Guest Posts
The Secret Health Benefits of Peruvian Black Bojita Olives
Looking for a way to keep brain-healthy fats in your diet without buying expensive supplements? Well, you’re in for a treat. Tasty and savory little botija olives may be just what you’re looking for – and they’re found in many health food stores or can be easily ordered online. But I like my salty green olives. Why are these better? Not only are these nutritious little flavor balls full of monounsaturated fat, but they’re also packed with calcium, vitamins A and E, selenium, oleic acid, iron, and antioxidants. They are often packaged raw as well, retaining optimal nutrition, while…
How to Make Healthy and Tasty Muesli
What is it and why should I try it? Chances are you’ve tried muesli (similar to granola) from a box in the grocery store before, but have you ever considered making your own at home? Let’s take a look into what exactly is involved as far as ingredients for this dish, and then venture onto some food blogs to check out some easy recipes. Wikipedia defines muesli (pronounced MYOOZ-lee) as a “breakfast or brunch dish based on rolled oats and other ingredients like grains, fresh or dried fruits, seeds and nuts, that may be mixed with milk (of various kinds), yogurt or fruit juice.…
How to Stop Emotional Eating/Stress Eating
Emotional eating or binge eating disorder is defined as an eating disorder “where you frequently eat large amounts of food while feeling powerless to stop and extremely distressed during or after eating. Binge eating disorder typically begins in late adolescence or early adulthood, often after a major diet.” From HelpGuide.org: “All of us eat too much from time to time. But if you regularly overeat while feeling out of control and powerless to stop, you may be suffering from binge eating disorder. You may eat to the point of discomfort, then be plagued by feelings of guilt, shame, or depression…
Need to Practice Self Love? Read These Books!
We’ve all been there where we’ve needed self love. Sometimes, the world makes it difficult to just be. We are constantly caught in a battle between loving ourselves and loving the world. Are the two mutually exclusive? No, they don’t have to be. But sometimes, this can seem to be the case. Caught up in our daily lives of work and school and family and relationships, making some me-time might seem to be the most difficult task. Self love indeed begins with carving out me time, And no, it is not selfish to practice self love, self care and self…
Relax Before Bed: Ten Tried and Tested Ideas
Why is it so tough to relax before bed? Have all generations leading up to now had similar issues? It seems that the modern age has all but stripped us of the ability to fall asleep at night. We are now better connected than ever before with people scattered all over the world. Constant Facebooking, looking for WhatsApp updates, waiting for that phone call from a different time zone, watching a football game being played in a different time zone, and not rising with the sun as a result of it. We seem to have walked straight into zombie land…
Sleeping on the Floor Might be Good for you
Are there concrete benefits to sleeping on the floor than on a mattress? On an average, we sleep about 7-8 hours every day. And after a long day of being on our feet, with backs straight and necks up, our spines need some respite. Come evening, and we find ourselves craving the softness of our mattresses on which to lay down our weary backs. All the posturepedics an tempurpedics out there might not be as beneficial to the spine as the hard floor, some say. We do a deep dive into the four most touted benefits of sleeping on the…
Women Who CrossFit: What to Expect
This is where I tell you how CrossFit surpassed my health and fitness expectations beyond anything I could have imagined. I’ll start here: I’m a yoga enthusiast. I’ve taught for seven years, and practiced for fifteen. To say I was skeptical about trying CrossFit was an understatement. I was curious after a friend started and wouldn’t stop talking about how much it was changing her life. Did I mention she looked amazing? I remained unsure. I didn’t want to “bulk up.” I’d heard rumors that CrossFit was cult-like, having heard plenty of people disregard CrossFit people as having “drunk the Kool-Aid.” Plus, yoga…
Juicing Detox Recipes: Get Your Juice on!
If you are over thirty, or have a chronic digestive condition, you will have lived through a juicing detox. Legend had it that juicing helped make the micronutrients in vegetables and fruits easily bio-available to the human body. Before we reached for the multivitamins, we would have been told to try a juicing regimen first. Watching the juicer get through the slush and pulp to give you pure fruit and vegetable juice in all those colours probably felt like a gift from the gods. But that was the traditional mindset. Current opinion is that a juicing detox might be more…
Stress Relief Oils: Glorious Way to De-stress
You will have heard of aromatherapy being an effective remedy for stress — in fact, de-stressing with stress relief oils is probably one of the most popular methods to combat stress and relieve anxiety. Stress relief oils are a gloriously aromatic way to decompress. The most common ways to use them are in electric diffusers and reed diffusers. The second most common method is scented candles. Lighting a lemon verbena candle after a long day at work, or a lavender lilac scented one in the bathroom as you slip into the tub for a long soak is something we all…
Quit Coffee for Good: Six Step Regimen
Many a brave soul has attempted to quit coffee for good, and failed, and failed again. What is it about this magic elixir that is so addictive? Speaking as a coffeeholic myself, I feel your pain if you have tried to quit coffee – in vain. I know. I’ve been there, and done that, and done it again. But the more I tried, the more it became easy to quit the habit. My morning cup of coffee calls out to me just like that delish devilish cup grinning at you at the top of this post. I found myself jittery,…
What is Autoimmune Disease and How Can I Treat It?
What is autoimmune disease and what are the symptoms? According to Wikipedia, autoimmune disease is, “a condition arising from an abnormal immune response to a normal body part.” Since there are over eighty different kinds of autoimmune diseases and almost any body part at all can be effected, it can be difficult to pinpoint at first. The body’s immune system can either be overactive or underactive. In cases where the immune system is overactive, the body attacks its own tissues, often damaging them. When it’s underactive, vulnerability to further illness and infection increases. Symptoms vary and may fluctuate, but typically involve some…
Exercises and Other Ways to Relieve Painful Sciatica
What is Sciatica and How Can I Treat It? The Mayo Clinic defines sciatica as, “pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Typically, sciatica affects only one side of your body. (It) most commonly occurs when a herniated disk, bone spur on the spine or narrowing of the spine (spinal stenosis) compresses part of the nerve. This causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg.” Since it can be extremely painful and incapacitating for many sufferers, some therapists and…
