Articles Posted in the Mind and Body Category
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How to Make Homemade Baby Wipes
Why I Make Homemade Baby Wipes My mom had suggested using cloth diapers since my first pregnancy for both financial and eco reasons, but I always refused thinking I wouldn’t be able to handle it. But over the years, I heard more and more about them. I looked into them a tiny bit when I [...]
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Stop the Cycle
As controversial as this commercial may be, it’s pretty powerful. We must stop the cycle of obesity, starting right at our own dinner tables! What do you think about this?
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10 Minute Trainer Facebook Giveaway
10 Minute Trainer Giveaway Broke & Healthy is teaming up with Fitness Body Online to give away an awesome workout package called 10 Minute Trainer, an $80 value! To enter, simply become a Facebook fan of Broke & Healthy. That’s it!* But hurry, we’ll randomly choose a winner on Saturday, April 7th. Super Stacking™ The secret behind [...]
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Why You Should Live Like You’re Sick {Even Though You’re Not}
I’ve spent the past few days feeling slightly “under the weather.” More sleep, more soup, more tea, more water. More saying “no” to things if it is going to exhaust me more than I already am. The moment I cheat on something in this list, I pay for it the next morning. I’m reminded that [...]
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Why You Should Live Like You’re Poor {Even Though You’re Not}
I’m not a financial advisor and I’m not wealthy, let’s just get that straight. But common sense tells me that becoming wealthy is a lot like losing weight: Earn more than you spend, burn more calories than you eat. It’s simple math. Seems to me that until one can make this equation fit my life, [...]
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Why I Want to Stop Popping Pills {and DayQuil}
I want to stop using medicine. That’s easier said than done, especially if you’ve grown up in America where we pop pills the first sign of a runny nose. I don’t plan to ween myself off of medicine all at once. Rather, over the course of the next few years I want make a habit [...]
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50 Techniques to Help You Sleep
Sleep deprivation is serious business. In the short run, not getting enough sleep can leave you just plain exhausted, it can impair your memory and cause plenty o’ stress. However, in the long run, sleep deprivation has been linked to strokes, high blood pressure, cancer growth, heart disease, depression, obesity, ADD, and a lot more [...]
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7 Ways to Keep Your New Years Resolutions
I don’t mean to sound like Miss Grumpy Pants at such a festive time of year, but hear me out. I don’t like New Years Resolutions, and I’ve stopped making them. People make them because they want to better themselves, which is all good and lovely. But it may be a little trickier than that. [...]
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28 Food Documentaries + Ratings, Trailers & Links to Watch
These trailers are listed based on ratings from Rotten Tomatoes. Don’t let the ratings fool you, though. Sometimes the best things are the least popular. Food, Inc. (2008) (site) Watch on Netflix King Corn (2007) (site) Watch on Netflix Our Daily Bread (2005) (site) Watch on Netflix Supersize Me (2003) Watch on Hulu Watch on YouTube The Real Dirt on [...]
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A Free, Guaranteed Method to Avoid Hip Problems
A couple years ago, I worked in Ethiopia for a few months, helping a team take care of AIDS and leprosy patients. I had the privilege of visiting a leprosy hospital a few times, and happened to stumble upon a book called The Gift of Pain in the midst of my visits. I won’t get [...]
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Does Your Diet Affect Gallstones?
I like to entertain thoughts in my head regarding diet and disease. Recently, I was talking to an acquaintance about gallstones. Gallstones form in the gallbladder and cause severe pain. Usually removal of the gallbladder is required, especially if a stone is blocking the release of bile. The gallbladder is an organ located right up [...]
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3 Tips for Healthy Meal Plans
It is a known fact that eating a healthy meal is key to living a healthy life. Sooner or later, you will have to stop indulging in fatty foods because this will lead to heart complications, high blood pressure, and will eventually bog down your system. Despite this, it’s difficult to stick to a healthy [...]
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100 Free (or Cheap) Ways to Exercise
I look at the gym like I look at diets: I hate them both. They’re good to do if you need it (and I do), but I would much rather live an active lifestyle. Exercise doesn’t have to mean spending $50 a month at the gym or half of your day on the treadmill. For [...]
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6 Life Skills I’ll Teach my Children (When I Have Them)
1. The Art of Simplicity It’s funny how many life lessons I’ve learned through cooking. Take, for example, a true Italian dining experience. Most famous Italian chefs would agree that our food should be simple, and shouldn’t be masked by too many flavors or spices. It’s authentic, it’s simple, it’s not pretentious—it is what it [...]
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Watch “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” for Free
Sweet, it’s free to watch on Hulu! If you’re not familiar with the film, I’ve put the description below, here’s the site, here are some of his juice recipes, and enjoy! “100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the [...]
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Fitness on the Cheap
Are you trying to get back into shape, but worried about how you can afford to do so? Whether you’re going through tough economic times or you’re trying to save some money, it’s never been easier to work out without belonging to a gym. Both cardio and strength exercises can be done on your own [...]
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Your Handy A-K Guide to the 13 Vitamins
Alright, so I have no idea who originally did this diagram but I’m not taking credit for it, so don’t sue me. This is a guide you should keep handy for the major vitamins you should be taking, including the good things it does, what the deficiency symptoms look like, and what the overdoes effects [...]
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Self-Trust & Diets: Do you Trust Yourself?
I’m a big fan of the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. At my “real job” (a corporate setting), I was heavily encouraged (forced) to learn about this book and spend lunch hours listening to seminars about it. Admittedly, I had a bad attitude about it at first. I had always thought this [...]
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1st World “Poor” vs. 3rd world “Poor”
Whenever I’m in a situation that I’m not sure how to handle, or if I’m trying to make a tough decision, I have a rule of thumb I try to maintain: Step back and look at the big picture. I mean the really big picture. I’m a human on this thing called Earth and [...]
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Broke & Vagabonding
I just bought a plane ticket to Paris. I’ll be there for 2 months and, out of those 2 months, I have 2 weeks planned. The rest of the time I’ll just wander about Europe and see where things take me. I made a joke about marrying a Spaniard and moving up to the [...]
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4 Confessions of a Healthy Food Blogger
This weekend I watched the documentary, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead on Netflix. I liked it. It challenged me in several ways and I felt pumped to drink a lot more fresh juice. But, like most food documentaries, it left me feeling guilty for not being a health food & fitness superstar. In the downward [...]
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8 Ways to Make Fitness Fun
Everyone is different & there is no right way to be fit. I’m only 21 years old, but I’ve learned that any exercises that I do must be enjoyable to me in order for me to work out consistently. You enjoy being fit much more if you enjoy what you’re doing & don’t have to [...]
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Celebrate 100 Things in 100 Days
I’m sure you’re well aware of the Casey Anthony trial, the verdict, and all the controversy surrounding it. I’ll explain what little about it that I do know, if you haven’t heard already, but if you want more info, take a look at this Wikipedia page. Essentially what happened was this: A young mother was [...]
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How Much Vitamin D Should I Take?
Multiple factors influence how much vitamin D you need to take. While vitamin D is made in your skin during exposure to sun, if you have dark skin, are a senior, or live in a higher latitude your skin is not able to synthesize vitamin D adequately. The best way to find out if you [...]
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6 Ways to Prevent Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis (literally porous bone) is a disease that affects 10 million Americans. An estimated 35 million Americans are at risk for developing osteoporosis in their lifetime. It is estimated that half of all women over 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis. This disease is not limited to only females. About 20 percent of [...]
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The “Ryniak” Diet Plan – Part 1
Lately, I concocted a personalized meal plan based on a few diets that I’ve tried that never worked and were always missing something. I have very few rules for myself and I have dessert every night…sometimes two helpings! I’m going to start this article with my rules and breakfast options. I don’t have very many [...]
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Desperate Times Call for P90X: Part 2
From a Nalgene-toting, salad-eating outdoor sports nut, to a suburban-living, “Lost”-watching wife at a desk job, Rachel’s life has changed quite a bit. But her and her husband have decided to get back to the way they used to feel with some big goals and a small budget.
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Desperate Times Call for P90X: Part 1
From a Nalgene-toting, salad-eating outdoor sports nut, to a suburban-living, “Lost”-watching wife at a desk job, Rachel’s life has changed quite a bit. But her and her husband have decided to get back to the way they used to feel with some big goals and a small budget.
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4 Dietary Supplements Everyone Should be Taking
What dietary supplements should you REALLY be taking? No one likes to waste money- so before you start poppin’ useless pills, let Dr. Jason Brown breaks it down for us. Learn about 4 basic supplements that should form the basis of all of our dietary supplementation.
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How Eating Real Food Has Changed Me
When I was away at university, I would constantly go to the doctor’s office for a new prescription. On a regular basis, I would simply HURT all over my body for no reason whatsoever. I was so depressed, so stressed out, my body was trying to tell me to stop. When I moved to Florida [...]
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“Keep Your Sanity” Articles Needed!
We’ve all had those depressing dinner table conversations. “How are we going to live on this budget?” “What are we doing to do?” “This country’s economy is going down the drain and we’re all going to Hell in a hand-basket!” There comes a point where your attitude determines your happiness, despite your circumstances. So, how [...]
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9 Weight Loss Tips from Someone Who’s Never Lost Weight…Till Now
Recently, over the past 6 months, I’ve lost about 30 pounds. I’ve never lost a substantial amount of weight at one time. It’s always been a slow growth over the years due to a sedentary lifestyle. This, as you can imagine was incredibly discouraging. I’m sure some of you can relate. I’ve compiled some of [...]
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Breaking Dependence from Recipes and Using Common Sense
If I was ever cool enough to write a “cookbook”, this would be the subtitle. Look, I like recipes just as much as anyone else. In my spare time I’ll flip through magazines or browse websites looking for cool ideas. When I’m baking or cooking something complicated, that’s a different story, recipes are my friend. [...]
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Eating Healthy Impossible for the Poor?
Gonna take a break from recipes and post this article ABC posted about poor people eating healthy. I think it’s very interesting and deserves a read. Half the reason I write on this site is to prove to myself and others that eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive, as you’ve already seen. I say [...]
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Broke & Unhealthy Gets You Nowhere
I weigh more than I should for my height. I’ve visited Taco Hell more than I should have. I love real butter and sweets. I’m not a dietitian. I don’t even have a college degree. I’m poor and “don’t have the time” to make “real food”. Because I have a full time job (well, I [...]
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