Up Do Your Grilling Options
Up Do Your Options on the Grill Grilling vegetables and fruit is a healthy and delicious way to enjoy the natural sweetness and smoky flavors. Here’s a simple recipe to get started: Ingredients: Assorted vegetables (such as zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms) Assorted fruits (such as...
Make Your Own Food In Your Own Home
Make your own food in your own home, and you will ...
Allergy Lessons
Runny nose, itchy eyes, brain-rattling sneezes … must be spring! In many parts of the U.S., spring allergy season begins in February and can last until early summer. what can make spring allergies so brutal — and how you can manage all that sneezing, wheezing, itching and sniffling. Why...
Spring Asparagus Are Here: 3 Best Ways to Prepare Them
The first shoots of spring are out, popping up through the surface to “green up” our garden! And one of the first ones are the lovely green asparagus spears.The trouble with asparagus is not actually asparagus. The problem is that most people just don’t know how to prepare them....
John Lennon on Being Present.
Mindfulness advice tells you to “be present”, or “be here now”. This sounds great, but how exactly does one DO that? A great way to think about it actually comes from John Lennon: “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans“. Life is that person talking to...
Couscous with Carrots and Celery
You’ll Need 3/4 cup uncooked couscous 2 finely chopped carrots ¼ cup finely chopped onion 2 finely chopped celery stalks 1 tablespoon butter or olive oil ¼ teaspoon salt Fresh ground pepper to taste Finely chopped parsley to garnish (optional) Directions Prepare couscous: boil 1 cup water, add couscous...
Mediterranean Diets Associated with Fewer Alzheimer’s Plaques and Tangles
Here’s a good rule of thumb: Do what healthy people do, and you’ll get their results. The Mediterranean dietary lifestyle famously produces some of the healthiest people on the planet, and scientists at the American Academy of Neurology show that it’s also associated with fewer plaques thought to cause...
Do Coffee Calories Count?
The comparison between coffee and the caloric explosion of coffee drinks....
5 Wellbeing Benefits of Laughter
If “laughter is the best medicine”, then what are those symptoms that laughter would be improving? The number of positive benefits in the body may surprise you! 1. The University of Oxford showed that laughing can actually increase pain tolerance. This may be because a good solid belly laugh...
Beginner Yoga Challenge
Take this yoga challenge by practicing these basic poses over the next several weeks. ...
Better at Meditation, and what does this have to do with Nsync?
How to get better at Meditation? And what does this have to do with Nsync? ...
For Mindful Monday. Trees Planted 30 Years Ago May Lower the Risk of Cardiovascular Deaths.
We’re told to practice mindfulness as a long term investment in our health. But what if we could contribute to the (very) long term health of our friends, family, and community? After a mass tree-planting (nearly 50,000 trees) in Portland Oregon, research scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global...