Today features a guest post by Athina Chatzi, owner of PureAloe. Athina has an MSci degree in Chemistry from Bristol University. She started her career in the food industry in quality control, and, for the last 8 years, has been working as an expert trainer and auditor on Quality and Environmental Systems. Since 2012, she is also the owner of PureAloe, offering people the purest, highest quality products based on Aloe Vera. Witch Hazel (Hamamelis) By Athina Chatzi Witch Hazel, or Hamamelis, has been known for its natural healing properties since the Native Americans discovered its use as an astringent.… more

This smoothie is extremely simple to make, tastes delicious (I have yet to meet a person who has not absolutely loved it), and satisfies a sweet craving, all while being wonderfully healthy and chock full of nutrients. The banana, pineapple, almond milk offer many benefits (fiber, potassium, vitamin E, bromelain, etc.), and the acai and camu camu elevate this from a healthy smoothie to one deserving of the superfood title. Acai: Loaded with antioxidants, amino acids, and Omega fatty acids (including Omega 3s), and containing many other micronutrients, including polyphenols and flavonoids, acai (pronounced ah-sigh-EE) is a bonafide superfood. It… more

Today features a guest post by Trisha Hadley, a graduate student at Georgetown University who is currently studying for her MS in Physiology and Biophysics with a focus on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. A certified yoga instructor, whose main holistic health and academic interests lie in nutrition, the mind-body connection, psychoneuroimmunology, and energy medicine, she writes for HealthyCosmos readers on the importance of staying present, and how eminently beneficial such a simple, yet evasive and oft misunderstood concept can be on one’s life. You can read more from Trisha on her blog, Inspired Olive. Staying Present By Trisha Hadley Presence.… more

1) Express gratitude. Be grateful for all of the blessings in your life, and make it a point to state a few of them each and every day. This forces you to focus on at least a few of the wonderful things in your life, and, because “like attracts like,” other wonderful things will be sure to follow. 2) Forgive. Harboring negative feelings about anything is detrimental to your health and creates negative energy all around you. Moreover, harboring negative feelings toward something or someone else usually has little to no effect on the other thing/person and only makes you… more

Most people never think about where the food they eat comes from, and this is certainly true in the case of milk. Cow’s milk is the lactation fluid of a cow, meaning that a pregnant cow produces breast milk to feed to her baby so that it can grow. Instead of the baby calf drinking the milk, humans do. That humans artificially impregnate cows and then take their milk and consume it defies nature. It is analogous to a dog artificially impregnating a human woman and then feeding her human breast milk to other dogs. In fact, humans are the… more

Simply by existing in this world, we are exposed to myriad toxins on a daily basis, so it is important that we make an effort to reduce exposure where possible. People wanting to protect their children’s health should take even more precaution because children’s undeveloped immune systems make them less capable of detoxifying, and, therefore, even more susceptible to damage. The rise of cancer and developmental disorders–ADHD, for example, has increased by 250% in the past ten years– is linked to the increased consumption of pesticides. That a recent study at Stanford’s pediatric hospital showed that babies today are born… more