This Soothing Child Essential Oil Blend recipe helps strung out kids (and parents!) calm down. Stress is your enemy. If you want a peaceful child, a peaceful home, or a peaceful work environment, one of the key elements is staying calm in the middle of life’s storms. Consider this another tool in your tool belt.
Why I Wash My Face With Dirt And Oil
When I was a young teenager, my mother shared her secret for beautiful skin with me. It was the same secret her mother used, and her mother’s mother. Three generations of women in my family had all done the same thing: washed daily with Noxzema followed by an application of Oil of Olay. I wonder what they would say if they knew I now wash my face with dirt and beef tallow balm!
Bath Salts: A Relaxing Bath Salts Recipe
Bath salts soothe the mind and body and are an excellent way to pamper yourself. It’s no wonder so many of us dish out the big bucks for these luxuries when it’s time to give gifts. You can learn how to make bath salts with this Relaxing Bath Salts Recipe.
Homemade Toothpaste Recipe: Remineralizing
This homemade toothpaste recipe is 100% natural, perfectly edible, and full of the minerals your teeth need to re-build enamel and maintain healthy teeth and gums.
3 Ways to Heal A Stressed Metabolism
Do you have a stressed metabolism? Have you ever lost weight by going on a restrictive diet, then gained it all back (even if you didn’t entirely abandon the diet)? Or maybe you’ve got thyroid problems, irregular menstrual cycles, mood swings, or acne? Are you tired during the day and alert at night? If any of these sound familiar, it’s likely you have a stressed metabolism. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to stay that way. You can heal your metabolism and restore your health!
Your Appendix Isn’t Useless: New Scientific Theory Gains Ground
Remembering back to my days as a student of human anatomy and physiology, I recall clearly our lecture on the human appendix. The appendix was basically seen as a benign, but essentially useless leftover of human evolution. In some people, at some times, it would inexplicably grow inflamed and acutely painful. The remedy? Surgical removal. And guess what? Unlike removing an organ like the gallbladder, no one missed their appendix. Removal didn’t seem to cause any adverse health effects. Then, back in 2007, researchers put forward an interesting theory about the appendix. They argued that it did serve a purpose. The appendix, they said, is a repository for beneficial bacteria, providing support for bacterial growth and facilitating the re-population of the gut with good bacteria in the event that the intestinal tract is “purged” following exposure to a pathogen.
An Ode to Pork
Consider this a pork appreciation post. If you’re like me, you’re tired of hearing about how pigs are unsafe to eat, “unclean,” or otherwise “unhealthy.” While it is true that some religious traditions decry pork, it’s also true that pork is the dietary mainstay of a lot of Asia and Europe. That’s because pigs do miracles.
Why I Don’t Trust Nutrition Scientists
Nutrition science is a young science. Over the course of the last hundred years, every major nutrient has been vilified both by scientists and public opinion. In my own short life, I’ve seen fat and carbohydrates take significant hits. You won’t be surprised to learn that before the anti-fat craze of the ’70s and ’80s, popular nutrition science was anti-protein.
Review: Primal Moms Look Good Naked
As a mom, particularly a mother of multiple children, I sometimes feel like my body may never be my own again. It’s easy to feel this way when you’ve spent so much time growing little people inside you, providing nourishment and comfort for those little people during an era of breastfeeding and interrupted sleep, and then countless hours interrupting your life to see to the emotional and physical needs of your growing children. Things we women never experienced before are suddenly considered the norm — varicose veins, stretch marks, saggy boobs, droopy abdominal skin, extra pounds glued to our hips. These are the bodily signs of motherhood, and our culture gives us a mixed message about them. They’re both ugly and badges of honor, unavoidable yet somehow our responsibility to hide.
Are you sitting too much?
Did you know the average person spends more time per day sitting than they do sleeping? That a slew of recent studies show a strong correlation between sitting and weight gain, sitting and overall mortality, sitting and heart disease, and sitting and loss of bone density? As a writer, my work keeps me sitting in front a computer for hours a day. I sit while I research and write blog posts. I sit while I write books. I sit while I teach online courses and provide customer support. I sit while I promote my work on Facebook. And then, when I’m all done working for the day, I sit while I watch TV and movies, sit while I surf the net, and sit while I read books.
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