Nutrition and Breastfeeding

Your baby’s food can have lasting effects on his or her growth and health. How you feed your baby helps form life-long feelings about food and eating. Breastmilk is the ideal first food for your baby.

It is the perfect nutrition.
It is easily digested.
It helps protect your baby from infections.
It does not cause food allergy or [...]

Fitting Healthy Habits into Your Hectic Life

There just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything you need to do. And it can feel like an added stressor when you are pregnant and try to integrate healthy habits into your already hectic schedule. But if you make time for healthy habits, you’ll find yourself with extra reserves [...]

What to Do After a Workout

Many of us have a great pre-workout and workout routine. We drink plenty of water before and during exercise, warm up, stretch, work the entire body, and even get in some cardio training as well. Then, after the last exercise, we promptly head back to the locker room, change, and journey home.
What so many out [...]

The World Top Twenty Superfoods- Part 2

Hi- and welcome to my second article on this great topic. Last week in my first article I outlined my world top ten superfoods. This week I’m going to finish off by looking at numbers 11-20. Once again I should mention that these are 10 great foods for all round diet and health. Eat all [...]

Help Yourself Over Diet Hurdles

It’s the time of year when those New Year’s Resolutions are getting more difficult to keep, and the winter weather isn’t making it any easier. You probably had a lot of enthusiasm for the first few weeks-you learned some healthy recipes, bought more fruits and veggies, probably even turned down your boss’s famous chocolate cake. [...]

Beating Restaurants at Their Own Game!

Does your favorite restaurant serve piles of tempting foods on platters rather than plates? Are the biggie-sized meals at fast food restaurants trapping you into overeating? How do you deal with a bountiful breadbasket? Eating out is fun and relaxing, but you can make it healthier. Use these tried and true suggestions the next time [...]

Water – a Weight Loss Tool

Water can be a great hydrating drink and can have many positive effects, but can it really help lose weight? Water, which is balanced in nature, can help provide a gamut of health benefits. Alkaline water or ionized water which has proper pH balance can help our cells function optimally. Our bodies are naturally maintained [...]