Key Behaviors for Permanent Weight-Loss
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…
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Micro-Nutrients Matter
Nutrients are chemical compounds that are found in all the foods we eat. All the functions of your body systems like breathing, thinking and even your beating heart, require energy and this energy comes from nutrients.
Nutrients can be broken…
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The Importance of Maintaining Healthy pH Levels
Acid-alkaline balance is a reference to the balance between the level of acids and non-acids (alkalis) found in the body’s fluids and tissues. The ratio of acids to non-acids can be determined by measuring pH levels.
When pH levels are…
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Natural and Organic are Not Interchangable Terms
Is organic food safer or more nutritious?
Organic can be defined as the way farmers grow and process agricultural products like fruits, veggies, grains, dairy products and meat.
Organic farmers practice agriculture that is designed to further soil and water…
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Strength Training Helps Eliminate Emotional Stress
Our modern-day lives are indeed busy. Technology continues to speed up our world, placing excessive demands on our time, causing personal expectations to rise. This undue stress ends up plagueing us with health damaging, negative emotions as it weaves its…
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HFCS – An Extremely Bad Sugar
There are two man-made ‘so called’ foods that confuse and throw our natural appetite regulation system ‘out of whack’.
The biggest villain of them all and one that most of us have heard about is “trans-fat”. The other villain is…
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Epigenetics and the Science of Longevity
In the past decade, science broke through many previous taboos in understanding and deciphering molecular, cellular and genetic aging.
The new science of longevity was born –
Longevity is not a new topic. It has been an area of interest…
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Advantages of Slow Weight Training
There are numerous ways you can approach resistance training but one version that seems to work well for lots of people is called “slow weight training”.
This kind of exercise fits the description of a complete exercise. The benefits reach…
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Make Exercise a Priority Habit
You have finally taken the leap and joined the gym or maybe you have adopted a new exercise routine that you know will help you get you back into shape.
You should congratulate yourself. You have now accomplished the hardest…
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The Value of Self Discipline
We live in the age of technology, an age that provides us a wealth of information that is readily available at our fingertips on every subject imaginable. A new generation of health and fitness seekers has emerged as people all…
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