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4 Ways to Avoid Eating Out Turning into a Health Burn Out

One of the major obstacles when trying to be healthier is changing your lifestyle to create time to learn new habits. Batch cooking, strategic grocery shopping, cooking with ingredients you've neve...

4 Things I Did To Get My Children To Love Veggies

Step 1: You have to eat veggies. Don't Over Achieve - Just Add It In Whatever fruits and veggies you like, add them to what you were going to eat and I suggest eating them first so you don’t “acci...

Do You Think Your Sunblock is Protecting You? At What Cost?

Most sunscreen is very toxic to you and your children. This is one of those summer essentials that we don’t think is optional and we don’t think we have an alternative. Most offensive of all, when ...

Are These Excuses Stopping You From Enjoying Life?

Day 4: Seek Adventure & Break Up Monotony Do something you always wanted to or go somewhere you always wanted to go. Are you off of work today? Go somewhere you keep forgetting to go or do s...

21 Ways You Put Chemicals in Your Body Before 9am

Reduce Toxic Exposure Today: Leave out one toxic body product. Here are all the body products you use everyday that most likely include toxic ingredients that are harming your health. Which one c...

There's No Such Thing As Healthy Oil

Getting breakfast or lunch while out today? Say “no” when you’re asked if you’d like to add gravy. Eat a salad for lunch? Try it without oil today. I always add ingredients to my salad that ha...

Pay It Forward

If you’re familiar with NuSpecies’ Elmont health center and you park in the parking lot behind our building, then you’re familiar with the frustration of trying to exit onto the main road when you’...

ReNu Challenge Day 6 - Eat Fruits and Veggies Today

By the third month of the ReNu Challenge you’ve probably noticed that some challenges repeat each month: Move Your Body, Drink Water, Eat Veggies, Eat Fruits. These are fundamental parts of a healt...

Reconnect: Positive Relationships are Good for Your Health

Running a company costs me my most valuable asset - time. I imagine many of you have equally demanding work & life responsibilities. Having a social life outside my home is nearly impossible. H...

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

I've heard this statement many times by ambitious people striving for "success". They're willing to make a lot of sacrifices to achieve a greater goal and they're willing to push themselves to any ...

Move Your Body & Drink Water

We’re now in the third month of the ReNu Challenge and you’ve probably noticed that some challenges repeat each month: Move Your Body, Drink Water, Eat Veggies, Eat Fruits. These are fundamental pa...

Forgiveness & Expectations

I like to look up words that I've always assumed I understood the meaning. When I thought about forgiveness being good for health, I was motivated to look it up and see what the core elements of fo...

Gratitude Shouldn't Be Silent

We all know that stress is bad for our health, whether or not we understand the science behind its effect on our bodies. There are many ways to reduce stress or to better deal with stress. What if ...

Give Yourself Some Love

You know that negative thought you repeat to yourself daily? Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, or worse, you think you’re right so you don't realize it's a voluntary thought. When it comes up today...

Think. And Repeat

We've all had many health goals over the years. We start off motivated and last about two weeks before we go back to our old habits. It's likely we've failed over and over because we didn't meditat...

Make an Appointment

Today is a new opportunity to make a better choice for your health. If you keep saying that you'll eventually get to it, remember, "eventually" isn't a day. It never comes. "If it's not schedule...

What are the top 3 things you love about yourself?

Today is a new opportunity to make a better choice for your health. We all have weaknesses and strengths. I know I spend too much time worrying about improving my weaknesses. Do you? Although we s...

Eat Fruit Today

Today is a new opportunity to make a better choice for your health. Eat Fruit. Today is about adding some fruit to your day or making fruit one of your meals, like a smoothie. Ideally, a large p...

Stop Planning to Exercise and Start Moving Your Body

Get a break at work? Are the stairs hiding around the corner from the elevator? Do your children want to play? Driving a long distance? Whatever you’re doing today, create 15 minutes to move your ...

Are You Alive? Your Food Should Be Too.

Today is a new opportunity to make a better choice for your health. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Eat some raw veggies with one of your meals. It doesn’t matter what you’re eat...