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Cutting-edge information and tips for creating health in all areas of life – wellness, nutrition, fitness, attitude, and relationships
May 8, 2025
Regular Soap is Healthier and Safer than Antibacterial Soap?
When buying soap, most people subconsciously reach for antibacterial soap without giving it a second thought. They believe that antibacterial soap is better than regular soap because it kills germs. The FDA, however, has a different opinion. Scientists have yet to find evidence that antibacterial soaps are any better than regular soaps. Some studies have actually shown that antimicrobial ingredients can have negative health effects. This is why the FDA recently banned 19 chemicals that are used in these soaps. The ban includes triclosan, the most common antiseptic in hand soaps. (By the way, according to the Mayo Clinic, triclosan is also found in certain older cookware, furniture, and toys to prevent or reduce bacterial contamination. Research has shown that it can be hazardous to human health and harmful to the immune system. It’s even been shown to affect hormone regulation in animals.) Antibacterial Soaps Have to Adjust to New Regulations Manufacturers have no choice but to remove the banned chemicals from their soaps. And while there are three chemicals that haven’t been banned – mainly because they are still under study – manufacturers have a limited amount of time to submit data on the safety and effectiveness of these ingredients to the FDA. However, there’s absolutely no reason to worry. Regular soap and water are all you need to avoid spreading germs and getting sick. Soap doesn’t have to kill germs to be effective; it just has to physically remove them from your skin! As you go about your…
Use Deep Breathing To Restore Inner Calm
Life gets more stressful every day. It can be a million little things competing for our time or one huge thing we never saw coming. One minute everything is great, and the next minute our whole world is upside down. Life isn’t easy. Of the many techniques to cope with stress, deep breathing is among…
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Why “Bad” Carbohydrates Are So Bad (But So Deliciously Good At The Same Time)
Hot fluffy pancakes slathered with butter, drenched in mouth-watering maple syrup, with a few berries thrown in for nutritional penance to tame our guilt. Wow. We do love our carbohydrates, don’t we? Maybe pancakes aren’t your thing but everyone has their nutritional Kryptonite. Some people swear by carbs them. Others curse them, believing they’re downright…
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5 Most Common Risk Factors Of Alcoholism
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), alcohol is a significant cause of death in the U.S. More than 95,000 people die every year due to alcohol-related causes. Alcoholism is a disease referred to as alcohol dependence, alcohol abuse, and alcohol use disorder. Alcoholism is drinking so much alcohol that the body becomes addicted,…
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Great Tips For Less Stress and Better Sleep
There are over a billion Internet searches on “anxiety,” which, according to Psychiatry.org, says: “Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and can be beneficial in some situations. It can alert us to dangers and help us prepare and pay attention. Anxiety disorders differ from normal feelings of nervousness or anxiousness and involve excessive fear or anxiety.” Get…
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5 Gym-free Ways To Stay In Shape!
Although the gym has just about everything you can imagine to get in the best shape of your life, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, despite easy access and affordable membership fees. Some people are self-conscious and feel uncomfortable working out in front of people. For others, logistical issues such as transportation or travel time…
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Metabolic Syndrome And Your Health
We hear a lot about “Metabolic syndrome” these days. The metabolic process regulates many body functions that, in turn, determine your quality of health. Metabolic Syndrome According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, “Metabolic syndrome is a group of conditions that together raise your risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other serious health problems. Metabolic…
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Are You Weighed Down Because You Dread Your Life Right Now?
There are days when life overwhelms you with a flood of emotions. Remorse, bitterness, frustration, helplessness, guilt, shame, and other feelings can take you to a very dark place really fast. Insecurity and uncertainty rise within your soul, giving way to feelings of hopelessness and fear, causing you to feel a special kind of “aloneness.” …
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5 Ways A Lack Of Discipline & Self-Control Affect Your Life
Discipline is self-control. There are plenty of urges and forces that seek to control us today. But the most important control of all is self-control. Taking charge of your life, regardless of what’s happening around you or within you, exercising your freedom and power of choice to live YOUR life, not someone else’s, is the…
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Balancing Work and Life — 4 Pieces of Advice From Busy Professionals
Please enjoy this week’s guest post written exclusively for Lifestyle Magazine by Sophia Emma on balancing work and life! The US comes in 13th on a list of countries with the worst work-life balance, according to a World Economic Forum article on the topic. One main reason behind this is that Americans work very long hours….
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Confronting And Replacing Your Faulty Beliefs
Is your opinion of yourself high, low, or somewhere in between? What beliefs about yourself have you accepted or convinced yourself are true? Your opinion of yourself and your place in the world is a self-determining prophecy that affects your happiness, success, and relationships. Your beliefs about yourself affect everything you do and can even…
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Is Stress Keeping You From Being Happy?
There’s a lot of talk about stress these days. People feel anxious and overwhelmed by all kinds of stress, from financial worries to relationship issues to world events. Chronic stress is the problem – stressful feelings that won’t go away but stay with you daily. Chronic stress interferes with your ability to be happy. Although…
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Find Inner Peace In Nature
Do you ever feel like life is rushing past you? Or are you so distracted by a million different things competing for your attention that you miss what’s happening around you? When was the last time you gifted yourself a few minutes just to enjoy nature? The warm, nurturing glow of the sun as it…
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