Home With The Kids? No Time for Weightlifting? Try This Effective At-Home-Mini-Workout!

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Hey mom! Reconsider your staircase! Keep a set of dumbbells next to your stairs. Every time you walk up the stairs pick up those dumbbells. Stand tall, abs engaged and weights by your side. Perform 12-16 bicep curls, than walk up the stairs, 12-16 more bicep curls at the top. Repeat this simple weight bearing [...]

Keep Cool AND Save Energy

Are you constantly cranking up the air conditioning to keep cool this summer? Here is a great tip to save energy, moisturize your body and stay cool! Keep your favorite all over body lotion in the refrigerator for a planet-friendly cooling blast when you feel yourself starting to sizzle. Need a deeper chill? Turn on [...]

Bathtub Body Builder!!!!

Sit down in your bathtub, fully clothed or not. Now, get yourself up and out of the tub. Be sure to stand up tall. Repeat this exercise 5-10 times 3 days a week. To challenge yourself further, try this crazy but effective strengthening exercise without holding on to the side of the bathtub. This exercise [...]

Stop Smoking!

If you smoke….even one smoke a day, STOP NOW… the benefits from quitting are unstoppable!!! Here are a few…levels of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream drop to normal after 8 hours. Within a day, your risk of a heart attack drops (instead of you )! Following one year of your last disgusting cigarette your taste [...]

A Call for More Calcium

A recent study found that eating more calcium-rich foods can lower your overall cancer risk. To reap the full benefits of this important nutrient and get your daily recommended dose try adding calcium fortified orange juice to your diet and LOAD up on your dark green leafy vegetables, daily!

For the Price of a Year’s Worth of Slimfast, You Could Have Plane Tickets to Paris!

Get 30 minutes of exercise most days

How many times a week do you watch a 30-minute TV show, YouTube, or surf the net and your pantry? Think about it…NOW! Instead, you could reduce your risk of diabetes, breast cancer and stroke. Sharpen your thinking skills, be happier, build bone density, and lose some fat! Here are some simple tips to get [...]

For the Price of More Lipstick, You Could Make a Long Distance Call to a Friend!

For the Price of 2 Fashion or Beauty Magazines, You Could Have Dinner at a Good Restaurant!

Get Your Sleep

Get at least 7 to 8 hours of sound sleep each night. Researchers now suspect that lack of sleep may wreck havoc on your body. Lack of sleep disrupts levels of key hormones and proteins. These include the appetite-regulating hormones ghrelin and leptin (that’s why lack of sleep contributes to weight gain); stress hormones such [...]