time to read 3 min Well, the health & wellness sector of the internet world blew up this week over the Biggest Loser study. In case you missed it, researchers looked at contestants from Season 6 of the Biggest Loser. They wanted to know how their resting metabolic rate (how many calories burned when at rest) changed in the years following…
time to read 3 min Nowadays my morning beauty routine consists of brushing my teeth and wiping yesterday’s mascara from underneath my eyes. I deem this as bright-eyed and bushy tailed as I’m going to get, considering I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since December 2014. A small price that I’m happy to pay for getting to be a mother,…
time to read 3 min At the get-go, let me say that when I say the word “diet”, I don’t mean diet in the Atkins/juice/paleo/1500 calorie/grapefruit/macrobiotic sense of the word. You know I hate diets. When I talk about the anti-inflammatory diet, I’m referring foods that will act as a shield against the environmental, physical, and emotional stressors that bombard our…
time to read 3 min Last week I talked about how to stop a headache once it has started. This week let’s focus on how to stop them in the first place. If you suffer from headaches on a regular basis, you may have have heard you should cut out caffeine, chocolate, cheeses, processed meats. No, your doctor doesn’t…
time to read 3 min In a self-serving move, I thought I’d do some research dealing with headaches with lifestyle changes. To a fault, I hate taking medicine. I will stubbornly sit there with a headache while I chide my husband for not taking anything for his sinus cold. Perhaps the headaches are from a beam in my eye? On the…