Natural Living
We invite you to explore the latest trends to maintain a healthy living environment. Our experts provide solutions to promote an environmentally friendly, sustainable home and office.
Detox 101 – how toxic are you?
The question is not whether you are toxic, but rather ‘How toxic are you?’ There has been a sharp increase in the potential exposure to environmental toxins (up to 80 000) over the past decades, a fact that pretty much guarantees you are harbouring some level of toxicity. A toxin is defined as a ‘substance or mixture that can cause harm to a living organism’. Industrial chemicals, pesticides, plastic compounds, food additives, preservatives and heavy metals are examples.
12 Steps To Whole Person Wellness
Most of us make New Year’s Resolution to improve the quality of our lives. Now with 12 Steps To Whole Person Wellness, you can start any time of the year! Sustainable lifestyle changes have a better chance for success if taken one step at a time, rather than making radical changes to our lifestyle in too a short period of time.
10 Ways to lower your toxic exposure
The best way to reduce the level of chemicals in your body is to limit the number that gain entrance. If you pay attention to the following points discussed in this article, you will lower your toxic load.
You are what you don’t excrete
This article delves into the ancient wisdom linking food, health, and disease. Digestion, absorption, and metabolism impact overall well-being. Observing our relationship with food leads to the discovery of insights into the role of fasting, physical activity, and the body's metabolic processes in maintaining health, while addressing the modern challenges of digestion in today's toxic environment.
Avoid those bloomin' allergies this spring
Some of us are unable to smell the beautiful spring flowers without sneezing. But then there are others who cannot even leave their home due to allergic reactions to pollen, grasses, and pet dander. What can you do to avoid that red face, puffy eyes and streaming nose this spring?
Our Toxic Environment
Understand the impact of environmental chemicals on health. Learn about the dangers of chlorine and fluoride in drinking water and practical steps to reduce exposure at home.
Steps To Help You Sleep
Everyone acknowledges the critical role sleep plays in our well-being and the profound discomfort that arises from its deprivation. This article doesn't delve deeply into the intricate physiology of sleep deprivation but rather explores the mental landscape of insomnia, with physiology providing a backdrop.
Body Piercing from a Health Perspective
Available evidence suggests that people have been practicing body piercing since ancient times. It appears that some people pierce for cultural or religious reasons, while others do so for ornamental or even sexual reasons. However, has anyone looked at this from a health perspective? Some people seem to cope with metal in their bodies without any problems, but for the rest of us, there's a different story.
Switch on Those ‘Skinny Genes’ and Burn Fat Fast
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, what is the best weight-loss diet of them all?’ Patrick Holford, internationally acclaimed nutrition spokesman. In his book, Burn Fat Fast, Patrick Holford asks and answers the question that gnaws away at frustrated dieters who are constantly trying to lose weight but are getting nowhere.
The Real Cost of the Shirt on my Back
The textile industry has had an adverse effect on the environment. On the one hand it has created jobs for thousands, but it has impacted, and is continuing to impact, the environment in a negative way. Jasmari Ferreira offer solutions for an industry that is seriously lacking in promoting environmental sustainability.
Celebrating Youth in Permaculture
‘Get more out of life by using less’: This is the essence of permaculture – an ecologically sound way of living that can be applied to households, gardens, communities and businesses. Today’s youth are embracing this concept and spreading the word.
Protect your Eyes during Air Travel
Business trips can often mean navigating from one city to the next for hours on end. Here are some eye care tips for when travelling by air to ensure optimal comfort as well as good and healthy vision.
Making your Home a Green Home
Making your home a green home. A chemical free home. More and more people are becoming aware of the environmental dangers surrounding us as part of daily life. As we become more conscious of the threats we wonder what avenues exist for us to reduce our risk. This article aims to assist you in making your home a safer, greener place and a haven in the midst of modern madness.
New Year New You
Detoxing has been practiced for millennia and is all the more important today as we live in an increasingly toxic environment. Choose a detox programme to suit yourself and start your new year clean.
Our Environment demands an Annual Detox
Our Environment demands an Annual Detox. Regular cleansing of our bodies to get rid of toxins has become an absolute necessity. Explore ways in which you can minimise the effect of our toxic environment. Our editor share some personal benefits of a detox done right.
Tips for staying Healthy during the Festive Season
Tips for staying Healthy during the Festive Season. Even though the coming weeks will almost inevitably feature late nights and indulgences, there are ways not to be totally unhealthy during the festive season. Some of these tips may seem obvious, but sometimes all we need is a little reminder and some fresh ideas …
Stress Strategies
Stess can be positive or negative. When stress sparks personal achievement or life enjoyment and appreciation (positive stress), it helps us feel enthusiastic, creative, productive and motivated. But stress can easily spiral out of control, becoming overwhelming and negative distress, taking its toll on our physical, mental and emotional health and well-being.
Detox Done Right – the purification process
Our health is a consequence of many factors, a lot of which we can control – starting with our food intake. Elson Haas moves from the need to avoid the usual bad stuff like alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, to common foods that may cause unexpected reactions.
Outwitting Allergies During Hay Fever Season
Hay fever season leaves many people feeling miserable with streaming eyes and noses and itchy throats. During this period those with heightened allergic potential also tend to suffer more from other allergens such as food allergens. Patrick Holford offers some good medicine solutions to these irritants.Eating the right foods and taking the right supplements will give you bright eyes and a clear nose during hay fever season.
Permaculture Restores Ecosystems & Communities
A Shona African community healed their damaged ecosystems by restoring their springs, rebuilding their soil and regenerating their agriculture. In doing so they alleviated poverty and malnutrition. Permaculture farming has proven effective all over the planet.
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