When it comes to being healthy, losing weight and slimming down where should your focus be? Exercise or diet? Both. Weight loss is achieved by burning more calories than you take in or consuming fewer than you burn. Permanent weight loss and high energy levels are for the most part, the result of a [...]
Sometimes in life we swing the pendulum wildly from one course of action to the other. Such is the case with our relationship with the sun. For many, the sun has become the bad guy. They've been told their whole lives to cover up and not allow their skin exposure to the sun for [...]
Intermittent fasting is a recent health trend. It helps many people to lose and sustain weight loss, improves metabolic health and some claim it adds years to our lives. And it is easier than most think because our sleeping hours count up and add to our fasting time. Not eating after dinner and skipping [...]
All of us entertain different dreams and visions about our lives and what we want to accomplish with them. Our smaller visions are easy for us to grasp and realise. However our bigger dreams often cause intimidation and we end up giving in to the belief that they are impossible to achieve. Discouragement is [...]
It's no secret that being obese or overweight is one of the main drivers of many life-threatening diseases such as cancer. A key to preventing disease is to keep our body composition...our muscle and fat ratio at a healthy level. Most of us easily recognize when we gain subcutaneous fat, the kind found just [...]
When it comes to physical activity/exercise, is the “pain worth the gain?” Are the benefits received in return for our actions/fitness goals worth the time invested? And, “how long will it be before we actually see/feel positive body changes taking effect?” Whether a beginner or “re-starter,” to a fitness program, these are all valid [...]
When it comes to exercising and working out, it’s time to separate fact from fiction and put to rest some dangerous myths. Unfortunately, far too many people fall prey to these myths/lies and wind up frustrated (and eventually quit) when it seems their fitness and or weight-loss goals are not getting any closer. For [...]
There is a new approach to eating that is taking the fitness world by storm. This new approach to eating has nothing at all to do with fasting or starvation. And, its not just about skipping a meal. What it is about is spending as much time as possible in a fasted state, a [...]
Frustrated with dieting and seem to be stuck at a weight plateau you can’t get past? The sad reality is, if you’ve been on repeated diets, you’ve likely done a very good job of teaching your body how to store and hold on to fat. The body is a survival machine. It doesn’t take [...]
Exercise along with good nutrition are vital components when it comes to improving your overall well-being. However, time is a hot commodity for most and finding time to exercise when confronted with our daily modern schedules can be challenging at best. Fortunately, there are a few tricks you can employ that will make the [...]
