Boost Your Health, Grow Your Food
Boost your health – start with sprouts Start with sprouts One of the easiest ways of boosting your health and ensuring that you get the best quality, organic & freshest fruits & vegetables on tap, is to grow your own. Even if you start small with an indoor ‘sprouts’ garden for alfalfa, mung beans, pea […]
Want To Live Longer, Live Healthier? Who Doesn’t!
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]… Start by looking after your “telomeres”. These are the tiny end units of our DNA strands, which prevent the DNA from unraveling. (… Think of a shoelace which has it’s ends bound tightly.) As our cells replicate our telomeres shorten. Longer telomeres lead to longevity. So how do […]
How To Lose Belly Fat
No amount of daily sit-ups will help you lose belly fat. Some lifestyle, exercise and dietary adjustments are necessary. Incorporate a few changes at a time so you are not overwhelmed. Exercise adjustments: Include HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) one to two times a week, for about 20 mins a session. Muscle tissue burns 3-5 times […]
Is Anxiety Getting the Better of You?
Most of us have felt the unsettling symptoms of anxiety at some point. Here are some daily tips to support better overall wellbeing and to help manage stress and anxiety: Daily Tips to reduce anxiety: 1) Connect with friends – keeping in touch with friends maintains our support network. 2) Exercise (ideally outdoors) – […]
5 Lifestyle Changes that Could Prevent 80% of Heart Attacks
Adopt these 5 “low-risk” behaviours to help reduce your chances of heart attack. Here are 5 Lifestyle Tips: Choose a healthy diet – eat freshly prepared wholefoods including clean protein, good fats, high fibre vegetables, seeds & nuts, legumes, lentils and eggs; avoid refined, processed choices. Be physically active – choose to exercise each day […]
What Happens in Your Body When You Exercise?
A large number of biological changes occur from head to toe, when you exercise. These changes occur in your: Muscles – which use glucose & ATP (a chemical compound that is in all living tissue), for contraction and movement. By increasing your breathing rate, more oxygen is introduced and your heart starts pumping more blood […]
Will I Get Big & Bulky Lifting Weights?
Many women are reluctant to start lifting weights, because they have visions of turning into female bodybuilders, with veins running through their biceps and chest. Keep in mind that these women are weight lifters to the extreme and their bodies are out of balance. This kind of build is not the typical result of weight lifting, because […]
Slow Metabolism? Fire it Up with These 4 Tips …
4 Tips to Fire Up your Metabolism: Do interval training – periodic fast-paced intervals raise your metabolic rate higher than a steady cardio workout can. Drink green tea – this really does impact on your metabolic rate. Some green teas are quite bitter in taste, so find one you like and drink 3 cups a day! […]
Lose Belly Fat with these Two Key Dietary Changes
No matter how well you exercise, if you are still eating processed foods, too many carbs and the wrong kinds of fat, all your efforts may be in vain. Eating right is the key for weight loss success and it is crucial when you are trying to get rid of visceral fat around your internal […]
4 Convincing Reasons To Do Squats!
How Squats contributes to your Health Squats not only work your major leg muscles, but also help to: Build muscles in your entire body – squats provide an anabolic environment, which promotes muscle building throughout the whole body. Maintain mobility and balance – strong legs are crucial as we age. Core stabilising muscles are activated during […]
Tips to Turbo-charge Your Metabolism
Genetics do play a role in our metabolic make-up, but our metabolism is also strongly influenced by our body composition, diet and lifestyle. These tips will help boost your metabolism into overdrive: Lift weights – build muscle with weight-bearing exercise. This increased muscle mass means we burn more calories even at rest. Choose clean food – […]
Is A Good Night’s Sleep Only a Dream?
Sleep deprivation is hazardous to our health! Major health risks include: weight gain, Type 2 Diabetes, ADHD, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s, stroke, etc. Millions of Australians have trouble sleeping and it is progressively getting worse with an ever increasing number of electronic gadgets and bad habits. When you fail to get enough sleep, there is decreased blood […]
Don’t Delay, Get Healthy Today!
We often think of “getting healthy” as something we’ll get around to once we’ve taken care of all the important things. Why is it that we don’t have time to exercise, or shop for nourishing food or cook gourmet healthy meals? Lack of time seems to drive everything. Fast-food has become a multi-billion dollar industry. […]
3 Ways to Turn Back the Clock
Nothing ages a person more than a stooped posture and diminishing strength, ie. muscle wasting. Some side-effects of ageing include: decreased muscle mass and strength, limited mobility, reduced aerobic capacity, inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis, increased susceptibility to diabetes, and there is now clear evidence of the link between sedentary lifestyle and memory […]
Crank Up Your Metabolism!
Eat and exercise right and speed up your metabolism now! One reason people tend to gain weight as they age is because their metabolism slows down dramatically, often due to poor lifestyle choices. Eg. less exercise, overeating, eating too few meals, or eating too many refined processed carbohydrates. Other reasons may include: taking certain medications, […]
Fat versus Muscle – What you need to know!
Weight loss is not all about your weight on a set of scales. It’s about understanding your body composition, ie. what percentage of your body is muscle and how much is fat? This muscle to fat ratio determines just how healthy and balanced your body really is. The more muscle you have, the easier it is to burn […]
Burn fat while you sleep.
Sounds like a gimmick? It isn’t. No pills needed. You can quite literally put yourself in a position to burn more fat while you are at rest. Lean muscle tissue is the key to burning fat. Our muscle tissue acts like a furnace. The more we have, the greater our ability to burn fat and keep […]
Contemplating a junk food binge?
You might want to consider the exercise that’s needed to burn off the kilojoules gained by the brief binge! For instance: 1) Can of coke = 55 mins brisk walking to burn 240 cals (1000kj) 2) Krispy Kreme glazed donut = mow lawn or swim vigorously for about 26 mins to burn 190 cals (795kj) […]
