How to Switch to a Healthy Lifestyle with Cannabis

How to Switch to a Healthy Lifestyle with Cannabis

Guest post by Jacob Taylor

Switching to a healthy lifestyle is easier than you may imagine. You can start by committing to positive habits like eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep, and ditching unhealthy patterns. But these basic changes may not be enough to become the healthiest version of yourself. Cannabis can address the gaps in your efforts by helping you adopt a healthier lifestyle in an easy way. Here are some of the ways it can give you a self-care advantage.

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What you should know about healthy food labels

What you should know about healthy food labels

Healthy eating is something we all strive to achieve, and a healthy diet can not only improve your quality of life, it can prevent you from developing serious illnesses in middle age and later. We eat well when we choose foods that are nutritious and low in calories. When it comes to choosing food products, however, it’s difficult to tell which ones contain healthier ingredients.

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How to Naturally Relieve Joint Pain

How to Naturally Relieve Joint Pain

Guest post by Natalia Madden

Is joint pain in your way of enjoying life’s little moments? You are far from alone. In fact, nearly one-quarter of Americans struggle with joint pain on a daily basis, and this number continues to increase each year. So, what can we do to relieve joint pain? Is it possible to avoid the use of pain-relieving medications? And which natural remedies really help?

In this article we’ll answer your questions and offer recommendations for the very best supplements for joint pain.

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Pros and Cons of At-Home Physical Therapy

Pros and Cons of At-Home Physical Therapy

Guest post by Lulu Silveyra

Accidents and injuries are a difficult fact of life for millions of people every year, with many of those requiring the services of either at-home or inpatient physical therapy. This post-acute treatment will usually be completed by trained professionals after a discharge from a skilled nursing facility or hospital and is designed to help you regain functions of daily life, ensuring that you can move around and take care of yourself to your maximum ability. Although there are many factors to be considered, at-home therapy is considered by many to be a more affordable and comfortable choice overall compared to inpatient therapy. In this article, we’ll look into the conveniences, benefits, and drawbacks of physical therapy at home to help you make a safe and educated choice on the type of care that is right for you.

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10 Simple Healthy Living Tips for Seniors During COVID-19

10 Simple Healthy Living Tips for Seniors During COVID-19

Guest post by Melissa Andrews

It has been over a year since the Covid-19 pandemic changed our lives. Businesses, organizations, governments, and industries have had to make adjustments to ensure their employees' and communities' health and safety and keep their operations in order. Individually, we’ve had to learn how to cope with the new normal as well.

In addition to the frontline workers, seniors have also had to exert extra effort to adapt to the changes brought about by Covid-19. They are, after all, one of the populations most vulnerable to experiencing severe health complications from this virus. If you are a senior or have a senior loved one, you know how important it is to follow health and safety protocols to mitigate the risks of getting the virus. Although a major part of the population in the US has already been vaccinated, Covid-19 is still very much around. As such, now more than ever, a healthy senior lifestyle is vital.

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7 Green Home Improvements to Make for a Healthier Lifestyle

7 Green Home Improvements to Make for a Healthier Lifestyle

Guest post by Kelsey Luvisa

The beginning of a new year is a time to think about home improvement. With people across the United States spending more time at home due to COVID-19, making your space a comfortable place to spend a lot of time is important now more than ever. When you care about the environment, making improvements that are green and support a healthy lifestyle might also be on your mind. The real estate experts at HomeLight interviewed more than 1,000 agents across the United States to reveal home upgrade trends, offering some insights about updates that you should consider.

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These Air Purifying Plants Can Improve Your Mental and Physical Health

These Air Purifying Plants Can Improve Your Mental and Physical Health

Guest post by Mona Freund

It’s no secret that spending time outside is good for us. Studies show that only two hours per week spent in nature can be beneficial to our health. It doesn’t really matter whether you get this outside time while hiking, gardening or simply sitting in your backyard. If you’re not fortunate enough to own a backyard, you can still bring a touch of green and fresh air into your life by adding plants to your interior decor. Plants increase our ability to focus, boost our happiness and reduce our stress level, which makes them the perfect addition to any inside space.

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Why you should be drinking hibiscus water

Why you should be drinking hibiscus water

You might recognize the large, colorful red, yellow, white, or peach flowers of the hibiscus plant, especially if you live in one of the tropical, sub-tropical, or temperate climates in which it grows. In the Caribbean, hibiscus is used to make sorrel, a sweet drink that is made from the dried boiled leaves of the hibiscus sabdariffa species, flavored with spices like cinnamon and ginger, and frequently consumed around the Christmas holiday season. Did you know that aside from adding a rich and vibrant display to your garden that attracts beneficial pollinators, or providing a delicious beverage for the holiday season, hibiscus has several different medicinal uses? The flowers and leaves of this plant have been used for millennia for culinary purposes, and to make teas and liquids that can remedy a number of medical conditions, including high blood pressure, upset stomach, and bacterial infections.

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Staying Healthy at Work: An Actionable Guide

Staying Healthy at Work: An Actionable Guide

Guest post by Brenda Snow

 You spend a significant part of your life behind a desk. Desk jobs can be a blessing and a curse.

 On the one hand, it’s nice to not be a roofer working on top of a skyscraper in the middle of a hot and humid summer or freezing cold winter. On the other hand, being tied to a chair is not without hazards, either. In fact, sitting in a chair for hours at a time, let alone all day, without getting up to move, can cause a number of health problems, both acute and chronic.

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5 Foods to Avoid Before Bedtime

5 Foods to Avoid Before Bedtime

Guest Post by Sarah Cummings

Is your sensitive stomach causing you sleep deprivation problems? Inflammation of the stomach lining can put your body in a state of shock, where lack of sleep will be the least of your worries. Over time it affects the function of other internal organs as well. Furthermore, this process can cause miscommunication issues in the endocrine system, eventually leading to many psychological complications.

To avoid all of these self-induced problems, all you need to do is pay attention to your diet so that every other piece of the puzzle falls into place and creates a healthy YOU. 

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A cheaper green? How to shop for healthy and eco-friendly products on a budget

A cheaper green? How to shop for healthy and eco-friendly products on a budget

A couple of weeks ago I was shopping at Whole Foods and noticed that the person in the aisle next to me had a shopping cart full of items. In fact, while wandering through the store looking for a marinade I used to use years ago, apparently no longer sold by Whole Foods (maybe too overpriced?), I noticed quite a few people with shopping carts full. None of them seemed to be to be the type of people who had money to burn. Now looks alone are no judge, but I wondered, how the heck can people afford to do so much of their grocery shopping at Whole Foods? Very few of the people I Having joked with the staff on many occasions about how it was impossible to get out of the store for under $30, I was pretty surprised to see more than a handful of people buying what struck me as hundreds of dollars’ worth of groceries.


There are cheaper options than Whole Foods, of course.

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