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Best Mental Exercises for Your Brain

Best Mental Exercises for Your Brain

Yeah, I know your brain is not a muscle. However, your brain responds to exercise (of the mental variety) just like a muscle responds to physical exercise. When we exercise a specific muscle, say your bicep, it responds by growing larger, stronger and becomes more 

Is Quinoa a Seed or a Grain?

Is Quinoa a Seed or a Grain?

This is a question along the same lines of is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Technically speaking, a tomato is a fruit that many refer to as a vegetable. However, answering whether quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is a seed or a grain isn’t so 

Healthy Dessert Recipes

Healthy Dessert Recipes

Yes, Virginia, there are healthy dessert recipes. They do exist and they can be just as delicious as non-healthy desserts. The key to enjoying healthy desserts is in finding a recipe that looks enticing and then making it yourself…a bit labor intensive, I know, but 

Indoor Workout Routines for the Winter

Indoor Workout Routines for the Winter

Most people who exercise do so either before or after their workday, which means either early in the morning or in the evening. However, during the winter months this usually precludes us from exercising outside due to darkness and/or cold temperatures. As a result, we 

How to Beat the Winter Doldrums

How to Beat the Winter Doldrums

The term “doldrums” is actually a nautical one. It refers to an area around the equator that was notoriously devoid of wind during certain times of the year and back when ships were exclusively wind powered, this could cause problems. As a result, many a 

10 Best Holidays Shows on Netflix

10 Best Holidays Shows on Netflix

Let me start with the fact that Netflix does not have any holiday hits on its roster…no It’s a Wonderful Life, Love Actually, Die Hard (yes, it’s considered a holiday movie), Home Alone, Elf, or Christmas Vacation. However, this is a good thing because it forces you to 

Some Things to Put on Your Winter 2022-23 Bucket List

Some Things to Put on Your Winter 2022-23 Bucket List

As is my wont, I’ll begin this post by defining a term from the title, in this case, “bucket list.” In years gone by, a bucket list was a list of things you wanted to do before you died or kicked the proverbial bucket. The 

Vegan Food Substitutes for the Holidays

Vegan Food Substitutes for the Holidays

What follows is a hypothetical holiday conversation between Olivia the omnivore and Victor the vegan: Victor entered his in-law’s home expecting the regular questions non-vegans ask of vegans. He wasn’t disappointed when the conversation inevitably turned to his veganism when Olivia asked, “I know you 

How to Get Your Diet Back on Track After Thanksgiving

How to Get Your Diet Back on Track After Thanksgiving

We all know that the Thanksgiving holiday is no longer restricted to just Thanksgiving Day. It has morphed into a week-long gluttony-fest that runs from the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving all the way to the Monday after. It begins as we must take the Wednesday 

Healthy Eating Tips for Holiday Gatherings

Healthy Eating Tips for Holiday Gatherings

It’s here, six-weeks of parties, family gatherings, office holiday happy hours, omnipresent baked goods and alcohol and massive sit-down dinners where the table strains under the weight of the food upon it. All this after you’ve spent the last 10 months exercising on a regular