8 week weight loss challenge

8- Week Health and Wellness Challenge

How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions to get healthy and fit? Everyone starts out with such high expectations of succeeding in their New Year’s resolutions but only a few achieve them.  If you have been struggling to achieve (or start) your New Year’s resolutions to get healthy in the new year, a […]

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10 Hot Resolutions for the New Year

The Cambridge Dictionaries Online has one the finest description of a New Year Resolution. A New Year’s Resolution is defined as “a promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year.” The New Year Resolution could also be to develop one […]

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4 Quick Tips for Healthy Contact Lens Wear

4 Quick Tips for Healthy Contact Lens Wear

Good eye health and clear vision depend on the actions we take daily. Contact lenses are a popular form of vision correction and can offer a comfortable, appropriate way to work and play. In fact, over 40 million Americans (over 10 percent of the population) and 125 million people worldwide wear contact lenses.  While contact […]

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5 Tips for Day-Hiking Success

This post is sponsored by Emerald® Nuts How do you stay in shape? What motivates you? If you’re like me, you probably have a gym membership and try to eat a healthy diet. Having an exercise ‘variety-plan’ can help keep workouts fun and fresh and motivation high. A ‘variety-plan’ consists of several, diverse activities that […]

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26 reasons to love hiking

26 Reasons People Fall In Love With Hiking

I was a kid when I went on my first hike with my mother. We were at a county park that had trails and playgrounds. She decided we needed to take a little walk in the woods. I was not pleased. I thought it would be a real struggle. What I really wanted to do […]

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Finding Balance: 8 Ways to Decrease Mom Burnout

Have you ever felt unheard and unrecognized? Do you feel like your stress is at an all-time high?  When we become mothers, it is not uncommon to feel like we have lost our identities. Some may even start to feel invisible to your true calling in life. Decreasing stress, exhaustion, and burnout in our lives […]

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Review: Vita Sciences Maxasorb B12

Yesterday in my post Health Benefits: B Vitamins, I discussed the important role that B vitamins play in our health.VitaminB12 is an important nutrient in a healthy lifestyle by preserving energy levels and intellectual capabilities.  BothvitaminB12 and folate can assist in protecting our DNA as well as the formation of red blood cells, and neurological function. […]

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Probiotic Review: Hyperbiotics PRO-15

You may have noticed a lot of talk in the media or online about the importance of probiotics in our modern diets. You may have even tried a brand or two. Probiotics are the “healthy bacteria” that are found in our gastrointestinal track (also known as GI tract or gut) that aid in the digestive […]

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