Looking to strengthen and tone your core? You might want to give Pilates a try! Pilates is an incredible workout method with a focus on effective core exercises that are great for a wide variety of movers. A healthy, strong core improves your posture, balance, and overall movement quality, making it an important part of…
A Dermatologist Explains the Best Way to Exfoliate Your Body Depending on Your Skin Type
From head to toe, our entire bodies are covered in dead skin cells. But what they didn’t teach us in seventh-grade biology class when we were singing about the mitochondria being the powerhouse of cells? Cells die and are replaced with new ones after they’ve served their purpose. Through regular exfoliation, we can speed up…
Want to add spark to retirement years? Here is what you can do!
Have you ever thought about your retirement years? It is like packing your bags for a trip. You will be seeing a major change in your life. Till now you have spent your days working, but now you have all the time in your hand. This transition sometimes can become rough. So, planning for it…
How to Prevent and Treats Stings from Bees, Wasps, Hornets, and Ants
How to Prevent and Treats Stings from Bees, Wasps, Hornets, and Ants All stinging insects, such as Bees, Wasps, Hornets, and Ants are an integral part of the ecosystem. Their importance cannot be overemphasized. The bees are important in the pollination of our agricultural plants and crops while the ants help in the breakdown…
The Secret to Building Confidence While Guarding Against Arrogance
If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that confidence doesn’t always come easy. Building confidence takes effort – it requires us to be open to trying new things and forging better relationships. Sometimes, building self-confidence even means having to transform on a physical level. Still, living a full life and being able to…
Five Fantastic Easy Tips to Detox Your Home and Lower Toxin Exposure
You eat healthy foods, you exercise and if you have children or pets, you’ve babyproofed or animal proofed your home. All excellent actions. But what about making your home a safer place from toxins? And what is the best way to lower toxin exposure? We’ve tapped into the wisdom of our expert host and speakers…
Institutionalized Medical Malpractice & COVID
It’s been over six weeks since Iowa dropped all state-level COVID restrictions, and surprise, surprise, hospitalized patients are down 54 percent. But if you try to Google this information, all you will see is death, dying, and it must be the end of the world because of COVID, which miraculously seems to be a cure……
Study: 55 Formerly Unknown Chemicals Found in Pregnant Women
The phrase “better living through chemistry” is a variation on an advertising campaign used by the DuPont Chemical Company1 in the mid-1930s until the early 1980s. In 2014,2 it became the title of a “comedy” that portrays the life of a man bullied by his father and wife, and his subsequent “rebirth” through chemical use….
How Some Transgender Folks Are Grappling With Gender Dysphoria During the Pandemic
It would be an understatement to say that the pandemic has been particularly rough on the transgender community. For many, the larger overall stress brought on by the pandemic and the continued threat of anti-trans violence (which reached record highs in 2020) often causes smaller stresses to build up quickly. Jay*, a genderqueer femme educator,…
How is camping good for you?
The world around us is still uncertain. Maybe it will be a while before you can go on a splendid summer vacation, but this doesn’t mean you will not be able to do something fun and very beneficial for you. Camping is good for your body and your soul. It helps you socialize and helps…