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Have chronic pain? It’s such a pain, isn’t it? Today’s article discusses five ways to treat your reoccurring pains. Here’s an interesting one, “Antidepressant medications typically are used to treat mood disorders such as depression but research suggests that they may also alleviate nerve pain, headaches, lower back pain and fibromyalgia. In general, most antidepressants affect how chemical messengers, or neurotransmitters, perform in the brain.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

On Monday, we shared an article about foods that can get you out of a Winter funk. Today, continuing with the Winter theme, we bring you an article that suggests how you can keep your skin nice and safe away from harsh Winter weather. Here’s one tip, “Problem: red, raw nose The nose has lots of blood vessels that dilate when you come in from the cold, making you look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The skin often peels around the edges because of chronic sniffles. Solution: Mix a little Bacitracin or Neosporin with cortisone ointment and eat foods with plenty of Omega-3 fatty acids like fish, olive oil and nuts.” To see all of the tips, CLICK HERE.

Seasonal Affective Disorder sounds kind of odd but when the weather changes and it starts getting colder, some people can slip into a depression. Today’s article discusses what kinds of food can help cheer you up. Here’s what they said about the disorder, “SAD is a type of depression that sets in from fall to winter, and can make you feel like you’re trapped in the beginning of a Nicholas Sparks novel. The reduced level of sunlight we get after Daylight Savings Time creates a drop in the mood-boosting brain chemical serotonin and an imbalance in melatonin, another brain chemical regulating sleep and mood.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Dieting is hard enough but when a friend asks you to eat at a restaurant it can be hard to keep up a heart healthy diet. But today’s article gives tips on how you can keep close to your diet while eating out. Here’s one tip, “portion control is very important when dining out for lunch or dinner. Restaurant portions tend to be two or three times bigger than the portion sizes eaten at home. Ask for a lunch-sized portion, if available, because they tend to be smaller. Another idea is to split an entrée with someone you’re dining out with or even put some of your meal aside to take home. Ask the server to bring a to-go box and put half of your meal in the box before you start eating.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Eating healthy can be difficult especially if you work in a busy office where the cabinets are stocked with unhealthy snacks. But today’s article will try to help with ten great nutrition tips. Here’s one, “eating an appetizer of a broth-based soup or even an apple can reduce total calorie intake over the course of the meal by up to 20 percent, according to a series of “Volumetrics” studies at Penn State. Consider that, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the average restaurant meal contains 1,128 calories. A 20 percent savings, just once a day, is enough to help you shed more than 23 pounds in a year.” To read all of them, CLICK HERE.

Feel like your back is killing you? Can’t understand why it hurts? Today’s article lists seven strange reasons your back may be hurting. Here’s one, “one of the primary causes of low back pain is a pelvis that’s out of alignment, said neurophysiologist and fitness expert Chad Waterbury, author of the HFT2 training system. “The pelvic girdle consists of three bones that can shift depending on which muscles are weak or stiff,” Waterbury told Yahoo Health. “In most people, the left side of the pelvis is rotated to the right.” This pulls on the muscles of the low back, causing pain and stiffness.” To read them all, CLICK HERE.

Today’s article is breaking some hearts by bringing some truth to seven popular nutrition myths. Here’s one, “You need to detox your body with a juice cleanse. Fact: From celebrities to personal trainers, there’s no shortage of so-called experts advocating fasts or juice cleanses to detox. If you Google “detox,” you’ll get nearly 64 million results for diet programs and treatments that are supposed to help “flush out your system,” “remove toxic substances from the body,” “give your GI tract a rest,” or “speed up your metabolism” and “enhance your overall health.” But…” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Getting healthy and being healthy is constantly being drilled into our heads. But what happens when you take being “healthy” too seriously and it becomes unhealthy. Today’s article discusses what can happen, “There’s now a name for people dangerously addicted to all things healthy — a sufferer of orthorexia nervosa. Characterized by disordered eating fueled by a desire for “clean” or “healthy” foods, those diagnosed with the condition are overly pre-occupied with the nutritional makeup of what they eat. They rigidly avoid any food they deem to be “unhealthy,” or spend excessive amounts of time and money in search of the “most pure” foods.” To read more, CLICK HERE.

Today’s article discusses how exercise is actually great for you brain health too! Here’s what they had to say, “research has long shown that the hippocampus, a squishy seahorse-shaped region found on both sides of the brain that’s essential for learning and forming memories, becomes highly activated during exercise. But recent studies have revealed new, more complex and nuanced ways in which exercise activates and affects the brain.” To read more,

Is the time of burger joints and late night junk food over? America is trying to be healthier but with all the unhealthy fast food out there it can be hard to change…until now.  Today’s article discusses the evolution of fast food restaurants. Here’s what they had to say, “America’s interest in locally sourced and healthy foods has spurred a boom in farmers markets and farm-to-table restaurants and has expanded organic produce at the supermarket. Now, a number of upstart chains trying to tap that interest are taking aim at traditional fast food by moving leafy greens and fruits to the center of the plate.” To read more,  CLICK HERE.