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Imagine What We Could Do

A professor asked students how to advance sustainability in the present and post-doctorate. The student plans to promote it by integrating holistic nutrition, advancing Health 4.0, traditional medicine, and reducing food waste. Healthier lifestyles could decrease chronic illness costs, enabling investment in environmental clean-up and mental health, fostering face-to-face social interactions over online networks. Ultimately, the student envisions these changes enhancing spiritual wellbeing, satisfying basic human needs, and exemplifying stewardship for the planet.

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What Does An Unhealthy Diet Cost You Every Year?

An Unhealthy Diet Cost The Hidden Unhealthy Diet Cost Everyone knows that a poor diet can make you fat. Obesity is a leading contributor to heart disease and other chronic illnesses. So the unhealthy diet cost increases when we add in medical care. But how much more does the unhealthy diet cost? A research article

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Oolong Tastes Delightful Can It Actually Help You?

What You Need To Know About Oolong Tea Origin: Oolong tea has been produced in China for centuries by harvesting the plant and allowing the leaves to brown in sunlight.  Form: Normally in tea bags, loose leaf, or powdered form as well as bottled. Potential Benefits: Weight Loss Cardiovascular Disease Hypertension Dental Health Type 2

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3 Reasons to Visit First US Spa Berkeley Springs

First US Spa Berkeley Springs Twenty-five years ago, Tim and Nancy started out married life with a honeymoon in the first US Spa Berkeley Springs, WV. It was an easy decision for a young couple just starting off and watching every penny. Berkeley Springs was an easy drive from Ohio (and many other states), inexpensive

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What Are Most Common nutritional Deficiencies?

Most Common Nutritional Deficiencies If we look around America (and many other Developed countries) we see people, on the whole, are well-fed. However, many Americans are not fed well. There are, of course, “food deserts” where nutritional food loses shelf space to beef jerky and beer. However, the most common nutritional deficiencies are not limited

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What Are Popcorn’s Health Benefits?

Popcorn Health Benefits Perhaps it’s just the allure of the weekend speaking but popcorn is a delight! We don’t mean the highly-processed drenched-in-some-goop-that resembles-butter with way too much salt type of popcorn. No. We mean the air-popped, as-Nature-intended popcorn. When prepared appropriately, we even get to enjoy the many popcorn health benefits. Really? Benefits from popcorn?

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A Plant-Based Diet Can Reduce Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

Plant Based Diet Can Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk It is readily apparent that a plant based diet can reduce type 2 diabetes risk. Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health promotes a plant based diet for type 2 diabetes and a new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute adds support for a plant based diet. Type

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Exeter Medical: Two hours of nature per week improves wellbeing

Nature Improves Wellbeing New research shows what it intuitive to many… nature improves wellbeing. This study from Exeter Medical even puts the optimum number of hours in nature at two hours per week. While it may be intuitive that nature improves wellbeing, we too often think that any healthy exposure to nature must a week hiking

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Flexitarian Diet

What is the Flexitarian Diet? A Plant-Based Eating Plan That Allows Meat

Flexitarian Diet There is on-going debate about what we should eat. However, there is wide agreement that a plan-based diet packs a number of health benefits. The challenge has been integrating a plant-based diet into a modern Western lifestyle, especially the US love for meat. The Flexitarian Diet tries to strike that balance between vegetarian

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