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Phytonutrients Definition |Phytonutrients Foods

• Phytonutrients are chemicals plants produce to protect themselves from insects, fungi, bugs, and UV rays. 
  • These powerful compounds give the plants their color, flavors, aromas, and disease-fighting capabilities. 
  • ‘Phyto’ is a Greek
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Inflammation

Inflammation is a key process in the development of atherosclerosis associated with future cardiovascular disease events. Chronic inflammation is also closely related to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes.

• Some nuts and seeds are high in alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), a t
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Nuts are packed with nutrition, but they are also packed with calories.

Increased nut consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of major chronic diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.

• Researchers at Harvard “examined the association between nut consumption and sub
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The Power of the Microbiome

• All diseases begin in the gut. -Hippocrates
• The human microbiome: an organ in its own right.
• The microbiome is the genetic material of all the microbes - bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses - that live on and inside the human body. The microbiome may
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Improving Sleep Habits

Sleeping is vital to our health & well-being as food and water is.  Sleeping affects us physically, mentally, & emotionally. It can affect our mood, memory, energy levels, concentration levels, health & safety, our jobs, relationships etc. 

Sleep Deprivation

• A common c
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The four I’s to improve your health

• Intelligence
• Implementation
• Investment
• I am doing it (remove I can/I will)

Intelligence

• It is not about doing more things; it is about doing more of the right things.
• Each of us, as individuals, are directly responsible for what we cho
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Get of your butt! Not just physically, but mentally.

• To accomplish any goal, we must take physical action.
• There is mental action we must also take to accomplish our goals.

So how do we take mental action?

• Study Those Who Came Before You
• Mentally Prepare Yourself
• Make a Plan
• Track Yo
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7 foods for cardio health

Taking good care of your cardiovascular system can be as easy as picking the right foods at the grocery store or local market. Consider regularly incorporating the following seven, heart-protective foods into your cooking and eating routines.

Garlic

Loved and used lib...

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Dying or dieting, is it really a choice? The answer may surprise you.

Our modern diet is dictated by culture, media and what is available in the supermarkets. It is difficult to navigate what is good for our bodies or what is another fad diet. Let’s have a look at both the history of human...

Self-talk, What is it?

• The internal narrative you hold about yourself.
• Our self-talk can have a much bigger influence on the way we see ourselves, and the world around us.
• A mix of conscious and unconscious beliefs and biases that we hold about ourselves and the world generally.
• Self-talk c
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Why do we Procrastinate?

Inside us are internal voices are protecting us.  However, sometimes these voices are actually holding us back.  These voices stop up from doing the things you know you should do. As Dan Lok so elegantly put it, these are our procrastination demons.

• Procrastination De
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Personal Goal Setting-Planning to Live Your Life Your Way

Many people feel as if they're adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don't seem to get anywhere worthwhile.

A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent enough time thinking about what they want from life and h...