How do you bake a healthier, cleaner brownie? Add a sweet potato to the recipe. Sweet potatoes are root vegetables, packed with essential vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. You should choose to eat these and others in its class such as rutabagas, carrots, beets, radishes, turnips and parsnips to boost your immunity and fight […]
These five daily habits I use in my life help me face and tolerate the craziness and chaos that comes with living in this world. After reading this, I hope you find they help you as well. RELAX- If you are sitting at your desk, you can simply sit back, […]
As an adult health nurse practitioner since 2006 with an emphasis on holistic and complimentary medicine, I have developed my own techniques, manners, and tips on the best ways to reduce your risk of contracting a cold, the flu and Covid. Here are six of them. 1-STOP AND REST Literally stop and […]
Acid reflux aka heartburn occurs when stomach acid or bile flows back up into the esophagus, leaving one with a burning sensation in their throat or chest. If this happens regularly, it could be GERD, gastro esophageal reflux disease. The first choice one may have when experiencing these symptoms is […]
WEIGHT LOSS is possible by eating apples as they are considered complex carbohydrates. These help keep you fuller longer as they take longer for the body to digest. Other foods in this category include brown rice, brown pasta, wholegrains, and other fruits. In comparison to simple carbohydrates, like cookies, white bread, soda, […]
MISERY I am, hoping, the menopause symptoms that have arrested me and made me absolutely miserable for the past ten years are on the way OUT! The prodromal symptoms, like that of an aura before a migraine or a seizure, are a sense of unease, uncomfortableness, anxiety and doom. Once I feel […]
Have you ever wanted to know a little something about a food, particularly a vegetable, you didn’t like? Well, maybe you haven’t, but I have. As a child, I bit into a beet, decided it was too odd-tasting and bitter for me and immediately put it into the category of ‘yuck.’ But as […]