Tag Archives: exercise
Health At Home – Where The Heart Is
five healthy at home tips to keep you tip top Have you heard the saying, health is in your own hands? Or did you just trust your doctors to know what’s right for your body? Doctors are first and foremost a teacher to you. To educate, empower, and enhance your bodies function and response to [...]
Immune Health
five ways to boost your immune system Your immune system is located through out your entire body, much of it is in your “gut” as a part of the GALT (Gut Associated Lymphatic Tissue). One could say that “the road to good health is paved to good intestines” as Naturopathic doctors often teach. Thus your [...]
Breaking The Habits That Make You Fat
little decisions that can take you from fat to fit According to recent research, the average person makes 200 decisions every day that will influence his or her weight. And most of these decisions aren’t monumental choices, most, in fact, are small choices, habits if you will, that over time can take us to two [...]
Cooking with Steviva for Thanksgiving Without Gaining Weight
[fb-like-button] Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and with the season of fall closing in it will be celebrated with roasted turkey, homemade stuffing, pies, cakes, and desserts, and well the most fattening foods an individual can eat. This is why Cooking with Steviva stevia sweetener is great for keeping your “girlish figure” and warding off weight gain, however [...]
How Weight Training Increases your Metabolism
[fb-like-button] Weight training is anaerobic and therefore burns carbohydrates (sugar). Cardiovascular exercises such as jogging, cycling, step classes, or stair climbing are aerobic and therefore burn fat. So it seems logical to focus on aerobic training for fat loss. However, something interesting happens “beneath the surface” when you lift weights. Weight training increases your lean [...]
Lose Weight, Keep It Off – slower is better – here’s why
[fb-like-button] “Losing three to five pounds per month is the maximum you should aim for.” The battle to lose excess inches and pounds of unwanted body fat is a common one. An estimated ten million Americans are currently on some form of weight-reduction program. Unfortunately, the success rate for any diet is ultimately an abysmally [...]
