Source: Food Matters During the holidays, it’s easy to overindulge in sugary treats. You’ll often notice at around 3pm you experience a slump in energy. This is usually a sign that your blood sugars have spiked and you’re now experiencing the post-sugar energy drop. Your head feels like it’s stuffed with cotton wool and you can’t ...

Why does it seem like there are never enough hours in the day? From day to night, work to family, personal goals, and endless to-do lists, we’re a nation of on-the-go people. We all want to be more productive, which requires more focus and more energy. If you feel your focus and energy slipping, you’ll ...

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. —Romans 15:13 Even when our situation is full of challenges, we can confidently pray that the God of hope will fill us with the ...

Everybody feels stress and knows it intimately, but very few of us think about what stress is. Stress is a thought. That’s it. No more, no less. If that’s true, then we have complete control over stress, because it’s not something that happens to us but something that happens in us. The dictionary definition of ...

Getting at least 7-8 hours of sleep each night is absolutely essential for maintaining your mental edge, losing weight, and keeping depression at bay.  But if you suffer from anxiety, good sleep may be little more than an elusive dream. Try these 10 tips for calming your mind and drifting off to sleep gracefully.  Bear ...

As a special treat, we’re featuring an easy, healthy and delicious nut mix for your holiday parties from our friends at Experience Life Magazine. SERVES 6, ¼ cup servings of mixed nuts INGREDIENTS – ½ cup almonds (raw or soaked and dehydrated) – ½ cup walnuts (raw or soaked and dehydrated) – cup pepitas (raw or soaked ...

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.  2 Corinthians 12:9 Any process of change exposes our weaknesses. We want to make changes, but when ...

With the holiday season right around the corner, there is no better time than the present to fortify our diet and cement healthy eating.  Ironically, while healthy eating is our birthright, for many of us it seems like taking the plunge into eating a whole foods-based diet is the equivalent to traveling to some distant ...

Know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. —Ephesians 3:19 God’s love is deep enough to handle anything. No matter what hurt you have experienced in the past, what problems you’re going through right now, or what pain you will face in the future, ...

Source:  Food Matters Heath trends are a dime a dozen these days. It seems like every week there’s a new superfood discovered or another exotic berry being touted as the ultimate all-in-one-cure-for-everything. The truth remains that our health is a profoundly diverse topic and there is no “one size fits all” approach. For example, can you ...