Beef Jerky
This high-protein snack seems to be pretty healthy.. nope! These products are overly-loaded with sodium sugar and unhealthy preservatives, so the best option is to just make your own at home.
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You are too stressed Many health experts say that stress is described as the disease of our century because it affects people of all ages and causes a lot of
You Feel Moody Feeling moody lately? How’s your sleep? When, during a study, scientists limited participants to just 4 ½ hours of sleep a night for a week, they found
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Eat complex carbohydrates “I try to make meals that include whole wheat, hummus, quinoa, seven-grain rice, black beans or kidney beans. Complex carbs are absorbed more slowly in the small
Aside from water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world, and it’s practically medicine in a mug. But tea consumption isn’t quite as popular in the United States
Each year some 610,000 people in the United States die of heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)—that’s one quarter of all deaths, making it the leading
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Thinking about negative and stressful things before bedtime really does keep you up at night. There are probably few people out there that haven’t experienced this in some way. You
According to the National Institute of Health, approximately one in four Americans have experienced pain lasting for longer than twenty-four hours. Yet, more often than not, the solution is simply,
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Stop using plastic Bisphenol A (or BPA) is a monomer commonly found in plastic goods—water bottles, Tupperware, that sort of thing. BPA is bad for your body for a variety
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2 thoughts on “20 Things You Think Are Healthy But Actually Aren’t”
I was surprised by some of these and not surprised by others. No wonder our bodies are so unhealthy. Things that have been developed in the last 50 years (plastic products, baked chips, frozen yogurt) all seemed to be wonderful. Now we find that we’re probably slowly killing ourselves. You hear more & more cases of cancer than ever before and now it makes sense.
I am 94 yrs old & have not nor do not eat any of these so far, think that my have anything to do with my healthy years now? Good thinking on your part to show all of these, I see so many eating all of them, thank you. Olive Pierce