A magic potion to breezing through the holidays without packing on too many extra pounds! A habit one can always practice religiously through the holidays or party season is drinking cran water. This magic potion acts as a natural diuretic and flushes bloat from your system. Most holiday/party foods are high in sodium, sugar, fat: all bloat makers. By ridding …

Ingredients  1 cup coconut flakes (unsweetened) 1 cup dried cranberries 1 cup walnut (chopped) 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp coconut oil Directions  Melt honey and coconut oil for a minute in the microwave. Chop walnuts. Mix nuts with cranberries and coconut. Gently mix in melted oil and honey. Drop spoonfuls into mini baking cups and bake for 10 minutes at …

Ingredients 2 large eggplants 1 pound ground chicken 2 small potatoes (chopped to cubes) 2 teaspoon flax meal 1 onion (chopped) 1 tsp pepper . tsp cumin 2 tsp salt 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp mint 2 tbsp coconut oil 2 heaped teaspoons corn flour 1 cup milk 2 tbsp thick yogurt 1 tsp oregano Directions Cut eggplant lengthwise …

Which Should You Use? With all the varieties of sea salt floating around the market, it has become a popular household name. From prime-time cookery shows that are now widely watched, sea salt is a common, much talked-about ingredient. Touted for it’s ‘all-natural quality’ everyone seems to prefer sea salt to iodized salt! Okay, so no one is condemning sea …

“Buying a home is complicated. Shopping around, doing your homework and taking good advice from property experts is the key to hassle-free home-buying.”  Here are some of what you need to look for:  Calculate your budget Consider what deposit you can raise (from savings or family) and how much you can afford to pay for a monthly mortgage after essential …

Thirty one year-old Uma wants to have a baby, she has been married for five years and is really desperate now. Her menstrual cycles are irregular, have always been that way – going on for seven days – every 50-60 days. Her BMI is 28 (BMI=Wt in kilogram/Ht in (metre)2). Thirty two year-old Reema has had two miscarriages, four years …

Healthy diet gives you energy, supports your mood, maintains your weight, and keeps you looking your best. It can also be a huge support through the different stages in life. Healthy food can help reduce PMS, boost fertility, combat stress, make pregnancy and nursing easier, and ease symptoms of menopause. Whatever your age, committing to a healthy diet will help …

We gather that as a modern Persian name, Vashti is understood to mean “Beautiful, best.” We let the reader judge from the story of Vashti, the Persian Queen, if she lived up to her name or not! Way back in the fifth century, the Persian king Xerxes ruled over 127 provinces stretching right up to India. In the third year …

The International Women’s Day is observed the world over to mark women’s struggle for justice, their triumphs and tribulations. “Women’s Empowerment” is therefore the buzzword today. To some, it may mean the disempowerment of men! But it should not be so. A healthy balance of male / female responsibilities and relationships need to be maintained for the building of a …

We live in a broken world. Does God see all this? Does he care about the injustices done to us? The pain we suffer? God does see and care about the healing of his broken world! Let me close with thisbeautiful story from the life of Jesus. Early one morning, Jesus went to the Temple. As people gathered around him, …