The Best Supplements For Us Women

vitamins

    I don’t know if it’s just me, or do you also think more about your health as you get older? I’ve always been one to take a multi-vitamin and not much beyond that but I figured as we get older our needs might change so I did a little research trying to find good quality vitamins and supplements specifically for us [...]

Your Monthly Breast Exam Reminder

    Hi Ladies, I haven’t posted a monthly breast reminder in a while and it is definitely over due.  Many of us are so involved in our everyday lives  and caught up in doing things for everyone else that we tend to forget or neglect to do important things for ourselves.  One of those being  [...]

No Time for Crunches: Enter Ab Belts

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     If you’re like most of us, you save the abdominal portion of your work out until the very end.  Getting the power walk or run out of the way is not problem. Laying on the floor to complete the necessary 15 minutes you need for a tight tummy, though, is grueling. Enter the [...]

Today Is National Relaxation Day!

    So much has been going on today, I almost forgot about it being National Relaxation Day.  That just tells me that I need to slow it down a bit.  Everyone needs a break sometimes, including me.  In honor of National Relaxation Day, this is how I will be spending the rest of my [...]

Monday Motivation: Laughter

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    It’s seems that their has been a lot of grief , pain and just hard times going on in the lives of folks around the blogosphere and some I know in the real world.  With that in mind, I wanted today’s post to be something uplifting, something  lighthearted and maybe something that makes you LOL.  Laughter is good medicine [...]

Do Men Experience Menopause?

male menopause

   Family and friends of middle-aged women are often well-aware of the changes that they go through during menopause. During this time, a woman stops producing hormones in her ovaries, which can lead to substantial physiological and emotional changes. These sex hormones; estrogen for the most part in women, and testosterone in men, drive many [...]

Exercise is Medicine

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  Can’t I Just Take a Pill? Let’s face it: most of us wake-up absurdly early and hit-the-hay way too late.  The time in between, called life, is so busy and so focused on everyone else that the last thing on our list is squeezing in a workout.  Instead, we rely on a cocktail of [...]

Sun Safety 101

sun safety

    Sun Safety 101 June 21st marked the first day of summer, and with this most auspicious day comes beach vacations, outdoor adventures, pool parties and sun damage???  Okay, so that last one probably didn’t cross your mind when I mentioned “summer,” sorry to be the Debbie Downer.  But as with most things in [...]

How to Get All of Your Nutrition From Your Food Instead of Supplements

healthy eating

  For the human body to work properly, the essential vitamins A, C, D, E, K, and the B must be consumed. Typically, people will take a vitamin that they are low on through the form of supplements. However, there are many natural foods that can help increase your intake of these vitamins without the [...]