How to Practice Mindfulness: 4 Ways to Change Your Mind

Here are four easy ways to practice daily mindfulness. These tips can help to reduce stress and anxiety. They can bring a much needed break during the day. Mindfulness can help you stay calm in times of uncertainty. Mindfulness can improve our physical, mental and emotional health. It doesn’t take a lot of time and can be easily practiced throughout …

Dark Chocolate is a Good Work Snack

Summer has arrived! The days are longer and it is fun to spend more time outside. Even if you enjoy the outdoors all year long, summer weather always makes us want to spend more time having fun. Relaxation and Recovery The benefits of eating well and exercising are often realized during our recovery time. We all need a little fun. …

Running as meditation

Meditation It has been proven over and over again how good meditation is for you. It has also been said that you can meditate in many unconventional ways, like while doing the dishes, walking or running. I believe that is true. However, there is a catch, isn’t there always? It has to be focused activity. Doing something like checking your …

WFPB

Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet It is promoted as the gold standard eating pattern for health, longevity, performance, weight loss, health promotion. Every whole food, plant-based diet guru, doctor, dietitian has to diss the vegan diet with the same comments about being able to eat junk food and still say you are a vegan. Yes, you can eat vegan cookies, cakes, …

Want to lose weight? Eat more breakfast.

Does this sound familiar? You are training regularly. You would like to change your body composition. No matter how hard you exercise or how well you eat nothing really changes. Your fat mass and your fat-free mass (muscle) seem the same. It feels like nothing you do makes a difference. That is because of the calorie deficit. But, it is not …

How long will it take to burn those calories?

Exercise is not a very efficient way to burn off calories. It is not a direct line from calories in to calories out, we are a little more complicated. However, by switching to lower calorie snacks that are nutritionally dense, ones that are packed with vitamins and minerals, as opposed to calorie dense foods can help manage your weight. Relying …

Are your kitchen towels dangerous?

Food pathogens could be living in your kitchen towels. When I was growing up my mom cleaned with bleach. Now, my entire family are bleachers. We all like to bleach, nothing says clean, like the smell of bleach. Maybe it saved our lives. It is a great way to keep your kitchen and your kitchen towels from poisoning you. Food …

Do you have the discipline?

Do you have the discipline? Based on the latest research, for most people, the answer is no. If you are training for an event or trying to set a new personal best, you are probably like most athletes and letting your workout intensity drift into the middle, not hard enough and not easy enough. I really wish it wasn’t true, …

Can we talk about fat?

Fat is a nutrient and a fuel source. We need some fat, but we tend to eat a lot of it. A lot more than we used to, in fact, we eat about 23% more calories than in the 1970s. Eat too much and those calories are stored as fat. Currently, the most popular diet, the ketogenic diet, a high …