
5 Signs You Need a Detox Now
With the New Year ahead, you are more likely than not thinking of ways you can improve your health. While you may be thinking of improving your diet, exercising more, or drinking more water -- it's important to know that it's vital to remove from the body the harmful...

5 Reasons You Need a Detox
I always feel sluggish and sleepy. What's going on? It's not that you just ate an entire chocolate cake or have not had water in three months. No matter what you "try," it seems we cannot get out of that strange, undesirable state. This is how I felt for a few...

3 Steps to Stay Healthy While Traveling
Traveling can be such an exciting time. You get to visit family or friends that you have not seen in ages, or visit a place you have never been with your family. On the other hand, it's too common to become ill while you travel. You are eating food and drinking...

7 Tips to Stress Less during the Holidays
The holidays are coming, and that usually means extra time with family, travel, time off, shopping for presents, extra cooking and much more that is not part of your everyday life. For these reasons, it's easy to stress during a time that can be very festive...
How to Stay away from the Flu
Coughing, sneezing, and illness--they are all around you now. Some think it's inevitable in the winter months. Others think there is no way they will get it. No one wants to get it. No one has time for it! I used to be ill for weeks at a time. The fever, aches,...

In Search of the Perfect Gift
You have meticulously made out your gift list for this holiday season. Next, you are stuck thinking about a variation of last year's gift that you can purchase for them. Wait! Did they even like last year's gift? A box of Godiva seems so impersonal. Does he even...

Is Your Skin Prepared for Winter?
Is your skin prepared for the cold, wind, and snow of winter? Summer's sun may have been hard on your skin if you were outdoors often. Winter has its unique yet very tough challenges for skin. As the seasons change, the trees' leaves are almost gone, and snow is...

Older and Feeling Younger!
I was thoroughly embarrassed! Six years ago in June, my husband-to-be, his mom, and I went for a hike in the beautiful mountains of California! I was so excited because the Midwest where I grew up had no mountains, and this trip to the mountains reminded me of my...

Do you really know what you are putting on your skin?
My lotion has WHAT in it? Before a kind lady gently informed me that I may as well be...

5 ways to avoid cancer
Many are looking for a cure for cancer. However, let's take a look at how you can be proactive in avoiding cancer altogether. Please note that I am very much aware that you will think of one or two loved ones in your life that have cancer now. My intention is not to...