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Take Care Of Your Body. It’s Your Home For Life

Take Care of Your Body

Many of us act as if we were indestructible. We put our health below everything else and promise that we will get to it one day. However, as we get older, it becomes clear that if we neglect our health, we will lose it. Your body can allow you to do amazing things but only if you take care of it. Here is a list of the essentials to keeping your body healthy:

Eat Well– The key to a healthy diet is getting organized. Create a meal plan and make sure that you are getting all of the nutrients that you need. It may help to make a big batch of food on the weekend that you eat throughout the week. It’s a lot easier to make good food choices when you have a variety of healthy food easily accessible.

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Why Celebrate Health Each Day

World Health Day

With autumn just around the corner, it is a natural time to think about new beginnings. As you get older, it is more important than ever to prioritize your health, so this is the perfect opportunity to pick up some new habits. Here’s why you should make your health a priority every day:

Consistency is the key– When trying to be healthy, consistency is essential to your success. You can proactively prevent many illnesses through your daily routine. Just by exercising daily, planning healthy meals and getting enough sleep, you reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and stress related illnesses. You don’t necessarily need to make drastic changes in your life; you just need to do small things each day.

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Is Your Diet Causing You Pain?

Arthritis Symptoms

It seems most people today, especially seniors have some form of Arthritis.

Arthritis is a SYMPTOM not a DISEASE. It simply means “inflammation of the joints”.

This can happen for many reasons but typically it is triggered by food. Yes, you read that correctly, your diet may be causing your Arthritis symptoms! Imagine the look on your Doctors face when you tell him/her that?!

The common offenders are the “nightshade” family of foods such as tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, paprika, eggplant, cayenne, chili, and tobacco.

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Should You Be Eating Organic?

Eating Organic

Since we are full swing into the season of fruits & vegetables growing abundantly in our backyard gardens and at our local farm markets I wanted to touch on a controversial subject – ORGANIC vs NON-ORGANIC produce.

It only stands to reason that when you consume toxins and pesticides, your body – mainly your Liver – has to work extra hard to process these chemicals. When these toxins remain in the body they circulate in the blood and become absorbed by the cells. Long term pesticide use has been linked to Cancer, respiratory illness, neurological disorders such Parkinson’s, and increased risk for dementia.

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Great Ways To Stay Active While Aging Into Retirement!

Retirement

It is imperative to one’s health to stay active. Especially when you get older and you can’t do as much as you used to. Once you retire you want to be able to stay active and have the time and energy to do what you want. This is why it is so important to take control of your health as early as you can. Here are five ways to help improve your health and stay active as you age.

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Food Allergies Can Make Us Sick

Food Allergies

So you say you are feeling sick all the time and can’t figure out why?

Do you regularly get headaches, have a bloated stomach,have red irritated skin, eczema or chronic sinus infections?

Did you know your food could be making you sick? How and what we eat determines our health, well being and quality of life!

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Resolve To Manage Stress

No Stress

It’s February 2015, you may have started the year with New Year’s resolutions, and now despite your best intentions your resolve to make a change is weakening! What is it about a new year that makes us want to change how we do things? Did you know that only 8% of people who make resolutions actually stick to the plan!

To some, managing Stress needs to be priority all year!

Stress is on the top of the list for workplace illnesses. Stress takes over our lives for many reasons not just from having busy agendas. It can manifest itself from health issues, finances or relationship issues just to name a few.

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Holiday Survival Guide

Weight Measuring Machine at iCare Home Health, ON

As we begin the season of holiday parties we enter the Season of Temptation!

Rich foods, too much alcohol (for some), desserts, late nights, rushing around getting shopping done, the list is endless.

Did you know the average person gains 5lbs over the holidays? Over a 10 year period that is 50 lbs gained just over the Christmas season alone! Think about that for a minute!

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Natural Pain Relief

I Care Natural Pain Relief by iCare Home Health in Oakville, ON

There is nothing worse than dealing with chronic pain.  Being in constant pain puts the body in distress and can manifest in psychiatric symptoms like depression and anxiety.  Using medications long term causes gastro intestinal upset and eventually those meds don’t work as well as they once did so you resort to stronger ones and the vicious cycle continues.

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So You Can’t Stay Away from Sugar

Resist Sugar Temptations at iCare Home Health in Oakville, ON

I have been asked a few times this week about how to curb sugar cravings. It must have been a good summer of indulgence! 🙂

On the tail end of my last post on sugar, lets cover a few points of interest.

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