Less than 3% of American adults practice the 4 healthy lifestyle behaviours that protect from disease. The four habits are moderate exercise, proper nutrition, a recommended body fat percentage and not smoking. These four basic habits are critical to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, many types of cancer and diabetes. The economic cost of not practicing these 4 habits? …
What I eat in a Week
What I eat in a week. When I wrote that my December challenge was to eat more plant-based meals many of you wanted to know what I eat now? I eat lots of plant-based meals and some vegan, but not plant-based items too. I have been a vegetarian since September 1995 and mostly vegan since 2005. Yes, the mister eats …
Exercise as Good as Medicine
Soon a cancer diagnosis may come with an exercise prescription. Intense, physical exercise improves the quality of life for men with advanced prostate cancer. Dr. Fred Saad, researcher at the University of Montreal, has shown that exercise has a DIRECT effect on cancer. That exercise is as effective as drugs, even in advanced stages of the disease. Dr. Saad says that …
Sweat is the Best Anti-Depressant
On Tuesday morning I went to an Active Living seminar to listen to Dr. Guy Faulkner, Canadian Research Chair in Applied Public Health, talk about exercise and depression. He compared the evidence for exercise vs. drugs as anti-depressants. His conclusion? Compared to anti-depressants, when exercise is used as a treatment for depression, it is as effective, less expensive, can be …
Exercise ≠ weight loss
Exercise does not equal weight loss. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard clients say they haven’t lost weight because they haven’t been doing their workouts. It doesn’t matter. Exercise does not equal weight loss. It is a very inefficient way to burn calories. We are so beautifully designed to store calories and save them for later, …
4 Tips to Reach Your Resolutions
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 …
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