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Secret Tips to Keep Your Kids Healthy This Winter

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There’s almost nothing sadder than watching your kiddos come down with a sickness. Winter is filled with low immune systems, colds, and other illness-causing bacterias just waiting to attack your family. Whether you are a working parent or you stay at home - sick kiddos can throw the routine out the window, and make for a miserable few days. While you can’t guarantee any outcomes, no matter what types of healthy measures you take, you can give your children and the entire family the best possible chance with a few secrets from our stash! Teach Them How Their Body Works When your kids know about how their body works, it can be a huge asset to helping it function properly and giving it what it needs to stay healthy. Teach your kids daily about their body, how it processes the fuel that you provide for it, what sleep can do for their brain, and how every little detail can work together. Your children can be empowered by knowing that they have incredible superpowers all wrapped up ...

Making a Difference In Your Health

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When making a difference in your health, it doesn’t mean you have to tackle all of the hard things all at the same time. It means that you take one aspect, make some changes, enjoy the difference, and the do the same in another area of life. At Absolute Wellness Center , we join so many people on their health journey, and we see the difference that they are making through daily steps in a more positive direction. October 26th is Make a Difference Day, so we wanted to make some easy suggestions to help you decide which area you want to make a difference in for your health. Different Foods The thing about dieting that many forget is that it’s not supposed to be a quick fix, and the same thing doesn’t work for everyone. If you want to make a difference in your eating habits, you may have to start small - and keep those habits going for a lifetime. Perhaps you can start by eliminating sugar for a time and clearing out your system! This doesn’t mean you can never have a drop of sugar...

Planning for a Healthy Halloween

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It won’t be long before the holiday season kicks off with the most sugary one of them all - Halloween. This holiday is a fun way to get dressed up, get involved in the community, and to collect candy! However, all of this sugar can be detrimental if binged on too much. If you want to have a healthy Halloween this year, here are a few tips to help make it possible - whether you are the trick or treater, the party host, or the stay at home type. Halloween For the Trick-Or-Treater Eat Dinner First. Take some time before running out to the next trick or treat event to fill up on a healthy meal. This may not stop your kids from indulging in their favorites, but it will hopefully slow down the need to snack on candy while they go from one place to another or overindulging. Keep It Small. Instead of aiming to fill a pillowcase with candy, choose a smaller container for candy collection. You can also encourage your children to only take one piece of candy from each house so that they ...

Vitamins & Minerals for Your Nervous System

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It should come as no surprise that your body needs certain vitamins and minerals to continue functioning. Your nervous system is no different, and for your brain, spinal cord, and nerve endings in your body to function properly, it needs the right nutrients from your diet. Sometimes you can get what you need from just the foot you eat, however, sometimes your body can be so depleted that supplements can help get you back up to normal. Here are a few of the vital minerals and vitamins that your nervous system needs, and how Absolute Wellness Center Inc can help. Potassium Potassium aids in proper nervous system function by regulating nerve impulses. There are long words and processes that we could use to explain how sodium a potassium flood in and out of the cells providing a temporary electrical signal - but the point is that your nervous system needs this. You can increase foods like bananas, prune juice, and oranges to get more potassium in your diet. Calcium Calcium pla...

10 Things Women Can Do to Get Healthy - Part 2

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As seasons change, it’s a great time to re-evaluate your life habits and think about what you want to change or keep the same. Fall is still a few weeks away, but it feels like it’s just around the corner now that kids are going back to school. If you are feeling a little drained from summer shenanigans and late nights, here are a few things that Absolute Wellness Center suggests that you can do to jumpstart your fall with a healthy jolt of energy. Did you miss out on part 1 of our series? You can view it here . 6. Focus on a Healthy Gut The gut is becoming a trendy term amongst health circles - but that’s because it’s so important! We’re realizing more and more that so many health issues people experience have a beginning in the gut. Not sure where to start? Studying gut health can take you down a rabbit hole of studying and research, but the basics involve avoiding sugary foods and beverages, taking a high-quality probiotic supplement, and consuming plenty of probiotic-ric...