Promote Health in Your Family!

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Promote health within your family by scheduling regular healthy meals together.  This will allow you to nourish your family member's bodies and strengthen your relationship.

How to Produce Killer Cells that Protect You From Infections?

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Researchers have found that selfless, altruistic service promotes love, peace and understanding as well as produces natural killer cells that protect you from infections.

Nightly Riturals?

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Some ideas for nightly rituals which can help promote quality sleep are hot baths, foot massage, journaling, meditation, aromatherapy, relaxing music, reading or light stretching.

Why Are We So Intent on Being Proud of Not Sleeping?

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For optimal health, it is essential to have quality sleep for at least 7 to 9 hours daily.  To improve your quality of sleep, develop a nightly ritual that helps calm your mind and body.

Want Better Posture? Use This Very Old Trick!

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To improve your posture, pull your chin inward and imagine there is a string pulling straight upward from the top of your head.

How's Your Posture?

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Poor posture can lead to back and neck pain, decrease your energy and make you look and feel older.  It can also decrease your oxygen intake, when you compress the diaphragm and ribs and full respiration cannot take place.

The Two Types of Sleep Apnea

There are 2 types of sleep apnea.  The first is obstructive sleep apnea.  This type is higher in obese people because the fat obstructs the airways when the person relaxes in sleep.  The other kind is central sleep apnea.  In this type of sleep apnea, the brain forgets to tell the body to breathe.  The person afflicted with this type may or might not be obese.

Both types of apnea are dangerous.  Those afflicted have a higher risk for heart disease, stroke and other life threatening disorders.