Do you make a New Year’s resolution? People who make resolutions are 10 times more likely to be successful than people who decide to change at other times of the year and we have no idea why… it’s still not too late to make one. You don’t need to make big changes, small changes add up, so don’t discount the …
Superfoods
Summer is coming. I can tell and it’s not the weather, it is the arrival of superfoods. Not that they ever went away, but as the weather heats up so does the hype. Every magazine, every second news story, blah, blah, blah, is the new superfood… First, you can’t live on one food – that would really be a …
Diets Do Work
You may be under the impression that diets don’t work, but they do work. Just about all of them. If you want to lose weight, and don’t care about the effect on your health or anything else, then any diet will do. Pick one there are so many to choose from. The Cookie Diet… really. Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Breatharian …
How To Lose Weight
How many times have you failed? I can’t count the number of times I have failed. If I started thinking about it too much I would go back to bed and maybe get up sometime next week. I believe that one of the reasons we don’t succeed is there is too much noise. Too much information, too many distractions, too …
I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream
This weekend a friend and I decided to drive into the city to pick up a few things. We stopped at the Farmer’s Market, a sports store, a bakery and Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) just because we were nearby. MEC, for those who don’t know, is a Canadian sports equipment co-op. I must confess, I have a love/hate relationship with …
Quick and Effective Fat Loss
Want to lose fat and gain muscle? You can do it. Quickly and effectively. That’s right. Quickly. Lose fat and gain muscle. Did I mention it’s hard? Really, really hard, but possible. Scientists at McMaster University have found that it is possible. It is possible lose fat quickly and gain muscle. Did I mention it is difficult? But, it is …
Colour your brain healthy
Make your brain more energy efficient. A study of 65-85 year old adults revealed how much effort it takes a vegetable deprived brain to work. It was a small study, but the results could be very useful and provide another reason to eat your fruits and vegetables. When researchers virtually peered inside the brains of older adults they saw something …
Fitness Predicts Future Health
Fitness is not measured at the doctor’s office, but being unfit is a risk for many chronic diseases. Your fitness predicts health risks.
Calcium Supplements
Taking supplements has often been recommended, but many times the results are not as expected. Calcium supplements are the latest with unexpected consequences. New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine followed over 2,700 people for more than 10 years and found that taking calcium supplements might increase artery plaque build-up in arteries, leading to heart disease. Unexpected side effects Participants that …
I love good news
Exercise has many benefits, but weight loss is not one of them… or maybe it is. New research published in the American Journal of Physiology shows that exercise stimulates the production of the hormone irisin. Irisin, helps change calorie storing, white, fat cells into energy releasing, brown, fat cells. Irisin also inhibits the formation of fat cells. There is more good news, …
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