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Do you care?

Do you think about your health? How long you will live? What your health will be like in 10, 20, 30, 40 years? You should. Your health then is being determined now.

Humans are hard-wired to seek pleasure, move away from pain, and do it all with the greatest economy of energy. Yet, we are designed to grow – even flourish – under stress. We encounter the challenge, struggle, adapt and move forward.

ISIS and donuts

Do you fear terrorism? Since 2001, on average, 1 person dies from terrorism in the U.S. per year. Obesity kills over 300,000 each year. Obesity-related conditions are some of the leading causes of preventable, premature death – heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers.

Aspirin bad. Gratitude good. For the heart.

When you practice gratitude, your heart is sending out health-promoting communication to your brain and body. When you take aspirin, well, don’t take aspirin (unless you want ‘internal bleeding and other side effects’).

Start. Stop. The Top Ten

Five Things To Start. Five Things To Stop. How to get better at life – at least the health part of it.

Go to bed

The internet, our ‘stupid phones’, Netflix, 24 hour drive-thrus, and 60-hour work weeks have created a cultural norm of sleep deprived people. is that you? If you are like most people, your body expects and requires more sleep than it’s getting.

Tylenol damages fetal and infant brains

Pregnant women and moms, think of Tylenol as the ‘go-to drug’ for pain relief and treatment of fever for them and their kids. Acetaminophen can impair brain development in both fetus and child (and into adulthood).

Drug recalls – reading between the lines

Most of the time, taking a drug to get healthy is like taking out a loan to get rich. It’s time to ask yourself ‘Do drugs produce health, or do they manipulate physiology to appear as health?’

Strawberry Popsicles

Who doesn’t like strawberries? Who doesn’t like popsicles? As always, we want our ‘treats & sweets’ to be healthy, right? This from Elizabeth, an amazing yogi, gardener and otherwise good-for-the-planet soul.

Fat is good

Don’t believe everything you read or hear about fat … or cholesterol. Without good fat, you’ll end up sick, fat and … very unhealthy. Built on bad science from the 1950’s, fat in general, and saturated fat in particular has gotten a false with causing health problems.

Deadly Artificial Sweeteners

The scientific journals are filled with reports of neurological issues from eating aspartame and sucralose ‘… participants had more irritable mood, exhibited more depression, and performed worse on spatial orientation tests.’ [Neurobehavioral Effects of Aspartame Consumption, Res Nurs Health. 2014 Jun; 37(3): 185–193.]

The Shrinking Brain – size does matter

Some describe the increasing Alzheimer’s in the population as a ‘health meteor’ that’s going to strike the elderly populations of modern countries around 2025. The good news is that great information is surfacing about how to avoid Alzheimer’s disease.

Intermittent Fasting

Your body was not designed to have a constant food supply at arm’s reach. The ready supply of calorie-dense foods and its resulting consequence (a generally sedentary lifestyle) has led to an over-fed and under-active, over-weight and under-muscled population that is riddled with sickness and disease.

Why grains are making us sick, sad, and fat

If this is your first time hearing that grains are problematic in the human diet, then it can come as quite surprise. More than just a surprise, it can be a downright shock to the core of your “think you know what to eat to be healthy” soul.

The Panacea ‘diet’

Whether your goal is to be as healthy as possible, or avoid heart disease, reverse diabetes, lose weight, or promote health while you’re battling cancer, the answer all falls under the same heading: the healthy human lifestyle. And it’s one diet that human beings thrive on.