Naturally, one of my favorite parts of the holidays is buying
gifts. I love to get little stocking stuffers for my family and
friends as part of their gifts, and try to consider natural health
products and brands they already enjoy, as well as new natural
health products I think they'd like. Though it's hard to
narrow it down, my five favorites are:
1.
Swanson
Cosmetic Science Tea Tree Oil Lip Balm.
The tea tree oil in this lip balm is very soothing, and the cocoa
and shea butter do a great...
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Ever wanted to know what vitamins, supplements and
healthy foods the employees at Swanson Health Products use? Here’s
your chance to peek inside an employee order and find out (and win
it all)!
Most people are surprised to learn that after 15 years at Swanson
Health Products, I still only take one or two supplements
regularly.
Vitamin D, of course,
due to our Northern location, and a multivitamin.
Active One is a no-frills capsule with
everything I need.
What also surprises people is that Swanson...
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The following list is products that I regularly buy from
Swanson Health Products. If I run out of any single one of them,
I'll buy them on the next employee order day. There are many other
products that I buy occasionally, but these are my family's
essential products. How many must have products do you regularly
order from Swanson Health Products?
CONTEST: If you order a ton of products from Swanson, you
are eligible to win this contest.
1) Take a picture of a bunch of products that you get from...
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Daily Health Tips update for June 7:
Remember when it was common to see big glass jars of sun tea in
varying shades of rich brown tones brewing on porches? Well,
whether you have an old-fashioned veranda, wraparound deck or an
apartment balcony, you can bring back the smooth, delicious taste
of sun-brewed iced tea.
Simply place 4-6 tea bags in a clean 2-quart glass container. Fill
with water and cap. Place outside where the sunlight can strike the
container for about 3-5 hours. Move the container...
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It's me again, back on the blocks and writing. In the
past few months we've received more snow than I've seen in a long
time - which is saying something being from Minnesota.
During the daily routine of navigating down ice covered streets
with snow banks as high as your vehicle to the daily shoveling of
snow, I must say that I'm pretty sick of winter already. My
golf clubs have been put away for months, and it doesn't look like
they will see daylight for a couple more. Isn't it cold you
say? ...
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According
to some new natural health information from a study completed this
past summer, if you’re 65 or older you should be drinking tea
regularly to protect your brain function.
While coffee is also packed with helpful antioxidants, “people age
65 or older who drank tea regularly had 17-37% less cognitive
decline compared with people who did not drink tea.” (Source:
prnewswire.com)
The findings from this study, which followed more than 4,800
Americans ages 65 and up for up to 14 years, were...
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Is eating smart at a party even possible? Well, there
are many books out there that say yes. My cousin is having a
party at his lake place this weekend, so I'm going to have to go to
this party thinking strategically. But seriously, if you
like to eat, how do you really avoid overindulging on all those
tasty party foods and ruining all the healthy weight watching
you've been working so hard on? Here are some tips I've picked up
over the years that seem to work for me:
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Fans of natural health food products (and those of us who work at
health and nutrition stores) have known this for a long time, but
fresh research presented this month at the 240th National Meeting
of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Boston showed
unequivocally that bottled green tea drinks just don’t match the
nutritional value of home-brewed
organic green
tea or black tea. (
What's the difference between green tea and black
tea?)
The labels on bottled green tea and other “tea drinks” would...
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