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Greetings!
This is the time of year when many of us make a resolution to lose weight. Yet trying to shed a few pounds with the latest diet fad is nearly always doomed to failure: even if you lose weight initially, it's likely you will quickly gain it back once you return to your normal eating habits.
Instead of jumping on the diet roller-coaster, why not resolve to make Lifestyle changes that will positively affect your over-all health?
Here at Health & Healing Massage we are concerned about your Whole Body Health. As a part of this, we advocate the Get Healthy Stay Balanced Lifestyle. One of the many happy side effects of this Lifestyle is that you will lose weight, yet you will be eating more food!
How can that be? The Standard American Diet is highly reliant on processed foods, full of sugar, salt, fat and refined carbohydrates. Research has proved that these foods do not satisfy hunger. Our bodies are literally staving for nutrition.
Making raw, Living Foods--vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and fruits--a part of your daily diet affects your health positively in so many ways: you can say goodbye to fatigue, aches and pains, digestive disturbances, headaches, mood swings and more while saying hello to a vibrantly healthy immune system and energy to spare!
Plus, Living Foods are rich in fiber and vitamins, two of the most important factors in weight management. When we eat Living Foods we are giving our body the nutrition it so desperately needs.
Including more Living Foods in your diet is only one of several Lifestyle changes we advocate. Keep reading to find out how you, too, can acheive Optimum Health. Read more about Living Foods here...
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BOOST YOUR HEALTH with REFLEXOLOGY
Nothing feels better than a good foot rub. It is relaxing, comforting, and invigorating.
The soles of our feet are intrinsically connected to our body's systems.
By applying pressure to certain areas of the feet, a trained Reflexologist can positively affect our muscles, joints, and organs.
Reflexology treats the body as a whole, therefore bringing the mind, body and spirit into balance. This encourages the body to work naturally to restore its own healthy balance.
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8 Benefits of Regular Physical Activity
You know exercise is good for you, but do you know how good? The health benefits of exercise go far beyond promoting weight loss and strengthening your heart!
Regular physical activity:
1. Increases your energy by helping your heart and lungs work more efficiently.
2. Promotes better sleep by helping you fall asleep faster and deepen your sleep.
3. Boosts confidence and self-esteem
4. Improves your mood and relieves stress.
 5. Can help prevent depression.
6. Combats and helps prevent chronic diseases, including heart disease, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.
7. Can even put the spark back into your sex life: regular physical activity can lead to enhanced arousal for women, and men who exercise regularly are less likely to have problems with erectile dysfunction than are men who don't exercise - especially as they get older.
8. Can be fun! Physical activity doesn't have to be drudgery. Find a physical activity you enjoy, and go for it. If you get bored, try something new. If you're moving, it counts!
Are you convinced? Good! Start reaping the benefits of regular physical activity today!!!
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Water God's Way
Our water supply is bombarded with chemicals and contaminants every day. Raw sewage, toxic runoff from factories, and household chemicals and pharmaceuticals are just a few of the contaminants that lace the water we drink every day. Municipal treatment facilities can get some of the contaminants out, but not all, and they add to the problem by adding chlorine.  The addition of chlorine to our water hailed as the savior against cholera, typhoid and various other water-borne diseases when it was introduced. But studies have shown that when chlorine is added to water it combines with other natural compounds to form highly carcinogenic Trihalomethanes. Home filtration systems do remove many of the toxins, but they still fall short. There is a way, however, to ensure that the water we are drinking and cooking with is clean and pure: distillation. By heating water to 212° F we destroy microbes such as bacteria. The rising steam leaves behind dead microbes, dissolved solids, salts, heavy metals and other substances. We need only vent out the low-boiling-point gases and trap and condense the pure steam. There are a number of good distillers on the market from countertop models to large floor models. We recommend, use and sell Waterwise distillers because of their quality and superior workmanship. 
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Get Healthy with Massage
Most people know that massage relieves tension in muscles, and it is often used for relaxation, relief of stress and anxiety, or to reduce muscle soreness. But Massage has numerous health benefits as well.
Massage can cause your body to release natural painkillers, and can boost your immune system. It is helpful in decreasing blood pressure in people with hypertension, alleviating pain in migraine sufferers and improving alertness and performance in office workers.
Massage promotes faster healing of damaged muscles & ligaments, reduces the formation of excessive scar tissue, alleviates discomfort during pregnancy, relieves muscle spasms, decreases pain for migrane sufferers, and reduces anxiety and withdrawal symptoms in adults trying to quit smoking.
Studies show massage reduces heart rate, lowers blood pressure, increases blood circulation and lymph flow. In addition, massage improves posture, joint flexibility & range of motion, making it a perfect complimentary therapy for people who have had hip or knee replacements ro rotater cuff surgery.
Massage can even help you lose unwanted pounds. Stress produces cortisol, which helps regulate blood pressure and the immune system during a sudden crisis, whether a physical attack or an emotional setback. This helps you to tap into your energy reserves and increases your ability to fight off infection.
Everyday stress puts your body's produciton of cortisol into high gear, causing sleep problems, a depressed immune response, blood sugar abnormalities, and abdominal weight gain.
 By reducing stress, massage decreases your body's cortisol levels. Studies have shown that regular massage can cut your coritsol lever by 31%, while promoting production of dopamine and serotonin, the same "feel good" hormones released when we socialize with friends or do something fun.
Contact us today at 828-692-9999 or 828-776-3762 to schedule your appointment!
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