Ginger is an amazing spice. It’s well-known to help relieve both morning sickness, warm the body, strengthen your immune system, and relieve sore muscles and joints. It also has anti-inflammatory and digestive health benefits like improving poor circulation, reducing nausea, bloating and abdominal discomfort. Because it helps to improve blood flow around the body, ginger can prevent blood from stagnating in your body. This is also good news for puffiness under your eyes and a great way to hide those dark shadows that are difficult to conceal. That’s because it works well as a diuretic, helping to flush out stored...

We all know a good night’s sleep is one of the keys to maintaining a healthy weight. According to Harvard research, people who get too little sleep have a higher risk of weight gain and obesity than people who get seven to eight hours of sleep a night. That’s because chronic sleep deprivation makes you gain weight by either increasing how much food you eat or decreasing the energy you burn. You eat more because the lack of sleep increases your appetite-stimulating hormone, ghrelin and decreases your satiety-inducing hormone, leptin. Not to mention, the less you sleep, the more time...

If you're ever feeling like you've overdone it on the weekend, your best bet is to eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, healthy proteins, fats and follow a healthy, balanced diet the rest of your week. (Stay tuned, because the following detox smoothie can certainly help with that.) Since most of us don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, smoothies can be a great way to help you meet your fruit and vegetable goals for the day. Unlike juicing, blending fruits and vegetables into smoothies keeps the beneficial fiber needed to fill you up, keep your blood sugar from spiking, and...

If you've been trying everything to lose weight – like eating less and exercising more – but still can't seem to lose any weight... Your liver may be overloaded with toxins which are slowing down your metabolism. This is really important, because these toxins upset the two major jobs of your liver: Detoxify and break down foods entering your body Produce biochemicals needed to break down fats for energy But these days, our food supply is contaminated with heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, hormones, additives, and antibiotics. These impurities cause the liver to go into “toxic overload”, which makes your body...