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Be More Productive by Making These Minor Lifestyle Changes

Body, Life

Do you ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? We’ve all been there, staring at the clock and trying to work out how on Earth we are going to fit everything that we need to do into the remainder of our day. It’s not a great feeling.

While we can’t exactly make the day longer, as helpful as that would be, we can take steps to ensure that we are using our time as efficiently as possible. We often convince ourselves that we are working as efficiently as possible, but there’s almost always something we can do to enhance our productivity.

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8 Ways to Live Well, Even With Chronic Illness

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Many people with chronic illnesses have a complicated diagnosis, battle with plenty of pain every day and struggle with fatigue. They spend a lot of time researching their illness, understanding it and trying to change it to the point where they stop believing they will ever get the change to live a normal life again.

Living a happy and fulfilled life with chronic illness is more than possible. While everyone has their own way of dealing with their condition, here are a few things that helped many people live a quality life.

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Protect Yourself Against Spring Allergy with these 4 Strategic Approaches

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Spring is an exciting season with warmer temperatures and more sunlight, causing many plants to grow quickly and provide more food. However, my friend Sheena is least happy during this time of the year. She experiences non-stop sneezing, red and itchy eyes and even difficulty of breathing. 

Spring allergy or seasonal hay fever is a debilitating condition. But there are ways to work around it.

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Benefits of Essential Oils: 10 Natural Ways to Heal Yourself

Body, Natural Medicine

Essential oils offer many benefits to your emotional, mental, but also physical health. Add their pleasant smell to the equation, and you’ll realize there’s no reason not to turn to these wonderful essential oils for pleasure, but also for a natural healing aid.

Here are ten essential oils that can help improve your wellness and your mood.

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5 Signs of High Blood Sugar You Shouldn’t Ignore

Body, Nutrition

High blood sugar is something that occurs when the amount of sugar (also known as glucose) in your blood elevates. Food is the main way we get glucose into our bodies. Almost everything we eat will have some sort of impact on our blood sugar levels. Foods that contains a high amount of sugar or carbohydrates tend to increase blood sugar levels a lot more than food containing more fat and fiber. Our bodies will maintain high blood sugar by releasing insulin from the pancreas. However, some people can develop a resistance to insulin, known as type 2 diabetes, which means you will be at risk of developing a dangerously high blood sugar level. Here are five signs that your blood sugar is starting to get too high.

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7 Dimensions of Wellness

Body, Mind, Spirit

While some may say there are eight, nine or even 10 dimensions of wellness, here we’ll focus on seven of the most important dimensions of wellness that can help you experience total well-being, physically and emotionally.

By addressing every aspect of well-being you’re likely to feel more balanced, energized and ready to take on anything that life throws at you, and it doesn’t matter where you happen to live on this planet, whether it’s Atlanta, Los Angeles, London or Tokyo. That’s because wellness is a whole lot more than a location, physical health, nutrition or exercise, it integrates all states of mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

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