Healthy Tips Podcast – Better Living Institute

For some people, exercise is a daunting challenge. The good news is that if you use the Peak Fitness Method, exercise can be fun and efficient—you won’t need to take a lot of time out of your schedule to do it! “Peak … Continue reading →

Hands-on massage feels marvelous, but it has many health benefits, too! More and more people—especially baby boomers—are recognizing the health benefits of massage. For non-medical massage sessions, you may want to learn a few techniques on your own and proceed … Continue reading →

Everybody has a different idea about what is stressful in life. A situation or an activity that may seem stressful to you might be enjoyable for someone else. So, what’s important for you is that whatever it is that gets … Continue reading →

In the 1960’s, 1 in 20 women would be diagnosed with breast cancer. Back then, this was considered a very serious and threatening national medical situation. Unfortunately in 2015, fifty years later, close to 1 in 8 women are diagnosed … Continue reading →

Part 3 is all about Super Brain Food Snacks—yummy treats that keep your energy up while keeping your weight down! After all, who doesn’t enjoy a good snack? Now, by “Good Snack” Kira and Bill Van Ittersum mean snacks packed … Continue reading →

What we eat has a lot to do with the health of our brains. A diet balanced in organic, whole vegetables, “good” fats, and protein will keep your brain in optimum running condition.  In fact, if you misguidedly tried to … Continue reading →

When you make eating healthy foods a daily habit, it not only nourishes your body but it increases the odds of enjoying a happy, healthy brain for the whole of your life. So much research has now concluded that eating … Continue reading →

Keeping a meal planner simplifies the whole eating process and keeps eating healthy on track! We all want that, right? You won’t have to stop and think about what’s for dinner—especially when you’re tired and hungry and you’re resistance is … Continue reading →

We all need to breathe to stay alive, but much of the time we just take our breath for granted. Breathing is an act of inspiration, which in its expanded definition means “a divine act to receive sacred revelation.” In … Continue reading →

No weight loss strategy works if you find it unpleasant. If you don’t like doing it you won’t keep it up for long. Anything that you don’t follow through with doesn’t get done. In this podcast, Kira and Bill Van … Continue reading →

In addition to breaking down all the food you eat, extracting the nutrients, and processing most of the remaining waste, your gut is also responsible for 60 to 70% of your entire immune system! Your gut is an amazing organ … Continue reading →

Physical movement is so important to your overall health. If it’s fun and easy, you’re more likely to do it! Moving your body oxygenates your cells, helps carry wastes from your body, and strengthens your muscles and bones. Physical movement … Continue reading →

Your liver is your body’s chemical plant. It processes and eliminates waste products and dead cells from your blood stream, it detoxifies poisons, heavy metals, and other pollutants, it metabolizes drugs (OTC, prescription, and recreational alike), it produces glycogen for … Continue reading →

Some people are worried about some of the ingredients in commercial sunscreens. Some dermatologists are concerned with these chemicals in the sunscreens, but the majority of dermatologists think that the FDA approved ingredients are perfectly safe. Most professionals believe that … Continue reading →

Ahhhh, summertime, and the livin’ is easy! Time to go down to the beach and catch some rays or work outside in the garden. However, if you are exposed to frequent and intense UV radiation, you are exposed to one … Continue reading →

Ahhhh! Time to relax! Get a cold or hot drink, watch some TV or grab a mystery or a romance novel, kick your feet up. Who could ask for more, Right? Wrong! These activities, including the sugared and hi-carb drinks … Continue reading →

When your pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin, or stops producing insulin at all, or your cells stop responding to the available insulin in your blood and can’t absorb glucose from your blood stream, you will have a condition called diabetes: … Continue reading →

More than 3 Million cataract surgeries are performed in the U.S. annually. This large number makes cataract surgery the most common surgery of its type in the country. It is elective surgery and the Boomer Generation is choosing to have … Continue reading →

Over 42 million Americans still smoke cigarettes. Add to this number the people who smoke cigars, pipes, or use chewing tobacco, snuff, and other tobacco products and you have 1 out of 6 Americans addicted to tobacco. There are over … Continue reading →

Late in the evening, the “food siren” calls to you from the kitchen! “Come to meeee! Come to meeeeeee!” In this podcast, Kira and Bill share their tips that they use to “snack healthy,” yet satisfy their cravings. Food manufacturers … Continue reading →

Banana bread is always a treat, but now with gluten-free flour, sea salt, organic eggs, raw sugar, coconut oil, and walnuts it can be a high-energy “pick-me-up” snack for young and old alike. Kira and Bill Van Ittersum talked about … Continue reading →

What is it about meditation that inspires some people to make it a daily practice? What are they enjoying that most of society is missing out on? In this podcast, Kira and Bill Van Ittersum share personal stories and real-life … Continue reading →

Kira and Bill Van Ittersum are talking in this podcast about healthy snack foods for the entire family. They are all too aware of how important it is to have nutritious snacks on hand, because, not only are they attempting … Continue reading →

In this podcast, Kira and Bill Van Ittersum are introducing you to the joy of easy and scrumptious gluten-free baking! Kira knows firsthand that reactions to wheat gluten may not always be obvious. She has suffered with headaches and lethargy … Continue reading →

We’re pretty sure that most people would agree that problems arise when you don’t get enough sleep. However, depending on your age, we’re not quite so sure that even most people would agree that good sleep is absolutely necessary for … Continue reading →

In 2006, the National Research Council published the following statement: “It is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain.” They went on to say, “In a review of the literature commissioned by the … Continue reading →

So, what is heavy metal toxicity? It’s when molecular particles of metals find their way into your body and concentrate in large enough doses to disrupt cellular activity, cell replication, and nerve function. Five heavy metals are the most common … Continue reading →

There are many pollutants and micro-organisms in our environment that find their way into our bodies. They are present in our air, our water, our food, our homes, workplaces, schools, and even our cars. They don’t affect us “all at once” … Continue reading →

Not all honey at the supermarket is created equal. Are you buying fake honey by mistake? Fake honey is pasteurized, processed (heated and heavily-filtered), and even adulterated with glucose syrup. Some unscrupulous manufacturers even use the dreaded HFCS (high fructose … Continue reading →

Blackstrap molasses is the highest and most nutritious grade of molasses. It contains all the minerals and nutrients absorbed by the sugar cane, so it is a delicious way to provide many of the vitamins and minerals that our bodies … Continue reading →

The foods that you are recommended to eat on an alkaline diet are good for you—lots of fruits and leafy, green vegetables, and lots of water. Avoiding refined sugar, alcohol, and processed foods is also healthy weight-loss advice, too. There … Continue reading →

For centuries, apple cider vinegar has been used for various household and cooking purposes. It is also an ancient folk remedy, claimed to help with all sorts of health problems. The most popular vinegar in the natural health community is … Continue reading →

Thom Hartmann shares a simple, but profound technique for “walking off” painful or embarrassing emotional events that have been “stuck” in your mind—even those that have been there forever! The results are easy, elegant, and permanent. From small, minor embarrassments … Continue reading →

Do you pollute your brain with sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and refined carbohydrates, and deprive it of proper vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients? Dr. Daniel Amen, M.D. has a plan for you to rescue your brain and make it great—in as little as 15 days! … Continue reading →

This is part two of this podcast. Kira and Bill discuss the proper way to clean and care for the expensive ultrasonic machine. Then they share the cost of everything and the math involved to calculate the vitamin C concentration … Continue reading →

In previous podcasts, Kira and Bill Van Ittersum have shared the importance of vitamin C. In this two-part podcast, they finish their discussion of vitamin C by demonstrating how they make Liposomal Vitamin C in their kitchen. In two parts, … Continue reading →

Kira and Bill Van Ittersum call Vitamin C the KING of vitamins because of all the processes that it facilitates in the body. The United States Food and Drug Administration have set a very low dose for daily intake of … Continue reading →

Vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins for your health. You might say that your life depends on it. Unfortunately, through evolution, humans and a handful of other birds and mammals have lost the ability to sensitize vitamin … Continue reading →

•Dr. Linus Pauling was a chemist and researcher, especially in the new field of Biochemistry, before it even became a science. He is the only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes, the first for his work in chemistry, and … Continue reading →

Kira and Bill Van Ittersum share their own experience with eating on a smaller plate. Why did they choose to eat from a smaller plate? And what happened when they did? What size plate do they use? What do they put … Continue reading →

You will want to hear Kira and Bill get serious about what they feel is a toxic ingredient in some of the most popular foods our society is consuming. They expose the dangers of high fructose corn syrup and tell … Continue reading →

Kira and Bill Van Ittersum discuss the prevalence of sugar in our food supply, and how our over consumption of sugar is compromising our health by interfering with our immunity to disease. It is greatly contributing to obesity, diabetes, and … Continue reading →