Read articleAre You Confused About Who to Trust with your Health?
One of the biggest challenges people face today is who to trust. With the world of technology is the constant bombardment of information. If you want to know anything about anything you just have to google it. But what happens when you are diagnosed with a serious illness or disease. You will begin on the conveyor belt of the medical system. With arrays of tests and invasive procedures. You go from being a person to being a number in the system. Rest assured this isn't going to help you to feel any better or install any confidence in yourself or overcoming your illness or disease.
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Read articleCreate Your Own Successful Life
Success is Built One Day at a Time over a Lifetime Your Success Should be Driven by You, Incremental Decisions and Actions put into place each day of your Life - Bringing about Your Vision of Your Success with the understanding that you hold the reigns .
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Read articleEnhance Fertility – How Improve the Health of your Eggs
It has been a common belief in the past that the only factor that would determine ovarian and egg health was age. However new studies have found that this is not necessarily true. There are many aspects of your life that will have an impact on the health of your ovaries and eggs. These aspects include environmental issues, hormones we absorb through our diet, stress, our consumption of alcohol and other damaging issues such as smoking.
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Read articleDoes Gluten cause Health Problems & Should you Avoid it?
The word "Gluten" has become a topically word in the world of nutrition these days. However the big question here is - Is Gluten bad for you? Does it cause health problems? Is it necessary to avoid it? Gluten is a type of protein found in wheat, rye and barley. So for many people either those who have celiac disease or may not have celiac disease but have what is referred to as a non celiac sensitivity. This is where eating gluten-containing foods will adversely affect your body and your health.
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Read article10 Major Health benefits of Turmeric
Turmeric May Well Become one of your Favourite Spices I don’t know about you but I am always looking at easy, effective ways to support my health within my everyday living and eating. Each day we need to eat so if we can include foods that are going to help us to remain healthy and vital this will save us from having to take supplements making our life easier and of course less expensive. So let’s have a look at the major benefits of Turmeric 1. Antioxidant Properties
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Read article9 steps to Declutter your Life-Making Room for the Essentials
I want to share with you some Easy Steps to Organizing and Decluttering your Life, that will change your Life forever. I truly believed that I wouldn't become a hoarder as was my mother. However over time I had managed to not necessarily become a hoarder as such, but managed to definitely accumulate a lot of stuff. When we are surrounded by piles of stuff in our homes, offices and personal space this is a great trigger of stress. This clutter increases your cortisol levels, creating chronic restlessness, lack of focus.
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Read article8 Natural Steps to Prevent a Cold or Flu
As we are more than likely aware, there are no known cures as such for colds and flu: however there are some steps that we can put into place to help prevent them or at least have them less debilitating should we get one. By including these tips you will not only help prevent colds and flu but you will also be implementing things into your life so that you will be so much healthier as well. The main thing to look at when wanting to prevent a cold or flu or any other illness. The 8 Steps:
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Read articleSleep for Beauty is not just a Myth
6 Amazing Reasons Sleep is great for Skin Health Sleep for Beauty is not just a Myth A good night's sleep can mean good skin health because when you’re sleep-deprived, your body makes more of the stress hormone cortisol. Elevated levels of cortisol can lead to increased stress and inflammation in the body, hurting your skin’s quality.
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Read article6 Keys Steps to Natural Treatment for Chicken Pox
Chickenpox is a painful illness that can affect the whole body. It is a viral infection where you will suffer itchiness, blister type rashes that may travel all over the body. When it comes to our children it is not easy seeing them suffer in this way. However if we look at quick fixes such as nurofen or other forms of pain medication that is also supposed to decrease their temperature this move onto a life threatening illness. I would like to share with you in this article home remedies that I have used on my own children with success to support the healing of chicken pox.
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Read articleInitial Steps to a Healthier You
Do you have times where you are struggling to stay on top on things, work, family, friends and home. A great initial start to get back on tract are these: Five Simple yet effective Changes to start your Healthy Life Today!!!! 1. Maintain An Organized Living Space:
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Read articleLive the Life you Want by Tapping into the Wonders of Your Brain
Are You Living Your Life the Way you want! When I became a teenager, heading toward Adult life I had some very definite ideas of how I wanted to live my life. I wanted to marry someone that I truly loved and who loved me, as well as like me: I wanted to do something with my life that was meaningful and had a greater purpose. So at 18 years of age, I run away from home to begin this life. Now 43 years later, I have a loving husband and family, whilst enjoying a very rewarding career.
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Read articleEnd Drama in Your Life -by Valuing Your Self Worth
This is a well known saying - "It's Not What You Know, but Who You Know!" However the Trick is - Knowing who to know and who to Value in your Life. Ending Drama in your life consists of two major lessons that I am about to teach you: Understanding what is Drama? & Valuing your Self Worth so as NOT to attract Drama to your life. Obviously by you reading this article you want to eliminate drama from your life. Unlike some people whom seem to attract drama to their life, because it makes them feel alive and that they matter.
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Read articleWant a Healthy Heart? Then You will want to Eat your GREENS!!!
Did you know that eating your greens is one of the best things you can do for your body, so that you can have a life a Healthy, Happiness and Vitality Great news for the budget it is inexpensive and one of the fastest ways that will not only help you to recover quicker from ill health but will also recharge your body with their great antioxidant properties not to mention essential nutrients.
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Read articleDid You Know that Vitamin C is Cancer's Worst Enemy!!!
Researchers at the University of Salford in the U.K. have found that Vitamin C inhibits the growth of cancer cells. This simple vitamin due to it's powerful antioxidant properties has become extremely effective when it comes to the prevention and treatment of Cancer. Due to the fact that Vitamin C is naturally occurring in your food sources will have no harmful effect on your body during the process of destroying of cancer cells. It has the ability to support the body's healing mechanisms and immune system.
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Read articleAre There Benefits to Coconut Sugar Vs Cane Sugar?
We are living in times now that it is vitality important to become mindful about what we are eating and why? It is not difficult to see that what we are eating is causing enormous health problems to both Adults and Children. This is so crazy when we supposed live in a modern society, with great knowledge, living standards. How can I food be so wrong? Unfortunately it is. In this article I give you an informative overview on one the many questionable debates on that is of SUGAR! Any diet high in fructose and excess sugar no matter where it has been derived will make you weak.
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Read articleHealing Powers of Herbal Medicine
During my 25 years of Practicing as Naturopathic Practitioner, fully trained in the pharmaceutical prescribing of Herbal medicines and formulating individual formulas for each of my clients other tha Homoeopathics and implementing a fresh food diet I have not found anything other than liquid herbal formulas that work more efficiently is restoring health Where Herbal Medicine Originated from! People have used extracts from plants for thousands of years to treat their ill health and disease.
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