ailments, celiac disease, gluten free, gluten intolerance, health

Touching the Surface of Gluten Sensitivity

Gluten is a protein composite found in grains, such as wheat, barley, and rye. This protein can cause reactions in people who have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Gluten intolerance can manifest itself as a wide range of symptoms. Here are some of the most common ones, although the list is by no means ...

Sheridan Genrich

Gluten-free pulses and grains.

Top 10 Foods for Beautiful, Vibrant Skin

Many women (me included) spend numerous hours and dollars striving for clear, healthy, and vibrant skin. While some lotions and potions go a long way to help, the types of food you eat play a big part in your skin tone and quality in the short and long term. Your skin is a reflection of ...

Sheridan Genrich

A lady with glowing skin.

Natural Beauty Hacks With Simple Ingredients From Your Kitchen

Some of the most gentle and most effective skincare ingredients are probably waiting in your kitchen right now. Many of the expensive, natural beauty care products use all-natural ingredients, including natural oils — so why not try spoiling yourself and use these natural beauty hacks with raw ingredients? The ingredients you select will depend on your skin ...

Sheridan Genrich

Oil being dropped onto skin — many natural oils can be used straight from the kitchen (straight from the source).

The Miracle of Forgiveness and Its Magical Healing Power

Forgiveness has a powerful life all of its own. While in the short term you might feel a fleeting sense of pleasure in getting revenge on someone who has wronged you. You may feel that you have been hurt and wronged so badly that you never want to forgive. Think about it rationally, do you ...

Emma Lu

Forgiveness by reaching out to break the ice.

Cherish Your Health by Avoiding Anger

It’s often stated that negative emotions can affect your overall health and immune system. The prolonged presence of anger, this negative emotion, if left unchecked, can threaten your health and life inadvertently. Rarely do we stop and reflect on the sinister and lethal effects of this negative emotion, anger, which makes avoiding anger a key ...

Emma Lu

An elderly man with a big smile on his face.

The Most Powerful Health Resource You Have Is Your Mind

Your mind is very powerful. If pharmaceutical companies could bottle and sell the placebo effect, they would be many times wealthier than they already are. A placebo, commonly known as a sugar pill, is what a new drug coming to market must be measured against to determine which works better, the drug or the mind. ...

Tatiana Denning

Soil with chalk outline as persons head and fresh green plant grows from the mind.

Ikigai: The Japanese Way of Making the Most Out of Life

Japanese people are admired for their genius, industriousness, grace, beauty, and culture. Although Japanese society is very fast-paced, over the millennia, they have developed their own unique ways of calming down the pace of life. Ikigai is one such way of making the most of life. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, taking ...

Emma Lu

Ikigai: The Japanese way of making the most out of life.

9 Incredible Foods to Help Prevent Chronic Disease

Many diseases are caused by improper diet, especially at dinnertime, and eating the wrong foods may bring on chronic diseases. Therefore, it’s necessary to pay special attention to what you eat for dinner in order to prevent chronic diseases. Prevent chronic diseases by avoiding these 3 foods for dinner 1. Avoid foods high in fat ...

Raven Montmorency

An ambulance on a snowy road.

5 Useful Diet Recipes to Help Relieve Coughs

Coughing is a symptom that even doctors feel is worrying and troublesome. We suggest 5 useful diet recipes recommended by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to help relieve coughs. There are so many possible reasons and sources of coughs. As the saying goes: “Plumbers are afraid of dealing with leaks, and doctors are afraid of treating ...

Armin Auctor

A bowl of congee.

Tips to Start Weight Loss Practice

With the stress of these unprecedented times, you may find yourself more tempted than usual to overindulge, adding to the size of your increasing waistline. In fact, according to an article in Eating Well, the average weight gain due to the quarantine has been 12.5 lbs. Many of us are contending with a weight surplus ...

Tatiana Denning

A blue plate with weight loss.