Sticking to natural eating is not hard, as long as you keep its many benefits top of mind and ensure a natural diversity of foods over time. This delicious natural meal features grilled chicken kabobs and veggies on a stick with mixed greens, julienne celery, cut pea pods, and halved grape tomatoes…garnished with pistachios, parsley, coriander, tarragon, and red pepper…
We hear so much about finding our inner light, but it may be that seeking outer light is far more important. After all, we are evolved from the sun and its light striking the earth; our natural human life is an outward one of engagement, endeavor, and relationships in the larger environment; and much research suggests that a predominantly outward focus, not an inward one, is a surer path to personal discovery, proportion, harmony, and happiness today. The next time someone yells, “look out!”, perhaps you will appreciate more fully this natural truth of all healthy life.
An interesting new study has found that evolution is naturally sexy, or rather that it naturally encourages open sexual reproduction. This idea is of course well-evidenced by the development and preponderance of sexual reproduction in all higher species on earth, but remains the subject of theoretical issues among evolutionary scientists, since the evolution of sex seemingly produces more males than might be best for optimal gene advancement.
The new research examined reproduction in worms capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction. The researchers found that sexual reproduction led to far more robust immune system strength over time, providing significant benefits for gene advancement. As has been suggested by other research, genetic diversity proves essential to long-term natural survival, and both sex and a high number of males appear to encourage this healthy diversity.
Learn more about the new study at Sex And Evolution.
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Even a lazy Sunday and nearly empty fridge can be used to create a healthy and inspiring meal. This one is a red onion, julienne carrot, and tomato omelet with mixed greens and berries…garnished with pistachios, parsley, paprika, coriander, black pepper, and anise. Go ahead, dabble…
In the race to live, to create, to become, even to be healthy, we can miss our essential human opportunity for balancing inaction, for repose, for being, for time simply as time. Through inaction, we often better ground and guide the actions we do or must take. Today, and each day, learn from the ancient natural life around us. Find time for enriching stillness, for nothing, for life lived for itself and as it is. You may find a new and waiting world of stunning light and shadow, of sound and stillness, a world ever vibrant, a world ever becoming, a world always waiting and that is never nothing.
A new study by Pennsylvania State University offers important guidance for staying slim once we achieve an optimal body weight. The new research examined practices used by more than 1100 formerly overweight people to keep weight off after successful dieting. They found that those most likely to stay slim used one or more of four key strategies: 1) a diet rich in low-fat proteins, 2) a consistent exercise program, 3) personal rewards for meeting diet and exercise goals, and 4) regular reminders of the benefits of weight management. Importantly, the new research highlights that these important weight maintenance strategies are different from those most apt to help people during successful transitions to a healthy weight. Learn more about the new research at Keep It Off.
July is here and so is the second half of the year. In addition to preparing for summer vacations, now is a great time to look ahead to where we want to be when the year ends six months from now. Research shows that having longer range plans and cultivating a progressive vision of what we want to create is integral to healthy modern life, guiding present actions and enlarging our daily perspectives. Learn more about progressive life planning within the HumanaNatura natural health system at Natural Living and access our easy-to-use planning worksheets at Natural Living Worksheets.
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