- Take your health to the next level. Subscribe to our mailing list for your FREE eBook.“5 Ways to End Chronic Pain for Good!”
Latest Articles:
- • Add These 10 Immune-Boosting Foods to Your Fall Diet •
- • Keep Your Skin Healthy and Glowing with these Fall Skincare Tips •
- • Beat End of Year Burnout with these Fall Self-Care Rituals •
Nutrition
Balance Your Body – Stave off COVID-19
If you feel like you’re battling frequent colds, a cough that won’t quit, or just seem to be tired all the time, it may benefit you to find time for a daily walk or simple exercise routine. Doing this a few times per week can have many health benefits and help build your immune system.
Viruses such as COVID-19 take hold in our bodies when our immune systems are at their weakest points. Below are a few ways to help increase your immune function so your body can function as it’s meant to and stay balanced! continue reading
Enjoy Labor Day
I hope you are enjoying a nice long weekend. You derserve it! Take this day as a reminder and recognition for all that you do. Have you ever wondered how this day began? Why do we have a Labor Day holiday?
The History channel explains that it is a way to pay tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers, and the fight for safe working conditions and labor laws. So, let’s relax, sip some iced tea, eat juicy watermelon, and a cool pasta salad. See you Tuesday back in action.
Source from: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/labor-day-1
Foods to Eat to Help Depression
Many have heard the question posed what came first, the chicken or the egg? But how does that concept apply to depression? It’s well-known that when we’re depressed, our motivation and interest in maintaining a healthy and balanced diet subsides in the same way our energy does. Harvard Medical Students positioned that same question in relation to depression; what came first, depression or a poor diet? continue reading
Foods for Boosting the Immune System
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacterial and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.
Take garlic and ginger tea serve with dark brown sugar or honey every morning. Or use garlic and ginger to fry rice and eat at meals. It can lower blood pressure, cure gout, ease spinal pain, clear plague in blood vessels, promote yang & warm up the body for those with yin constitution, lose weight around the waist and smooth skin.
Foods for Boosting the Immune System:
Eggs
Egg yolks are loaded with choline, which is proven to help combat breast cancer.
Green Tea
Green tea can slow down the growth of cancer cell. Drink green tea after each meal can kill germs growth in mouth and can increase elasticity of arteries.
Mushrooms
They are loaded with antioxidants, riboflavin, selenium and other nutrients that keep the immune system healthy, help stave off cancer and prevent cancer growth. Wood-ear mushroom has blood thinning effect like aspirin which can prevent blood clog without the side effect,
Korean Ginseng
They can prevent cancer, calm nerve and treat neural disorder, treat low blood pressure, anemia, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and skin disease.
Cooked tomato
They prevent uterus, prostate, bladder and pancreatic cancer. Tangerine tomatoes are a little-known species, distinctive for their orange color. They have a better form of lycopene which is particularly effective in fighting breast, prostate, ovarian, cervical and colon cancer. It also can treat and prevent cataracts, muscular degeneration, diabetes, and more.
Herbs
Many tonic herbs have superior properties that have long been known to enhance the immunity of the body. Mushroom, ginseng, ling-zhi, cordyceps, Chinese yam, dang-shen, astragalus and many of the common herbs are part of the Chinese diet to boost our immune system, muscular degeneration, diabetes, and more.
Garlic
It is the most inexpensive common food that can give your immune system a boost. Add a couple of spoons of minced garlic to your steamed rice or fired rice, or to your daily cooking can help your body to prevent cold, fight virus and kill bacteria.
Water
Drinking plenty of water and steering clear of sugary beverages, like soda and energy drinks, may also help fend off infection by flushing out your system.
Food Color and Nutrition
In Chinese medical theory, food is considered medicine. Food has qualities and functions biochemically and energetically that target specific organs. Not only that, but the action a particular food takes to benefit that organ in terms of taste, color and temperature is what is included in Five Element theory. Food has a relationship to both the natural elements as well as the organs in the body and balances the elements of fire, earth, metal, water and wood to healthy, generating cycles. continue reading