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Healthy Living Tip of the Day
Research shows that relaxing in an Epsom salt bath for just 15 minutes, three times a week, will increase your blood levels of magnesium by 35%. Magnesium helps to reduce your blood pressure. So take a few minutes for yourself and do your body good.
General Health Articles
Tips To Make Your Children Eat Healthier
Anyone who has young children knows how difficult it is to make them eat their vegetables. My daughter used to love eating raw tomatoes and onions when she was just a little over 12 months old. As she grew older and got introduced to cookies, chocolate and other snacks, vegetables became her least favorite type of food.
Recently, I have been working on trying to get her to eat healthier and I have successfully gotten her to regularly eat all her veggies and cut down on junk food. Below, I share some of my tips.
Live a Longer Healthier Life
An unexpected research finding with great practical significance is that experimental animals live longer with much lower rates of disease when they consume less than the recommended daily allowance of calories. The finding is unexpected because we associate less-than-optimal nutrition with poor growth and health, and common sense tells us that we do better if we are well nourished. In fact, most of us may be overnourished, and too much of a good thing may be doing us harm.
Good and Bad Cholestrol
Maintaining a proper balance of cholesterol levels in the blood is essential to the health of the brain, heart, cardiovascular system and other vital organs. When the body maintains this balance, there is an unobstructed flow of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the organs, as well as a proper removal of harmful wastes.