Archive for: January 2008

January 31, 2008

Top 7 Tips To Take The Plunge Towards Healthy Habits

Filed under: Alcohol, Weight Loss, Diet, Walking, Health - 31 Jan 2008

Okay, you are committed. You have gone public and recruited a few buddies. You know what triggers your binges, and you have devised ways to avoid them. You have successfully maintained your habit without allowing it to get …

Top 5 Conditions To Get Heal With Heat

Few activities feel more relaxing than an interlude in a hot bath, hot tub or sauna. Since 1969, when backyard inventor Roy Jacuzzi of Walnut Creek, California, added air jets to an old grape press and created the …

January 30, 2008

Top 7 Tips To Take Initial Steps Towards Healthy Habits

Perhaps the biggest inner fear that keeps people from breaking bad habits is fear of failure. Every long-term dieter feels burned by all the diets that did not work, so they are sceptical about trying again. It is …

Top 7 Tips To Bring More Humor Into Your Life

Filed under: Health - 30 Jan 2008

Why don’t we laugh more often? Mainly because we have learned not to. Parents and teachers spend a good deal of time telling children, “ Wipe that smile off your face”; “Get serious”; “Settle down”; and “Stop acting …

January 29, 2008

Nuts:They Are Good For You

Nuts derive 70 to 90 percent of their calories from fat. As a result, the crunchy, delicious morsels have been verboten for people on low-fat diets, especially those interested in preventing obesity, diabetes, heart disease and the fat-related …

Cognitive Therapy: Top 7 Tips To Untwist Your Thinking

Filed under: Health - 29 Jan 2008

When you feel bad, your thinking becomes negative. This is the ABC of emotion. ‘A’ stands for the Actual event, ‘B’ for your Beliefs about it and ‘C’ for the Consequences you experience because of their beliefs. If …

January 28, 2008

Olive Oil: Heart Protection

Filed under: Heart Attack, Cancer, Weight Loss, Diet, Nutrition, Stroke, Health - 28 Jan 2008

There is strong epidemiological evidence that olive oil offers significant cardioprotective benefits. In plain English, olive oil is good for the heart.

Heart disease. Like all vegetable oils, olive oil is 100 percent fat, and fat is a …

How Companionship Keeps You Healthy

The value of social support has been hiding in plain sight for so long that it is amazing it took researchers so long to discover it. From the day that we are born, social support is essential to …

January 27, 2008

Soy Foods: Cancer Fighters and More

Filed under: Heart Attack, Cancer, Weight Loss, Diet, Nutrition, Stroke, Health - 27 Jan 2008

Can tofu help prevent breast cancer? Increasingly, it looks that way. Soy foods – soybeans, tofu, miso, tempeh, soy milk, soy protein and textured vegetable protein (TVP), but not soy sauce – offer all the healing benefits of …

January 26, 2008

Top 7 Tips To Prepare Sleepy-Time Herbs

Filed under: Sleeping, Diet, Nutrition, Health - 26 Jan 2008

Most health-conscious people steer clear of sleeping pills because of concerns about side effects and possible addiction. But, ah, the convenience…Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a little something you could take to soothe you gently into …

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