How to Manage Holiday Stress
The holidays are a wonderful time of year, but they also come with a lot of pressure. Hosting and attending holiday parties and get-togethers, buying gifts for loved ones, baking and writing cards leaves your more over-extended than normal. Don’t let your to-do list or other obligations suck the magic out of this time of year. Below are a [...]
How to Stay Healthy During the Holidays
How to stay well when there is unhealthy food, too much booze and constant stress Staying healthy during the holidays can be tricky. Busier-than-normal schedules and long to-do lists fill up the month of December, leaving little time for sleep or exercise. Holiday parties and running errands lead to scarfing down quick meals out or over-indulging on cookies and [...]
Flax Seed Benefits: Why You Need Them Every Day
Integrating a small daily serving of flax seeds (2 Tbsp.) into your diet can do amazing things for your health. In this post, we discuss flax seed benefits. After you read about the role that flax seeds play in your health, you’ll see why we choose not to live without them! Flax seeds balance estrogenlevels in the body. Flax [...]
Breast Cancer Risk Factors You Might Have Missed
While Breast Cancer Awareness month is celebrated during the month of October, it is never a bad time to think about risk factors for breast cancer and how we might be able to avoid them. After all, the month of November is all about gratitude. While there are no guarantees in life, and breast cancer especially does not discriminate, [...]
How to Eat Flax Seeds Each Day
Freshly ground flax seeds in your diet each day can significantly benefit your health. The benefits of flax seeds are many. Flax seeds are a great source of fiber, which balances blood glucose. This is important because preventing sugar highs and lows will decrease mood swings, food cravings, weight gain, irritability and fatigue. Additionally, ground flax seeds are mucilaginous and demulcent, which means [...]
Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Breast Cancer
According to breastcancer.org, breast cancer is second only to skin cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women. For patients with breast cancer, Naturopathic and Chinese medicine offer several alternative and complementary therapies that help to support the body during conventional treatment and treat the underlying causes of breast cancer after conventional care is completed. In this [...]