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5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Health

We all have the power to change, just remember that it is a marathon not a sprint. Dr. Mercola believes the key to improve your health and wellness is to facilitate the natural health capacity that all of us have within. This can be done to a remarkable degree through changes in lifestyle, diet and exercise. Vancouver Health Coach is ultimately about the journey to higher health and the unique path we each must take to achieve our goals for a happier healthier life with friends and family. After all, this is truly what we all want in life.  Therefore,...

Water, Our Critical Solvent

The medical community tends to examine the solutes of the body for imbalances, which is important, but it is critical to also consider the solvent. After all, it is the fluids of the body that transport pretty much everything via the blood, lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, urine, synovial fluid, extracellular fluid, tears, and milk in lactating females, and it is obvious that nothing would happen if everything were dry. Fluids are needed within each cell to keep them juicy and round so they can function properly.  Our organs can be considered water balloons sloshing around in the sea of water that is...

Vitamin Water: As Good for You as it Sounds?

I am definitely someone who loves a good debate, even a good heated debate from time to time; but I have to say I was a little taken back by the ferocity of the debate that is going on about Vitamin Water. A debate that questions whether it has any merit as a source of vitamins, electrolytes and healthy hydration. Whether the company is immoral for promoting it as a healthy product, or whether it is as unhealthy as diet pop. I am also a firm believer, that at the end of the day we are each the master of our...

Nutritional Tip: Drink Lemon Water in the Morning

This is a simple tip with huge effects! Squeeze the juice of a quarter of an organic lemon into a glass of water. You may need to start with less lemon and work up to a quarter if you find it too sour in the beginning. Try drinking this immediately upon waking, about 20 minutes before you eat anything. Simple enough for you? The lemon water has various benefits to your health. First, this will stimulate hydrochloric acid production which will allow you to digest your food better. Second, your metabolism receives a nice kick-start from the lemon-water which will set...

Dehydration: Do You Drink Enough Water?

You may already know that the human body is over 60% water. And you may have been told that the average adult should drink about 8 glasses of water every day. But did you know that by the time a person actually feels thirsty, their body has lost roughly 1 % of its total water? Dehydration can have a physical effect on our bodies before we even experience thirst. Once the body loses only 0.5 % of its water, there is already an increased strain on the heart. Obviously dehydration has a wide range of severity depending on the total...