Here are some tips for a healthy Christmas holiday: 1. Load up on vegetables. Halve your plate with vegetables. This will keep you full and keep you from reaching for the less healthy options. 2. Savor each bite. Slow down and be mindful. Take your time, enjoy the food and share that enjoyment with family and friends. 3. Don’t skip meals. This will lead to blood sugar imbalance and likely poor food choices. 4. Alternate between water and alcohol. Skip holiday hangovers by staying hydrated. 5. Avoid the food coma. Walk for 10-15 minutes after meals to support digestion and help stabilize blood sugar.
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Wellness Tea of the Month
CHOCOMINTNILLA. Did you know that drinking tea gives an added boost of antioxidants to your skin? This delicious blend has a rooibos base and some touches of nougat, vanilla, dark chocolate drops and peppermint. Rooibos is low in tannins, free from caffeine, and packed with antioxidants. Vanilla is also rich in antioxidants, which are beneficial for your skin. Dark chocolate has bioactive compounds that are also great for your skin, with flavanols for sun damage protection and improved blood flow to the skin. Peppermint will help you improve energy levels and reduce daytime fatigue. And nougat is just the special touch for a perfect holiday hot drink, a combination of honey and roasted nuts.
Acupuncture for Sport Injury
Most sports-related injuries occur when a particular part of the body is overused, which leads to a repetitive stress injury. This can lead to injuries such as runner’s knee or tennis elbow. Many athletes rely on acupuncture to treat their injuries and boost their performance – but also to prevent injuries from occurring in the first place. Acupuncture offers many benefits when it comes to pain management, recovery, and prevention, including: 1. Releasing tight muscles or activating muscles that aren’t firing properly. 2. Boosting healing and recovery of tendons and ligaments. 3. Relieving stress. 4. Improving the immune system. 5. Aiding with sleep. 6. Keeping the pain away. These are all great reasons to use acupuncture to keep you active.
Reflexology – More Than a Foot Rub!
Reflexology is a natural therapy that reduces pain, stress & tension in the body and improves circulation (cardiovascular & lymphatic) and elimination. There are reflexes in the feet which are connected to every part, organ and gland through a subtle energy that flows through channels in the body. When there is discomfort like stress, trauma, injury or illness, blockages develop in these channels and the flow of energy becomes disrupted. By applying pressure to these reflexes, signals are sent via the nervous system that release these blockages, relax the body and balance the natural functioning elsewhere in the body. It is a total ‘reboot and rebalance’!
Product Spotlight: Sonya™ Daily Skincare System
Do you have combination skin? If your skin is dry in some areas, oily in others, and can fluctuate depending on the season and environmental factors, the answer is yes! The Sonya™ daily skincare system has an advanced gel-based technology that delivers aloe and botanicals deep into your skin for added moisture. The cleanser, illuminating gel, mask, and moisturizer are all formulated specifically for combination skin, to help give you skin that is refreshed, rejuvenated, and looks its absolute best. These four powerful products are perfect for year-round combination skin care that helps to balance and improve your complexion.
Healthy Senior Living
3 Tips to Help a Loved One with Memory Loss Adjust to a New Community. Moving into a new living environment involves major change for your loved one. They may be surrounded by a whole lot of unfamiliarity during this time. In order to ensure a more gentle transition, here are a few helpful tips for creating a successful move.
1. Before move-In, attend events at the new community with your loved one
2. Make sure someone familiar is with them during the entire transition
3. Align moving time with your loved one’s best time of day
For more tips on transitioning seniors, health, and wellbeing, visit Brightwater Senior Living blog at BrightwaterSeniorLiving.com
Healing Cell Signaling
The human body has between fifty and three hundred billion cells. Inside every cell, we have mitochondria (some cells have thousands). Mitochondria, when functioning properly, produce redox signaling molecules. Cell signaling carry life-sustaining messages to cells, and your cells respond to those messages, keeping you alive and healthy. As we age, cell signal weakens they can disrupt gene expression. But if you had a way to regulate gene activity with redox signaling molecules, cellular communication would remain strong. Our bodies heal on a cellular level, and the genetic instructions that dictate healthy body function don’t get through without redox signaling.
Achieving a Healthy Core
A healthy core needs two main things: strength and mobility. This is what makes it functional. A functional core will keep you upright and maintain proper posture, support you safely through your daily movements, and protect your organs. In addition, your risk of herniation (both disc and organ) will also decrease with a healthy core. Working on movement progressions (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), along with generally moving more than you are sedentary, is a great way to keep your core healthy. Talk to your chiropractor about ways you can safely strengthen and support your core and feel better!
Laser Treatments from Your Family Doctor!
Did you know that you can now receive private laser treatment services from your family doctor for a range of health concerns? The Fotona SP laser is an award-winning treatment that can help with conditions such as snoring and sleep apnea, hair removal, skin tightening, scar revision, toenail fungus, skin resurfacing, vascular lesions, and spider veins. The Fotona combines two complementary laser wavelengths that work in harmony to create thermal effects without damaging the skin’s surface. This allows for a range of non-contact, non-invasive procedures that offer greater patient comfort, reduced downtime, and quicker healing, not to mention long-lasting results. Offering free consultations.
Love Keeps You Healthy
Being in love not only gives you a bounce in your step, but it also has several proven health benefits. When you are in love, your brain produces a hormone called dopamine that contributes to feelings of elation, pleasure, optimism, energy, and a sense of well-being. Physical touch, such as hugging, releases a hormone called oxytocin, which lowers stress hormones. Studies have demonstrated that people releasing these hormones have stronger immune systems, lower blood pressure, greater resistance to colds and flus, and decreased stress and depression. Finding your life partner has more benefits than we once realized!
Smart in Everything but Reading?
Children who are considered bright underachievers often have vision problems that make reading difficult. Sometimes they’re described as auditory learners because they can remember things they’ve heard much faster and easier than anything they’ve read. A clear sign that a vision problem may be at the root of your child’s difficulties is poor performance on written or standardized tests. It may surprise you to learn that many children who have vision problems interfering with learning actually have 20/20 eyesight (with or without glasses). A Developmental Vision Evaluation is needed to determine if a vision problem is interfering with reading.
