Peg’s Blog
Food & lifestyle ideas to keep you healthy
Variety Is the Spice of Life: Menus for You
Variety is the spice of life. Nutrients work together to carry out the proper functioning of each of your body systems. For instance, an apple when broken down has more than 1100 phyto nutrients and each works in synergy with the others. Phytonutrients are powerful anti-inflammatory chemicals and are found only in plant foods.While you can take them in supplement form, the best way to get them is through food. You can’t really get this powerful mix from a supplement.
Nutrition & Lifestyle to Super Charge Your Immune System
During the age of Covid, it’s often noted that the effectiveness of the immune system weakens as we grow older. Do you think that is true for everyone, or perhaps it is related to the lifestyle habits and health history of a person?
How Will You Prepare for Winter?
Prepare your body for winter through a series of very logical steps you may not have thought of.
What Is a Superfood?
A "superfood,"is a high nutrient whole food that happens to be delicious. This post lists 10 of the best superfoods that are easily prepared and taste delicious.
Eat Pray Love and the Literal and Poetic Anatomy
Explore the synergistic exchange of energy, moving from the physical to the ethereal or poetic anatomy.
Surgery? Prepare Yourself for Your Best Healing
Preparing for surgery with your mind and body is a powerful experience.
Diet and Covid-19 Complications for Some | Food Matters
Doctors and scientists are discovering two common characteristics among many of those who are losing their battle with COVID-19 — they are overweight or obese and suffer from a chronic disease.
Summer's Coming - Are You Ready to Shed Your Layers?
Summer is fast approaching. The coats and layers come off. Is the shedding of the coverups something you look forward to, or do you feel a sense of dread that last year’s summer clothes will be just a bit too snug on you? Losing weight and gaining it back is demoralizing.
A Look at Preventing Dementia as You Grow Older
Whether you are 30 or 50 or 70 or 90, the lifestyle choices you make impact your overall health, and that includes your cognitive health.
Habits
If you stepped back and looked at how you spend your day, what would you see? Most of us see a fairly predictable routine, with a few unexpected but manageable events peeking into our routine on most days.
In essence, most of our lives are built around habits. Some are very conscious habits while others may be things we haven’t given much thought to but we do them every day nonetheless.
Learn how habits may be the biggest indicator of weight and lifelong health.
5 Everyday Health Hacks for 60+ Women
Turning 60? Follow these 5 everyday health hacks and stay vibrant. It's not the number it's the lifestyle.
What to Say to an Overweight Loved One: Help Them See Their Diamond Self
What to say and not say to an overweight loved one.