Incorporating juicing into your lifestyle can add many healthy benefits. It does take a little time to juice, but the health benefits you get from juicing far outweigh the little bit of time it takes. These tips will help you to be able to juice with ease and simplicity.
If you need a quick breakfast, give juicing a try. Fresh juices provide vitamins, minerals, and enzymes lacking from most quickly prepared meals. Using a powerful juicer, you can make fresh juice as quickly as a piece of toast. The high-end models even let you toss in whole pieces of fruit. There is no excuse for skipping breakfast anymore.
If you want to have a juice that tastes like a commercial smoothie, add some vanilla! Skip the extract and go for the real thing - scrape a vanilla pod and enjoy the smooth, creamy flavor it imparts on the final product. If you really want to fulfill the smoothie experience, add a little non-fat, unsweetened yogurt to your drink.
If you can't find organic produce to use in your juices, make sure that you peel your fruits and vegetables before juicing them. Most of the pesticides on conventionally grown produce is on the skin, and washing isn't enough to remove all of the residue. Peeling will eliminate the bulk of these contaminants from your food.
Juicing will lead you to more ingredients than just produce! Try spices like cayenne or cinnamon, or nutrition-packed additions like spirulina. You can even put a little honey and yogurt in once in a while for a sweet, smooth treat. Make sure to use only non-fat, unsweetened dairy to keep the resulting produce healthy.
Juicing is a great way to get many of the vitamins, minerals and nutrients that your body needs. By following our tips you can easily juice and get all the benefits that come along with it. You'll be surprised by how easy it is and by how good juicing will make you feel.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Tips That Can Help You Manage Your Allergies
Do your allergy symptoms dictate what you can and can not do during certain seasons of the year? Well, the good news is they do not have to. There are many different options that you have when it comes to allergies and their effects on your life. Read the following article to find out what you can do to avoid allergiy's symptoms.
Since exercise increases the amount of air your lungs take in, if you have pesky allergies, keep your workouts indoors. All of the pollen and other particulates that trigger your allergic reactions will get into your system much quicker and in a greater amount when doing any strenuous activity outdoors.
Make sure that you are regularly washing all of your clothes and towels. You want to have a healthy environment that has the least amount of bacteria in it. So wash all of your clothes, towels and sheets regularly to keep your home clean and free from bacteria and other harmful agents.
Look for a solution. As a pet owner with animal allergies, you may find yourself miserable with symptoms but too devoted to banish your dog to the backyard. While it is impossible to entirely prevent a dog from shedding and producing dander, you do have options. Many have found that regularly taking pets to the groomer makes living with man's best friend far more tolerable.
If you have allergies, do not leave the windows open, no matter where you are this. Whether at home, or in the car, keep the windows shut, and put the air conditioner on. Leaving the windows open allows allergy triggers to come in. Which of course, will bother your allergies.
As you can see, you no longer have to live a life plagued by allergy symptoms. There are many options at your disposal, when allergies are bringing you down. Try some, or all of the suggestions presented in this article and you can live a life free of allergies and their annoying symptoms.
Since exercise increases the amount of air your lungs take in, if you have pesky allergies, keep your workouts indoors. All of the pollen and other particulates that trigger your allergic reactions will get into your system much quicker and in a greater amount when doing any strenuous activity outdoors.
Make sure that you are regularly washing all of your clothes and towels. You want to have a healthy environment that has the least amount of bacteria in it. So wash all of your clothes, towels and sheets regularly to keep your home clean and free from bacteria and other harmful agents.
Look for a solution. As a pet owner with animal allergies, you may find yourself miserable with symptoms but too devoted to banish your dog to the backyard. While it is impossible to entirely prevent a dog from shedding and producing dander, you do have options. Many have found that regularly taking pets to the groomer makes living with man's best friend far more tolerable.
If you have allergies, do not leave the windows open, no matter where you are this. Whether at home, or in the car, keep the windows shut, and put the air conditioner on. Leaving the windows open allows allergy triggers to come in. Which of course, will bother your allergies.
As you can see, you no longer have to live a life plagued by allergy symptoms. There are many options at your disposal, when allergies are bringing you down. Try some, or all of the suggestions presented in this article and you can live a life free of allergies and their annoying symptoms.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Garden The Organic Way With These Great Tips!
Changing your lifestyle around and ensuring that your family always has healthy meals, means that you must make better food choices. Turning to organic produce is a great way in which you can make those healthy changes. For some great organic gardening tips that you can easily use, check out the information below.
Use rainwater for your organic garden. Water can be collected in barrels when rain fall is at high levels, and then used on your garden during drought periods. This will help to conserve water and provide your plants with all the hydration they need. Most rain barrels have a spicket so you can attach your soaker hose directly to the barrel.
When growing an organic garden, be careful when treating pests. You want to use the least-harmful pollutant-free products. First, try several methods such as physical removal, different types of barriers, or even traps. If those fail, try biological controls. Then if that fails, try botanical or mineral-based pesticides.
Ladybugs are a terrific way to help control the pests in your organic garden. Many garden supply stores carry ladybugs for this purpose. The natural prey of ladybugs is the insects that plague your garden. Encourage ladybugs to live in your garden by purchasing a ladybug home.
Plant slightly more than you will need. Pests and poor weather can diminish yields from your garden, especially if you are new to organic gardening. To account for this possibility, plant a little more than what you will need. However, don't go overboard, if it is successful, you could have more vegetables than you could possibly use.
One of the best things about the tips you've read in the above article is that they're all fairly simple to implement. You won't have to attend Cornell in order to become a great organic gardener. As long as you can implement what you've learned here, your garden will be fantastic.
Use rainwater for your organic garden. Water can be collected in barrels when rain fall is at high levels, and then used on your garden during drought periods. This will help to conserve water and provide your plants with all the hydration they need. Most rain barrels have a spicket so you can attach your soaker hose directly to the barrel.
When growing an organic garden, be careful when treating pests. You want to use the least-harmful pollutant-free products. First, try several methods such as physical removal, different types of barriers, or even traps. If those fail, try biological controls. Then if that fails, try botanical or mineral-based pesticides.
Ladybugs are a terrific way to help control the pests in your organic garden. Many garden supply stores carry ladybugs for this purpose. The natural prey of ladybugs is the insects that plague your garden. Encourage ladybugs to live in your garden by purchasing a ladybug home.
Plant slightly more than you will need. Pests and poor weather can diminish yields from your garden, especially if you are new to organic gardening. To account for this possibility, plant a little more than what you will need. However, don't go overboard, if it is successful, you could have more vegetables than you could possibly use.
One of the best things about the tips you've read in the above article is that they're all fairly simple to implement. You won't have to attend Cornell in order to become a great organic gardener. As long as you can implement what you've learned here, your garden will be fantastic.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Diagnosing Food Intolerance
We have all heard about the severity of food allergies; that those afflicted can suffer shock or even death after ingesting the smallest amount of the food type they are allergic to. Tree nuts, shellfish, gluten, dairy, and other meats and fishes may be the culprit causing the allergy. Most of the time, these people do not realize they have the allergy until ingesting it for the first time, and suffering an attack and an emergency room visit. After this, the individual is well aware of their newly found allergy and is given strict instructions to stay away from the allergy-causing food altogether.
But there is a less severe form of this "allergy" to foods called food intolerance that makes eating uncomfortable or painful. Like a food allergy, most suffering from this intolerance don't even realize they have it. Because the symptoms are so much less severe, the person with the intolerance often don't make the connection between the symptoms and the food ingested. Some common symptoms include:
- Minor abdominal cramps, spasms
- Headache
- Occasional fatigue
- Skin rash, eczema
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- Digestive system problems
- Running nose/ watering eyes
- Flatulence
- Diarrhea
- Exhaustion
- Chills
- Occasional constipation
A New Way To Support A Greener Future
Coming up with new and innovative ways to support the "green" movement that has recently taken over popular culture. In the past, this meant to take the small steps: ride a bike more often, carpool, utilize public transportation, replace wasteful bulbs with CFLs, and other small steps to help erase our own individual carbon footprints. The first steps have been quite successful, and now we can concentrate on helping with the bigger steps that need to be taken. These steps include supporting programs that save endangered animal and fauna species, protect natural habitats and resources, commit to less deforestation, and other problems that are much bigger than reducing the carbon footprint of individuals.
Taking these bigger steps has become much easier with companies like United Way and Nature's Vision Fundraising. Nature's Vision Fundraising is especially perfect for individuals who want to support Nature programs as an individual donator. Opposed to employee donations, these personal donations are much more personalized, you can take your pick of which program you would like to support, the donation is placed accordingly and you will receive a free gift that reflects your donation. T-shirts, keychains, and other promotional items -- all reflecting naturalism and sustainable values.
In addition to these personalized donations, Nature's Vision Fundraising provides fundraising ideas for schools and communities; perfect for gathering a community together to work towards a good cause, and brighter future.
Visit naturesvisionfundraising.com to learn more about the fundraising programs offered, and other great, green fundraising ideas.
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