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How to Improve Non-HDL Cholesterol

How to Improve Non-HDL Cholesterol

Your non-HDL cholesterol is your total cholesterol minus your HDL (good) cholesterol. So if your total cholesterol is 190 and your HDL cholesterol is 40, your non-HDL cholesterol is 150. Your non-HDL number tells you all the bad cholesterol circulating in your blood –...

The ONE Thing Holding You Back

Dr. Mark and I speak of the four-part person (physical, intellectual, emotional,and spiritual). The intellectual ties into the emotional and becomes an aspect that we call the mind. As the saying goes “As you think so it shall become.” You become what you...

Natural Remedies for Allergies

If you’ve suffered from seasonal allergies or food allergies, you may have noticed that antihistamine medications like Zytrec, Allegra or Benedryl provide quick relief of your symptoms. This is because histamine’s role in the body is to cause an immediate inflammatory...

How Fear Causes Sickness and Disease

Fear is one of the main spiritual roots of sickness and disease. It runs deep, requires enormous emotional energy, and demands action. We all have roots of fear that begin with the first man and first woman. Let’s go back to Genesis 2:20-25. Adam and Eve had it...

5 Symptoms that Lead to Diabetes

The big BUZZ words out there are pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, Syndrome X and insulin resistance. These are all precursors to the horrible disease diabetes. You need to know if you are at risk, and if you are already in the hot water tank headed towards diabetes....

The Complete Guide to Overcoming Stress

Modern life is full of frustrations, deadlines, and demands. For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad, though. Stress within your comfort zone can help you perform under pressure, motivate you to do your best,...

Chronic Inflammation: The Root of Illness

If you examine top medical journals right now, you would see that most, or even all of them, would make mentioned multiple times of something called “chronic systemic inflammation”. This type of inflammation is extremely detrimental to our health and...

When and How to Detox

Recommended Detox Kit: NutriClear® Plus Detoxification is a complex term. The easiest way to detoxify your body is to stop putting in the Standard American Diet. This Diet plan is full of additives, preservatives and metabolic products that every cell in your body has...

DHEA: What You Need to Know

Recommended DHEA Supplement (click here) Hormone balance is delicate. It is like a symphony – it needs the right mix of all the players. In this case we are going to talk about DHEA and its benefits in helping the adrenal glands combat the symptoms of fatigue...

Natural Treatments for Heart Disease

Do we have to suffer from heart disease as we grow older? Current trends in this country seem to suggest so. By age 50, almost half of all Americans have some type of cardiovascular disease, as do three-quarters of those in their seventies. According to findings from...

The Complete Guide to Healthy Cooking Oils

There are an array of options when it comes to cooking oils. One of the most important factors that needs to be considered when choosing a cooking oil is its resistance to oxidation. Take note that oils can oxidize at both low and high heat. When oils are heated they...

How to Overcome Chronic Fear

First, let’s define fear. Generally, it is used as a noun and defined as follows: “A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.” Fear causes...

Safe, Natural Remedies for Heartburn

One in five Americans regularly suffers with heartburn or GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disorder), and a significant percentage of them are on popular drugs. The names of these drugs you may recognize as Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid, Protonix, a generic known as...

10 Benefits of Gratitude

About a year ago, a dear friend gifted me a ‘A Year of Gratitude Journal’. The gift was a huge blessing. It had instructions on the inside that invited one into a year of giving thanks. Each week of the year I was to send someone a card of thankfulness. My...

How to Overcome Food Triggers

Everyone has different food triggers. For some it is as simple as the thought of a doughnut that drives them to over eat while others never think to eat. Some triggers may be associated with friends, family, certain places, moods, times of day and other environmental...

Natural Remedies for Chapped Lips

It is important to remember that chapped lips and dry skin have many causes and can occur in any season. Sun, wind and changes in season contribute to chapped lips and skin as well as the dryness in the atmosphere of home. If your child is a “lip licker”...

6 Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep

1. Keep a sleep schedule. Try going to bed and waking up at the same time every day. It takes 70 to 90 minutes to complete a sleep cycle. If you are consistent with the time you go to bed and the time you wake up, your brain and circadian rhythm have a better chance...

3 Ways to Boost Your Immune System

Get our Immune Support Packs (click here) It’s that time of year again when cold and flu can take over an immune system. Unfortunately, most of us take our immune system for granted until we become aware of its function, when it starts to fail in its ability to...

How to Maintain a Healthy Sleep Cycle

Your internal 24-hour sleep-wake cycle, otherwise known as your biological clock or circadian rhythm, is regulated by processes in the brain that respond to how long you’ve been awake and the changes between light and dark. Hormones that Determine Sleep Patterns At...

How Grains Contribute to Disease

For the majority of the history of mankind, grains were not cultivated or consumed in any appreciable amount. Most humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Once civilization developed several thousand years ago and people moved closer together, the need to hunt and gather...