Can You Lick Your Sugar Habit?

Reading Time: 2 minutes We all know that sugar is not a healthy substance. It might taste great and adds a dimension of enjoyment to everything we put it on or in. But it is one of the major ingredients that leads to diseases. \ We know it affects our teeth; can add weight and cause diabetes just to name a few issues. So … Read More

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Let’s Get Healthy: Choosing a Diet

Reading Time: 2 minutes On my iPad, I get U.S. and World news. There was an article on diets that I found interesting. A U.S. News panel of diet and nutrition experts examined the top five diet plans for 2013 that offer either weight loss goals or treatment of specific health conditions. They include the Acid Alkaline diet, which promises pH balance control through an alkaline-rich diet. … Read More

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Welcome to my blog “Let’s Get Healthy”!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m all about being healthy in the “here and now” and laying a foundation for active, healthy aging. For me EVERYTHING begins with finding understandings and then building on them to get the whole picture. Said differently, the whole understanding about what is needed, and why and where to get it. As a mind/body and nutritional consultant, I saw great … Read More

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Menopause Supplements

Reading Time: 3 minutes The female body’s ability to procreate and give birth is the result of an intricate combination of chemical, physical and emotional interchanges within the body. As women mature from puberty, their bodies establish a cycle of care for the reproductive system which includes a monthly maintenance program of cleansing and the redevelopment of the hormonal components essential to the system. A young … Read More

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Digestive Enzymes Supplements

Reading Time: 2 minutes Digestive Enzymes Supplements – To put it simply, enzymes are life. Our bodies use enzymes in a multitude of daily functions, both those we produce ourselves and those we must ingest. We need enzymes to maintain the integrity of cells, blood, muscles, bones and tissue. Your immune system and organs depend on a healthy daily supply of enzymes; in fact, every part of your body absolutely … Read More

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Womens Health

Reading Time: 4 minutes A woman’s work is never done. At no time in history has that expression held more truth than today. Between juggling college and career, child-rearing and homemaking and hobbies, the 21st century female is almost constantly in motion. One result is that women are now experiencing more of the same types of lifestyle or stress-induced women’s health issues that formerly found … Read More

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The Principles of Naturopathy

Reading Time: 2 minutes Seemingly simple in design, the Principles of Naturopathy image shown here represents concepts that have significant implications for our health. Together these four concepts forge a synergistic alliance. The concept of synergy was first expounded upon by Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. He defined synergy as “the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts”. … Read More

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Specific minerals and their purpose for the body.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s take a look at some specific minerals and talk about what your body uses them for. These minerals should be considered when examining your diet and the contents of your mineral supplement. And now in alphabetical order: CALCIUM is a mineral which is necessary for healthy, strong bones and teeth. Other functions of the calcium ion include its influence … Read More

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Adrenal Glands & Energy Supplements: 4 Important Nutrients

Reading Time: 2 minutes The adrenal glands are ductless glands of the endocrine system responsible for producing some of the most important hormones in the body. All glands of the body are classified as either endocrine or exocrine. The secretions of endocrine glands are always hormones, which are chemicals that regulate various physiological activities. The adrenal cortex (the outer portion of the adrenal gland) … Read More

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Why Does The Body Need Minerals?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Minerals act as the major transmission junctions and switches for the electrical message impulses that flow from the brain to the muscles. These impulses use the nervous system as the transmission lines. The nervous system, like a “telephone” line, carries messages to and from the brain. Minerals are the switches that allow the electric impulses to flow without disruption or … Read More

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