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Multivitamins and You – When and Why to Take Them
Do you know if you’re getting enough vitamins in your diet? If you’re not sure, you shouldn’t just go buy a multivitamin and start taking it. There are chances of getting “too much of a good thing,” which can turn into a bad thing. Before you start a regimen of multivitamins, take some time to […]
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Ginger and Other Spices That Are Good for Your Health
You shouldn’t be surprised that spices are actually good for more than just making your food more flavorful. Like fruits and vegetables, they contain many nutrients that help you live a healthy life. The bonus is that they can also be used in many different ways, from teas to supplements. Spices That Can Increase Your […]
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Garcinia and Other Natural Weight Loss Supplements
It’s not always easy to get the pounds off when you’re trying to lose weight – even when you’re going about it all the right ways. While you don’t want to lose too much too soon, you do want to keep losing at a steady pace, and you want to avoid those weight loss plateaus. […]
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Fat-Soluble Vitamins – What They Are and Why You Need Them
There are fat-soluble vitamins, and there are water-soluble vitamins. The big difference between these two types of vitamins can be found in how your body uses them – in other words, how your body absorbs them. Their names come from the way they are absorbed, actually (makes it easy to remember that way). There are […]
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A Guide to Essential Minerals and Your Body
The human body was not created in a way to allow it to sustain itself – it needs assistance, which comes mostly from the foods you eat. While it does produce many of its own minerals, there are plenty that it needs in order to run properly, but they are things that it doesn’t make […]
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Calcium – What It Does for You and How to Get It
Calcium is a building block of the human body. It’s one of the components of human health that the body doesn’t make on its own. That’s one of the reasons it is an important part of the human diet, and why you need to make sure you’re getting your recommended daily intake of it. What […]
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Adaptogens – What Are They?
Adaptogens may be an unfamiliar name to you, but the name categorizes some items you might have in your medicine or kitchen cabinets. If you’ve ever used natural or herbal remedies, you’ve likely had some experience with adaptogens already. There are actually entire lines of herbal therapies products and even flower botanicals that are used […]
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8 Benefits of Turmeric
One of India’s most common spices, turmeric, is actually brimming with health benefits that were realized more than 4,000 years ago in Ayurvedic medicine. Along with the spice itself, some of its compounds, namely curcumin, are the aspect of turmeric that gives it such powerful healing properties. From relieving joint pain and arthritis, to aiding […]