Healthiest YOU Series – Part 1: Inflammatory Foods
Welcome to the Healthiest YOU, a 10 Part Series to EMPOWER YOU to create HEALTHY HABITS and eliminate ones that compromise your health and well-being. PART 1 - Inflammatory Foods to Eliminate from your diet Inflammatory foods can be confusing because they're not a one size fits all. What’s…
Supplements That Boost Your Brain Function – Part 3
B VITAMINS B Vitamins have been known to maintain brain function by way of supporting healthy moods, stress management and energy production. Deficiencies in B Vitamins include symptoms that are observed in psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety and psychosis. B Vitamins are vital…
FERMENTED FOODS AND YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
Fermented foods have been at the forefront lately but they have been around for centuries, so why this renewed interest in them now? Research exploring these live products and their effect on gut, brain, and body health has revitalized public interest. Lactobacilli and Bifidobacterium are but a few…
WHY YOU NEED SALT!
For ages Doctors have been telling us to reduce salt intake for a healthy heart and to help reduce blood pressure. Research now shows that salt has little do with heart disease and reducing high blood pressure. In fact some studies indicate salt restriction does more harm than good. What we…
Top 10 Ways to Curb Overeating
The key to successful weight control is learning to listen to your body’s cues. You want to eat when you feel hungry, but not famished. Feeling overly hungry can trigger overeating. The following tips can help you get in touch with the signs of hunger and satiety to prevent overeating: Stick to a…
REACTIONS TO OUR 3 DAY WARM DETOX
Here at Healthy Habits we've been busy with our latest 3 day warm and gentle detox. We've had an overwhelming response and participants couldn't believe the wonderful changes that took place in just 3 days! First, let me start by saying that our detox is composed of real, whole foods. No…
Practicing Healthy Habits During the Holidays
Love the parties, love the treats and of course love the presents! But how do we manage the social mayhem of Christmas and not gain weight or spark up inflammatory reactions from festive foods that make us feel stiff and rickety? Here are a few of our favorite strategies to help you cope: 1) BROTH…
Daily Detox: Part Three – Detoxing the Yard
Not only are cell membranes and the internal cellular system important to detox but the cell matrix, the yard that surrounds the cells is vital to keep clean as well. The extra cellular matrix is prone to damage from both toxins and disease. The cell matrix thickens and loses fluidity which slows…
Daily Detox: Part Two – Cell Membrane Cleanse
By incorporating daily habits that allow for cellular function to upregulate improving your metabolism and elimination of toxic by-products we can all strive to improve our mind and body. This 3 part series is an in-depth collection discussing what foods detoxify your body and their beneficial…
Daily Detox to To Optimize Focus and Fitness
By incorporating daily habits that allow for cellular function to upregulate improving your metabolism and elimination of toxic by-products we can all strive to improve our mind and body. This 3 part series is an in-depth collection discussing what foods detoxify your body and their beneficial…
10 Reasons Why We Need to Eat Saturated Fats
The lipid hypothesis is a theory that directly relates saturated dietary fat with heart disease mortality. Saturated fats are coconut, butter, lard, tallow and palm oil. Nature’s nutrients lampooned as the culprit of modern day illness. The idea was that of Ancel Keys, a brilliant student of fish…
Frequent Eaters Beware
4-6 Meals per Day: There is a much publicized idea regarding frequent eating plans. Meals scheduled every three to four hours are meant to help maintain body weight, keep hunger at bay, and balance blood sugar levels which affect hormones, such as insulin. Success for the frequent feeder is less…
Belly Size versus BMI
Just stepping on the scale doesn’t tell you much about your future health. That is why health professionals use a variety of measures to help predict a client’s risk of heart disease, cancer, respiratory problems and premature aging and/or death. Commonly the Body Mass Index (BMI) is…