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It’s inevitable—we will all be exposed to cold and flu viruses this winter, but not all of us will get sick.

Resolution reset

Each year, millions of people set New Year’s Resolutions.

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee, and revery. The revery alone will do, if bees are few.” ―Emily Dickinson

Our bodies are meant to move. With today’s busy schedules, it can be difficult to make time and find the motivation to maintain the fitness our bodies crave. While ignoring physical activity might seem innocent enough, it is actually one of the most dangerous health risks we can impose on ourselves!

Exercise is amazingly healthy. Not only can exercise strengthen your muscles, but the more you do it, things like your nerves become better at controlling your movement, and subsequently you’ll begin to support long-term nervous system and even brain health. Similarly, your hormones, immune system, metabolism, and even digestion all respond and adapt to exercise to improve your overall health.

With the New Year quickly upon us, New Year’s resolutions are fresh on everyone’s minds. For many people, the end of the year is a time to take a personal inventory and reflect on how the year was for you, then make goals for the next year to keep on improving.

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A Calorie … the number we assign to food that tells us how much we’re supposed to eat in a day, right? Well, at least that’s how our dieting culture has defined a Calorie. But in reality, it is a bit trickier to quantify than that. You can have a small handful of food be more Calories than a large plate full of food, and the other way around.

Shorter days, cooler nights, a new school year… a shift in seasons has begun. With seasonal changes afoot, now is also a good time to make a shift in your diet, from conventional produce to organic. According to current estimates, nearly 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the United States, and their residues inevitably end up on our food, and in our bodies.