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Inflammaging Series: PART I - Learn about the Health Effects of Inflammation + Aging

Achieving your personal long-term goals is supported by your day-by-day, step-by-step actions, including the things you do for your health. Without your health, how many of these would be possible? We all get physically older at the same rate: one year, every year. Know that the journey doesn’t have to be filled with aches, pains, and medications and your biological age can be younger than your physical age.

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Sleep and Your Microbiome

While you may already know the importance of sleep to support your overall physical and mental wellbeing - did you also know a healthy microbiome supports a better sleep? Sleep can be improved by addressing gut health and gut health can be improved by better sleep. Let’s look at strategies that can help you do both.

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5 Health-focused Ways to Spend your Next Vacation

As October comes around and the days start to get a little shorter… and a little crisper, it is natural for me to start to think about my next holiday. In fact, taking health-focused holidays was one of my goals this year as I learned to create more balance in my life.

Read about 5 Health-focused vacations that I thought might be fun to try for my next adventure.

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5 Favourite Herbs for Health

Herbs growing in your garden and stored in your kitchen cabinets have played important roles throughout the history of human civilization. Although we don’t consume mass quantities of them as a big calorie source, they make an important contribution to a healthy diet nevertheless. Besides adding flavour and protecting against microbes, herbs provide high levels of antioxidants – some of the highest values found in any food.

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Simple Steps to Support your Digestion

Everyone experiences occasional digestive symptoms such as upset stomach, gas, heartburn, nausea, constipation or diarrhea. However, when these symptoms occur frequently, they can cause major disruptions to your life. Fortunately, diet and lifestyle changes can have a positive impact on your gut health.

Learn simple ways to improve your digestion naturally.

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Dear Sugar, Would you like a date?

For many of us, December is a time for holiday sweets. Recipes pass from generation to generation. Gifting of homemade favourites is a sure way to show someone you love them. One of my favourite holiday memories is decorating dozens of my mom’s Italian cookies; a tradition I now do each year with my own children. Giving and receiving of sweets brings joy and comfort to the holiday season and we would be remiss to turn down an offer of homemade cookies and candies.

Choose your sugar consumption wisely. When making handmade sweets try substituting whole foods. If you decide to eat a holiday cookie with processed sugar; relish the sweetness, be thankful of the love that went into making it, and cherish the memories that accompany it.

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