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The Top 3 Ways Stress Impacts Your Life

Our body is built to handle stress, but not all day, every day.  The natural response to perceived threats is a healthy one, yet it’s important we return to baseline when the threat has passed.  Take time to pause, check in, and create an environment you can succeed in… Sleep:  Our body releases chemicals, cortisol and adrenaline, when we are…

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Medical Recommendations We All Agree On

It’s definitely confusing getting health and medical advice these days.   There’s A LOT of conflicting information.  However, if you read through enough of articles and studies, consistent themes present themselves.  Here’s the Top 3 Health Habits that everyone agrees upon… Vegetables and Fruits:  There are very few cases where increasing the amount of vegetables and fruits in your diet…

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Reasons Not to Eat After Dinner

It’s challenging to only pick three reasons here because there are many.  Simply put consuming excess calories late at night can have a detrimental impact on several key areas of your health.  Be aware of what you’re doing!  Here’s three key reasons not to eat after dinner… Extra Calories:  For most of us, the day’s work is coming to an…

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Understanding Your Hunger

We live in a world inundated with food. There are options everywhere we go, our brains constantly getting signals of availability. Having an understanding of the inner workings of our physical and emotional responses to hunger can help us improve our self control and selections. Let’s take a deeper look at some of the factors involved. Stress is often the…

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Sleep

So simple, yet so underrated.  Getting enough quality sleep is essential for the maintenance, growth, and repair of every system in your body.  There are enough of studies available now to link irregular sleep patterns with heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.  If you have found yourself out of a good nighttime routine, don’t wait to fix it. So what constitutes…

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