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Five Ways Food Heals Your Body

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Food is an important part of life, but for some people, it’s important for all the wrong reasons. Some people take comfort in food, they use it to cure boredom or deal with their feelings. However, this is a bad way to eat food and this will not heal you. Instead, it will harm you.

If you want food to heal you, you need to have a healthy relationship. You need to understand its purpose in your life. Here is why you need to eat and what your healthy diet choices are going to do for your body. [Read more…]

Finding A Balance Between Nutrition and Environment

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For better or worse, a big part of eating healthy is going to be how well you stay in environments that are conducive to that positive behavior. In other words, if the places you go (like work and school), and the places you live, allow you to focus on nutrition, you’ll be that much better off.

To think about this, consider things like basic home climate, how to create an active environment for yourself and your family, how to pay attention to work and school environments with respect to food, why you should do things like eat as a family, and making sure that you avoid any obsessive eating behaviors. [Read more…]

3 Ways to Ensure You’re Staying As Healthy As Possible When You’re Pregnant

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Pregnancy is an exciting time during life. Of course, sometimes the circumstances surrounding a pregnancy aren’t the most positive, but as soon as the baby comes, everything changes. Holding a tiny little life in your arms that you created is one of the most amazing feelings in the world. For this reason, even if you’ve just found out you’re pregnant and you’re not sure you can be happy about it, you’ve got to fight to find the silver lining.

It can be easy to fall off the wagon of health when you find out you’re expecting a baby. The cravings are always around, your energy is spotty at best, and you’ve got to be careful about how much you strain yourself in order to not harm the pregnancy process itself. If you’re in this boat, here are 3 ways to ensure you’re staying as healthy as possible when you’re pregnant: [Read more…]

Four Tips For Fighting Food Addiction

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Whether you have an issue with full blown binge eating or you just overeat when you’re stressed or depressed, food addiction and eating disorders can be very difficult to deal with. You have to eat to live, but when it becomes hard to distinguish the differences between poor eating behavior and healthy eating, it can help to have assistance.

These days, one of the most talked about food addictions is the addiction to sugar. With so many foods crammed with this substance, it’s really a hard thing to avoid. Plus, you need to know the difference between refined sugar and natural sugar. One is the stuff found in things like candy bars, while the other is in the fruit you eat, and less of a danger to your body. [Read more…]

4 Top Nutrient-Rich Foods For Optimal Health

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With increased awareness of proper nutrition, many people are acknowledging the need for a change in their diet. Proper nutrition can stave off a litany of diseases and even mental health-problems such as addiction, depression and anxiety. Many rehab centers recognize the importance of proper nutrition in recovering from addiction, but what if you implemented a healthy diet early-on? Included here are a few of the most nutrient-rich foods to add to your diet.

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Many doctors are now realizing that maintaining a healthy weight is less dependent on calorie-counting and more dependent on nutrient-counting. Foods that are nutrient-dense, even with more calories, are far better for you than a zero-calorie soda. Part of the reason for this lies in the benefits of whole foods. [Read more…]

How to Choose a Property for Your Cafe Business

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Starting a business can be exciting but it takes careful planning, patience and commitment to be able to launch it right. The challenges can also be overwhelming particularly for first time entrepreneurs planning to start a brick and mortar business such as a cafe or restaurant.

For consumer service businesses that require a physical shop, existing and aspiring entrepreneurs should make a checklist that will guide them in finding the right property. By doing this step, you can be sure to achieve your goals and sustain your enterprise for the long term. [Read more…]

Eat Right: Save Money

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There are many problems that face people in the realm of health and nutrition. Sometimes people say eating right costs them way too much money, other times they say that they don’t have time to plan out a meal that ensures that they will be healthy enough, and have enough energy to carry out their day and achieve what needs to be done.

Immediately, there are two huge misconceptions in the realm of healthy living, and what it takes to eat right. First off, a healthy lifestyle in the realm of food does not need to cost a lot. Secondly, even if you have no time to make healthy things for you and your family to eat because life is hectic, there are things you can be doing to change these circumstances a little at a time. Here are some tips to helping you in your journey to eat right and save money. [Read more…]

5 Lifestyle Tips For Healthy Hair and Skin

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There are mental reasons for having a healthy lifestyle, and there are physical reasons for choosing a lifestyle, like the desire for healthy hair and skin, for instance. It’s all connected through diet, nutrition, and smart choices, but sometimes those details get lost in the shuffle.

So, if you want to gently get yourself back into habits that will make your appearance better, and then allow those decisions to affect the rest of your life positively as well, consider the five following lifestyle tips. [Read more…]

Drugs With Food Interactions

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People acquire new prescriptions for drugs every day. Though their doctor is happy to write out a script for them, these people and their doctors commonly fail to bring up concerns about drugs and foods that interact with those drugs. It is unlikely that such food and drug interactions will turn you into an addict in need of rehab, but that does not mean that these interactions are necessarily benign either. Many of these interactions can be quite dangerous.

For example, if you are a person who happens to take medications that alter your brain chemistry to manage depression, for example, it may not be a good idea to drink St. John’s Wart tea or take this herb in any other preparation either. The potential interactions that can occur in situations like this are sometimes life threatening, since a common side effect of taking St John’s Wart with these types of medications is serotonin syndrome.

However, though this may be an extreme type of food and drug interaction, it is by far not the only situation where certain foods and certain drugs just do not play well together. It’s also a different case if you are actually addicted to drugs and not just taking medication for health conditions. Instead of reading about drug and food interactions, you should look for drug rehab centers on search engines to help you with your addiction problem. [Read more…]

Must-Eat Potassium-Rich Foods

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Potassium is an important mineral that the human body needs. It enables the heart, kidneys and other organs to function normally.

A low level of potassium in the body can lead to dizziness, weakness and fatigue. In more serious cases, it can cause high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, problems in the digestive system, cancer and even infertility.

While supplements are easily available to help people deficient in potassium, there are fruits and vegetables rich in this vital mineral that you can include in your daily diet.

Eating them regularly can ensure a person’s wellness for the long term. [Read more…]

Kitchen First Aid

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Kitchens are dangerous places. Knives, Oil and Water are more obvious dangers, but don’t forget that you’ve got water and electric very close together in most kitchens (look at your kettle!).

This shouldn’t put you off of cooking with children, or at all yourself, but you do need to be prepared in case of accidents and emergencies.

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Cuts

Simple precautions can help protect yourself against cuts. Pay proper attention, use decent quality knives which are kept sharp (a sharp knife will cut smoothly, whereas a blunter knife will rip and tear more, making it more likely to slip and cut), and have a thick, heavy duty chopping board – I’d recommend using a Wooden one, as these are less likely to slip.

A first aid kit of anti-septic wipes, plus various sized blue plasters will be needed. These plasters are very good for this purpose – they’ll show up if you drop them in anything.

Burns

All burns should be treated in a similar way. If the skin has not broken, run it under the cold water tap for 15 minutes. After this, apply an aloe-based salve – I have an aloe vera plant in my kitchen. It’s very easy to look after, and very useful, and smells beautiful.
Any severe burns should mean an immediate trip to the hospital – for example, if you’ve accidentally leant on a hot hob-plate, or tried to remove a wire draw from an oven.

Electocution

This is one of the most dangerous incidents that could happen in your kitchen. Most homes have a washing machine, fridge, kettle, microwave, and sink in their kitchen, as well as a large amount of power points.

It’s very dangerous because if you haven’t paid proper attention, you too could become a victim whilst going to help the original sufferer.

Call for Emergency Medical help. Don’t touch the person until the power is shut off – not just at the mains. Look for the circuit breaker or fuse box and completely remove the current. If you cannot do this, completely dry your hands, and using something non-metallic (i.e., a wooden chopping board, stick, rope, brush, etc.) get the person away from the source of electricity.
From now on, treat the person as you would any other casulty.
There’s many other in-depth articles about how to make your kitchen a safer place, as well as the position of food in fridges to make sure that there’s no contamination or food poisoning.