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Detox has weight loss benefits

How Detox Helps You Lose Weight

Your body uses fat to protect itself from toxins. The more toxins you accumulate, the more fat you have. Carrie Louise Daenell, ND wrote a great article, featured on the American Association of Naturopathic Physicans website, explaining how toxins make you fat. When you carry toxins—excess stress hormone and inflammation—your body seeks to protect you [...]

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How to stay motivated to exercise and lose weight!

Simple Exercising Tips to Help You Lose Weight

The concept of New Year’s resolutions dates back to the Romans, who promised better behavior to the god Janus, a two-headed deity who looked both forward and backward and welcomed the new year. If we scroll through history, I’m sure we’d find some pretty ridiculous resolutions, and we’d also probably see weight loss and exercise [...]

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Nutrition to Support Hormones & Weight Loss

  Sadly, weight loss is not as simple as  increased activity + decreased calorie intake =  weight loss.  If it were that simple, I do believe more people would be successful at maintaining a healthy weight or losing weight.  When we are younger, our bodies are more forgiving. We can apply the above equation and usually [...]

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Shed the Pounds with Social Media!

Ever tried losing weight? Did you join a support group like Weight Watchers or did you do it alone? Studies show that people with weight-loss support have better success than those who try on their own. What if you don’t have the money to join a group, or weekly weigh-ins aren’t realistic in your busy [...]

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Helping the Hungry: Loaves & Fishes Food Drive Comes to a Close

Helping the Hungry: Loaves & Fishes Food Drive Comes to a Close

Our Loaves & Fishes Food Drive has now come to an end! Our company president, Theresa, added #10 canned goods and a 25 lb. bag of rice, and our Natural Healthy concepts crew added another $100 worth of food as a Christmas gift. Together we donated a total of more than 200 lbs. of food! As noted in our [...]

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Emotional Eating or Stress Eating Tips

15 Tips to Help with Stress Eating

Reaching for food to deal with stress is a common impulse for many of us and one with consequences for our waistlines. And it’s not helped by the fact that many of us will continue eating long after we are full – and long after the taste of what we are eating holds any interest [...]

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New Year’s Eve: The Do’s & Don’ts of the Morning After

There’s no greater day of celebration than New Year’s Eve, and perhaps no rougher morning than New Year’s Day. I’m sure we’ve all been there at some point—Your head is pounding;  you’re dizzy, nauseous, fatigued, and dehydrated.  If you haven’t thrown-up already, you probably feel like it or you want to. And now you’re probably [...]

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5 Necessary Steps to Weight Loss Success

As the new year approaches, you might be asking yourself, what can I do to lose weight? In fact, you have probably asked yourself that same question before.  You have probably lost 5 pounds,  then gained 10, lost 10, then gained 20, etc.  Sorry to say, there is no one simple answer that fits everyone [...]

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Get on the Path to a Healthier New You With Realistic New Year’s Resolutions That Last!

The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for 2012 according to the University of Scranton Journal of Clinical Psychology are: 1. Lose Weight 2. Get Organized 3. Spend Less, Save More 4. Enjoy Life to the Fullest 5. Stay Fit & Healthy 6. Learn Something Exciting 7. Quit Smoking 8. Help Others in Their Dreams 9. [...]

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New Year Help for Breaking Bad Habits

OK, 2013 is looming and no doubt your mind will soon be turning to some bad habits you want to leave behind in 2012. Losing weight, quitting smoking, cutting back on the booze, and doing more than simply collecting gym memberships will feature high for many. But it may well be name dropping, gossiping, or [...]

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