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If you are ready for a healthy breakfast idea to start your New Year with, then this delicious and healthy Pumpkin and Cinnamon Pancake recipe for weight loss might be a good start for you.

Pumpkin is rich in beta carotene to keep your eyes healthy and your skin look younger, as well as fiber to keep you regular and help you lose weight naturally.

Cinnamon will help you keep your hormones in balance and your metabolism under control which always helps women lose weight or at least not to gain extra pounds.

Oats are not only rich in fiber to lose weight and protein to beet cravings, but also help to stabilize your blood sugar and lower your cholesterol.

Healthy Weight Loss Breakfast Recipe: Pumpkin Cinnamon Pancakes

Ingredients:

• 1 can pumpkin pure
• 1/2tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 1 cup oats
• 1/2 cup plain yogurt
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/2 cup sugar or as needed
• olive oil as needed

Directions:

Mix all ingredients thoroughly, cook on medium heat and serve with sour cream, Maple Syrup or mix or berries and fruits.

Bon Appetit!

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Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

As a holistic health and nutrition coach, I try to women get healthier and happier by changing their lifestyle and food preferences. I love natural and whole foods, believe that they can cure many types of illnesses, and love to use natural foods in every possible way.

Below are some tips on fast and easy to make summer beauty remedies you can make from summer fruits and vegetables to nourish, rejuvenate and moisturize your skin.

Keep only in mind that some of the fruits and vegetables you have to buy organic in order to avoid toxic chemicals and pesticides. Always check the “dirty dozen list” and seasonal local produce list before going to the marketfor your homemade beauty remedy ingredients.

Summer Beauty Remedies Facial Ingredients:

• Strawberry
• Apricot
• Cherry
• Peach
• Banana
• Pear
• Cucumber
• Zucchini
• Summer squash
• Papaya
• Watermelon
• Grapes
• Tomato
• Kiwi
• Grapefruit

If you think of anything else you can use as facials, please add to this list and let me know.

Beauty Remedies Directions/ Options:

• Option One: Take one of the beauty remedy ingredients, mash it with a fork (if possible) and apply on your face and neck. Wash it off in 10 minutes.
• Option Two: Take one of the beauty remedy ingredients, slice it and rub one slice over your face and neck; Wash it off in 10 minutes.
• Option Three: Mash one of the beauty remedy ingredients to have 2 tbsp mashed puree, and add:

• 1 tbsp organic cold pressed olive oil or
  
• 1-2 tbsp kefir or plain yogurt or
  
• 1 tbsp raw organic/local honey

Apply the mix on your face and neck. Wash it off in 10 minutes.

P.S. Don’t forget to eat more fruits and vegetables to feel and look fabulous in Summer.

Why Strawberries, Peaches and Cherries Can Be Dangerous to Your Health

Are Your Fruits and Vegetables Really Fresh

Bon Appetit and cheers to your Health and Beauty!

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health Coach and Nutrition Counselor

Will you have colorful egg art on your table this Easter? This Easter learn how to use you Easter Eggs for ther vitamin D benefits.

If you want to have a healthier Easter celebration, it might help to know the egg health benefits  free range,  grass fed and pastured poultry can provide.  The latter two are the best for your health because chickens are allowed to eat as much green plant food as they want.   

However, even eggs from free range chickens are a better source of vitamin D foods than supermarkets eggs that are not labeled as such. In other words, don’t forget to look at the label on your egg carton.

More vitamin A, more omega-3 fatty acids, and now it turns out that free-range eggs provide more D vitamin benefits than supermarket eggs — three to six times as much!

Nutrient tests of pastured eggs show that eggs from hens raised on pasture — as compared to the official USDA data for factory-farm eggs — contain:

• 1/3 less eggs cholesterol
• 1/4 less saturated fat
• 2/3 more vitamin A
• Two times more omega-3 fatty acids
• Three times more vitamin E
• Seven times more beta carotene

We all know that we get Vitamin D when sunlight strikes our skin, but if you are looking for vitamin D benefits from your diet, you should use the healthiest vitamin D food sources that you can find. Free range, grass fed, and even pastured poultry eggs can be such a source.

According to Mother Earth News: The USDA says supermarket eggs contain an average of 34 International Units per 100 grams. Our tests of eggs from four pastured farms in Texas, Kansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania found that their eggs contained three to six times as much vitamin D as typical supermarket eggs. This means two scrambled eggs from pastured hens may give you 63 to 126 percent of the recommended daily intake of 200 IU of vitamin D.

And con’t forget that new studies have shown that this vitamin D deficiency may be related to much more than just weak bones — for example – diabetes, cancer, heart disease and multiple sclerosis.

Let us be egg health smart to feel and look fabulous, shall we?

Breathe, smile and be happy.

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health Counselor and Nutrition Coach