General Health Archives - Meraki Lane

15 Lifestyle and Diet Tips to Improve Metabolic Syndrome | What is metabolic syndrome? Are there symptoms? What are the treatment options? What is the best diet to follow if you have it? These are all great questions, and while there is no diet plan or exercise plan designed specifically to reverse metabolic syndrome, there are lifestyle changes you can make and a list of foods you should and should not eat to help. If you want to know how to cure metabolic syndrome, give this a read!

Syndrome X: 15 Lifestyle and Diet Tips to Improve Metabolic Syndrome

9 Lazy Meal Prep Tips for Weight Loss | If clean eating is your goal, meal planning and prepping is a must. The key to any healthy lifestyle change is to keep it easy and simple, and we're sharing our best tips and hacks to help! Whether you're specifically tackling one meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks), or want to completely overhaul the way you plan your weekly grocery list based on the recipes you plan on making, this post has it all!

Eat Clean in Less Time: 9 Lazy Meal Prep Tips for Weight Loss

33 Powerful Mental Health Quotes to Keep You Grounded | Raising awareness about mental health struggles should be a priority, and this collection of quotes, sayings, and mantras is a great resource. Perfect for parents, for family, for students, for kids, for teachers and everyone in between, these short, simple, and inspiring quotes and affirmations about mental health will help calm your mind, reduce stress and anxiety, and allow you to feel calm and accepted when life gets hard.

33 Powerful Mental Health Quotes to Keep You Grounded

What To Do When You Feel Overwhelmed | If you want to know how to stop feeling overwhelmed, and what to do when you get stuck in 'analysis paralysis', this post has tons of ideas to help. From our best time management and productivity tips, to simple life hacks to teach you how to manage stress, to household management tips we swear by, these strategies will teach you how to stay calm, how to prioritize, and how to stay focused so you can execute like a boss!

What To Do When You Feel Overwhelmed: 9 Tips and Ideas That Help

How to Stop Ruminating Thoughts | If you're looking for tips and coping strategies to help you stop obsessive thoughts from controlling your mind, we're sharing 9 simple ideas you can start using today to help you relieve stress and anxiety and feel more in control. If you lay awake at night ruminating and worrying about things that have gone wrong in the past, with friends, in a relationship, or even at work, we're sharing our best psychology facts and hacks to help you get unstuck.

How to Stop Ruminating Thoughts: 9 Tips to Help You Stop Overthinking

How To Get Rid of Menopause Belly Fat | From hot flashes, to night sweats, to mood swings, perimenopause and menopause can cause many uncomfortable symptoms. Many women gain weight during the transition to menopause, particularly around their midsection, which can lead to metabolic syndrome and other health-related conditions. The good news is that it IS possible to lose weight after menopause, and this post includes lifestyle changes plus diet and exercise tips to help!

13 Tips to Prevent and Get Rid of Menopause Belly Fat

How to Reduce Cortisol Levels Naturally | Symptoms of high cortisol range from insomnia and fatigue, to belly bloat and weight gain, to IBS and high blood pressure and more. If you suspect you have an imbalance in your stress hormones and want natural tips to help lower cortisol secretion so you can sleep better, lose weight, and improve your health, this post is for you! We're sharing everything you need to know about cortisol, along with 9 natural ways to reduce it and live your best life!

How to Reduce Cortisol Levels Naturally: 9 Diet & Lifestyle Tips

7 Remedies for Athlete’s Foot | Also known as 'tinea pedis', athlete's foot is highly contagious and is pretty uncomfortable. We're sharing everything you need to know, including the signs, symptoms, and causes, prevention tips, and home remedies to teach you how to get rid of athlete's foot once and for all. From hydrogen peroxide and baking soda, to tea tree oil and neem oil, to apple cider vinegar and sea salt, this post explains how to treat athlete's foot naturally!

Tinea Pedis: 7 Remedies for Athlete’s Foot to Ease Symptoms

8 Bedtime Workout Routines For Weight Loss and Sleep | Can't find time to exercise during the day? Want a quick and easy routine you can do before bed to help you tighten and tone your body without compromising your sleep? Perfect for beginners and beyond, these evening workout routines are the perfect pre-bed at home exercises to help you meet your weight loss goals when you're pressed for time. If you want a flat stomach, toned legs, and strong core, take the challenge!

8 Bedtime Workout Routines For Weight Loss and Better Sleep

How to Reduce Stress Naturally | If you're looking for tips and ways to reduce your stress levels, this post has tons of practical ideas you can implement today! While yoga, deep breathing exercises, journalling, and meditation are common stress reducers, there are lots of other effective ways to destress at home. From calming foods and exercise to essential oils and sleep, these stress relieving activities offer natural ways to relieve stress, reduce tension, and combat anxiety fast!

How to Reduce Stress Naturally: 13 Tips and Hacks

How to Become a Morning Person | If you're looking for tips and hacks to help you transform yourself from a night owl into someone who wakes up early for school, for work, or with kids, this post is for you! We're sharing small habits and lifestyle changes you can start making TODAY to help you become an early riser without a super early bedtime, elaborate morning routines, and endless cups of coffee. Being a morning person is surprisingly easy - the trick is not to overthink it!

How to Become a Morning Person: 11 Tips & Hacks

Thirty 30-Day Spring Challenge Ideas to Try | Spring is the perfect time to check in with your resolutions, measure your progress, and adjust or set new goals. Whether you want to lose your winter weight through healthy eating, train for a 5K, practice mindfulness, commit to self-care, or tackle your spring cleaning list, we're sharing tons of simple and creative ways you can break big goals down into manageable 30-day challenges to keep your motivation up.

Reboot Your Life: Thirty 30-Day Spring Challenge Ideas to Try

26 Calcium Rich Foods For Bone Health | Whether you're looking for calcium rich foods for women or for men who follow a vegan diet, for toddlers who are picky eaters, and/or for kids who follow a dairy free diet due to foods sensitivities or allergies, this post is for you! We're sharing some background information on hypocalcemia / calcium deficiency, including signs, symptoms, causes, risk factors, and the role of vitamin D, plus a list of foods that are delicious and high in calcium!

26 Calcium Rich Foods To Eat For Better Bone Health

48 Celiac Disease Recipes | If you're looking for a collection of easy and delicious gluten-free recipes for yourself (or for kids), we've curated the best of the best! From breakfast, to lunch, to dinner, to snacks and desserts, these recipe ideas will not disappoint. We've also included a list of foods to eat and avoid on the celiac disease diet to help you create a grocery list and meal plan, as well as a little background info including the symptoms and causes of celiac disease.

Celiac Disease Diet: 48 Gluten-Free Recipes for Beginners

How to Get Rid of a Crick in the Neck | If you're looking for remedies for a crick in the neck, this post has you covered! While neck and shoulder pain caused by a crick usually goes away on its own in a few days, there are stretches, exercises, and other natural remedies you can try for fast relief. And if you want to know how to sleep with a crick in the neck, we're sharing tons of tips and tricks to help reduce inflammation and relax your muscles for a good night of restorative sleep.

How to Get Rid of a Crick in the Neck: 12 Tips and Remedies

How to Stop Boredom Eating | If you want to know how to overcome unhealthy eating habits, like boredom eating, stress eating, or any other type of emotional eating patterns, this post has tons of helpful tips to teach you how to control your mindset, how to beat cravings, and how to avoid eating your feelings. These clean eating strategies will help you figure how to control cravings before they start, allowing you to plan ahead and learn how to stop making unhealthy choices in the moment.

Emotional Eater? 9 Ways to Stop Boredom Eating One and For All

Wisdom Teeth Recovery Tips | Oral surgery is never fun, but wisdom teeth extraction is sort of a coming of age ritual most of us have to endure. Whether your experience was quick and painless and you just need a list of soft foods to eat and tips to reduce swelling as you recover, or you had impacted wisdom teeth and need day-by-day life hacks to help with pain and sleeping, this post has it all! From ice packs, to tea bag compresses, to the best essential oils and more, these ideas work!

Surviving Oral Surgery: 13 Wisdom Teeth Recovery Tips

How to Get Rid of Varicose Veins | If you have mild to moderate varicose veins, this post has lots of great information to help you determine the best treatment for you. From knowing the symptoms and causes of varicose veins, to understanding how to prevent varicose veins from getting worse, to home remedies and natural treatments, we're sharing lifestyle changes, exercises, yoga poses, essential oils, and many other DIY treatment options for fast relief.

How to Get Rid of Varicose Veins: 9 Home Remedies That Work

How to Stop Feeling Guilty | If you're looking for the best ways to stop feeling guilty about the past, for saying no, for setting boundaries, for breaking up with someone, for ending a friendship, or for something you said or did to someone you love, this post is just what you need! We're sharing XX simple tips to make dealing with guilt and feelings of regret in your relationships with yourself and others a little easier. Say goodbye to guilt trips and hello to a life of peace and happiness!

How to Stop Feeling Guilty: 8 Tips to Help You Let Go

How to Reduce Body Fat | If you want to reduce your body fat percentage fast, this post is for you! We're sharing the best food, diet, and exercise tips and tricks for women to help decrease your body fat naturally. This post includes a body fat percentage chart for women and for men to help you gauge how much you need to lose, and you'll learn which foods to avoid, the best foods and snacks to help you feel full, and fat burning workouts to help you tighten and tone your body!

How to Reduce Body Fat: 9 Tips and Exercises that Help

30-Day Fitness Challenges to Try This Year | Whether you're looking for 30-day full body workout challenges for beginners, or something more specific, like a 30-day arms challenge, 30-day abs challenge, or a 30-day squat challenge for women, this post has tons of ideas to inspire you! While many of us take on weight loss challenges at the beginning of the year, there's no time like the present, and you can start any of these 30-day challenge ideas right here, right now!

33 of The Best 30-Day Fitness Challenges to Try This Year