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Making the “Switch to Rich”—How Eating Nutrient Rich Superfoods Can Change Your Life for the Better—Forever

Everywhere you turn, we are hit with ads on how to eat, what to eat and when to eat. The “why” is often limited to weight loss-only programs that push “half-baked” healthier eating styles that are simply not focused on true health and are unsustainable. The marketing claims seem amazing and the canned testimonies border on the miraculous, yet most of these “diets” are based on making changes that don’t really solve the core problem—why we gained weight in the first place. […]

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Food Addictions –– Lifestyle Meals

Food Addictions
Courtesy Lifestyle Meals, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine

What are the most common addictions in our society? You may be surprised to learn they are the addictions to sodium and sugar. That’s right, those pretty white crystals sitting on most people’s kitchen countertop. […]

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Nutrition – The Vitamins –– John Eagle Honda

Nutrition – The Vitamins
By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D.

Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

When vitamins were discovered, people fell in love with them. Vitamins seemed to be the answer to an easy route to good health. Today, scientists are discovering the complexity of the interactions of vitamins in the body and in food. Scientific advances brought on understanding of the biological roles the vitamins play in maintaining health and preventing deficiency diseases. […]

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Could your medications be the cause of excessive bruising? –– Mika Bradford

Excessive Bruising
Could your medications be the cause?

By Mika Bradford CN, CPhT, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

A decline in naturally occurring hormones, thinning hair and an increase in bodyweight are just a few of the changes that many people experience with age. Many adults also associate an increase in bruising as one of those changes and while age can impact the elasticity and thickness of skin, common over-the-counter products and medications can also contribute to skin related injuries. […]

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How to Feed A Long, Healthy, Quality Life

How to Feed A Long, Healthy, Quality Life

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

About five years ago, I decided to live to the age of 120, which would mark this year the equivalent of the first 30% of my life. According to actuarial science, the life expectancy for women is 85 and 78 for men. So, where are you on the percentile scale of your life? For example, if you’re 60 years old, then you’ve got 70% of your life under your belt. However, change your mind about how long you want to live and suddenly only 50% of your life is complete. […]

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Making Every Bite Count! Meal Replacement Formulas and Foods for Special Diet Needs

Making Every Bite Count!
Meal Replacement Formulas and Foods for Special Diet Needs

By Mika Bradford CN, CPhT, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine

Every bite of food counts when your health is less than optimal or you are recovering from a medical event that has resulted in the reduction of appetite or the volume of food that can be eaten. […]

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Time to Detox: A three day juice fast to jump start your health

Time to Detox
A Three Day Juice Fast to Jump Start Your Health
By Catherine Wilbert, ND, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
Mardi Gras is over and the lure of parties and King Cakes are but fond memories with only the lingering inches around our waists to remind us of the weeks of festivities in which we partook. For many, this is a time to finally get back to those New Year’s resolutions. This a good time to get your body off to a fresh start. […]

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Get Help With Your Fast Paced Lifestyle

Get Help With Your Fast Paced Lifestyle
Courtesy CNO’S MEALS TO GO, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
The fast paced lifestyle most of us live offers more activities packed into one day than we can ever accomplish. Maintaining a well balanced healthy diet is a challenge many of us can’t seem to master. We go grocery shopping for fresh ingredients, then pick up an off the shelf precooked meal for the night or stop by a fast food restaurant on the way home because we don’t have either the time or energy to prepare a meal from scratch. […]

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Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates (Part I)

Nutrition: Calories, Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates

By Ladislav P. Novak, Ph.D.
Courtesy John Eagle Honda, North Dallas LIVING WELL Magazine

All efforts to achieve weight loss, stronger muscles, establish good health habits, etc., would decline slowly year by year if you didn’t put a determined break on your appetite simultaneously. […]