Your tongue has built-in taste receptors that identify five basic flavors: bitter, sweet, salty, sour, and umami. These receptors help make eating a pleasure. Adding spices to your foods can enhance them and help them smell and taste better. There are thousands of ways to combine foods and spices … [Read more...]
Connecting the Dots Between Health and Spices
Humans suffered illness long before medicine came along. What happened when ancient peoples were sick and didn’t have access to modern medical aid? For centuries, people turned to nature to prevent and heal illness, often in the form of plants also known as botanicals. The term spice, refers to the … [Read more...]
Determination and Motivation – Your Most Important Allies in Change
We hear it a lot – Someone takes a gym membership and then lets it die without a whimper. Someone takes up a diet and then returns to gluttony the next weekend. Someone does a great deal of expensive shopping from big-name brands for morning routines and then wears the filthily expensive tracksuit for … [Read more...]
What’s a Sugar Detox?
Have you heard of doing a sugar detox? The idea is to abstain from any added sugar for a certain period of time. Some people will stick it out for a week, but a month is better. It will give your body and your mind time to adjust to living without the addictive white stuff. Because that’s the … [Read more...]
Outward Signs You Have a Hormonal Problem
Hormonal issues can wreak havoc on people who are oblivious to the root cause. Many symptoms of a hormonal disorder mimic other disorders, or they seem unrelated to something going on inside your body because they are expressing themselves outside your body. Let’s take a look at some outward symptoms … [Read more...]
Is Inflammation Impacting Your Health?
Inflammation is one of the top indicator's of chronic disease in modern society. Inflammation is a necessary biological process that draws our immune system to pay attention to certain tissues in the body. Inflammation isn’t always a bad thing. Our bodies use inflammation as a way to protect … [Read more...]