So you know how important I think it is to make sure your eating habits are in alignment with your health. There is no doubt that many illnesses today are life-style induced and by changing how you eat, and exercising in the right way, you can have the best health care there is. Many people don’t realize what you eat also affects the health of your brain. Research shows that the best foods for your brain are the same ones that protect your heart and blood vessels. So here is the list in … [Read more...]
Best exercise to lose weight
Best exercise to lose weight: What type and how much exercise you need to do is important to understand. There is a lot of misinformation around what type and how much exercise you need to do to achieve your lifestyle goals of losing weight (fat) and keeping if off. A new study says we need to walk way more than 10,000 steps a day to get enough exercise. A new goal is to walk 15,000 steps, but this may still be off the mark in terms of what type of exercise you should do to lose weight … [Read more...]
The Food and Mood Connection
The connection between the food and our mood For many years, the medical field has not acknowledged the connection between food and your mood. This includes the role stress plays in weight gain. Want to reduce stress naturally try my guided meditation. Click here to download Stress Free . What you eat directly affects your brain which also needs to be supplied with the right fuel. If you eat processed foods which contain refined sugar, which is the main staple of the American … [Read more...]
Meditation and Controlled Breathing Reduce Stress
Controlled breathing can help you meditate and do wonders for reducing stress. Meditation begins with controlled breathing. Meditation and breathing are one of the eight limbs to achieving yoga. Yoga is an enlightened perspective or outlook. Although the Western version of yoga focuses on the postures, any real yogi would say that is only done to train the body so you can sit in meditation. There are eight limbs according Patanjali, considered to be the sage of how to understand and do yoga. … [Read more...]
How to Boost Your Metabolism
How to Boost Your Metabolism The best way to boost your metabolism is to change your body composition. This means to have more muscle and less fat. As we age, we lose muscle and it is replaced with fat. The average adult loses about 6.6 pounds of muscle a decade. By age 65 the body has doubled its fat mass and lost half its muscle mass. This is a reason why many people gain weight. Since muscle is more metabolically active than fat, you either have eat less and less, … [Read more...]