There’s a type of depression that affects 10+ million Americans. Women are normally diagnosed with it more often than men. If you already suffer from depression on a daily basis, you are 10 times more likely to have this ailment as well. It’s called Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD for short. And it can indeed…
by Hut Allred It’s that time of year to make your resolutions! Time to take an honest assessment of where you are in life, and decide what you’d like to achieve this coming year. It’s a sad fact that the majority of folks NEVER see those resolutions come to fruition. That’s why today, I’d like…
Men’s Health® published an online article recently entitled “The Power of Habit.” It brings out the fact that we all have bad habits, but shows how it’s possible to break them and still survive. One of the bad habits mentioned, for men especially, was not getting enough vitamins: Can we get the nutrients we need…
If you’re like 50+ million Americans, you already suffer from at least one out of more than 80 different sleep disorders on a regular basis! No wonder we’re so tired–we are not sleeping well! So how can we fix this nationwide problem? It’s different for all of us, but there are three main reasons that…
Fat loss, specifically as we get older, becomes more of a challenge. What are all the components that absolutely must be in place in order to drop body fat as efficiently as possible? Knowing how to lose body fat successfully can be pretty confusing. There’s a lot of information floating around, so what advice is…
You’re tossing and turning in bed. You’ve tried counting sheep, counting down from 100, staying still for 15 minutes, but you look at the clock and it glows back in your face that it’s 2:00 a.m. Here’s to another sleepless night. Think about this though, could the “innocent” snack you ate earlier be disrupting your…
Did you know…the gut is also called our “second brain”? This is because what goes on in the gut affects sleep, mood, and overall wellness, as part of our enteric nervous system. There are between 400-600 million neurons in the gut (100 million in the small intestine alone)! Compared with about 1 billion neurons in…
How are your energy levels throughout the day? Do you wake up with what you think is enough energy to tackle everything that day, and end up fizzling out right after lunch? Do you sleep all night, only to wake up with zero gumption, as if you hadn’t slept a wink? Are your energy levels…
The strawberry is not technically a berry. This means the sweet, red flesh is not from the ovaries of the plant; it’s just the part that holds the ovaries. Each seed on a strawberry is one of the ovaries…and each seed contains a seed. So if you plucked some seeds off of your strawberry and…
Think of the hours of training and amount of discipline it takes for Olympians like Shaun White to be at the top of their game. His last, gold-medal winning run on the half-pipe was incredible! Those of us who aren’t Olympians can create our own goals, and this can help with personal motivation to be…