How To Get Your Spouse To Eat Healthy?

It can be hard to maintain a lifestyle if you have someone who doesn't agree with it. No one wants to play the healthy food vs junk food game everyday, because it gets old and tiring very quickly. So, how can you get your spouse to eat healthy?

1. Be encouraging. Explain to him or her the importance of eating a healthy diet.

2. Get the whole family involved. It's much easier to do things together, than it is alone.

3. Involve him or her in the planning of meals and the grocery shopping.

4. Try new and different recipes. Eating healthy doesn't have to be boring or taste bad.

5. Try to keep healthy foods and snacks around the house.

6. Pick good books to read regarding making the transition to a healthy lifestyle. Include the whole family. Don't know what kinds of books to consider? Check out my Health Essential Books Store in my side bar for some of my recommendations.

7. Kindly, remind them that we have only one body and we have to take care of it, because if we don't who will? Nothing is worth being miserable over, and especially because one chooses to eat poorly.

8. Don't argue, and this is a big factor. Don't let food be the reason for an argument.

9. Have patience, and be understanding. Remember, the food industries are using ingredients that is causing it to be addictive. It also takes time for a person to break bad habits.

10. Lead by example. If you are looking and feeling good. That's something that few people can resist.

Teaching Your Kids To Eat A Healthy Diet

Sometimes kids have picked up bad eating habits and we say to ourselves, where did they come from? Often they have come from the parents. Children can be taught to eat a healthy diet at a young age. Fruits and vegetables should be a part of children’s diet along with drinking water. In the beginning the child might resist but if you are persistent you will eventually win the battle. You have to be the one to teach them because if you don’t the food companies with their fancy advertisements will and who wants that?

Sugary cereals should not be included in a child’s breakfast. Eating junkie cereals are a beginning of a child’s addiction for junk food. Let’s face it, if you are eating sugary foods for breakfast is not getting them off to a good start health wise.

If you don’t buy it they cannot get it at your house. The reason I say this is because just because you are not buying it doesn’t mean that they are not getting it. Many times grandparents will buy what you won’t. Don’t worry. It won’t ruin your child’s decisions on making the right food choices. I know because I was one of those kids who asked their grandparents to buy the junkie cereals because my parents wouldn’t and I make good food choices.

You still may want to tell your parents about the importance of eating a healthy diet and why you aren’t buying that junk for your children. I believe it is important so the grandparents won’t feel like you are depriving them.

Oatmeal and cream of wheat are excellent for breakfast because it is warm and it stays with them. Pancakes and waffles are good too. It is better to make it from scratch but you can purchase a mix called Arrowhead Mills at your local health food store.

When you reward your children for good behavior or good grades or whatever the occasion may be it doesn’t have to be with sweet candy. Popcorn is a nice healthy snack that can be used as an alternative. Peanuts, sunflower seeds, and sesame seed sticks are also good choices.

When kids see other kids eating healthy they too follow suit. When I was little my cousin had come over to play with my siblings and I, and he stayed and ate dinner with us. When his father came to pick him up he noticed that he was eating salad. When he saw him eating the salad he said, “You don’t eat salad”. My cousin replied, “ I like the salad dressing”. I do believe since he saw all of us kids eating it he thought he might try it himself realizing he did like it with that particular salad dressing which was Viva Italian.

Reading the labels can also be very helpful to make sure your child isn’t getting too much intake of sugar. It’s not like it used to be a long time ago where sugar was mostly in desserts. Now, it is in food that we eat every single day.

I’m not saying that a child shouldn’t eat any junk food. I just don’t think that it should be eaten every single day. Everything a child eats doesn’t have to be sweet. Remember, children imitate their parents. So, let’s teach them to make good food choices that can last them a lifetime and they too can pass it down to their children as well.

Healthy Foods To Keep In Your Kitchen

When we are sick we don't feel like running all around trying to pick up the things we need to help us feel better. It is so much easier if we keep these things on hand. Many of these foods we use on a regular basis, and it could help you from getting sick or if you do get sick you won't be sick for long. You can either refrigerate them or keep them in your kitchen cabinets.

1. Fresh Garlic - It's good for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

2. Apple Cider Vinegar - Aids in digestion and helps acid reflux or heartburn.

3. Flax seeds or Flax oil - Helps with breast cancer, prostrate cancer, and is good for constipation due to it's high fiber content.

4. Lemons - Good for coughs and colds adds great flavor to tea's.

5. Honey - Also, good for coughs, colds, flu, diarrhea if mixed with hot water.

6. Ginger root - Is good for colds, coughs, flu, digestion, cholesterol and is also a natural blood thinner.

7. Black Seed - It is good for many health ailments as Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) says it is good for everything except death.

8. Turmeric - It's uses include coloring food. It is also good for cuts, burns and bruises.

9. Molasses - Is a source of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and iron.

10. Oatmeal - Helps lower cholesterol.

11. Cranberry Concentrate - Helps with urinary tract infections.

Share Your Knowledge or Give Support

I know sometimes it can be difficult to find good information about different kinds of ailments or maybe you want to deal with it naturally but you just don't know where to turn to. Health social communities are a good way to meet people or ask questions about health concerns.

You can join groups or participate in discussions about herbal medicine, or alternative medicine. Anything that you want to talk about. Maybe you've had experiences dealing with certain health issues or nutrition and exercising. Share your knowledge or give support. You can fill out your profile by telling a little bit about yourself or write a blog.

Since, my interest is healing naturally. I joined the CommunityCures community. If you would like to add me as a friend I am known there as Mimosatree. I am also a member of Healia Communities. They too, have groups about alternative medicine. If you would like to add me as a friend there too, I am known there as QueenMaa. At healia communities when you receive points when you help someone out. It's a way to encourage everyone to help someone make the the best health decisions. Which I think is a fantastic idea. On my blog you will see a healia search engine. It helps you to find information regarding health concerns, because it narrows your search down to health issues.

Both of these are excellent communities. It's nice to be able to help people achieve wellness.You will want to start participating in these communities today.

Give The Gift Of Health

Are you having problems getting your family and friends to see the benefit of living a healthy life?

Do you want to share the information that you are learning but don't know how?

Are you taking natural products that have helped you with a particular health ailment?

Do you want your family and friends to start using products that don't have harsh chemicals in them and would help them improve their health?

Give them as gifts. What better way to get the word of healthy living out? How about putting together a health gift box? You can put health products such as a colon cleanse, a natural health book, and a liquid supplement,etc (These are just suggestions you can put together whatever you like).

So, the next time you don't know what to give as a gift give them the gift of health!

Here are some places to buy natural products that your friends and family members can benefit from:

Vemma Want to share the gift of nutrition? You can with the this liquid supplement. Purchase the V2 Fridge brick they come in cute premixed 2 oz. bottles. Pass them out! They make fantastic gifts!
Amariah Naturals Looking for skin care products. Amariah Naturals, Carol's Daughter, All Natural Me, Amazing Herbs and Kiss My Face make some fabulous skin care products. They make perfect gifts!
Carol's Daughter
Kiss My Face
All Natural Me
Amazing Herbs
Peelu Want to share the gift of a clean mouth. These products are fabulous!
Dr-Schulze.comWant to share the gift of a clean colon? These products are great!

Taking Small Steps Toward Your Health

When you begin to start taking care of your health it may seem overwhelming at times. You're probably thinking, "How am I going to do all this?"

It doesn't have to be difficult to live a healthy life. Always began any endeavor with the mentality that you can and you will make this happen. It will only be hard if you never get started. Don't take your health for granted. Be grateful that you have it and start taking care of it. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today!

Let's begin with some small steps to get you going. I know you've heard this a million times but I'm going to tell you again. Drink more water and make sure it is filtered! If you can't drink 8 glasses immediately. Start off with at least 5 glasses and work your way up (Don't feel bad I'm still working my way up too). When you feel thirsty don't get anything to drink but some water. Eliminate pop from your diet ( It can be done because if I can do it I know you can).

Before you eat breakfast eat a piece of fruit because fruit has enzymes in it that helps your digestive system. Try it! It really works!

For dinner there are many things that you can cook ( Notice I said cook). Baking is always better and the food seems to lasts longer (It always does for my family). You can fry but just don't make it an everyday occasion. Incorporate a soup dish at least once a week such as beef stew or lamb stew, zucchini soup, potatoe soup, and beans. Have a meatless day once or twice a week too. You can make dishes such as a vegetable pasta stir-fry or spaghetti without the meat. If you think that you might not like it without meat. Get some vegetarian grillers by Morning Star and put them in there as a substitute for the meat.

I'm not saying that you can't eat any junk food. Just cut it down to a minimum. Instead try eating popcorn ( It would be better if you popped your own). Sunflower seeds, sesame seed sticks, natural chips, peanuts, almonds, yogurt covered raisins. You can get all of these things from your local health food store. You can even eat desserts. A pound cake is really an easy cake to make. Remember simpler is better.

Get you some rest. Try to get 8 hours of sleep every night. Go to bed early and get up early. You will feel so much better.

Lastly, but not least. Get up and move by exercising! Walking is one of the easiest exercises to do. Everyone can walk. Grab a partner and go walking! Remember don't make excuses.

Yoga is also a good exercise. There are books for beginners. It doesn't have to be hard. Who doesn't feel good after a good stretch? Yoga is the ultimate stretch for your body.

Whichever one of theses exercises you choose to do you can't go wrong with. You may decide that you would like to do both of these exercisese in your exercise regime.

Natural Health Quotes

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time. - Marcel Proust.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. - Sir Auckland Geddes

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Life is not living, but living in health. - Martial, Roman poet

At the end of this time the candidate was required to pass an examination, and then to take an oath promising to uphold the teachings of the school, to administer no noxious drug, to teach nothing false, and not to keep an apothecary shop. - Katherine B. Shippen, writing about the requirements of the medical school of Salerno in the 13th century, in Men of Medicine

Most men die of their remedies, not of their illnesses. - Moliere

In all the controversies over what the causes of diversities might be, no one seem to have paid much attention to the factor in the environment that has the most obvious effect on any organism: food. - Michael Crawford & David Marsh, The Driving Force: Food in Evolution and the Future

We chat together; he gives me prescriptions; I never follow them so I get well. - Molière

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. - Latin Proverb

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. - Henry David Thoreau

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. - Herbert Spencer

Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities. - John R. Lee, M.D.

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.- Thomas A Edison

Heredity is nothing but stored environment. - Luther Burbank
Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once, but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.' Hilare Belloc

What is dangerous about tranquilizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones. - Max Lerner

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopeia. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations--plus or minus---it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical and science technology. - Norman Cousin

The very first requirement of a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. - Florence Nightengale.

Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all. - Voltaire

...the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer. - Gary Null, et al., Death by Medicine