Author: Shanda de Vries
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The Blood Type Diet: Eating What Your DNA Dictates?
When it comes to diets, there are some that are so outlandish-sounding that we can’t even begin to buy into their hype, and then there are the diets that seem reasonable and can definitely be taken at face value as long as you’re not someone who looks into things. The blood type diet falls into…
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9 Healthy, Stress Busting Foods To Help You Feel Better Fast
Have you ever tried to eat yourself happy before? Here’s what I mean – It’s been a terribly long week; you’re stressed out, and you don’t know what else to do, so you mow down on a bag of Doritos or you manage to scarf back an entire pint of double chocolate brownie fudge ice…
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13 Essential Items For A Natural First Aid Kit
It’s handy to have a first aid kit in your home that’s absolutely brimming with everything you need in case an emergency ever happens to strike your household (knock on wood that it doesn’t ever happen, of course, but some things are just inevitable. That inevitability tends to increase tenfold with the addition of children).…
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10 Easy Diet Tweaks To Reach And Keep A Healthy Weight
Summer is officially over; with the holidays creeping up faster than we ever expect them to, it can be easy to lose track of your weight loss goals without even realizing it. Before getting frustrated and giving up (again), keep these ten tips in mind. They’ll help you stay on track – even if you…
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I Quit Sugar: An 8-Week Detox Program Designed To Stop Sugar Cravings
It’s no secret that I’m not the biggest fan of dieting; though you might lose a couple of pounds in the first couple of weeks or months, the vast majority of diets are basically just setting you up for failure. That feeling of failure usually leads to more dieting, and the cycle continues. I’m more…
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Why You Need To Stop Overtraining And What To Do Instead
Aside from eating a diet rich in whole organic foods, exercise is one of the most important components of living a healthy and balanced life. But did you know that, like with just about everything else, getting too much exercise can actually be harmful to you? That’s certainly not to say that you should stop…
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Stop Hiccups Now: Easy and Effective Home Remedies
I’m not completely sure that there’s anything more annoying than getting a batch of hiccups unless of course, you happen to get those hiccups on and off for an entire day or more – This recently happened to me: for almost a whole day I was getting the hiccups on and off (sometimes so bad…
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5 Pantry Ingredients to Discard for Healthier Alternatives
Are you someone who picks through every nutritional label at the grocery store with a fine toothcomb, or do you rely on your gut feeling and what you know? If you happen to fall into the latter category, you might be in for a big surprise: not everything that’s supposed to be “healthy” is good…
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Why White Rice Is Better For You Than Brown Rice
Every week, it seems as though we’re being told that we absolutely should or shouldn’t eat a certain something, and it can be rather challenging to keep up with it all. One of the things that seems to stay on the safe side of the fence regardless of the fad of the week is rice,…
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Can You Learn Yoga at Home? (+ 3 Easy To Learn Poses)
Yoga has such an incredibly long list of mental, physical, and spiritual benefits – So many in fact that I couldn’t fit them all in to one (readable) blog post if I tried. I decided to start practicing myself after a particularly stressful period in my life that left me rather unhealthy and possibly even…
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12 Potent Essential Oils For Pain Relief: Natural Healing
Regardless of whether you’re suffering from a migraine, you’ve recently pulled a muscle in your shoulder, or you have to deal with a chronic condition like sciatica regularly, when the pain hits us, we’ll do just about anything and everything we can to try and get rid of it. We’ve already discussed a bunch of…
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The Zone Diet: How Jennifer Aniston Retains That Youthful Glow
Jennifer Aniston is one of those celebrities who just seems to look better as she gets older, don’t you think? She looks just as good (if not better) now than she did when she was playing Rachel Green on the hit sitcom Friends – What’s her secret? Sure, some of that gorgeousness can be credited…
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5 Natural & Safer Alternatives to Ibuprofen
It doesn’t matter which way you’re suffering in – whether it’s a headache, menstrual cramps, your arthritis is flaring up, or you’ve got muscle pain from playing sports – sometimes you just need some Advil (or another form of ibuprofen) to feel human again. Sure, the ibuprofen helps you feel better in a matter of…
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The Many Uses of Soap Nuts for Personal and House Cleaning
The desire to become more eco-friendly is becoming more and more popular by the day; people are constantly looking for green alternatives to things that they have to use every day – shampoo, dishwashing liquid, laundry soap, etc. – but what if I told you that there was a way that you could get all…
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7 Things You Likely Have on Hand to Get Rid of Those Puffy Eyes
Regardless of whether you’ve got a hot date, a big meeting, it’s the first day of school, or you’ve just woken up and had to go to the grocery store to get a carton of eggs – No one likes having to go about their day with puffy eyes. There’s almost nothing worse than feeling…
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Dangers of Hot Yoga: How to Safely Practice in the Heat
I mentioned in an earlier article that I’m a yoga enthusiast, and it got me thinking – When I first began looking for my ‘right’ yoga practice, I remember trying Bikram yoga. Boy, am I ever glad I came to my senses with that one. That’s not to say that it’s a “bad” style of…
