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Mindfulness Can Improve Sleep
Poor sleep patterns are linked to higher levels of LDL cholesterol. Getting a good night’s sleep is imperative to enjoying your day, having your body function well and almost every aspect of your h...
Mindfulness Doesn’t Work For Everyone
We have written a lot about mindfulness. It’s often made fun of as being new age or self-indulgent. But, using ancient breathing practices and calming techniques, you can train yourself to stay in ...
Mindfulness Helps Break Habits
Mindfulness is frequently the butt of jokes. Many interpret mindfulness as navel-gazing and believe it’s a mix of breathing and yogis. However, using the techniques of mindfulness, you can see sub...
Mindfulness May Help Ease Pandemic Stress
Everyone is living in a stressful situation right now. There is a global pandemic, humanitarian crisis, worries about financial security and divisive politics. It’s all mounting up to a point where...
We’re Not “In the Moment” Half the Time, and It Makes Us Unhappy
According to research from Harvard, we spend nearly half our time thinking of something other than what we are doing in the moment. While daydreaming might not seem like a bad thing, the researcher...
Navy SEAL Breathing Can Help Stress
If anyone knows about how to handle stress effectively, it’s the Navy SEALs. They have to function in high-stress situations all the time. Feeling a little stress might be good in a heat-of-the-mom...
How to Stop Mindless Eating
We read a lot of health advice from different organizations to bring you health news and lifestyle tips. Some of the information is great but hard to follow in our daily lives. For instance, over-a...
Compassion Is Good for Health
We’ve all heard of the mind-body connection and that health relates to attitude. But, did you know, that feeling compassion is good for your health? In fact, compassion is so beneficial, programs ...
Optimism Can Help You Recover from Stroke
Doctors have long known about the connection between mind and body. The expression “mind over matter” has merit. Your outlook can impact your health in many ways. For instance, in a study, people w...
COVID-19 Symptoms Tend to Appear in Order
If you are someone who often worries about getting sick, it’s easy to see any symptom as a sign of a more significant illness. With the long list of symptoms associated with COVID-19, it’s possible...
Inactivity Linked to One in 14 Deaths
According to new research, 7.2 percent of deaths globally can be attributed to inactivity — one out of every 14. And that number jumps to 7.6 percent if you are looking at deaths caused by heart or...
Sticking to Healthy Food at Fast Food Restaurants
Sometimes the hardest part of a healthy lifestyle plan can be eating out. You might have eating patterns or healthy foods that you like and are excited about and find easy or even enjoyable to foll...
How to Eat Healthy While Exhausted
Being tired can often lead to reaching for the easiest food possible. At the end of a long day, making a healthy meal is beyond many people. It’s effortless to buy something that isn’t good for you...
Emotions about Aging Impact Stress, Health
Researchers know stress and cholesterol are linked. But, how is less clear. Whether high cholesterol is a direct result of stress or if it’s related to common ways people react to stress — overeati...
The Worst Coffee Drink for Your Heart Is Loaded with Sugar
When we think about unhealthy drinks, our minds immediately go to soda. But, a pick-me-up from Starbucks can be incredibly unhealthy if you order poorly. While a simple coffee is excellent, many of...
National Park Week Kicks Off with a Free Day
We’re always talking about getting outside for exercise and relaxation. It’s good for the mind and body! This week 120 national parks and monuments that usually have a fee to visit are free to the ...
Optimism Can Aid the Heart
There’s excellent news for folks who always look on the bright side of life. According to an analysis of 15 studies, people with an optimistic outlook are far less likely to die from heart problems...
What is the Pegan Diet and Would It Be Good for You?
The pegan diet is a hot new trend of 2019. But what is it and would it be good for you?
Susan Selasky of the Detroit Free Press reported that searches for the pegan diet were up 337 percent lead...
New Study Shows Black Coffee Good for Heart
A new study may be great news for coffee drinkers! One or more cups of black, caffeinated coffee a day was linked to a lower risk of heart failure, according to the American Heart Association (AHA)...
Good News: It’s Safe to Exercise in a Mask!
In many places, safety precautions seem to change daily. What is and isn’t open is confusing. We look up places on our phones before heading out but still sometimes find ourselves disappointed. In ...
Just One Sugary Drink a Day Can Harm Heart
Many of us enjoy something sweet. It might be okay to indulge now and again if you plan ahead. But if your treat is soda, juice or another type of sugar-laden drink, you might want to think again. ...
Turmeric Can Aid Heart Health
They say variety is the spice of life. We agree with that in many ways, especially when it comes to diet, exercise and activities. Having a lot of interests, workouts and different foods can make y...
Why Is Meatless Monday a Good Thing?
Meatless Monday is a concept that is old but also in fashion. Meatless Monday and Wheatless Wednesday were started in WWI to aid the war effort. It was revived again during WWII for the same reason...
Swimming More Impactful than Running
Because of bad knees, bad backs, other medical issues or a general disdain for the activity, many of us don’t run or jog. But, don’t worry, there is something gentler on the body that uses many mu...
Occasional Napping May Be Good for Heart Health
There’s excellent news for folks who nap once or twice a week: you may be helping your heart! Some people swear by naps. Whether you don’t sleep well at night or if you find a little shuteye helps ...
Why Is Exercise Good for the Brain?
Exercise is good for all your organs, including the brain! Mental activities can help your memory. But physical exertion can also help your brain. Just like any part of your body, getting more blo...
Sugar’s “Scary” Connection to Cholesterol
Happy Halloween! Holidays that allow us to celebrate together make us happy. We love gathering together to have fun. But Halloween is a holiday that, while we appreciate the “spirit,” we’re not hug...
You Should Add Rice Bran Oil to Your Diet
We recently wrote about the fact that olive oil isn’t actually the most heart-healthy oil. It comes as a surprise to many people as it’s associated with the Mediterranean diet — one of the best die...
Are Potatoes Healthy?
Potatoes are a food almost universally loved. Their soft flesh can be baked, roasted, mashed, fried, boiled and more, making it easy to find a style for anyone’s preference. Their versatility make...
Puzzles May Help Your Brain Stay Young
Puzzles are great fun and a nice part of any day. You can use them to wake your brain up in the morning or to wind down in the evening. If you enjoy crosswords or Sudoku, and they are part of your...
Use Your Brain to Aid Memory
There’s excellent news for those of us who didn’t go to college: higher educations is not linked to protection from mental decline. But, there are ways for all of us to protect our brains!
Stayi...
Meal Timing Impacts the Heart
Eating by candlelight may be romantic, but you may want to start eating earlier for your health.In the past, we have written about the importance of meal timing when it comes it weight loss on our ...
Which Risk Factor Is Worse for Heart Health?
Do you know the ABC'S of managing heart risks? It's actually pretty easy to remember. A stands for aspirin — take it if your doctor has given it to you as a daily medication. B is for blood pressur...
Use Crafts and Hobbies to Manage Stress
It’s National Craft Month. At the beginning of the pandemic, many people took up new hobbies and turned to crafts to fill time. But as weeks turned to months and now we have hit the one-year mark, ...
Excess Sugar Is Bad for Heart
For most of us, when we think about dietary heart health risks, our minds immediately jump to fried foods and unhealthy fats. While that certainly isn’t wrong, most of us don’t think of refined sug...
More Proof Links Brain and Heart Health
In 1948, a long-term project began that has since become the longest-running study of heart disease. The participants in the Framingham Heart Study didn’t realize that they were taking part in a p...
Oily Fish and Heart Health
When we think of foods to aid heart health, we usually discount any foods with “oily” in the name. After all, oil and fat are synonymous to cholesterol for many of us. While only 25 percent of all...
The Ups and Downs of Oatmeal
We have all heard that oatmeal is a heart-healthy way to start your day. But is it? Often we hear these things as fact and never look at the science. Today we are taking a closer look at oatmeal an...
Is 2021 the Year of the Breakfast Salad?
Every year we hear about the “it” trend that is going to sweep the nation. Most times, it fades, and something unexpected becomes the “darling” of the health world. Recently we saw an article procl...
Sweet Potatoes Can Help Cholesterol Levels
We’re big believers in being proactive and doing everything we can to help our health. That includes talking to our doctors about what’s best for us and making healthy lifestyle choices in our exer...
Millet Becoming a Popular Grain
We enjoy learning new things. In the health and wellness industry, new discoveries and information are published all the time. And, sometimes, new trends can have us studying stuff we haven’t paid ...
How to Calm Down and Stave Off Panic
There are a lot of worries going around at the moment. People are scared of being sick, scared of being cut off, scared of running out of supplies and scared for the well-being of others. It’s no s...
Healthier White Bread Is Possible
We aim to eat a healthy diet. Diet is so crucial for all aspects of our health, including the heart. And while it might be easy to enjoy healthy foods and treat some foods as treats rather than sta...
Aid Healthy Aging by Caring for Teeth
Healthy aging is something we all aim for as we get older. No one simple trick can perk up your health, but a routine of many habits appears to help. While exercise, diet and mental stimulation com...
Singing Lifts Spirit for Free
With areas only partially open and most Americans still needing to keep their distance. It’s easy to feel alone. And we’ve run out of things to watch on Netflix. We need entertainment and something...
Adding Unhealthy Food to a Healthy Diet Weakens Results
We love hearing from customers on our blogs and social media! It helps us know what people think of our products and what news and lifestyle information to bring you! We hear all the time that peop...
Leafy Greens Can Help Cholesterol
When we think about cholesterol, our minds usually go to diet. Your liver has a larger impact on your cholesterol levels than your diet. Seventy-five percent of cholesterol comes from your liver. B...
Does Aloe Vera Really Lower Cholesterol?
The only way aloe vera usually makes it into our homes is in a bottle of sunburn relief gel or cream or as a growing, potted plant. Alternative medicine has used the plant for centuries to treat e...
Positivity Can Help Your Heart
A sunny disposition can be wonderful. Not only does the person with a happy attitude see the bright side and wake up feeling great, but people around them feel it too. Being someone who is dour, o...
Invading Immune Cells May Damage Older Brains
It’s an accepted part of life that as we get older, our bodies and brains don’t function as well as they did when we were young. Yet few of us ask why that is. We don’t question why our health and ...
Sorry: Chocolate Isn’t a Health Food
We see it all the time: dark chocolate is health food. Researchers have proclaimed it to be a superfood. Dozens upon dozens of studies have known that dark chocolate is a healing food. One study e...
Popular (And Most Effective) Diets of 2019
The beginning of the year is a time for resolutions to change our lives for the better. Some of us are exercising more, giving up a bad habit, keeping a cleaner home or learning a new skill. Many ...
Long Naps Are Bad for Heart Health
All aspects of health are interconnected. From mind and body, to diet and exercise, to teeth and eyes — everything impacts each other. We’ve written about how sleep impacts heart health before. A n...
Prevention Is the Best Medicine
It’s cliché but true: prevention is better than a cure. This is especially true as we age. Getting ill can take a toll on the body that might be avoidable. Prevention is a fantastic tool to fight ...
Grain Is Still an Important Part of Diet
With the rise of paleo, keto and other diet plans, we are more and more frequently hearing that we should avoid whole grains. Once the foundation of the food pyramid, now the USDA says about a four...
Chewing Gum May Have Health Benefits
People love gum for many reasons mostly because it fixes bad breath while tasting like candy instead of Listerine. But, are you aware of gum’s many benefits?
Trident’s early ads claimed that “fo...
We Have Video Chat Fatigue
We are into the second month of staying at home for most Americans. Most of us are more than a little stir-crazy. It’s hard to be cooped up at home, especially as the weather is starting to become ...
Don’t Put Off That Doctor’s Appointment
Everyone has put off a doctor’s appointment. The reason varies. We don’t want the results. It clashes with an event. We want to wait until we know we can do better on a test or measurement. But, in...
How to Fight Loneliness During Social Distancing
On Fridays, we talk about getting out and about on the blog for our sister supplement, Glucocil. However, with the coronavirus going around, many states are closing down public spaces. We wanted to...
Biking is a Great Way to Get Around
We love getting out and about. Right now, a lot of public transport isn’t running. For those of us without cars, that can be difficult. Many Americans are turning to bicycles to get around. That’s ...
How to Safely Handle Groceries
Many Americans have been spending most of their time inside their homes for over a month. But, many of us feel like we still haven’t found our “groove.” This situation is unprecedented, so we don’t...
Lower Heart-damaging Stress with Breathing
Stress takes an enormous toll on us. It is frequently easiest to see in our mood and actions. Stress can make you irritable, less focused, more indecisive and negatively impact your sleep. We know ...
Self-care Isn’t a Luxury
If you feel like we are living in crazy times right now, you’re right! Everything is topsy turvy! We have a pandemic, an election and a country that is angry at each other. The seasons are changing...
Exercise May Fight Anxiety
At Neuliven Health, we aim to promote healthy lifestyles for our customers. Exercise aids health and wellness in so many ways, physically and mentally. It has been touted as an anti-depressant for ...
Five Free Health Apps to Help You at Home
Concerns for COVID-19 are keeping us indoors more than we would like. And that means our health may suffer. It’s crucial to maintain good health during these strange times. This will end, and when ...
What Is the Japanese Diet, and Can it Help the Heart?
As anyone who binged on Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix might assume, the Japanese diet is based around minimalism: minimal animal protein, sugar or sauces, minimally processed ingredients a...
Keeping Healthy Diet, Habits After the Pandemic
Many people have gone one of two ways during the pandemic: using the time to learn to cook healthier meals and make an effort to eat better, or eating whatever is easiest and feels comforting. We d...
How to Cut Down on Screen Time for Heart Health
During the stay at home orders, many of us ramped up our screen time. With everything going on in the world, there’s a lot to be reading and watching. And, there wasn’t anywhere to go. There’s heal...
How to Combat Stress, Depression in the Time of COVID-19
The constant bombardment of bad news is taking a toll on Americans. We are feeling worn down by continuous low levels of worry. The changes to our lives and the things we are missing out on are mak...
Pet May Aid Aging
Pets are beloved members of the family for many people. We look to them for companionship, for entertainment and as a way to stay fit — when the dog needs a walk, someone needs to walk her! But tha...
Easy Swaps to Support Healthy Cholesterol
We like tasty food, and we hate denying ourselves good things. When you have cholesterol concerns, you can find yourself saying no to so many dishes. While cholesterol in our body comes predominant...