13 Simple Rules For Diet Success
January 27, 2010 – 12:20 am | 17 Comments

Want to lose weight but tired of weight loss gimmicks? Follow this sensible advice.

1. Eat only real food: how much of what you eat comes from a box? If it’s processed, it’s probably no good for you. Real foods are the foods that you find in the fruit and vegetable aisle of your grocery store. Come in a box? Read the ingredients. If there are too many, or the names of the ingredients are unpronounceable, then don’t buy it. In doubt? Leave it. Fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates and lean proteins should be your diet. Don’t waste your money on processed foods that will only bog you down.

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Why Your Fatigued Adrenals Need Extra Support
March 3, 2010 – 4:50 am | One Comment
Why Your Fatigued Adrenals Need Extra Support

In today’s fast-paced world, everyone is exposed to stress on a daily basis. Whether it’s in the form of our morning commute, pressures at work, the demands of raising a family, sleep deprivation, or even just the overwhelming number of messages and choices that bombard us, stress is here to stay. Unfortunately, we weren’t built to respond to chronic stress.

Life Health Secrets Promotes Healthy Aging
December 8, 2009 – 10:45 pm | One Comment
Life Health Secrets Promotes Healthy Aging

A little older, a little wiser. But what if we could keep our wisdom and recapture our youthful energy? Growing older does not have to mean dealing with age-related diseases, and our physical age needn’t

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How to Deal With Chronic Fatigue & Stress
November 18, 2009 – 9:35 pm | No Comment
How to Deal With Chronic Fatigue & Stress

Your adrenal glands sit on top of your kidneys and regulate stress and energy output. Intense exercise can overwhelm the adrenals and eventually burn them out, leading to chronic fatigue, bags under the eyes and reduced performance.

Nourishing the adrenals alone is not enough, however – stimulating the adrenals without opening the surrounding pathways of the nervous system (or, from the viewpoint of Chinese Medicine, the meridians) is like increasing the output of an electricity generator in a home with faulty wiring.