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Reading Time: 2 minutes While you can sometimes climb into bed feeling overtired and exhausted, confident that you’ll drift off and wake up the next day feeling refreshed and energized, you can, unfortunately also find yourself tossing and turning throughout the night without having slept a wink. We’ve all at some point experienced the frustration of not being …
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Forest Bathing? Forests have always held a special place in the hearts and minds of people everywhere. In 1982, the Forest Agency of Japanese government initiated shinrin-yoku, a national public health program. Its objective is to encourage Japanese residents to get involved with nature and to expose their bodies and minds to the overhead …
Reading Time: 4 minutes While most people in the West are familiar with the traditional yellow banana, the fact of the matter is that their red-skinned cousins actually offer you a bigger variety of health benefits. Red bananas – also called Red Spanish or Cuban bananas, Colorado bananas or Lal kela – are native to India and Southeast Asia, but …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Snacking is probably the best thing in the world when you’re bored. In fact, there’s actually science behind why it’s so great. When you’re bored and you snack, it triggers a release of endorphin, which momentarily makes you not-so-bored. If you’re anything like me, that can be dangerous. Especially if you’re the type that reaches …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems are serious and widespread. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over 350 million people around the world suffer from anxiety, depression, or other emotional disorder. These numbers around grim ‒ and affect the quality of life not only for the patient but his or her family as well. The …
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re someone who is trying to lose weight and lose weight the healthy way, you know it can be difficult. Especially, if you take pride in making your own food and paying close attention to what you eat. It can be a challenge preparing your own food to assist you along your weight loss …
Reading Time: 3 minutes We all love coffee, and many of us love tea as well, but the side effects of high caffeine consumption can wreak havoc on our health depending on how high of a tolerance we have for caffeine. It’s important to remember that caffeine is a stimulant, and all stimulants alter the way the entire nervous …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Misao Okawa, until April 1, 2015, when she passed away peacefully in her sleep from heart failure at age 117, was the world’s oldest woman. She was born on March 5, 1898, and lived in Osaka Japan. When asked about her secret to long life, she replied that she ate delicious food. Perhaps the most obvious factor …