There are endless sugar references in pop culture, so many, in fact, that you could likely mouth several song lyrics, sayings and movie lines off the top of your head: Sugar and spice and everything nice or A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down and The Rolling Stones tune Brown Sugar are the …
More than 2,000 years ago Hippocrates said, “Walking is a man’s best medicine.” Not that you need to travel back in time for that pearl of wellness wisdom. But the man is considered the father of modern medicine and is widely respected for his contributions to the field, such as prognosis, clinical observation, the systematic …
You’re jetting off to work and realize, as you park your car, that you left your lunch at home…or maybe you’ve been invited to an after-work birthday celebration for a coworker or a friend. You might decide to grab a sandwich from the nearby cafe or market, which is short walk from work. You might …
Good Sleep Starts Upon Awakening It’s not as if you did not know that sleep is important, right? Yet too few people get regular restful sleep, and in some cultures (looking at you, USA) sleep is wrongly viewed as something for the unmotivated or weak. Yet sleep, or rather a lack of it, contributes heavily …
If you haven’t heard the term dirty dozen before, it’s time to familiarize yourself with it. The dirty dozen epitomizes what’s wrong about our present food and farming industries, specifically how it negatively impacts your health. The dirty dozen is a phrase that refers to the 12 crops with the highest amount of pesticide residue. …
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“Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not” – unknown Don’t start bingeing on chocolate cake, ice cream and wine just because stressed spelled backwards is desserts. That can only exacerbate a bad situation. All (half) joking aside, it needs to be acknowledged that stress plays a crucial role in a healthy and productive …
