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ARTArticleGo Red for Good HealthThe month is about love and there is no better way to say I love you than to share heart healthy insight with friends, family and loved ones. For so many years when the topic was heart health most of the info was based on what the medical profession knew about men and their heart health. Fortunately health professionals have revised their outlook and there is now research and data available on women. We've learned that it is important for women to know the risk factors.ARTArticleGood Housekeeping For Your BodyThrough life as a personal trainer and health coach people often look up to me and see me as a role model when it comes to exercise and healthy eating. People often ask me questions like what do I have for breakfast, what do I do in the gym every day, why don't I ever fall off the 'health wagon' and a lot more!
I'm happy to tell people the answers. For the record for breakfast I have a green vegetable smoothie 3-4 days a week. Training days I have fruit, nuts and bio/greek yoghurt, or sometimes I skip breakfast, or I have bacon and eggs or similar.ARTArticleGood Mood Food: Don't Worry Be Happy!The old adage, “You are what you eat” is becoming increasingly true. What we choose to eat and when we eat it has a huge impact on how we feel. Here’s a fun list of foods you should eat to improve your mood fast!ARTArticleGrandma's Molasses Cookies and No More Gray HairMy Holidays are never complete until we have enjoyed a batch of Grandma's Molasses Cookies. I have always loved these cookies and they turn out just slightly crisp on the outside but deliciously chewy on the inside.
The other day I happened upon a great article by Michael Ravensthorpe of SpiritFoods.net describing the benefits of Molasses for stimulating new hair growth and helping with pigmentation to reduce gray hair. I'm not promising that eating one batch of these incredible cookies will make you look 10 years younger but I do promise you will love the cookies.ARTArticleGuidelines for Breast HealthIn the pink is pervasive this month. According to Dictionary.com, the idiom is actually "in the pink of health." One would think that this is the connection between breast cancer awareness and the pink images that are highly visible. In reality, the symbol is derived from a ribbon's symbolism as a sign of courage and support, and a promotion by Self magazine and Estee Lauder cosmetics in 1992.ARTArticleHave You Ever Had An Ugly Day?Do you ever get “Fat ugly days”?
Days when you just feel fat and ugly and don’t want to leave the house?
My wife was having a fat and ugly day yesterday according to her.
She said it’s very common amongst women, especially at a certain time of the month.
rn(and some men too of course)
To be honest “fat ugly day” is not a term I had ever heard until a few years ago.
I first heard it from a comedian and my wife thought it was hilarious and said she could relate to feeling like that.ARTArticleHealth Benefits from Using Alkaline waterStudy examined people who were determined to get sufficient calcium from their diets to find out if calcium-rich alkaline water could reduce the rate of bone loss. The study compared alkaline water to acidic water to see if alkaline water worked better.ARTArticleHealthy Burger and ChipsI may have surprised you with the healthy burger and chips title.
Healthy burger and chips? Is that possible.
This isn’t even one of my cheat meals.
This is just a healthy burger and chips recipe that I wanted to share with you, honestly it's delicious!
One of the top reasons people HATE diets is they get BORED they feel like they’re stuck eating the usual salads, meat and veg again and again.
It doesn't have to be that way and this recipe is proof of that.ARTArticleHoliday Stress? Get RealIn .28 seconds I found 18,900,000 results on Bing, and 61,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds—honestly—on Google on how to “survive the holidays.” MILLIONS of tips on how to “survive” the holidays! What in the world has happened to us? Have we gone mad? C’mon now. We need more than these many MILLIONS of tips on how to “survive” the holidays? When did the media create this insanity? Holiday stress? Seriously! What holiday stress?ARTArticleHome Care to Help Prevent Loneliness amongst Elderly PeopleLoneliness has become a major issue amongst elderly people in the UK and is something that can result in significant damage to health. Social interaction and friendships are not only important in helping reduce the risk of mortality or developing certain diseases, but they also help individuals recover when they do fall ill.ARTArticleHow a NAME Will Improve Your RelationshipsSo you want to improve the way you and your spouse, partner, co-worker or friends at the gym communicate? There probably isn’t anyone anywhere that believes there isn’t room to improve in this most fundamental skill of life. If you disagree, at least do it agreeably ☺.
The very structure of, for example, marriage, includes two people – two different people, often from different backgrounds, sometimes from different faiths or different cultural experiences, even different educational backgrounds, with all kinds of different tastes, styles and dreams.ARTArticleHow To Create the Inner Happiness of Work-Life BalanceRemember when the technology experts tried to sell us on the notion that all of their gadgets would free us up, give us more leisure time and make life so much more enjoyable? We've been fooled into thinking that being offered the opportunity to “telecommute,” or work from anywhere we choose, with cloud-based infrastructures allowing us to move where and when we want results in work-life balance. It doesn’t.ARTArticleHow To Diet - 5 Smart Diet Tips to Cut Calories and Lose Weight While You Sleep!We all know that when it comes down to it, there are two ways to lose weight – burn more calories or eat less of them. It sounds simple, right? So why is it so difficult to lose weight? Well, with my top 5 simple smart diet tips to cut calories there are no more excuses... follow these easy ways to lose weight and you’ll soon be on track to diet success and your perfect weight.
1 Snack Smartr
To snack smart simply means opting for low fat, low calorie snacks like fresh fruit, low fat yoghurts, vegetable sticks, dried fruit and seeds, and rice cakes.ARTArticleHow To Diet - and How To Lose Weight While You Sleep!In this article I’m going to explain how to diet, successfully, so you can achieve your perfect weight…forever. I’ll even show you how you really can lose weight while you sleep! It really is possible – and I’m going to explain exactly how you can do it.
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You just need to understand the key principles behind healthy nutrition, exercise and weight loss, so you can see exactly how they interact.ARTArticleHow to Diet Successfully - 7 Top Tips for Staying on TrackIn this article I’m going to show you how to diet successfully by giving you 7 top tips for staying on track. Motivation is the key to successful weight loss, so if you want to be fit and healthy, look fabulous and maintain your perfect weight forever, this is what you really need to know.
1 Set SMART Goalsr
Always start by setting your goals and make sure they are SMART – that means they should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timed. You may want to include body measurements or dress sizes, as well as weight goals.ARTArticleHow To Get A More Positive MindsetI have been a high end personal trainer for many years, the thing is though, some of my clients DON’T get the results they should.
I mean, they sign up with the intention of getting fit and losing some weight along the way, that is the most common reason for people beginning an exercise program. The trouble is weight loss can be elusive for some, some people get it whereas others really struggle with it.ARTArticleHow To Get More ActiveOne of my clients showed me an online article the other week. This particular article was about a piece of research about British people. It said that we are the worst in the Western world for inactivity and lack of exercise. Worse than the Americans.
Not exercising is now deemed more dangerous than smoking. The research suggests that 1 in every 6 people who die In the UK, die because they do no exercise whatsoever.ARTArticleHow To Get Your Diet Back On TrackCountless well meaning individuals eat and exercise well and get into a great routine and then something happens. It could be anything from a night out, a flat tyre, a holiday, Christmas! Anyway this event throws out your healthy eating plan/regime sometimes only for 1 day but it can have a big effect.ARTArticleHow to Lose at Tennis...and at LifeFor those of you who know me, you know that I’ve been a devoted tennis player. That is, until I injured myself and turned to other forms of exercise and activity. I didn’t say I was a “good” tennis player. I said I was a “devoted” tennis player. At least two, and more likely three or more times each week, I was out on the courts with my tennis partner…wanting to win and yet prepared to lose. That’s a secret to losing at tennis, and at life. Preparing to lose. And boy did I lose.ARTArticleHow to Practice Being Present Instead of Overwhelmed!Do you find yourself exhausted at the end of your day? Feeling overwhelmed and stressed often? Does your mind seem to race from what you are doing now, to worrying about what you need to do later and then perhaps rehashing what happened yesterday? Well, if so, you are not alone. According to the American Psychological Association (Stress in America 2007, released October 24, 2007) 48% of adults in the US say they are living with more stress now than in the past few years.
What if you could unwind, relax and refresh daily while being more focused? Sounds too good to be true!ARTArticleHow to recognize and recover from Burnout.Everyone has gone through burnout, often times you are not even aware of it unless you are fully in the middle of it.
So what leads to a burnout?
Usually when you have been through a stressful and prolonged period of time without any real form of respite nor relief. Circumstances where this might occur are:
Going through a break up or divorce.
Experiencing Child Custody Issuesr
Losing a job and being unemployed for a long period of time.
The loss of a loved one.
The loss of your support system.
Working through tough financial issues.rARTArticleHow to Set Clear Healing Intentions That WorkIt is your responsibility as the receiver of other people’s prayers to set the intention for prayers and energetic forms of spiritual healing that are in alignment with your own your clear desire. That means your intention needs to be very clear.
A clear intention is dependent upon how you feel spiritually strong. Are you someone that visualizes, hears or feels things easily? Do you get strong impressions that are more like knowing something?
Most of us have one or two means of spiritual perception that are strongest for us.ARTArticleHow You Can Be Lighter But Still FatterI was chatting with one of my personal training clients about these body transformation programmes and fast weight loss programmes. She told me she had been comparing her results to her friends. Her friend had lost two stone by just drinking shakes and eating bars and she had only lost a stone in 4 weeks, so she wasn’t too happy.
Comparing yourself to others is often a bad idea. I used to do this myself too, many years ago. Anytime I went to the gym, I always felt inadequate. I compared myself to the biggest and strongest guys. So I felt I was the skinniest and the weakest.ARTArticleI Really Hate Vegetables - SolutionsI hate vegetables. More specifically boiled veg. They just make me gag. For someone like me (a fitness and nutrition guy) you may be surprised that I’m telling you this. But I have to be honest with you, I hate them, especially boiled cabbage.
It all started in my childhood… My mother used to crucify the veg and boil it to within an inch of its life. I have memories from a young age of eating my Sunday dinner at the table with my brother and sister and actually crying and begging to be able to leave the table and not eat my veg.ARTArticleIf You Use a Computer You Should be Doing These Eye ExercisesJust because we are getting older doesn’t mean we have to resolve ourselves to losing ground with our vision. It is medically proven that with regular exercise of the eye muscles you can minimize eyestrain and maintain or even improve your vision. Perhaps the single greatest reason why people in today’s society suffer from chronic eyestrain and deteriorating vision is the amount of time that is spent staring at computer monitors and television screens.ARTArticleIndulge in Chocolate and Red Wine for Heart HealthI've had a few calls from my chocoholic clients asking "how much chocolate can I eat." People are consuming chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and before, during and after dinner, thanks to the creativity of the chocolate industry. We eat approximately 12 pounds per person per year. Women eat more than men, and historically it has been the go-to gift to show appreciation and impress the ladies.ARTArticleInteresting Forms of HypnotherapyClinical Hypnotherapy is a powerful form of Psychotherapy combining cognitive therapeutic counselling with subconscious healing techniques. Hypnosis is commonly described as a natural treatment that uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness which is sometimes called trance. Through this trusted state, the client has an attention which is extremely concentrated whilst in the hypnotic state, so anything going on around that person is temporarily blocked out or ignored.ARTArticleIs Estrogen Dominance Messing With Your Reproductive System?For both men and women, reproductive health depends on balanced hormones. For many couples, something called “estrogen dominance” wreaks havoc on their plans for a family. In fact, even those not yet planning a family or those who already have children experience issues stemming from estrogen dominance. It can cause PMS, cramping, endometriosis and ovarian cysts for example. In men, too much estrogen can cause low libido, low sperm count, low production of seminal fluid and erectile dysfunction.
There are a number of factors that can influence estrogen levels in the body:ARTArticleIs Exercise Always The Best Option?Today I wanted to share a little story with you about exercise and how it may not always be the best option. My wife said to me the other day that she can't keep on going to her regular bootcamp sessions as she is going to put weight on due to her poor diet and drinking.
When she said this I smiled and thought to myself – wow she really gets it. I have tried teaching her stuff over the years but never knew if it was sinking in. By this statement I knew it had.ARTArticleIs Obesity A Disease?Did you know obesity is now an actual disease in America?
The American Medical Association voted to classify it as a disease last year. Ove
ight millions of Americans became officially “diseased”.
Is this a crazy or clever move? I don’t really know.
Basically they are saying being fat is the same as being sick. I’m not going to get into the pros and cons too much but you can safely say it has split people's opinions. People have come out and said it's gonna be a licence for people NOT to diet and to take pills.