What I’d like to share is some quick guidelines of how you can choose a little more wisely, if you choose to eat meat, poultry and seafood.
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Have you been sticking to your New Year’s resolution to get in shape? Are you a regular exerciser and have been for years? Congratulations, it is hard to be consistent. Slogging to …
I am fascinated with the show the Biggest Loser. What I can’t determine is if I’m watching the start of a brand new life for someone struggling with their weight or if I’m watching a train wreck.
I’d like to take a moment to talk about your posse, those peeps that you eat/sleep/breathe with. You need to have them on board with you in order to achieve your goals.
For a while after I learned this I kept getting confused between the 8 and the 9 when I was standing in the grocery store so here’s a little tip. Nine is organic, or “nine is divine.”
Perhaps the one we’re all the most likely to fall for is the MD endorsement. Some guy on the cover of a book, or on the corner of a box with a white coat on ~ looking all official ~ telling us this is the way to go. You have to trust a guy with an MD after his name right?
. . . the average for women is 11 calories per pound per day, so a 150 pound woman should be around 1,650 calories per day for her Resting Metabolic Rate
We’ve all stood in the produce aisle looking at the “conventional” apple and the organic apple and asked ourselves is this really worth it? Well now there is a definitive answer.
Eustress literally means, good stress. It is the psychological and physical response we get when we have achieved something difficult. This could mean completing an athletic feat or acing a job interview. It’s the emotions you feel while thrilling at a horror movie or rushing down a roller coaster. . . Eustress is that little fist pump or happy dance,
The Environmental Working Group has put together a list called, “The Dirty Dozen” for the foods which absorb the highest percentage of pesticides. If you avoid this list you’ll eliminate over 50% of the pesticides in your diet!
The ACSM recommends performing 8 to 10 resistance training exercises 2 to 3 times per week, but don’t fully explain what muscles those exercises should target.
The annual County Health Rankings have been released. How healthy is your county? A great interactive chart.
The annual County Health Rankings have been released. How healthy is your county? A great interactive chart.
You go the gym, a lot. You look good, you feel good, your friends ask you for fitness advice. You think to yourself, “This would be my dream job, helping people look fabulous and hanging out in a gym all day. Where do I sign up?”
I have found over the years that the more a person cares about their body, the more likely they are to be greenies. I’ve watched myself go through the transformation and quite a few of my clients as well.
Every year we purchase gadgets hoping they’ll magically make us thinner. If we buy this pedometer, or those cool sneakers we’ll have solved our problems and be skinny forever. We all know that’s not how it really works, here’s what I’d really like on my Christmas wish list this year …
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