Five facts about your heart that can keep you healthy and maybe surprise you too!
The F-Bomb: Hidden Dangers of Excess Body Fat
Body fat impacts our health. Over the past two years it has been shown that being overweight increases the risk of severe COVID, but there are more ways that excess body fat may be silently changing our health. Fat is a loaded term, so let’s clear up a few things. Fat in our body Essential fat is necessary to function. …
Three trends that make a difference
Some health and fitness fads come and go, and then get recycled and come back. Like the never-ending low-carb reincarnations. However, there are three popular health trends in 2022 that I hope will be adopted for long-term benefits. Three trends that are worth your time. Sleep. Not that long ago sleep was considered a luxury and being too busy was …
The future of well-being
The beginning of a new year always brings health and fitness predictions along with various resolutions to change bad habits. Some of these predictions are simply marketing efforts dressed as the latest things you have to have. Some are based on trends and surveys from health and fitness organizations. For the month of January, I will be exploring the good …
Mental health, does it start in your guts?
You know the old saying “it is all in your head” maybe it actually starts in your guts. Your vagus nerve, the gut-brain axis, has a lot to do with how you are feeling. This nerve is a large part of our parasympathetic nervous system, the rest and digest system. As opposed to the sympathetic nervous system also known as …
Depression or inactivity, which came first?
Exercise makes you feel better. Exercise is also an effective treatment for depression. Being depressed can mean feeling less likely to exercise… The COVID pandemic has brought many changes to our lives, uncertainty, and stress among them. The Canadian Mental Health Association states that requests for help have been increasing as we head into another pandemic winter. While it is …
5 Steps to Change for Good
There is a mistaken belief that as we age it we can’t change. Everyone, at any age, can change, if they want to. Here are five steps to make lasting change easier. No matter where you are starting from. 1. Start small. Most people start at the end and are ultimately disappointed. Have some short and medium-term goals and then …
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 …
How to Easily Change a Habit
When we think about personal change we think big. Big goals should inspire big changes. Things like “I am never eating junk food again.” “I am going to go to the gym every morning or run every day.” “I will turn off my devices and go to bed early.” We do this because what we really want is to look …