Healthy Living

When was the last time you took stock of how you’ve been treating your body? Sometimes you start living on autopilot, not paying attention to the food you’re eating, your environment, or even your thoughts. And before you know it, your body can start showing signs that it’s been accumulating unwanted toxins.

If there’s one thing nearly everyone worries about when they look in the mirror, it’s aging. The visible signs of growing older, like fine lines, wrinkles, and gray hairs, can worry anyone. Aging is inevitable – but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow older gracefully and while taking care of your mind and body. 

Although the concept of pressure cooking can be intimidating if you’ve never done it before, it will quickly become routine once you’ve done it once or twice. The Instant Pot is a fantastic time-saving device. Plus, there are a few tips and tricks that you can use to make it even more useful.

One of the most important stages of parenting comes starting your baby on solid foods for the first time, and although we all want to feed our children the best and healthiest food possible, it can be hard to know where to start.

With the end of summer quickly approaching, it’s time to start preparing to go back to school. If this is your first year of high school or college, or you have a child who is making the transition to a new school for the first time, this may be a nerve-wracking experience. Luckily, there are tons of things that you can do to make sure that you’re mentally ready for both the challenges and excitement that you’re about to face.

As we are full force in swimsuit season, it’s hard not to notice how a lot of marketing and advertising focuses on new health foods and other tools to help make losing weight easy. Throughout history, doctors, trainers, and all sorts of other health care workers — professional and otherwise — have tried to come up with the one definitive diet that can help everyone shed pounds and sculpt their bodies into a lean and trim shape.

Dehydration is the cause of more maladies than just feeling a bit light headed in the sun, and hydration is the route to many more benefits than you had probably realized. After all, water makes up 75 percent of the human body and is found “inside cells, within blood vessels, and between cells.” Headaches, anxiety, constipation, and tiredness can all be the result of dehydration and solved by drinking more water.

The United States market is flooded with beauty products as it’s one of the biggest industries in the country (you’re probably familiar with companies like Estée Lauder, Johnson and Johnson, L’Oréal, and Procter & Gamble), but did you know there is a whole world of beauty companies with unique products to discover?

For many parents, August is just one long lead up to the beginning of school, which can be stressful if you have a new student in the family, or just a kid prone to worrying about new things. Starting school can be a fun experience — you just have to plan ahead, and know what will help your child succeed in a new grade, or even a new school.

If you’re a parent, summer can be a trying time — keeping up with little ones full-time in the hot sun and dealing with frayed tempers due to heat exhaustion and humidity can make anyone frazzled. If you’re a new parent, chances are you’ve heard a lot of different advice on how to deal with babies in the summer, and the best ways to protect their delicate skin from damaging sun exposure.