Working Out to Fight Stress
Written by Greg Marshall, Fiture Metamorphosis In today’s high paced world, stress is a serious problem that requires proactive steps to alleviate, so life can be lived at the highest level. What I want to do is share the best ways to work out to reduce stress. #1 Compound Exercises The first strategy to focus …
Extinguishing Job Burnout
Written by Bridget Edwards If you got laid off from your job, would you be sad or relieved? Sure, not having income is worrisome, but this is an important question to ask about something that takes up a tremendous amount of our lives. For most people, jobs provide a standard routine. Odds are the next …
Fruit Sugar Versus Table Sugar: What’s the Difference?
Written by Michael Richardson Sugar is enemy number one in today’s dieting world, and considering our astronomical sugar consumption habits, it’s probably a good place for our animosity. But throwing fruit out of our diet because of its sugar will have some bitter results. First of all, no research ties fruit consumption to obesity or …
When Clothes are a Frenemy
How Many Articles of Clothing Do You Actually Wear On a Regular Basis? Clothes can make the morning more stressful, which is crazy because most of us love clothes. But sometimes we have to many, which is the root of the stress. Ladies, say you have 6 pants/skirts, 12 tops and 5 pairs of shoes …
How Exercise Helps You Look and Feel Younger
Sure, you will have a lot of excuses when it is time for you to do your exercise, you may say, busy schedule, tired, sleepy and other excuses that you can think of, but would you excuse yourself from it after knowing that exercise can help you not just feel but look younger? Exercise can …
Beauty in a Blender: Hot Pink Smoothie Recipe
From Robyn Openshaw, GreenSmoothieGirl.com Robyn’s Famous Hot Pink Smoothie Serves 4 1 1/2 cups coconut water (optional: “ferment” it overnight on the counter with water kefir grains, strain it, and put new coconut water in for tomorrow) 2 tsp vanilla 1/4 cup raw cashews (not roasted) 2–4 large dates, pitted 1 large carrot, cut in …
The Bright Side of Kidney Stones
How rotten luck and multiple kidney stones made my diet better Written by Samantha Stahl The hospital smelled funny, but that wasn’t new information. To me, hospitals always smell weird. The walls in this room weren’t white; green and blue covered parts of the walls, making me think of the ocean. I could feel the …
Gift Guide
Gucci Guilty Eau de toilette (for women) At first, the scent is feminine and floral, but subsides into a rich, amber base with notes of patchouli. $115 – 2.5 oz. Pour homme (for men) A charismatic, familiar and captivating scent. Ingredients include Italian lemon, crushed green leaves and pink pepper. $88 – 3 oz. …
Is Meditation Overrated?
Written by Angela Silva Meditation is an age-old practice with too many supposed benefits to count. It is most frequently associated with stress management, but has also been said to help manage symptoms of depression, asthma, pain and even cancer. The most common form of meditation is called mindful meditation, which is a relaxation practice …
App App and Away
Apps to make many aspects of our lives better and simpler. Make a call, snap a picture, text a friend. Is that all our smartphones are good for? Sure, we dabble in an occasional game, and of course Facebook and Instagram vacuum up our time, but smart people in countries across the globe are constantly …