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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 ...

Lessons Learned From NuSpecies’ Women

As you may have heard in various news reports on the state of human health, cancer cases and other diseases are on the rise. This is usually in context of some new medical technology or treatment o...

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...

Slow Down To Get Ahead

Today is a new opportunity to make a better choice for your health. Slow Down Take smaller bites and chew longer. Put your car on cruise control. Think longer before you speak - If you don’t have...

Don't Forget to Breathe

Having a tense moment? Close your eyes. Breathe in through your nose for 10 seconds, puffing out your belly (not your chest). Hold it for a moment. Now exhale as slowly and controlled as yo...

Processed "Food" - What, Why and How?

Processed foods are not real. They actually aren't food in the sense that food is a biologically appropriate source of energy for the human body. They are food products or food commodities, just li...

Banana Sushi

This quick and easy snack is sure to satisfy any craving throughout the day. They can be eaten right away or frozen and kept for a treat later on. Directions Using any amount of peeled bananas, ...

Apple Nachos

This recipe is great as an after-school snack for children or a fruity alternative to tortilla chips and salsa for parties. The choice is yours! Dip: 2 cups loosely packed Medjool dates, pitted ...