Your hands have lots to offer, beyond just being useful tools for everyday tasks. (Keep an eye out for these diseases your hands might predict.) In fact, they can even be good for your health in a rather strange way. Research shows that reflexology, or applying pressure to certain areas of the hand, activates huge benefits for both your body and mind.
Just like fashion and music trends, health fads wax and wane, and the latest word from the American Heart Association is that coconut oil isn’t as health-conscious as it has been made out to be.
In the recent Presidential Advisory from the AHA, which has caused a firestorm in the health community, a case is built around the adverse effects of saturated fat, how coconut oil is primarily composed of saturated fat, and thus, it’s concluded that we should cut coconut oil from our diets.
So, what’s a coconut oil lover to do?
Well, before you go raiding your pantry, let’s take a look at more of the underlying facts because there’s a lot more than meets the eye in this proclaimed health debacle.
It was 2 o’clock on a Tuesday, and I felt surprisingly awake. Attentive. Even productive.
Meditation can be broken into a number of different styles: mindfulness, Zen, self-induced transcendence, Vipassana, Yoga Nidra, and Kundalini, just to name a few. Chopra meditation is also a wonderful resource.
Just like eating a hamburger does different things to your body than drinking a chia seed smoothie, different styles of meditation light up different parts of the brain and require different degrees of effort and time. They can also have varying degrees of effectiveness on your performance off the proverbial cushion. So, which style is best for you? Let’s explore two popular styles:
Back in February of this year, precocious two-year-old Eden Carlson managed to sneak past a series of gates and doors and made it into her own backyard, all while her mother was showering, completely unawares.
Never wait to post your leaning Tower of Pisa Instagrams again.
Pesticides are everywhere. They are sprayed in school playgrounds and public parks, and can even be found on the produce we buy from the grocery store.
We do everything we can do avoid contact with these pesticides, from washing our produce before we eat them, to buying organic or homegrown fruits and veggies. Yet somehow it always manages to find a way into our home.
One of the more recent examples of this includes the discovery of incredibly high levels of pesticides in some of the world’s most popular tea brands including Lipton, Tetley, and Twinings.
Adding lemon to water not only quenches thirst better than any other beverage, but it also nourishes our body with vitamins, minerals and trace elements which we absolutely need. Lemon with water can be considered the best natural energy booster.
