Blog Title: Massage, Mind & Body

Need more sleep? Try these tips

Sleep seems to be one of the things that most people don’t do enough of. Adequate sleep can make an lasting impact on your life and assist you with handling daily stress with much more ease. Writer Gretchen Rubin provided the following effective tips for getting the sleep you need. Good habits for read more..

Easy way to ease foot pain

Here’s a simple solution that I often suggest to clients to address that nagging foot and heel pain: Press out the bottom of your foot with a spiked rubber ball—a common massage tool sold at health food stores—to ease tightness, break up pain and relieve plantar fasciitis. Stand or sit as you roll your foot over read more..

Kitchen and nutrition reminders

The following are some helpful tips that you may have known before but forgotten and stopped practicing (like I had). That is until Shape Magazine published these gems to keep in mind, especially during your frequent grocery store visits. Mistake #1: Produce overload Sure, making one big grocery run at the start of the week seems read more..

Eat blueberries to lose weight

There’s new word that those yummy, antioxidant rich blueberries–that are a wonderful, handy snack–may also be the link to controling weight and cholesterol. Read on: cholesterol, diabetes, healthy, nutrition, weight loss

Stop spring allergies

Tis the season for the sniffling, sneezing and itchy eyes that mean nothing other than spring is in the air. For those of you who suffer from allergies, the following tips courtesy of Reader’s Digest could be just what the doctor ordered: Eat the Right Foods Improper eating habits can cause health problems, and make existing read more..

Beware of weight loss products

Be aware of the weight loss products you may choose to use. Some dangerous ingredients with unfamiliar names may be lurking within your favorite products. The FDA has issued a new alert about weight loss products tainted by potentially dangerous ingredients. Many of the products claim to be “natural” or “herbal” but include drugs, sometimes read more..

Obesity linked to restless leg syndrome

Here’s an interesting result to a study done on the mysterious ailment: restless leg syndrome (rls) as reported by HealthDay: Having a big belly or being obese appears to increase the risk for restless legs syndrome (RLS), a new study finds. Some 5 percent to 10 percent of adults in the United States have RLS, a read more..

Know your alternative medicine

Think you know about alternative medicine? Like what is cupping? Hatha yoga? Qigong? Here’s your chance to test your knowledge with this handy quiz. I got seven out of ten correct myself. What was your score? Source alternative medicine, detoxify, healthy, pain relief, positive thinking

Take care of your aging body

There’s no getting around aging but you can do it well with the following tips from Real Simple: Taking Care of Your Brain What aging can bring: Forgetfulness, decline in mental agility, risk of Alzheimer’s disease. What the research shows: “Doing things that hit both the left and right sides of the brain, like word puzzles plus mazes read more..

Proof that high fructose corn syrup is bad

You may have seen the recent commercials promoting high fructose corn syrup (hfcs) as a healthy sweetener when used in moderation. These commercials are an attempt to dispute those recent details about this popular sweetener. Well below are some other details that have surfaced from a recent study showing why hfcs should read more..