Aromatherapy for Winter Wellness: The Best Scents for Cold relief
While there's no cure for the common cold, there are ways to ease the symptoms and create a more comfortable environment at home. One such method is through the art of aromatherapy, using scented candles to promote relaxation and relieve congestion.
The Power of Aromas: How Changing Room Scents Can Impact Mental Health
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often underestimate the profound influence that our surroundings can have on our mental well-being. One often overlooked yet powerful element in shaping our environment is the scent that permeates our living spaces. Research suggests that changing room scents can play a pivotal role in affecting our mood, reducing stress, and enhancing overall mental health.
Tips for Having The Best Self-Care Day This Summer
We all love a good candle and we all love a little me time. These two are even better when you pair them together for the ultimate self-care moment. Candles smell great but they can also be extremely helpful when it comes to feeling zen and calm, which you can never have enough of.
Tips for Getting Your Spring Body Ready
This is the perfect time of year to think about springing forward, and we mean more than just daylight savings time. You can begin to work on jump-starting your body into the spring and summer body you’ve always wanted. Understandably, you might not know where to start, so here are some tips and tricks to get started on that spring body.
Let’s Exercise!
Dieters can often see great success in the early days of their new lifestyle – but quickly lose heart when the weight loss slows or stalls.It is important to keep going – this is a whole lifestyle change, not a one-and-done exercise. Your early determination coupled with starting at a higher number of pounds many times does mean a sharp drop in the number on the scales.
How Yoga Can Help You Keep Your Resolutions
Millions of people worldwide make resolutions to somehow better themselves in the New Year. Unfortunately, far fewer people actually stick to them after a couple of weeks. This is because so many of us set ourselves up for failure by not having a plan or incorporating something we love to motivate ourselves. If you love yoga, here are a few ways you can use it to help you keep your resolutions!
Healthy Alternatives for Thanksgiving Recipes
It may be hard to believe, but Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Many people trying to adhere to a healthy lifestyle or weight loss journey dread this holiday because of all of the food associated with it. But fear not! We have some delicious Thanksgiving recipes for you that won’t ruin your diet.
How Often Should You Get A Massage?
How often do you think you should get a massage? The question depends on you and your lifestyle. To better understand how often one should get a massage, please refer to the general guidelines below for more information.
The Importance of Staying Hydrated for Weight Loss, Especially in the Summer
We all know it’s important to stay hydrated. If you’re like me, you can’t count the number of times you’ve said, “I need to drink more water.” And most of us would probably guess that it’s more important to stay hydrated in the summer months.
Health Benefits of Yoga
Yoga can be done by anyone, beginner or expert. It can change a person’s mental or physical wellbeing as it balances your mind and body. Yoga provides several health benefits beyond staying physically fit, explore them below:
How to Reduce the Appearance of Cellulite
Cellulite goes by a number of unflattering names. Cottage cheese, lumpy gravy, hail damage. It’s no wonder that people who have cellulite—mostly women—try so hard to cover it up or get rid of it.
How to Determine a Healthy Weight Not Using BMI
Body Mass Index is the standardized scale used to quickly and easily determine a person’s health status. It makes the job easier for insurance companies when they decide your health risk. Unfortunately, it’s also known for being inaccurate.
Best Winter Fitness Tips to Stay in Shape
COLD, wet, and dark – winter days are not the natural time to want to get out and about and exercise. Indeed, our core animal instincts are to find shelter, warmth, and store food – not a good combination if you are seeking to maintain an exercise regime.
How the Diet Industry is Changing
DIETING has always been big business and as our focus on our health has come sharply into view over the past year, so the food and diet industry has responded. Dieting for the sake of just losing weight has fallen away quite sharply over the past few years, a combination of an increasing understanding of overall health and increasing information provided to consumers tanks to changes in FDA labeling rules.
What is reiki?
The word “Reiki” means “mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign.” It comes from the Japanese words “rei” (universal) and “ki” (life energy). Reiki is a type of energy healing; energy healing is a holistic practice that activates the body's subtle energy systems to remove blocks.
Strength Training VS. Cardio
Strength is the place to put your time, money, and energy, even if cardio is fun and readily accessible. There is a large misunderstanding on how the human body adapts to physical activity. The questions "should I do cardio for weight loss?", "if I do strength training, don't I have to do cardio too?", "won't having bigger muscles hurt my cardio?" come up a lot. The overarching answer to these questions is that strength training will improve your cardio substantially, but cardio will not help your strength much.
Holistic Healthcare vs Western Medicine
How many times have you been to the doctor and you feel as if you are not being heard and you leave without the answers to your questions? It is common to go to the doctor’s and feel like just another appointment in a full day. The root of your issue is not discovered, but you probably head home with a prescription to treat one of your symptoms that may or may not help, but almost certainly will come with less than desirable side effects. In the end it's possible to end up feeling worse than when you started the process both physically and emotionally. For this reason, alternative approaches to medicine such as holistic healthcare have become more popular. You have a choice on how you take care of your body and to discover why western medicine may not be the best option out there.
Tips for Keeping Your Immune System in Tip-Top Shape This Fall
That cool tinge to the air can only mean one thing: fall has arrived. That’s right, it’s here once again and so are some of our favorite things like cute sweaters and scarves, pumpkin-flavored everything, and, of course, spooky season. But even though there’s a lot of love about fall, it means colder weather and less time spent outdoors. People tend to gather together more in warm, enclosed spaces during the colder months, increasing the risk of transmitting illnesses to each other.
Working Out Won’t Help You Lose Weight
It may come as a surprise to some that working out doesn’t help you to lose weight. According to research published in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, there are different types of training & exercise that have varying percentages of weight loss. There are 4 types: resistance training, aerobic only, aerobic & exercise training and diet. Diet mostly accounts for the most percentage of weight loss and the rest are ranging from zero to three percent of weight loss. Despite all that, there is an alternative to exercising: Weight Loss Supplements.
Botox vs Cosmetic Injections
Cosmetic injection therapy has risen in popularity over the past few decades, and BOTOX® has been its poster child. But, BOTOX® isn’t the only injectable that can rid your face of the wrinkles and fine lines that inevitably accompany age. Cosmetic injections bestow a youthful appearance on their recipient, too! If you’re new to the world of injectables, a quick comparison of BOTOX® vs cosmetic injections can help you identify the right choice for your cosmetic goals!
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