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Reduce Your Food Waste

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC How may times have you done your weekly grocery shopping with the intention to make a bunch of healthy meals; then, life gets the best of you, and a week later you find yourself throwing a wilted veggies down the garbage disposal.  According to this recent article by the NRDC, 40% of the food in the United States does not get eaten.  See this link for more information, www.nrdc.org/resources/food-matters. Use these helpful tips to make a conscious effort to reduce food waste. At the same time, you will be stretching the dollars you spent on food,...

Flip the Script on the Sunday Night Blues and Set the Tone for your Week with these 6 Pro Tips

Written By: Julie Paiva, CHHC   Does anxiety creep in when you think about the upcoming week?  Do those thoughts get you to feeling a little blue on Sundays?  The anticipation of what the next week has to bring can leave you feeling stressed and depressed.  Often people can get worried about unfinished tasks at work or home that need to be tackled come Monday morning.  Creating a work-life balance can be challenging with the demands of our jobs and our children’s school and activity schedules.  There are some simple shifts that can be done to help manage overwhelming feelings and...

Don’t Sweat It: A Guide to Choosing the Right Deodorant

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   During these warmer summer months, you likely are sure to apply deodorant before leaving the house. Most people use deodorant or antiperspirant to avoid having sweaty and stinky arm pits.  Is there a difference between these two products?  Usually people use the terms interchangeably.  But the truth is they work in very different ways. Deodorants, as the name might suggest, are made to curb odor, while antiperspirants, on the other hand, are created to decrease sweat.   Sweating is good for you. Aluminum-based products, specifically, work by clogging sweat pores to reduce perspiration. Blocking sweat ducts alters natural perspiration....

Healthy Grocery Shopping Tips

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC Grocery shopping can be daunting and confusing especially if you are new to a healthy living lifestyle.  Here are some of my favorite tips to help you navigate through the aisles with ease. DON’T SHOP HUNGRY I’m sure you have made the mistake at least once in your life of going to the market while hungry.  Before you know it, everything on the shelves is calling your name.  When you get to the register, you realize that half the items in your cart are only there because they are satisfying to your tummy at the time.  Therefore,...

Friendships Increase Our Health

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC If any of you were ever a Girl Scout, you might remember that friendship song that has a line something like this, “make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the others gold.”  Friendships are an important part of our lives, and they are not only made in our childhood.  We create friendships throughout our lives.  Good true friends are a treasure.  Whether your friends are a thousand miles away, right down the street, known you all your life or only been in your life for a short time, having genuine friendships...

Food Labeling Tricks

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   As consumers, we rely on labels to make good nutritional choices for our families.  However, let's not forget that food manufacturers use labels to promote and sell their products. Unfortunately, we are not living in a world where "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is printed on food packaging.  Food companies use marketing tricks to make their products seem more appealing to consumers.  Labels can be misleading, especially if you don’t learn to read between the lines and examine the fine print.   Knowing what words on the label really mean can aid you towards making...

Beat The Winter Blues

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   How many of you have spring fever, but are still locked in the house by frigid temperatures?  With the cold weather still upon us, it’s common to want to get outside and start enjoying nature again. Being stuck inside gets boring fast and isn’t nearly as exciting as the abundance of activities that spring and summer have to offer. However, there are many ways to beat cabin fever, so you aren’t left feeling bored, restless, or agitated.  Encourage your kiddos to put down the TV remote, and try one of these fun and engaging indoor...

Benefits of Foods that Ground You

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   Go, go, go, go!  How many of you feel like you are running all day long and never feel calm and grounded?  Our fast-paced lives can leave us always feeling rushed and foggy.  All the travel by air and by car, speeding on highways as we commute day in and day out. We have lots of commitments. Multiple balls in the air at one time in all areas of our lives – work, home, friendships, family, etc.  To-do lists of never-ending responsibilities and possibilities of things we’d like to get to at some time. Email...

Celebrate You This Valentine’s Day

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   New Years has come and gone, and now Valentine’s Day is already here.  How many of you thought just a month and half ago on New Years that this year would be different?  How many of you have had this thought for as many new years as you can remember yet still are unsatisfied with whatever healthy change you intended to make?   Make Time for You   Why does this happen?  We are great at prioritizing everything in our lives, spouses, children, friends, our jobs, chores but fail to follow thru with ourselves.  When is the last time...

Prevent the Winter Blues by Adding Greenery to Your Home

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   Winter can be grim. The holidays are over and now we have the dark, frigid days upon us until spring makes its glorious appearance.  To escape that winter slump, take a trip to the garden center to add some green to your home. Houseplants have many benefits.  Spend a little green on beautiful greens for your home.   Physical Benefits   Winter means tightly closed windows and stuffy quarters. Enclosed environments can trap pollutants in the air.  Plants clean the air by producing oxygen. They reduce carbon dioxide levels, increase humidity and reduce airborne dust levels. Indoor plants absorb pollutants...

Embracing Minimalism

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   What is minimalism?  It is intentionally living with only the things you need.  The thought of this might sound good to you, or it might feel scary.  Know that it doesn’t mean that you need to throw away all your stuff, sell your house, and move into a tiny home.  You can still embrace living a minimalistic lifestyle without living in a 300 square foot home.  It is possible to take some of the main ideas of minimalism and incorporate them into your life.  Living with less things can aid in less stress and more...

Meal Planning and Prepping: Healthy, Homemade Food Made Easy

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   Have you made the decision to eat better this year?  That’s great!  Let’s help you make this a reality.  Sometimes even with the best intentions, we can sabotage ourselves if we don’t set up a “master plan” to help us be successful.  Meal planning and meal prepping are great ways to make sure that your nutrition goal gets fulfilled easily.   Clients often tell me that they don’t know how to eat well or are not sure how to make healthy meals, but healthy cooking can be much easier than you might think.  Getting in the kitchen...
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Reduce Your Food Waste

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC How may times have you done your weekly grocery shopping with the intention to make a bunch of healthy meals;...

Flip the Script on the Sunday Night Blues and Set the Tone for your Week with these 6 Pro Tips

Written By: Julie Paiva, CHHC   Does anxiety creep in when you think about the upcoming week?  Do those thoughts get you to feeling a little...

Don’t Sweat It: A Guide to Choosing the Right Deodorant

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC   During these warmer summer months, you likely are sure to apply deodorant before leaving the house. Most people use deodorant...

Healthy Grocery Shopping Tips

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC Grocery shopping can be daunting and confusing especially if you are new to a healthy living lifestyle.  Here are some...

Friendships Increase Our Health

Written By Julie Paiva, CHHC If any of you were ever a Girl Scout, you might remember that friendship song that has a line something...
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