The MAKE IT HEALTHY PROJECT MAGAZINE: Issue #2
The MAGAZINE returns this week with issue #2, after skipping a week whilst I was visiting England. A much needed break in the company of a dear friend does wonders for the soul!
In case you missed the first issue, you can view it here.
Also a quick mention - I was a guest 2 weeks ago on @pennsif's Alternative Lifestyle Radio Show on Fri 9th, where I discussed various food and health related topics, so if you're interested in listening to that my 15 minute slot begins about 1:03. I was pretty nervous before-hand, but I'm very glad I did it because I believe that taking courage in spite of nerves to be a great way of strengthening character. The audience was extremely supportive, as was @pennsif, and I encourage any of you to give it a try for yourselves if you have any way to contribute to his Alternative Lifestyle Show... what's the worst that can happen? :-)
The purpose of the Make It Healthy Project is to share truth, knowledge and good-health-inspiration with the Steemit community. This includes physical, mental, spiritual and social aspects.
This MAGAZINE will be issued weekly and will bring together all the wonderful 'healthy happenings' within the Steemit community - tips, inspiration, motivation, recipes.... All kinds of good stuff! It will surely evolve as the weeks go on and I get chance to add more. I will be looking to do interviews with Steemians too, so if you have a project of your own or something you particularly wish to bring attention to, please let me know.
This is not a sole mission, but a collaborative effort involving any Steemians who wish to share their knowledge and expertise (scroll down for details on how to get involved).
To cut a long story short – in Aug 2016 my personal blog was primarily concerned with sharing recipes for homemade healthy alternatives to (poisonous) processed products. I then took over hosting the Steemit Culinary Challenge, and through that my ideas graduated to a project promoting all areas of health.
I'm a wife and mother, who cares deeply about the health of my family and indeed the health of everyone! The thing I realised quite profoundly several years ago was: health is life... literally. If you don't have your health... what good is anything else?
At the moment we have an abundance of food and recipe posts (which is wonderful) but please feel free to share anything related to good health... let your imagination go wild! I'm afraid I don't have time to read and comment on all posts, but please don't let that put you off sharing. It's all appreciated and all very valuable!
To see all tagged community posts from the past 7 days, please click HERE.
To see all historical community posts since the launch of the project, please click HERE.
All posts tagged with #makeithealthy get re-steemed, and then remain available for browsing through any time you like by visiting the @make-it-healthy page.
I will be cataloging posts as soon as I get chance, but for now at least they are all saved and available on the @make-it-healthy blog and not lost somewhere in Steemit history! The account exists solely for the purpose of storing community posts, so if you want to 'unfollow' or 'mute', then that will save you getting stacks of posts cluttering your feed when I re-steem them! All will be available through this magazine, so you won't miss out on anything if you click the links above.
Intermittent fasting: five ways to stave off hunger pangs by @natubat
Journey To A Healthier Lifestyle by @biglipsmama
Daylight Savings Time Recovery! 10 tips for better sleep by @everblossom
Blueberry Banana Chia Pudding Recipe | Healthy Breakfast by @annaskitchen
The Most Quick Healthy Home-Made Chips by @babettxx
Turning My Life Around (again, LOL) - Standing Up for Myself by @onceuponatime
2 Ingredients, 3 Meals--Vegan Wednesday Easy Food Inspiration! by @plantstoplanks
I Don't Speak Avocado, Do You? by @englishtchrivy
#2 VEGAN CUTLETS: Millet with vegetables & sundried tomatoes by @monika-homa
Descending Ladder Treadmill & Dumbbell Workout with a Green Smoothie to Recover! by @plantstoplanks
Steemit Sandwich Contest Week 32- Hummus sandwich by @blackberryskunk
Natural supplementation! Multivitamin from food - Smoothies # 4 by @anna.urbanska
W is for Wall In The Running ABC's by @run.vince.run
Vegan Egg Paste Without Eggs! How Cool Is That!? by @babettxx
QUINOA PANCAKES by @lenasveganliving
Cook With Us #2 – Vegan Mango Lassi | Featuring Avocado & Hemp Hearts by @mountainjewel
Trees are life, and I live for Trees by @plantatree
Meal Planner #2 :Saturday Morning - Healthy Mediterranean Style Breakfast! Stay tuned this week for the recipes... :) by @cooknbake
100 Days Off Challenge! by @costanza
Rejuvelac! Have you ever heard of it? by @qberryfarms
Moody Monday: Worried 7/10 by @kittyandcheese
Stay healthy! Quick and easy oven-roasted veggies with herb dip by @smallstepschange
BREAK THE HATE CHAIN // some piece of advise for this new week ahead by @anacristinacaru
Alternating Ingredients In Recipes by @biglipsmama
Mexican Brownies { #sixweekhealth Week SIX } by @street.yoga
MATCHA-CHOCOLATE CAKE! Recipe - Vegan - Raw by @vegan.niinja
Fresh, Organic Green Beans From The Garden by @erikah
6 Tips to keep your immune system healthy | Health is too cheap to be rewarded with money! by @herigoodboy
Go Coco-NUTS for Homemade Creamy, Fudgy Chocolate Bars! by @heart-to-heart
PREVENT DISEASES IN YOUR CHILDREN by @dannymorales
"It's a shampoo-thing" by @nymia.aryn
Why To Avoid Aspartame and High Fructose Corn Syrup, Contributed by @shenanigator by @communitycoin
Food and Nutrition Awareness | The Art of Glowing Your Skin with Foods by @cryptocraze
On Reaching Ketosis - The Keto Cut Day 4 by @khaleelkazi
We Just Hit 500 Followers and It's Time for our Biggest Contest Yet! (The #VeganHeroesContest) by @deliciousplants
Pleasant Pea and Avo Puree starter with Green beans and Pea stir-fry by @celestialcow
Pea-Omelette with purple Truffle Potatoes and Romanesco Salad by @pusteblume
PHYSICAL - "Physical Activity: Think of it as MEDICATION you need to take daily" ~ author unknown
MENTAL - "Mental illness is not contagious... You can't catch it by being KIND" ~ author unknown
SPIRITUAL - "LOVE bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" ~ 1 Corinthians 13:7
SOCIAL - "When 'i' is replaced by 'we' even 'illness' becomes 'WELLNESS'" ~ Malcolm X
What if time spent creating these health-inspiring posts wasn't simply a chance for SBD or peer appreciation, but also held the possibility of changing lives for the better? Of prolonging lives because you shared crucial information? Actually keeping people alive and well! How's that for motivation!!!
If you don't find time to be healthy, you'll have to make time to be sick. There's far too much unnecessary sickness in the world, so let's do something about it, even if it's only one recipe, or one tip, or one good-health-inspiring post. Let's give the world a helping hand. Together, let's Make It Healthy.
Please remember INCLUDE A LINK TO THIS PROJECT in your posts and spread the word! Many thanks x
Ideas for Topics
Food, ingredients, recipes (no sugar, processed, refined or artificial ingredients please), diets, nutrition, hydration, vitmains/minerals/supplements, ananlysis of store-bought-products, weight-loss, exercise, exercise equipment & hacks, healing, natural remedies, natural medicines, homeopathy, homesteading, gardening, homemade beauty products/cosmetics, illness/symptoms, oral health, hygiene, environment, pollution/toxins, art/crafts, meditation, relaxation, mindfulness, motivation, grounding, feng sui, counselling, journaling, dance, music, health website reviews, sex, addiction, depression/anxiety, homeschooling/unschooling, fostering, sleep/insomnia, hair & skin care, stress, pregnancy/birth, sun exposure, clothing/materials, death/grief, community, solitude, disabilities, fasting/intermittent fasting, personal health journeys/testimonies
- Tell us about your personal health journey – what inspired or motivated you to change your attitudes/approaches and what are the results?
- How has Steemit influenced your health choices?
- Interview a friend (with consent) about their health journeys. What can we learn from hearing about what your friend has gone through?
- Tell us about what kind of activities or resources are available in your country or local area? E.g. Local organic produce, fitness programmes, exercise classes, social clubs, wholefoods stores, healthy bakeries, initiatives to encourage healthy children
- Interviews with owners/managers of health-related shops, health programmes, resources – find out the inspiration behind these businesses
- “Make Me Healthy” - with full consent of a family member or friend, make them your 'project' and bring them to better health!
- Bake healthy snacks to share among your community eg colleagues, neighbours, care homes, local creche/schools, and share these good works with us.
- Initiate health projects for your child's school – art, music, healthy eating, exercise... make a day of it, invite the parents, invite the whole community!
- Beetroot, Banana & Chia Frozen Treats
- My GUEST SLOT on @pennsif's radio show: MSP Waves Radio - Pennsif's Alternative Lifestyle Show - Friday 9 March 2018 [recording]
- Easy MINI SODA FARLES and HERBY BREAD TWISTS - Homemade Healthy Snacks for Children
- Unconventional Living Vs Mainstream Living: What's Your Opinion?
- Homemade Healthy "Chip Shop" Curry Sauce!
- Homemade Healthy Alternatives to Store-Bought Snacks for Children (Original Recipes)
- Homemade Potato Crisps (Some Flat, Some Spiral!)
- Lose Weight... In Front of the Mirror! (And Other Effective Tips For Indoor Weight-Loss)...
- "Beauty-Fruity Green Millet for Infants!"
- From Hippo to Gazelle... My Approach to Weight-Loss That Actually Works!
- My Days as a Samba-Reggae Bass Drum Player... Healthy Body & Healthy Soul!
- How to Remove ALL Harmful Ingredients From Your Diet FOREVER in 4 EASY STEPS!
- Is Hoarding Healthy or is Simplifying Sweeter?
- Introduction to the "Make It Healthy Project"
Initiated by...
("5 Cs" shared with kind permission of @kiwideb)
Wow what a nice summary, and I like your intention very well. And as everyone knows, a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. And I always like to support other blogs !! A very nice project your magazine xD
Absolutely @montaquilaa, I don't think we can call ourselves truly healthy if only our body is well but our mind is sick, or vice-versa! We're so used to dividing and categorising everything that we often forget it's all a whole. Many thanks for your support, I'm really happy you like the magazine :-)
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Thanks to @pusteblume
We have planted already 4096.33 trees
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Let's save and restore Abongphen Highland Forest
in Cameroonian village Kedjom-Keku!
Plant trees with @treeplanter and get paid for it!
My Steem Power = 20769.31
Thanks a lot!
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Fantastic!!! :-)
Hello @woman-onthe-wing,
40% of a tree has been planted for You 🌴
We are very grateful for your support @montaquilaa
Let's make Mother Earth a greener place!
That's lovely :-) keep up the great work planting trees... I fully support these initiatives!
wow so many excellent posts! thanks for featuring ours! love your graphics, too :) always love the hardworking curators <3 who bring us within the steemit community together!!
That's the mission @mountainjewel!... I was always more interested in community than reward, and as there's so many amazing health posts being shared I'm really happy to bring some of it together in this way. Also thanks for complimenting the graphics... you're actually the first person to comment on them! Lots of fun for me, and my hope is that it makes nicer viewing for readers :-) Many thanks for your very lovely comments!
Thank you for @woman-onthe-wing appreciating my post
You're welcome! :-)
Thanks for including my story in this cool health magazine. Awesome idea to do and have all great things combined to read! Resteemed :) X
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Many thanks for the resteem and support... and I'm very happy to share your post! :-)
You're welcome;) I'm glad that you're happy to share my post! X
Another great roundup this week! There are quite a few I haven't seen yet, so I've got some work to do checking all of the posts out! I'm sure I will enjoy the journey. Thank you once again for your wonderful support in sharing a few of my posts. It really means so much, and I'm so honored to be in this community!
Thank you, thank you! You know, you're such a regular commenter in my posts that I noticed myself looking out for you now! Think I'd miss you if you didn't pop up! (oops, now the pressure's on... hehe). But seriously, always a pleasure to read your thoughtful comments :-) I too feel honoured to be in this community.
No pressure at all. ;) I very much enjoy the interaction!
I was so engrossed in reading this that I almost forgot to upvote it! Another excellent edition, and thanks so much for featuring my post :)
I was also going to comment on how good the graphics are - @mountiainjewel said it first!
Aw thanks so much @natubat! Ha, yeah I sometimes almost forget to vote when I'm engrossed! Not that I blame you, there are ever so many amazing posts that really grab your full attention. Thank goodness for Steemit, otherwise we'd never all meet each other and share all the good things we know and do! Also, thank you, I put a lot of work into making it pretty :-)
I really like this idea of this magazine you created and all the amazing and interesting posts you mentioned here.
Really cool and I'll definitely will be checking this magazine out.
Thanks very much @joalvarez! I intend to keep expanding the project, but thankfully the magazine seems to be one good way of sharing many great posts from the community that might be missed otherwise. I welcome you to tag any of your own health-related posts with #makeithealthy if you so wish, and be part of the project too! Your support is much appreciated :-)
Thanks for mentioning my post! What a great collection. I will follow.
You're welcome @kittyandcheese, I enjoyed your Moody Monday post and look forward to more! I like posts that show the real human behind it :-)