Wellness Mama Queen

  Health is often understood as the absence of disease or sickness. While this definition is valid, it lacks the comprehensiveness of a broader approach. So start assessing your holistic health and wellness on a wider spectrum. This means wellness depends on more factors than simply avoiding the flu each year. Holistic health and wellness is sustained by eight pillars: physical, nutritional, emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, financial, and environmental. The pillars will give you a sense of how to work toward your optimal wellness, but it’s by no means prescriptive. The path to wellness is not one-size-fits-all. The journey is unique and different for each individual. Your biology, personality, and environment will determine what wellness means to you. That’s why your approach should be personalized. The common thread for everyone is that wellness requires a holistic approach. So, let’s learn more about each pillar and how you can strengthen each one. Physical   Most...

Get this. Only  12% of American adults  are metabolically healthy. Only 12%! Metabolic health is your body’s ability to maintain ideal levels of blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference. All of these statistics help measure your overall health. The better these numbers, the better your overall health.  If so few people are healthy, it must not be worthwhile to put in the effort to get there right? Otherwise, everyone would be doing it! Not so. There are a lot of benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and learning to add healthy habits doesn’t have to be hard. Here are the top things you can do to live a healthier lifestyle, how they benefit you, and steps you can take today to implement them. 1. Eat Healthy Foods This is not new information, but it’s still the core of creating a healthy lifestyle. Without proper nutrition, almost nothing else you do will matter. Fueling your body with clean energy is th...