Ways to Alkalize your Diet

Ways to Alkalize your Diet

Before considering ways to alkalize your diet, let’s just review the basics of why this is important. Roughly speaking your body’s pH level is an indication of whether your body is too acid or too alkaline. A normal blood pH level is 7.40 on a scale of 0 (acidic) to 14 (alkaline), but this can vary slightly in either direction. The gastric acid in your stomach is very acidic (pH 1.5 to 3.5), so that the food you eat can be broken down. If your body’s pH level is too far out of balance inflammation can develop, and inflammation is linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, cardiovascular…
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9 Tips for Surviving Job Loss

9 Tips for Surviving Job Loss

For many people, the worst has happened. They have been ‘let go’ by an employer – and are now seeking tips for surviving job loss. If this happens to you, you’ll probably be devastated initially – don’t let it crush you. Try and look for ways you can bounce back as fast as possible. You’ll probably need to be more agile in your approach to replacing your income – particularly if you’ve been used to having a regular income from employment for many years. But don’t worry – many people have actually turned this apparently bleak scenario round and emerged with their income prospects better than ever.…
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9 Tips If You’re Worried about Being Made Redundant

9 Tips If You’re Worried about Being Made Redundant

Although it’s nigh on impossible to stop being worried about being made redundant, if you’re at risk of losing your job, it’s more productive instead to channel the worry into preparing for unexpected job loss. Here are 9 tips for keeping ahead of your redundancy fears Look at your current work situation – can you make yourself more indispensable to your employer?Make a personal budget of what your expenses are - which are essential and which can be trimmed – now - don’t wait until the worst happensLook carefully at expenses, especially cell-phone usage – is it all absolutely necessary?Google yourself and tidy up your social media accounts…
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10 Tips to Stop Food Cravings in the Evening

10 Tips to Stop Food Cravings in the Evening

A quick ‘Google’ suggests that I’m far from being the only person wondering how to stop food cravings in the evening. I can be really ‘good’ all day, and restrict myself to healthy eating in moderate portions – then bam! As soon as evening falls, I get the night time munchies. Often it’s because I’m feeling more stressed at the end of the day – maybe because I haven’t achieved everything I planned to do. One approach I have seen suggested is to reduce stress. But, to be honest, "willing my stress away" hasn’t worked so far. So here are some more easily achievable ideas. How to…
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Magnesium Deficiency and Sleeplessness

Magnesium Deficiency and Sleeplessness

Research has linked magnesium deficiency and sleeplessness in the elderly, and the young, concluding that: (1) Supplementation of magnesium appears to improve subjective measures of insomnia such as Insomnia Severity Index score, sleep efficiency, sleep time and sleep onset latency, early morning awakening, and likewise, insomnia…. Source The “elderly” subjects in the above study were aged between 60 and 69. Hmmm, well I don't feel elderly - but hey, ho. Also I have suffered from insomnia for years. I remember as a child fuming that my parents ‘sent me to bed’ when I wasn’t even tired. Years later, as a parent, I understood that this apparent ‘punishment’…
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Natural Organic Christmas Gifts for Her Under $50

Natural Organic Christmas Gifts for Her Under $50

Blame my daughter-in-law! She’s the reason why, in September, I’m looking for natural, organic Christmas gifts for her under $50. I already know what she wants for her main Christmas gift, but somehow I feel mean if I don’t bulk the gift pile up with stocking-fillers. Along with an increasing number of people, she’s very concerned to buy ethical products – natural, organic, plant-based and cruelty-free. So I was delighted to find a Personal Care online shop  that ticks all the boxes. Personal Care Gifts You’ll find: Balance Her – supports hormone balance gently and naturally throughout the puberty, pregnancy, childbirth, breast-feeding, perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause. 3-in-1…
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Telling my family about my network marketing business

Telling my family about my network marketing business

I no longer have to worry about telling my family about my network marketing business! Neither do you, when you join one particular team within a fast-expanding company. My current network marketing business (MLM) isn’t my first unfortunately, but it will certainly be the last one I join, because the team I’m working with has solved the biggest headache for any would-be network marketer. And that has always been: How to introduce your family to your network marketing business? Does this sound familiar? You listen to an exciting presentation about a network marketing company. Here’s what excites you: A well-established company - (start-up companies have a big…
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Best Lockdown Detox Support to Buy

Best Lockdown Detox Support to Buy

Do you need lockdown detox support because your normally healthy lifestyle went by the wayside in 2020 with the COVID-19 crisis? Comfort Eating in Lockdown I have to confess lockdown derailed my normally healthy diet – I was overwhelmed with a sudden urge to start cooking ‘comfort foods’ that I wouldn’t normally be tempted to cook! Looking back, it did seem as if the end of my days could be nigh, so best enjoy what was left of my life. When everyone else was stocking up on loo rolls (for some unknown reason in the UK) I was checking that I had enough of my favorite snacks…
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How Much Will I Make In My First Month Of Network Marketing?

How Much Will I Make In My First Month Of Network Marketing?

When someone starts an MLM (multi-level-marketing) business they may be excited and wondering ‘How much will I make in my first month of Network Marketing?’ This is only natural – especially if they’ve heard some hyped-up presentation where they’re advised to speak to their family and friends who are all excited to sign up, and then their family and friends are frothing at the mouth to ‘get in quick’. Sadly the beautiful diagrams of 3 get 3 who all get 3… etc rarely (if ever) work. Network marketing is a business that needs to be built up, not a fairy with a magic wand! Many people make…
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Top 7 Ideas For Starting a Pet Business

Top 7 Ideas For Starting a Pet Business

Starting a business is tough, so to keep you enjoying it, many people suggest choosing something you have a passion for. Which is why I went looking for ideas for starting a pet business – because I just love animals, particularly dogs. And from a business point of view, many people treat and love their pets like their children, with no expense spared keeping them healthy. So in my hunt for ideas for starting a pet business, here’s a list I came up with, and my initial thoughts as to how they’d work. Further down you can read the story of my experience of trying one of…
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