Category Archives: Helpful Tips

More Keeping Your Nose Clean

simple ceramic neti pot

simple ceramic neti pot

A while back I talked about cleaning your nasal passages with salt water with both a neti pot and the NeilMed squeeze bottles.  Today I’m going to cover the next step you can do with a neti pot.  What I covered in the previous article is considered Level 1 of jala neti.  There are 2 additional levels – Level 2 and Level 3 and this post covers Level 2.
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Why I Love Acai

Acai Juice

Acai Juice

I’m not talking about those “lose weight with wonderfood acai” ads you’ve seen, I’m talking about regular acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) juice.  I started drinking acai juice about 2 years ago and I really find it healthy and beneficial for my body.  There are mixed reports about its benefits, but it seems generally accepted that it is a great antioxidant, it has healthy omega fatty acids (monounsaturated healthy fats), and has protein and fiber. Continue reading

Look Where You Want To Go

How can you go somewhere if you don’t know where you want to go?  This article is about finding your goal or purpose before you start so you have a place to focus.  The idea of looking where you want to go is used in racing whether car, truck, motorcycle, or bike.  The idea is to not to keep your visual focus on obstacles, but to focus on where you want to go.  Then the vehicle will go where you look easier.  I have found this advice works great when I am mountain biking.  Yes, if I look down and carefully watch the roots or rocks I can make it through the obstacles, but I end up going slower and I don’t have advance visual notice of what is ahead. Continue reading

Vegetarian Mistakes I’ve Made

Over the years I have had my share of difficulty eating vegetarian. For me, I haven’t had meat cravings or things like that, so it has been challenges with eating well and finding good things to eat. Here I’ll look back at some of the mistakes I have made.  This post will look at the mistakes – I’ll cover how to fix them in a future post.

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Vegetarian Offers

Here are some vegetarian and gluten free offers I recently found. Let me know if you have any feedback on any of them.  Click on the banners or images to go to each site.


This lady suffered from many health issues which ultimately were caused by sugar and food sensitivities to many grains.  She has put her years of experience into a book with both recipes and methods for transforming your favorite recipes to gluten-free and low-glycemic.


This book contains much about losing and maintaining weight with yoga, but also comes with a complete additional bonus book called Vegetarian Recipes for Health and Happiness.


This comes from a mother-daughter team with the mom’s handed down recipes and the daughter writing them all up in simple to read and use format.  This offer comes with lots of extras including books on weight loss and organic food.


Vegetarian Cooking Made Easy. A Step By Step Guide To A Vegetarian Lifestyle.  This comes with tons of extras including getting started basics, tons of recipes, simple formulas, things to watch out for, plus how to make sure you are getting everything you need.

Do you have any cookbooks or resources you find indispensable?  Be sure to comment and let me know about them.