The Best Instant Pot Pumpkin Chili Recipe You'll Ever Try — Move aside, pumpkin spice latte. There's a new pumpkin favorite in town, and it's both delicious, healthy, AND easy to make. What could be better?! When fall rolls around and the air turns crisp, there's nothing quite like a hearty bowl of chili to warm you up. If you're looking for a unique twist o
Your Oregon October Activity Guide — Love fall and love Oregon? We've compiled a list of some of the best October Oregon activities around! Enjoy some of these diverse , family-friendly events happening around Oregon, to encourage getting involved in your local communities.
The Three-Pronged Approach to Supplements and Life — If you have tuned in to the Healthy House Calls Radio Show when Mt. Angel Vitamins' John Mills spoke, you will have heard him reference more than once his "three-prong" approach to formulation. But the three-prong approach can be applied to more than just finding or creating a well-balanced suppleme
Supplementation and Resolutions: Reasons Why Your New Year's Resolution Might Need a Vitamin-Boost — January 2nd. Deep sigh. You start making that equally-anticipated but also equally-dreaded list of New Year's Resolutions. And if you are like most Americans, healthy eating/losing weight/better physical fitness tops your list. Unfortunately, from day one to day eight alone, five percent of American
Weight Loss Supplements for the New Year — With the Resolution Season right around the corner, we thought it would be a great time to talk about weight loss supplements. According to an article in the Washington Post last year, weight loss is the number one resolution people make with 21% of adults followed closely by exercising at 14%.
Oregon Gift Guide: Support Proactive Wellness with these Great Local Products — We are so proud to be from Oregon. There are a plethora of great companies here that focus on being healthy and active, including some large, well-known international brands like Columbia Sportswear as well as small, family-owned artisan food and beverage companies like Minto Island Tea Company . If
Combating Holiday Stress — Congratulations! You made it through Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday in one piece! I don't know about you, but it always seems like this time of year just shows up without warning, and all of the sudden, I'm deep into shopping for gifts and writing out lists and planning meals and figur
Simple Living: Time Management Tips and Tricks — With the time change coming up this weekend for most of the country, it has us thinking about time in general... how fleeting it is, how fast it goes when we're doing something we enjoy (and how slow it goes when we're doing something we don't), and how hard it can be to manage. As the late Steve Jo
Tips for a Healthy Halloween — It's true -- Halloween gets us a little spooked, and not just because of the zombies, vampires and ghosts! No, it's because of the S-word (Sugar!) and what it does to our little monsters. Cookies, cupcakes, candy corn, peanut butter cups, malted milk balls, and jolly ranchers... oh my! It's enough t
Simple Living: Self-care and the Importance of Saying No — Sometimes you just have to say 'No' for the sake of your sanity. Find time to get away to do something for yourself and don't feel guilty about it. It's called self-care and here's why it's important:
Supplements: Active Aging Week — Did you know that the last week of September is Active Aging Week? It was initiated by the International Council on Active Aging (ICAA) in 2003. The week-long campaign calls attention to and wholeheartedly celebrates the positivity of aging today. We agree with the ICAA that adults over 50 can live
Simple Living: Morning Stretches to Kick-Start Your Day — Many of us spend much of our days in a fairly sedentary position, which has negative impacts on our energy levels, circulation and range of motion. One of the simplest ways to improve all of these factors and to ensure a calm start to the day is to introduce some easy stretches to your morning routi
Simple Living: Meal Planning 101 — For those who work outside the home and/or have kids, you know the evening routine can get a little stressful. Everybody gets home – hungry and tired – and one of the responsible adults has to get dinner on the table in the midst of all the chaos. The first thing you do is look in the fridge to see
Simple Living: Morning Routine — With school back in session, mornings can be a little crazy - rushing around, giving some gentle prodding (or let's be honest - yelling), trying to find lost objects (keys! shoes!)... Sometimes when you get to work, you feel like you've already had a full day's work! So, here are some tips to get ev