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Why you Should Eat a Rainbow of Fruits and Vegetables

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Nutritionists will tell you to eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. This isn’t just because it looks nice on the plate. Each color signifies different nutrients our body needs. The nutrients found in plant foods are broadly referred to as phytonutrients. There are at least 5,000 known phytonutrients, and probably many more. So what […]

The Power of Trust

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Mental health has much to do with trust. Trust can release us from stress and anxiety. It is important to understand how we can build that trust. If you don’t trust, you build walls between yourself and others. These walls serve, say the suspicious, to protect against being deceived; but living in isolation impedes recovering […]

Healing Benefits of the Hot Foot Bath

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This simple and effective hydrotherapy procedure boosts the immune system, helps to lower high blood pressure, improves sleep, and relieves pain from congestive headaches!  Discover how it works. What is the Hot Foot Bath? The hot foot bath consists of placing the feet in hot water (starting at 100 to 104⁰F / 38 to 40⁰C) and […]

How Fasting Improves Mental Health and Stress Control

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There are many different motives why people choose to do fasting. Some will do it to lose weight, others to clean the body, and often it is done for religious purposes. While all of that can be achieved when done properly, many do not realize that fasting has a positive effect on our mental health […]

Exercise – Intensity or Duration?

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When you start an exercise program, you will begin slowly and build up gradually. This increases can be in exercise duration, or in intensity of the exercise routine. When do you go for longer duration, and when do you want to increase exercise intensity? And how do you go practically to maximize the benefits of […]

How to Deal With Mental Sufferings

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We suffer mentally because of alterations in brain functioning, but a difficult question to answer is: Do mental sufferings arise as a result of brain chemistry imbalances, or does the chemical imbalance occur because of conflicts in the person’s life? Seems like it’s all together. We can think, because electrical chemical circuits are at work […]

Autophagy – A Key to Better Health

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It is happening in every cell of our body, but hardly anyone knows about autophagy. It is an important process to maintain cellular health. In 2016, the Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering important links between fasting and autophagy. But already in 1963 the Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve […]