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With the coming fall season, comes cold, flu, and yes— allergies! (Although quite honestly, around my house allergies can attack at any time! They don’t need a season!)
Today I’m teaming up with Arm & Hammer to share a couple of their products that can help you fight allergies. As part of the Arm & Hammer Influencer Network, my kitty cats and I received an Easy Breathing with Arm & Hammer package.
If you’ve recently started a rigorous workout routine and your muscles are already feeling fatigued and sore, you might want to take it easy. Research says that your muscles take more time to repair themselves if you’re not allowing enough time for recovery in-between strenuous workouts. Attending high intensity classes are excellent for your health, but they can be hard on your muscles. Allow enough time for recovery by eating the right foods, resting, and taking supplements such as L- glutamine and your muscles will be able to handle your workout routine in no time.
Enough Time to Recover
Are you providing your muscles enough time for recovery in between each workout? If you’re not, this should be important, especially if your workouts are rigorous or you are feeling some extra tightness in certain muscle groups. Resting in-between high intensity workouts will allow your muscles time to heal, as opposed to causing an ongoing injury.
Add L Glutamine to Your Supplement List
If you’re currently not taking L glutamine supplements now is a good time to add them to your daily vitamins. Since glutamine is one of the most common amino acids found in the body and more specifically muscle tissues, it is a pertinent fuel that assists with muscle contraction. Many sports trainers will recommend that you take L glutamine supplements before and after working out so that your glutamine levels don’t drop low. If your levels drop low this could mean muscle injury or not allowing your muscles enough time to repair. Add glutamine to your daily vitamin list and allow your muscles to recover daily.
Stretch Sore Muscles
Another key to muscle recovery is stretching muscles that are sore. Most trainers will tell you that you should not stretch unless you have warmed up at the gym or wherever you are working out first, which is generally the case. Stretch your muscles after you exercise if you know some muscle groups tend to get tighter than others. Begin with shallow stretches and increase to a deeper stretch depending on how your muscles are feeling that day. Taking certain precautions daily will allow you to maintain a great workout schedule without causing injury to your muscles.
Sierra is a freelance writer who enjoys working out without causing harm to her muscles. She stretches and takes L glutamine so that she can stay in great shape.
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Advertisers will tell you that it’s important to live in the moment, which is good advice as you’re raising your kids. Longing for the past and lamenting the future will rob you of those daily moments of contentment as your kids grow up. However, when it comes to your own personal health, it’s important to both live in the moment and look to the future to set up some best practices in your world today to invest in a long and healthy life.
Glucosamine and Running
For healthy joints, glucosamine is a must-have. It relieves the pain of osteoarthritis as you get older, allowing for an active, healthy lifestyle. Osteoarthritis is a high risk for all women. Glucosamine, available through Seven Seas, helps repair the joint cartilage that can break down as a result of age or overuse of joints from long-term, high-impact exercise. If you’re a runner or enjoy other forms of high-impact exercise, start taking glucosamine before you have problems.
Glucosamine and Strength-Training
Though glucosamine is important for those who indulge in high-impact exercise, it’s also important for those at risk or osteoarthritis who wish to do any sort of activity pain-free. The breakdown of the cartilage can also affect your ability to participate in other activities, including strength training. It’s important in your young life to begin and maintain a strength-training routine. Osteoporosis can begin to set in at an early age, even if you don’t feel its effects until you’re older. Strength-training helps prevent it, as well as other injuries as you age. To keep your joints functioning well enough to strength-train for a long time to come, be sure to take your glucosamine.
Other Healthy Habits
Be sure to drink enough water every day, limit your caffeine intake, and take your vitamins. It’s these routine things that add up over time to build a healthy lifestyle and support your health late in life. If you’re experiencing any ailments, such as back pain, be sure to address these issues earlier in life rather than later. Your bones are typically much more resilient at a young age, and it’s easier for chiropractors or other doctors to work their magic if you’re younger — and it will cost you less in the long run. It’s also easier to establish and maintain a workout routine when you’re in your thirties than it is in your forties. It’s not impossible to start a healthy routine late in life, and it’s still vitally important. However, earlier is better when it comes to your health. Check your daily calcium intake, and if you’re like most women, you aren’t getting enough. Consider taking a calcium supplement in addition to striving to eat healthy each day.
Paige One writes about a variety of topics – including health!
It’s difficult to find meals that are fast, convenient, delicious, and healthy, especially when you are trying to feed kids. Greenie Tots is a line of microwaveable meals that satisfies all these requirements. Their meals can be prepared in 5 minutes are less. Each is 100% meatless and contains no artificial colors or flavors and no high fructose corn syrup.
There are 5 varieties available. They include:
I got two try a couple of Greenie Tots entrees. I selected Cauliflower Rice with Chik’n and the Mac and Cheese with Peas. Both were delicious!
The Cauliflower Rice with Chik’n. It contains a soy-free meatless chick’n that, in my opinion, tasted just as good as the real thing. And it had a great mixture of long grain white rice and vegetables. If you are a fan of stir-fry, I think you would love love this. I didn’t even season mine, because the flavor was so good I didn’t see a need. And it was also a good portion size for me.
As for the Mac and Cheese with Peas, I liked it as well. The Mac and Cheese was especially good! It is made with a blend of five organic cheeses and milk, and it tasted just as good as other mac & cheese products I’ve bought in the past. As for the peas, I did season those a bit, to give them a little bit of flavor, I thought they were a great compliment to the Mac & Cheese, and I think kids will love this meal.
I think the other selections looks great as well. For instance, I’d love to try the quesadillas!
Which meal would you like to try?
And what’s most important to you when you’re shopping for frozen entree? Flavor? Healthy? Kid friendly? Price? Something else?
As a kid, I loved getting ChapStick at Christmas time. And okay! Now as an adult, I STILL love getting ChapStick at Christmas time!
This year just in time for the holidays Chapstick is introducing three Seasonal varieties. They are Apple Cider, CandyCane, and Chocolate Truffle.
Featuring a convenient gift tag on the back of each package, ChapStick takes the hassle out of gift wrapping, making it easy to drop into a stocking or you can attach it on top of a gift.
I recently had the chance to review the new flavors, and I think you will love them! My favorite of the three is the Candy Cane. It has a great scent and taste, and it gives your lips a nice, cool sensation that is very soothing for chapped lips.
You can find the seasonal varieties in the cough and cold aisle at food, drug and mass retailers for the suggested retail price of $1.01 to $1.99. Also, Connect with ChapStick on Facebook.
Disclosure: I received samples for review purposes but received no other compensation. The opinions are my own.
You may remember the giveaway I had for mouthwash from Natural Dentist. Today I’ve got another product to share with you from the same company. Stim-U-Dent is a new product that helps you to remove plaque from your teeth and gumline.
The product is designed to replace floss. As I’m sure you all know, a lot of us don’t floss, and unfortunately when we fail to remove plaque between our teeth and stimulate our gums, our risk for gum disease increases. [Read more…]
I often research various health topics online. Often I find myself looking up a particular ailment, condition, medication, or supplement, and this will ultimately lead me to check out articles on other health related articles that I find. I recently ran across Health Daily Online.
Of course, the site includes articles on various conditions from migraine headaches and anxiety (two of the big health concerns in my life) to heart disease, sexual health, and mental conditions. You can find information, including the symptoms and causes, as well as treatments and preventative measures. [Read more…]
Ready or not, summer is almost here – along with all the skin-exposing fashions that come with it – and Udderly Smooth is celebrating with a NEW product for udderly beautiful skin – Udderly Smooth Vitamin E Cream. Enriched with Vitamin E, this cream will immediately make your skin summer soft and smooth. You can find the new 3-ounce tube exclusively at Walmart in late April for less than $2.00! Perfect to toss into your purse, gym bag, diaper bag or took kit!
Summer sun also means sandal season! So, get your feet pedicure-perfect with Udderly Smooth Shea Butter Foot Cream. Awarded Best Foot Cream by Woman’s Day magazine (and professionally recommended for diabetic patient use!), Udderly Smooth Shea Butter Foot Cream ($5.00) quenches extremely dry and thirsty skin of the feet – rough heels, in particular. Since it’s water based, this light moisture therapy absorbs quickly and leaves no greasy residue.
As Mother’s Day draws near, not to mention the season to buy gifts for graduations, teacher gifts, and weddings, it seems like the perfect time to talk spa items! Of course, there are a lot of websites where you can order brown sugar scrubs and other organic beauty products. And these are fabulous, but sometimes they can be a little expensive, so if you’re on a budget, you should definitely try making your own at home!
Today I’ve got a recipe for an Oatmeal and Brown Sugar Scrub. This is something that you can mix together in about a minute, and it makes for a really great facial and/or scrub that you can use on yourself or that you can package in a decorative jar and give as a gift. Hope you enjoy!
Here’s my final sponsor spotlight for Blog Mania! Remember that the giveaway will be posted tonight, so please come back at that time to enter.
My final sponsor is Skincare by Feleciai. They have a wonderful collection of skin products that include bar soaps, brown sugar scrubs, shea butters, and shea butter creams. And they have a number of unique formulas to meet your skin type and health and beauty needs.
