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Holistic Summer Health Upgrade
Written by Karen Verna Carlson, N.D., Ph.D.
Longer days, abundant local produce, and outdoor activities make summer time a great opportunity to joyously upgrade your health. It can be easy. It can be fun. It can be lasting.
Tiny improvements in health habits accumulate into huge benefits over the years, like a penny doubled every day. Involving family and/or a few friends to formulate their individual choices for an upgrade creates a contagious momentum. Do more of the healthy things you love rather than forcing yourself to struggle towards some idealistic “should.” (Don’t should on yourself!)
Great Sangria!
Written by Living.Well Webmaster
SANGRIA
1 part brandy
3 parts wine
1 cup sugar
A pinch of cinnamon
Slices of: oranges, strawberries, peaches and limes
1 small jar maraschino cherries with their juice
Best if chilled over night.
Makes a 2 quart pitcher
How did it get like this?
Written by Karen Jessee
We all have that spot. It’s a drawer, desk top, closet, room, garage, basement; a space so cluttered, so unorganized, so filled with stuff and nonsense that it is no longer functional. And one day, for some reason, we look at it all with new eyes, dismay, and wail out loud, “
How did it get like this?”
We can successfully prepare for milestones because we see them coming and they have deadlines: a wedding, a move, a baby, college, a job, even the seasons. But the every day habits of putting papers into baskets, flinging mail onto the kitchen counter, shoving the holiday decorations into the attic, storing new purchases in the corner of the closet, buying in bulk and tossing it into the basement, hanging the clothes on the exercise machine, piling the magazines and newspapers into corners are something else. These temporary and fast solutions for the chores we promise ourselves we “will get to some time later” are daily motions that are the equivalent of a bird building a nest. The movements are small, quick and repetitive. When we don’t get back to that space, we eventually encounter massive clutter and constipated spaces that no longer have a function or purpose. At least the bird gets a home; we’ve destroyed ours.Where's Valentino?
Written by The Living.Well Team
Actually, we have a complete set of the “Where’s Waldo” Books and have successfully found him in all of them, ...Well almost all of them, except for one. We have since made up our minds that the one page that we cannot find him on must be a mistake, a misprint maybe, and he is not on there at all. Looking and re-looking over the years has never allowed us to rest, and we occasionally pull the book out for what we profess to be the very last search…of course until the next time we feel compelled to look.
Natural Ways to Treat Acid Indigestion
Written by Mari Fischer,RN,BSN
Most all of us, at one time or another has experienced heartburn. Heartburn is a common symptom of acid indigestion. Have you ever wondered what was going on inside your body to cause this annoying sensation? Heartburn occurs when the acidic contents of the stomach are refluxed into the lower esophagus. Since the cells lining the esophagus are not able to withstand exposure to acidic conditions, irritation and inflammation result; hence the burning sensation. Individuals that are at greater risk for experiencing acid indigestion are those with hiatal hernia, weakened valve between esophagus and stomach (lower esophageal sphincter) and those with an impaired ability to clear liquids or food from the esophagus into the stomach.
As previously mentioned, heartburn is the most common symptom. Heartburn is usually described as a burning, tight sensation that may come and go. Heartburn is typically located beneath the center of the ribcage and may spread upward through the throat or jaw and may occur following ingestion of food or drugs. It may be helpful for you to know that acid indigestion can be treated without the use of medications. Natural Treatments include lifestyle modifications, dietary changes and the use of natural herbs.
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