3 ways to age your brain faster

Does this sound familiar to you? It’s Monday morning, you have great intentions to eat well, exercise, get enough sleep. You know these are good for you and who doesn’t want to feel better? But sometime during the week, maybe later today, you start to rely on sugar or processed foods to get you through the day. Or maybe you …

You are the Result of Your Habits

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. A quote often mistakenly attributed to Aristotle. He said something similar but the philosopher Will Durant wrote the quote attributed to Aristotle in his book, The Story of Philosophy. What Aristotle actually said, “As it is not one swallow or a fine day that makes a …

5 things that can change your health

If you knew that you could easily change one habit that would make a difference to your health, would you do it? We make choices every day that affect our health, sometimes these choices are deliberate. But if you could make an easy choice to prevent disease would you do it? The answer is not the obvious choice Our days …

3 Ways to Improve Longevity

Most people want to extend their lifespan, but shouldn’t we think about extending our healthspan first? Healthspan, according to Merriam-Webster, is the length of time that you are healthy—not just alive. Extending our healthspan means compressing our worst health into the shortest and latest possible time in our lifespan. Spending most of our time able to enjoy what we love and less …

What are you doing this weekend?

If you weren’t planning on it, I would suggest doing some exercise and if you were going to exercise – don’t stop. I was reading the paper and saw something I found fairly shocking. A study of 2000 adults in the U.S. found that most of them thought that once you were 40 it was too late to start exercising. …

10 Health Reasons to eat Less Meat

Is meat healthy? That is a loaded question. There are nutrients in meat, but guess what? You can get all those nutrients from non-animal sources. The recent reports published that meat is healthy don’t quite tell the entire story. If you want to read more about this recent study I suggest starting here or here or here or here. Or …

The Food is the Thing

In France, the food is the thing. The man and I were hiking in France for two weeks. It was amazing. I will be exploring the benefits of living a little bit more like the French (or Italians, we did spend a couple of days in Italy too) for better health. First, the food. The food is the thing in …

The 12 worst things we are doing to our health

What are the worst things we do to our health? I went to Perspectives in Exercise, Health & Fitness Conference over the weekend. Every two years exercise professionals gather  to learn, discuss and present new research and the applications in exercise, health and fitness. This year one of the panel discussions was “What are the worst things that Canadians (and …