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3 Fantastic 15-Minute Workout Exercises for a Healthy Lifestyle

21/02/202221/02/2022 by Hannie Mommers

Wouldn’t it be great if life came with guarantees? That when we eat healthily, do 15-minute workout exercises every day and live a stressless life we would be healthy and feel great all the time?

Well, it doesn’t work that way all the time. Even when we do all of the above and follow the physical exercise guidelines, we can get ill. As I found out at the start of this new decade.

I can complain about it, which doesn’t do me any good. Or I can get angry, which helps me even less. And I can give up on my healthy lifestyle altogether. Or I can just accept it and count my blessings and decide that physical exercise is good for me, no matter what.

Is Losing Weight More Difficult when we Age?

18/02/202218/02/2022 by Hannie Mommers

Given my own experience, I am sure losing weight is more difficult when we age. When I was young I weighed 50 kg. With my height of 1.72 m that hardly was a healthy weight and I often had black spots in front of my eyes when I rose from a squatting or sitting position.

After my pregnancy, this changed dramatically. I was content I had gained 20 to 25 kg and that I didn’t lose it all after giving birth to my son. My weight back then was between 65 and 70 kg which made me feel more comfortable with my body.

Is Spinach the Best Green Vegetable to Eat Every Day?

11/02/202211/02/2022 by Hannie Mommers

Organic spinach is the best green vegetable to eat. Like all green fruits and vegetables, it has essential health benefits.

When I was a child I hated spinach, cabbage, leek, lettuce, and Brussels sprouts the most. Do you see a resemblance in this row of green vegetables? I didn’t! Until I started this article about spinach and other green fruits and vegetables.

What Are the 3 Best Orange Foods we Should Eat Regularly?

07/02/202207/02/2022 by Hannie Mommers

Orange foods contain beta carotene, also called previtamin A. Other nutrients in orange food are folate, potassium, calcium, thiamine, and vitamin C.

Our bodies convert beta carotene into vitamin A. Beta carotene is supporting good eye vision and eye health. Vitamin A ensures the health of our skin. Carrots contain a lot of beta carotene.

Vitamin C is much needed to build a healthy natural immune system and oranges contain loads of Vitamin C. With a pandemic going on, for me, it’s a reason to consider oranges the second one of the 3 best orange foods.

Why we Have to Allow ourselves to Experience our Emotions

17/01/202217/01/2022 by Hannie Mommers

As a child, adults often tell us not to cry, to not experience our emotions, to ignore our sadness. Culturally speaking, we are taught to avoid all unpleasant emotions. At any cost.

It’s sort of funny how we teach our children not to cry and later in life are surprised we raised unhappy teenagers and adults.

In fact, it’s quite simple: when there is no dark, we have no idea what light is. When there is no black, we haven’t got a clue about white.

What is the Best Way to Beat Depression without Medicines?

14/01/2022 by Hannie Mommers

Depression is a huge problem in society nowadays. Both young and old can suffer an overwhelming sense of helplessness and anxiety.

If you are a cynic you could say people just have too much time to worry. A remark that doesn’t help anybody, nor is it true in my opinion.

This article explains why exercise is a great way to beat depression. Other articles like Why we Have to Allow ourselves to Experience our Emotions and Why Should we be Grateful for Health and Relations? approach the subject from a different angle.

Happiness is More than Thinking Positive Thoughts

07/01/2022 by Hannie Mommers

When someone asks me “What defines your happiness?”, then for me – besides thinking positive thoughts – it’s also studying and learning new things. At times my focus point of study is neuromarketing. Last year it was epigenetics.

Those 2 disciplines both have the primal brain as their object of study. Neuromarketing got my interest from a business point of view, where epigenetics triggers me on a personal level.

Epigenetics is a new discipline that studies the influence of our environment and our behaviour on the activation of genes. It shows that anything we do, eat, drink or think can make us stronger or weaker.

Does Vitamin C boost your Immune System in a Successful Way?

22/12/2021 by Hannie Mommers

One of the best methods to increase our immune system is to take care of hygiene. Equally important is to make sure we eat and drink healthy stuff, like organic produce and clean water.

Sometimes our body demands extra, so the question is: does Vitamin C boost your immune system?

Linus Pauling is the only scientist so far that received 2 Nobel prizes in 2 different areas (Chemistry and Peace) not been shared with somebody else. In 1970 he wrote Vitamin C, the Common Cold and the Flu. In this book, he emphasizes the importance of Vitamin C. Grams of Vitamin C.