Healthy Living How To

Vanessa Rae Romero

Lazy Cioppino Recipe

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I often feel the US has no real “indigenous” foods. Walk into a Thai restaurant and you know what you’re likely to find on a menu. The same would be true of an Ethiopian, Mexican, Italian or Japanese restaurant. What can you expect, walking into an American restaurant? Hot dogs and hamburgers? Yep, probably. These,… [Continue Reading]

How To Make Body Butter

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Make your own healthy body butter with this easy body butter recipe. Popular lotions and body butter products contain unhealthy ingredients which we can easily avoid by making our own. Why a Healthier Body Butter Recipe While I was pregnant with my youngest child, I began transitioning to a diet of almost no processed foods. I’ve… [Continue Reading]

5 Fatty Foods That Are Actually Healthy

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The body needs saturated fat. It is necessary for many metabolic processes — cell membranes need saturated fat to function properly and our heart muscle actually prefers using saturated fat for energy. In 2010, a large meta-analysis (21 studies with nearly 350,000 subjects), published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, concluded there is no association between saturated… [Continue Reading]

Easy Peasy 2 Ingredient Tomato Soup

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Make healthy tomato soup with only two ingredients, diced tomatoes and coconut milk (or heavy cream). Popular condensed tomato soup from a can contains unhealthy stuff like high fructose corn syrup , wheat flour and flavoring. Flavoring? One can only guess. I say, “yucko”! Check out the video below and give my easy peasy healthy… [Continue Reading]

6 Tips For Living Life Less Frazzled and More Fulfilled

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How you respond to stress may be a greater determinant of your future health than even your nutrition or exercise habits. With long work hours and multiple running lists of chores, errands, and other obligations, we live a harried lifestyle in which personal fulfillment comes last and stress runs rampant. Without mental rest and personal… [Continue Reading]

Cinnamon Braised Beef

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What do you get when you combine a professionally trained chef from the Mediterranean and a Paleo Holistic Nutritionist? An absolutely gorgeous, newly released digital cookbook — Mediterranean Paleo Cooking. In addition to the Cinnamon Braised Beef recipe below, this one-of-a-kind cookbook includes 125 mouth-watering healthy recipes that are sure to wow your family and… [Continue Reading]

Silly or Serious: Why Laughter Is Medicine

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We’ve all heard the saying, “laughter is medicine”, but is it really true? According to actual human studies, it is! In addition to relaxing the body and releasing feel-good endorphins, laughter appears to be a powerful influencer on the immune system. While there are several studies looking at how laughter can keep us healthy, one study in… [Continue Reading]

9 Health Benefits of Fish Oil

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Omega-3 supplementation plays an important role in health and performance throughout life. These nutrients are most often associated with heart health, but they do far more than that. The following are 9 important benefits omega-3s play in the health of the very young, very old and everyone in between. Read this, then go take your… [Continue Reading]

Cranberry Drop Scones

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Have you spotted them yet? You know, cranberries. Have you spotted them at your local market? I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I am at the bottom of my cranberry stock pile from last fall, just in time to stock up again. Yes, from last year. Here’s what I do, I… [Continue Reading]

Magnesium: A Natural Treatment for Migraines

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According to the National Headache Foundation, migraines affect more than 28 million people. Almost half experience chronic migraines. And magnesium deficiency could be one of the main causes. Migraine sufferers typically experience pain on one side of the head, accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to both light and sound. Migraines can occur at any time,… [Continue Reading]