Health

Embracing Wisdom From Abuelas

  |   Healing, Health, Health Awareness, Rituals   |   No comment

♠   Learn a few favorite strange-but-sage beliefs, traditions, and rituals from abuelas.   Things Abuela Believed (and You Should Too!)     Something many Latinos have in common is an abuela (grandmother) who might seem a little unusual. In researching my first book, American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic, I heard many stories...

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5 Easy Ways To Restart Your Metabolism With Ayurveda

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↓ Increase metabolism with Ayurveda—5 easy internal and external therapies.     At one point or another, just about all of us have tried to lose weight. With almost 75 percent of the American population either overweight or obese, this challenge is becoming seemingly more insurmountable every day. The...

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Children’s Nutrition and Health

  |   Children, Children(s) Nutrition, Health, Health Awareness, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Nutrition Tips   |   No comment

    Today’s children are overfed and undernourished. Children, for the most part, do not eat well. They commonly choose foods that are high in fats, sugars, and salt that have little, real nutritional value. The top choices among kids are hot dogs, chicken nuggets, French fries, pancakes,...

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To Combat Inflammation in My Body, I Eat Two Superfoods and Avoid Three

  |   Food, Food Choices, Health, Healthy foods, Healthy Life Style, Science   |   No comment

Chronic inflammation is associated with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease ↓ Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash ↓ Inflammation in our body is a normal, healthy response; it becomes a problem only when it is a long-term condition due to particular habits. According to Harvard Health Publishing (2019, 2020), inflammation is...

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Yoga for Arthritis

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↓ Hurting? Yoga for arthritis can soothe your joints and diminish pain.   There are over 100 different types of arthritis, but all involve some version of joint pain, stiffness, and/or swelling, and almost all can benefit from a yoga for arthritis practice. You may think a yoga practice involves...

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4 Ingredients for Human Well-Being

  |   COVID RESOURCES, COVID-19, Health, Health Awareness, Well-being, Wellness   |   No comment

Feeling trapped inside? Or completely anchorless? A psychologist explains how we can intentionally build more freedom, structure, and connection into quarantine life.   Photo by Tierney / Adobe Stock   During my first day of graduate school to become a psychologist, a wise, mischievous, provocative professor said...

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Fit Over Fifty: How To Build Muscle At Any Age

  |   Fitness, Health, Healthy Life Style, Smart Living, Well-being, Wellness   |   No comment

This article was written for The Ready State Blog by Dr. Kelly Starrett and his wife Juliet Starrett. It is available for free there, alongside many other similar articles. If you like this kind of content I strongly recommend checking them out. ♣ ↓ ↓ Muscle mass is a major component...

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