Healthy Weight

Restorative Sleep… 6 Important Techinques To Get Rid Of Your Sleep Deficit For Good (video)

You absolutely, 100% ***NEED*** deep, restorative sleep!     It’s non-negotiable… poor sleep causes: memory impairment shorter life span: decrease response time + decreased motor skills = increased risk of accidents weight gain anxiety and other debilitating mood disturbances dementia and an increased incidence of Alzheimers widespread brain atrophy and much much more!!!   For example, a recent study (published in Neurology on Sept 3, 2104) found a widespread change in brain volume with poor sleep over time. Researchers looked at 147 people and followed them (using MRI imaging) to look at the effects of poor sleep on the brain. […]

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A Few Extra Pounds Helps You Survive Infections

Ebola has been front page news all summer, so you would think this recent medical study would be as well…   …but instead, this study on surviving overwhelming infection remains largely hidden.     Of course, anything that shows there is a WIDE diversity to “healthy weight” — that there is a reality so much wider than the current definitions of under weight, “normal” weight, over weight, mild and severe obesity — is hidden by the media.   That makes sense, as the weight loss industry is a 20 BILLION dollar industry IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE!!! So, of course

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Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

  I’m re-posting this important medical study I blogged about last year, because it came up during an interview that I just gave on BlogTalkRadio two weeks ago… …and I realized that so many folks still don’t know how dramatically lack of sleep can affect weight!     A study published in SLEEP last July found that folks gained a significant amount of weight after only 5 days of poor sleep.   Previous studies have shown a link between poor sleep and weight gain, but this is the first study where participants slept in-house in a sleep facility and the

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Plan To Get Your Body Moving In 2014?

If you follow my blog, you already know I am a huge fan of walking to reduce your risk of diabetes as well as for cancer recovery.   Moving my body more is certainly an ongoing goal for me in my own life… something I really want to do but never seem to find the time to prioritize. I don’t have the time (or desire) to fit in trips to the gym and I’ve never found an exercise DVD that I’ve felt like doing more than once. Enter… The Inspire Workouts.   This is an innovative program that combines positive

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Winter Checklist: 6 Ways To Feel Your Best All Winter Long

  Once again, it’s time to post a winter checklist of all the things I have pulled together over the years to keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. With Winter Solstice last weekend and Christmas, Kwanzaa and Winter Holidays this week… this is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our best and slow down and care for our inner spark while the world sleeps on around us. It’s okay to take these winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure

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Balancing Your Chakras Through Food (+ a round up of my fav food related blog posts)

I received an awesome question from a reader who asked if she could use food choices to help balance out her chakras. Yes! There are definitely foods that enhance and help balance particular chakras.     Today, I want to give you a list of different foods that help enhance different chakras. So, if you feel one of your chakras need awakening or aligning, read on and let’s get your chakras stimulated through the foods you choose today.     But first, do you want to know what chakras might need some balancing? I’ve created a fun Chakra Assessment Quiz

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Sleep Deprivation Found To Increase Weight After Only A Few Days

  A new study, recently published in SLEEP last month (July 2013) found that folks gained a significant amount of weight after only 5 days of poor sleep.   Previous studies have shown a link between poor sleep and weight gain, but this is the first study where participants slept in-house in a sleep facility and the actual weight gain was measurably significant after only a handful of 4 hour nights in a row. Here are the study details: Researchers took 225 healthy adults with no history of sleep problems. Half of the participants had time in bed from 10

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