Welcome to yet another edition of the Healthbolt Carnival. You know the drill – grab a coffee, get comfortable, and start reading…

Tristan fromBody And Fitness Blog discusses the importance of Muscle Overload in exercise.

Romeo Vitelli from Providentia writes about The Rafferty Experiment and how early medical experiments that helped shape the future of medical research.

Free Organic News suggests that you Nourish Your Skin Organically with these great tips.

FeminineSpirit provides some Easy Ways to Fuel Your Metabolism.

Dan Abshear from Informaproject looks at The Issues With Electronic Medical Records.

FitJerk from FlawlessFitness provides some Powerful Plyometrics Training That Will Knock Your Socks Off!.

Alvin …read more

It’s time for the weekly Healthbolt Carnival read, so grab a coffee, get comfortable and start clicking.

Just_Kelly from Choosing Losing! doesn’t hold back with her review of POM juice in this Product Review: The one where POM Wonderful slightly pisses off Kelly…

Brain Blogger has a new look at the potental uses for Lithuim in s Lithium as a Neuroprotectant?.

Joel Gray from Health Tips 101 has information on Summer Tea: Blackberry/ Raspberry Leaf Tea.

Logan from Lose Over Weight offers 5 simple ways to reduce stress in Stress – HOWTO Manage It.

Madeleine Begun Kane from Mad Kane’s Humor Blog entertains with Ode …read more

Trying to get some kids to eat vegetables is like pulling teeth. They’ll do just about anything to avoid that green, orange, or yellow thing sitting on the plate. Hiding it doesn’t work. Somehow, they always seem to know it there.
Well, turns out there’s an easier way to get your kids to eat their greens, yellows, and oranges.
Just give them a cool name like ‘X-ray Vision Carrots’, ‘Tomato Bursts’, or ‘dinosaur broccoli trees’ and the vegetables won’t stand a chance. They’ll be goobled up quick.
That’s the finding of a new study by Cornell University researchers. They presented 186 four-year old …read more

It’s Healthbolt Carnival time again, so I hope you have a cup of coffee and some time to sit and click…

Worried about wrinkles? Then maybe you need face-yoga. Madeleine Begun Kane from Mad Kane’s Humor Blog explains in A Fountain Of Face-Yoga Youth?.

Emily from A weight Lifted looks at How to Choose A Healthy Cookbook.

Brain Blogger has an interesting arguement in Autism – No Need For A Cure?.

Lindsay from Off the Urban Grid provides 3 Home Remedies to Fix Your Allergies Naturally.

C. Myers from Mind Mart
writes about tooth decay in Nothing To Smile About.

asithi from Small Steps to …read more

Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes sounds like the perfect place to head for a healthy feed after a couple of weeks of holiday food. I haven’t been to one myself but will definitely make a point of stopping in and checking out their menus next time I’m in the States.
Meanwhile, the winner of the Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes family pass for four is…
Jay B
Congratulations Jay B. You’ll be receiving an email with instructions on how to claim your prize.
Happy New Year everyone!
 

When it comes to holidays, many of our usual routines get mislaid as we rush around, shopping, partying, visiting, traveling, and generally try to fit way too much in way too little time.
One of the first things to go, besides the exercise, is healthy eating habits. We overindulge in all our favorite, but not necessarily, healthy foods.
As a result, we have lots of fun and good times. But we can also end up gaining extra weight that tends to stick around, even when the holidays are over.
But not to worry, help is at hand. Kaiser Permanente has put together some …read more

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In a lot of homes, eggs are those things you buy because you feel like you’re supposed to, but then after weeks of neglect, find themselves in the bottom of your trash barrel. You may have meant well, but meaning well doesn’t cook those puppies into omelets, now does it?
Well today, we’re here to encourage you to buy that carton of eggs, crack those babies open and scramble, fry, poach or boil away. And why? Eggs are packed with a B vitamin called folic acid. Many people recognize folic acid as the pre-conception wonder supplement …read more

Concerned about your growing weight? Then maybe it’s time to do the hara hachi bu. Practiced by the Okinawan people for generations, it simply means ‘to eat until you are 80% full’.
Now, Okinawa has one of the healthiest and longest living populations in the world, so there must be something to this.
Let’s face it, eating less is not a practice done in most Western societies. We are given plates piled high with food and then expected to empty them. I don’t know about you, but as a child I wasn’t allowed to leave the dinner table until the plate was …read more