Living a Detox Lifestyle - Health, Wellness and Beauty

Hormonal Imbalances can keep you from your weight loss goals. A hormonal imbalance can make weight loss efforts futile. For example, you workout every day, at the end of your session the elliptical machine says you burned 250 calories. You cannot just look at the amount of calories you eat or burn because that doesn't take into account where did those calories come from? Did you burn fat, carbohydrates or protein? If you weren't burning fat, you could have easily burned those calories from the breakdown of lean muscle or from carbohydrates; either way it may have not been from stored fat. It’s about...

When I was a little girl, I watched my grandmother fill very large mason jars with green tomatoes.  She would add a bunch of herbs, water, and salt, seal the jars and carry them upstairs to the attic where they stayed for what seemed forever…. That was a very long time ago...and in today’s modern world, unfortunately, the art of Lacto- Fermentation has all but disappeared. What will eating wild fermented veggies do you for you:  enhance digestibility, increase vitamin levels, and build a stronger immune system. Lacto fermented veggies have antibiotic and anticarcinogenic substances. Lactic acid not only keeps vegetables...

VITAMIN D - CHECK YOUR VITAMIN D LEVELS!  Vitamin D is one of the most important vitamins, maybe the most important vitamin for our overall health. However, it is one of the vitamins we do not ever get enough of. You must take a blood test to insure your levels are good enough to keep you healthy. Vitamin D can be stored in the body, but if you aren't getting enough there will be nothing for your body to store.   Vitamin D will also reduce the risk of cancer, especially colon cancer, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. It will reduce...