Your home sweet home—the place where you hang your hat and rest your weary bones after a hard day of work is meant to fuel your health and happiness. However, unbeknownst to many, home can actually influence bad habits and encourage poor health if it encourages a sedentary lifestyle, poor food choices, and other unhealthy […]
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Welcoming potted houseplants into your home can help to purify air and reduce harmful particulates in the air, as they absorb carbon dioxide to photosynthesize fresh oxygen. Here are eight common and hearty houseplants that promote air quality.
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If you spend most of your time locked behind closed doors in fear of the dangers lurking on the outside—think again! Your home sweet home is harboring its share of factors that can prove detrimental to your health and wellbeing. Here are eight ways your home can make you ill… Patch Leaks That wet basement, […]
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Grass, pollen, pet dander — these are just some of the triggers that can make allergy season so miserable. But help may be on the way for people whose allergies are set off by dust mites. Researchers at the University of Iowa say they’ve recently completed development of a vaccine capable of holding off dust-mite […]
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Smell that? It’s funny how certain smells can evoke all sorts of feelings and memories. However, it turns out that certain smells can also improve your health and enhance your happiness. Studies show that getting a whiff of the following eight scents will instantly benefit your wellbeing. So take a deep breath… 1. Jasmine Brew […]
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We all know the most obvious germy places—public toilet bowls, your garbage disposal, your cat’s litter box. However, the typical home is also full of other germy realms and dirty personal items that should be considered some of the worst germ-ridden culprits, like these (in no particularly yucky order)… TV Remotes That universal remote that […]
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