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Natural Ways to Beat the Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as seasonal depression or, in its milder form, the winter blues, is a type of depression related to the change in seasons. When and Why Does Seasonal Affective Disorder Occur SAD is most common in the fall and winter months when the days are shorter and there is less exposure to sunlight. Sunlight plays an...
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Energy Drinks: Their Health Risks and What to Drink Instead
Energy drinks are big business worldwide. The global energy drinks market is projected to reach $125.11 billion (US) by 2030. People of all ages are consuming these drinks, drawn in by claims of increased energy, better focus, weight loss, and other reported health benefits from ingredients like...
A Smarter Way to Shop for Produce: Clean Fifteen & Dirty Dozen
Consuming organic fruits and vegetables is best practice for better health due to less exposure to chemicals and toxins from pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; however, it may be impractical to do this all the time because of lack of access to organic produce and/or the increased cost of...
How to Improve Indoor Air Quality
It is often said that history can benefit the future when it comes to problem solving and this could not be truer when comparing the indoor air quality in modern homes to that of homes in the past. Ancient civilizations constructed their homes and dwellings not only as shelter but as spaces that...
Preventive 10: Ten Lifestyle Strategies for Better Health
Our primary goal is to provide health education in order to prevent disease. We believe the core problem with many of today’s health issues lies in poor nutrition, stress, and toxins the body accumulates from unhealthy food, water, and the environment. We seek to address these problems so the body...
How to Combat the Harmful Effects of Excessive Sitting
For over 200,000 years, our species has evolved to dynamically use our bodies in all its functional capacity throughout the day—walking, running, squatting, sitting, lying down, etc. Unfortunately, modern life has forced most of us to sit for long extended periods of time. Even more troubling,...
The Health Benefits of Indoor Plants
Renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson best explained our innate human attraction to Nature with his “biophilia” hypothesis, which is the belief that humans are genetically predisposed to want and need Nature. It’s in our DNA to connect with the elements of Nature, and when we do so, we are happier...
7 Ways to Optimize Your Daily Morning Routine
A good daily morning routine is important, as it helps set the tone for the day. A daily morning routine, by its very definition, is a set of habits we engage in every morning to shift our internal state and set the tone to optimize our upcoming day. But what is the perfect morning routine? To...
The Health Risks of Dental Amalgam Mercury Fillings
Dental amalgam is a durable metal alloy that fills and supports a dental cavity. It is often referred to as “amalgam,” “metal fillings,” or as a “silver filling” because of its silver color; however, it’s not entirely accurate to call it “silver,” as dental amalgam is comprised of liquid mercury...
Tips for Choosing a Natural Mattress & Bedding
There are numerous ways to pursue healthy living: exercise, consistent daily activity, drinking purified water, eating a whole-food diet, reducing sugar, getting the right amount of sun exposure, and proper sleep, to name a few. Though we may incorporate many of these preventive strategies into...
The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
For the majority of our evolutionary history, we lived in a “feast or famine” state, meaning there were times when food was plentiful and times when it was scarce. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had to actively search for available food sources and, at times, experienced periods with little to no...
