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Mocktails To Speed Your Metabolism And Fast Track Weight Loss

Mocktails To Speed Your Metabolism And Fast Track Weight Loss

  Have you ever hit a plateau and your weight loss just stops before you reached your goal?  It’s your metabolism slowing down and that’s when you shouldn’t give up! Your body is testing your strength and unless you are content with your progress you […]

Hydrate and Beat Bloat With These All Natural Water Infusions

Hydrate and Beat Bloat With These All Natural Water Infusions

Have you ever got out of bed feeling much heavier than you did when you got in? Ah-ha! A case of the “bloats”.  Water retention! We all carry water around in our bodies and while that’s perfectly normal, too much water retention can cause body […]

Lactogenic Foods That Increase Breast Milk Production

Lactogenic Foods That Increase Breast Milk Production

A few days ago, a friend called to ask about lactation foods (foods that increase production of breast milk). Even as I rattled off some foods that came to mind, I realized I get asked this question a lot.  Just one of the perks of […]

Strengthen Hips and Knees with Pineapple Ginger Turmeric Joint Juice

Strengthen Hips and Knees with Pineapple Ginger Turmeric Joint Juice

Fresh pineapple juiced with ginger and fresh turmeric is a sweet drink with a kick courtesy of the ginger! I drink this regularly to ease my joints and it has worked wonders. A few years back I started to get those nagging aches in my […]

Homemade Kombucha To Heal Your Gut

Homemade Kombucha To Heal Your Gut

My first taste of Kombucha was at Trader Joe’s! I paid $4.50 for 16 ounces and was quite pleased with the pleasant tasting, fizzy slightly tart ginger drink that gave me a quick pick me up. I went back to buy it on days when I […]

Homemade Sorrel : The Feel Good Anti Stress Drink

Homemade Sorrel : The Feel Good Anti Stress Drink

  A little while back I got hooked on sorrel, a red Jamaican drink made from sorrel leaves, ginger and spice! There was this little health cafe near my old place of work in DC and I walked up there often to get a glass […]

Medicine Cabinet Makeover! Natural Ingredients to Ease Indigestion!

Medicine Cabinet Makeover! Natural Ingredients to Ease Indigestion!

Medicine Cabinet Makeover! Natural Ingredients to Ease Indigestion! That uncomfortable full feeling you get in your gut when you eat a heavy meal is generally a symptom of indigestion. Some of the symptoms include frequent belching, nausea, heartburn, stomach pain and general discomfort in the […]

Beat Holiday Bloat with Cran Water

Beat Holiday Bloat with Cran Water

  Cran water! My magic potion to breezing through the holidays without packing on too many extra pounds!  From Thanksgiving, through Christmas to New Year it’s party city!  Now who wants to deprive themselves of all that good stuff?  Not me!! A habit I always […]

Ginger Mint Turmeric Tea to Heal a Cold

Ginger Mint Turmeric Tea to Heal a Cold

All natural turmeric tea with fresh ginger, lemon and mint is a soothing concoction that I cook up when I feel stuffy and congested.  Fall is here and so are the sniffles and dry scratchy throats. Taking meds for fall allergies is not my favorite […]

Natural Foods That Ease & Heal A Sore Throat

Natural Foods That Ease & Heal A Sore Throat

    It’s that time of the year again when the dry itchy feeling in the throat happens. I started mine 2 days back  and I hate taking meds unless I have to. My first choice is always giving natural foods a try.  I pulled […]