Knowing When To Stop Eating

Reading Time: 4 minutesYour brain informs you when to stop eating during a meal. Paying attention to your “satisfaction” (also called “satiation”) signals is just as important as being aware of your hunger signals.  During a meal, the brain receives messages from the mouth, the stomach, the intestines, and the blood—all of which combine to help it assess when enough nutrients have been consumed to satisfy the demand for nutrition from the body’s cells.  Like hunger, satiation signals are highly dependent on your nutritional status. At some meals, you’ll need to consume a…

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Are Your Thoughts Ruining Your Health?

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Welcome to the latest episode of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork. As an international bestselling author, nationally syndicated columnist, inspirational speaker and founder of heartsofwellness.com, it is my mission to empower women to build a strong Foundation of Wellbeing: One Whole-istic™ Step at a Time.  To feel HOPE: harmony, options, peace and empowerment to help others along the way.   How Do Our Thoughts Affect Our Health? When it comes to the mind and body, what we think and feel can directly impact our health. Negative thinking can cause…

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Dr. John Explains Hunger and “Eating Like A Toddler”

Reading Time: 4 minutesTo understand hunger, you don’t need to look any further than the mechanism by which babies regulate their consumption of milk, or toddlers regulate their consumption of food. If you think about it, both infants and toddlers decide on their own when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat to thrive physically, mentally, and emotionally. When you were an infant and then a toddler, this is what you did. So today, to lose weight, you need to alter your eating habits, so you can eat as you…

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Matthew Hazen’s Commentary Feature on the Price of Business Digital Network

Reading Time: 2 minutesMatthew Hazen is the owner of Human Consciousness Support, a company that produces a unique nutraceutical product called MasterPeace. His quest to raise the health and consciousness of himself and all of mankind ultimately led him to heavily research zeolites and marine plasma. Matthew was mentored personally under Michael Coe, Chief scientific officer of Kansas State University, one of the top nano research labs in America. Together they formulated a nano sized zeolite particle range never done before. Matthew went on to develop this formula further with his own assistant…

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Five Shortcuts for Better Health Holistically

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Welcome to the latest edition of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork. As an international bestselling author, inspirational speaker and guide to others, as well as founder of heartsofwellness.com, my mission is empowering others to find clarity, peace and fulfillment by embracing simplicity.   Taking control of your health holistically is a common-sense approach to achieving wellness. It focuses on integrating natural methods of healing before resorting to surgery or drugs and emphasizes the importance of the mind and body connection. It also encourages people to make healthy lifestyle…

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Food for Thought: Why We Shouldn’t Count Calories

Reading Time: 6 minutesTo maintain health, humans must have a constant supply of nutrients to feed the cells in the body. Maintaining a steady but dynamic state requires that we acquire sufficient varied nutrients regularly from the foods we consume. Nutrients are absorbed in the form of molecules and ions into the bloodstream, where cells absorb them and utilize them to perform their functions. This process requires the use of energy, just like what happens in a factory that manufactures goods.  It is this use of energy that produced the rationale for creating…

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Trick or Treat: The Really Scary Sugar To Fear This Halloween

Reading Time: 5 minutesFor many, the overwhelming access to sugar is a scary fact about Halloween and all the upcoming holidays. Added sugar is often thought of as the cause of weight gain, obesity, and diabetes. “Added sugar” is actually what you need to be concerned about.  Added sugars account for about 17 percent of the total calorie intake of adults and up to 14 percent for children, according to a recent study.  Many people are confused about whether added sugar is the same as sugar (glucose) in your bloodstream. The answer is…

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Is It Time To Let Go of Misery?

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Welcome to the latest edition of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork! As an international bestselling author, inspirational speaker and founder of heartsofwellness.com, it is my mission to help others live their best lives!   How to Feel Great When You Actually Feel Miserable   Have you ever asked someone how they are and they give you an answer that leaves you wishing you hadn’t asked? Or wishing you could help them feel better, but you have no idea how? How are you really feeling today?   We are…

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Are You Prepared for a Medical Record Breach?

Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome to the latest edition of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork.  As an international bestselling author, inspirational speaker and guide to others, as well as founder of heartsofwellness.com, it is my mission to help others understand how to make progress forward and live our best lives!   We are very accustomed to all of our information being available instantly. Digital orders delivered instantly, fast food and hot or iced coffee ready super fast. Food from any restaurant is delivered quickly to our front door. And when we see our…

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Why Are Fake Fragrances Ruining Our Health?

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Welcome to the latest edition of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork.  As an international bestselling author, speaker and guide to others, as well as founder of heartsofwellness.com, it is my mission to help others understand how to make progress forward and live our best lives! How Fake or Synthetic Fragrance Ruins Our Well-Being.   When you smell a perfume or body spray, cologne, soap or detergent, you’re smelling chemicals that have been linked to hormone disruption, cancer and allergic reactions. The reason is that synthetic fragrance uses a…

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