Way back when as I was browsing Huffington Post (as I am known to do during my down times at work), I came across an article about soulmates. And while that is a long, drawn out discussion for a rainy day, I did read a phrase that has stuck with me enough that I became inspired to write about it for Health Like Me! "Emotion Log" Scroll down to about a third of the article under the subtitle "Heal from your past" and you'll see a brief introduction of what an emotion log is! Pin-pointing how you feel periodically throughout the day is a great experiment in understanding your mental and emotional health.
Here is one more example of a guide to personalize your emotion log! Feeling and emoting are what makes us human. And extraordinary, complex and beautiful ones at that! Let's all make time in our busy schedules to simply reflect and be!
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Well, here we all are either grudgingly inching towards 30 or just recently past it, and the whole taking our post-meal daily vitamin supplement phase has returned with a vengeance. And not because we are growing girls and boys. No. It's because we are deteriorating girls and boys.
Alright, "deteriorating" may sound a bit morbid. But I need you to kind of see where I'm going with this.
Replenishing or sustaining the specific vitamins we didn’t need or took for granted in the prime of our lives is more important now than it ever will be! And based on which Millennial decade we sprouted from, we might want to know exactly how much of what vitamin/supplements and which brand(s) should be the focus of our new rejuvenated vitamin supplement life!
Here are are the ones Health Like Me will focus on for us average, circling 30, beauties —
Exposing yourself to the sun for some natural vitamin D has long been debunked. And rightfully so! But get this: just like too much sun exposure causes melanoma — a form of skin cancer — a vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to other certain cancers!
So now what? Well, here's why we aren't getting enough and why we need some form of vitamin D if we lack it any way. First, because no one wants skin cancer, it's second nature to generously lather on any SPF 30 or higher. Next, most of us have professions that keep us indoors from 8-5. For half of the year that means once we wrap up work and step outside, it's already on the darker side of the evening. Last, there are those of us that, if you look like me, naturally reject much of the sun's ultraviolet rays (thankfully!). This means that there isn't anything we can do and we suffer from lack of vitamin D the most. Vitamin D helps us absorb calcium, helps keep our immune system hunky-dory and keeps our bones strong.
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