During the course of your growing up years, you lived wherever your parents chose to live.  You didn’t give any thought to the health implications of the location your parents chose, or if they had chosen a place that was conducive to your overall wellness.  Chances are your parents didn’t give it much thought either….

During the course of your growing up years, you lived wherever your parents chose to live.  You didn’t give any thought to the health implications of the location your parents chose, or if they had chosen a place that was conducive to your physical, mental, and spiritual health.  Chances are your parents didn’t give it…

This is a double sided coin.  Does health affect intelligence? Yes.  Does intelligence affect health? Yes.  This is one of those wonderful situations where the cause and effect works both ways.  What happens in one area, will generally affect the other. It is a known and proven fact, that the eating and health habits we…

Wellness refers to the condition of good physical and mental health, especially when maintained by proper diet, exercise, and habits.  Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do.  Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins,…

The dictionary defines metabolism as the sum of all biochemical processes involved in life, or the sustaining of life.  In application concerning our health, metabolism is related to the intake and use of food.  In reference to the case in point it is our ability to utilize our food to the fullest extent.             Some…

Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our body’s healthy state.  Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements, and the FDA’s involvement in determining what is and is not dangerous for us to…

There are many words today associated with wellness.  Many of those terms are new for readers, and some of the terms are interchangeable between fitness, wellness, and health.  So let’s take a minute to explain some of the terms you may see from time to time. Wellness itself is defined as the condition of good…

Wellness of the spirit refers to our ability to cope with the everyday stresses and strains of living our life.  Quite often, the ability to cope overwhelms us, and if we don’t give sufficient time to the wellness of the spirit, or soul, we lose our ability to function properly.             Today, the evidence of…

Our spiritual input is a determining factor when establishing our wellness level.  We all need the benefit of spiritual reflection, as a way of cleansing ourselves of the toxins of our daily life.   Spirituality is a way of assuring ourselves of a renewing, and rebirth of ourselves as caring humans.  Wellness encompasses our state of…

Wellness refers to the condition of good physical and mental health, especially when maintained by proper diet, exercise, and habits.  Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do.  Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins,…