1)     To maintain a good metabolism the body needs feeding on a regular basis.  Approximately every four hours or so, depending on how well you stabilize your blood sugar levels. This is a bit like stoking the boiler, the fire needs plenty of fuel to burn well. 2)      Desserts spelled backwards  is stressed 3)      Don’t despair...
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1)      Do not count calories. It is however good to be mindful of them and most people have a very good idea what is high in calories and what is low in calories. Generally most people know healthy eating is naturally lower in calories. 2)      A salad when you are out sounds like a good...
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1)      Don’t eat on the run. In other words, try not to eat when you are standing up or on the move (for instance driving) or if you are busy doing something else. Instead take a minute stop what you are doing and concentrate on what you are eating and you will eat less....
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1)      Never go shopping for food when you are hungry, bad idea. Research has proven over and over again we are more tempted and make some very different choices. People tend to buy more, tempted also by bigger sizes and the choises they make can be for more unhealthy foods. So beware, go food...
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1)    Research shows that our brains get confused between hunger and thirst, and we are in fact eating instead of drinking a hydrating drink. A very important fact – before you snack, or when you before you give into your craving drink a hydrating drink.  Drinks like coffee, coke or alcohol will make things...
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To detoxify efficiently on a daily basis, is very important to your health-gain and weight-loss success, but it’s every bit as important to maintaining any weight-loss in the long term. These are the organs that will help you in your quest – the liver, kidneys, skin, colon, lymph, lungs, and fat cells. Your over-worked liver is...
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Sonia Jones from the Haven Spa, Health Clinic and Fitness Center Taking these steps will help prevent osteoporosis but will also help the body get the minerals it needs to calm the appetite. 1) Generally, we should be eating natural foods, as close as nature intended. We should be eating foods that provide us with the...
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Our general attitude to life will have a direct effect on every cell in our body. It will have a direct effect on every aspect of our lives. Making laughter a bigger part of your life and trying to make other people around you laugh is healthy. Laughter is a true gift and there...
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Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic, Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama Foods that will elevate your levels naturally The B vitamins and zinc are important as they help the brain to manufacture neuro-chemicals out of amino acids. B3 is very important found in a  B complex supplement. Do not take B3 on its own...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and health Clinic For thousands of years a system of pressure and massage applied to the feet has been refined and perfected into the holistic health treatment known today as reflexology. Reflexology has the capacity to help many conditions, but it is also possible to detect existing ailments...
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