How To Choose Healthy Food When You’re Busy
I know, life gets in the way, right? Just this week, I had extra work piled on, doctor’s appointments, and a family emergency. How do you choose healthy food when you’re busy?
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How to Get Yourself to Love Healthy Food (or at least like it)
The list is endless, Brussels sprouts and bean sprouts; cauliflower and quinoa flour; chia seeds and chickweed; sardines and pinto beans…the list of healthy foods I don’t like is endless, while the same can be said for the list of unhealthy foods I DO like. Damn you sugar, salt, fat and carbs. Why don’t donuts contain…
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So, you lost the weight. Here’s How to Keep it Off
You did it. Through dedication, hard work and being ultra-aware of what you ate you lost 15 pounds. Now the hard part begins. You’ve got to keep those 15 pounds you lost, well, lost…out there wherever lost pounds go (maybe they just move around, jumping from one person to the next). The last thing you…
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Foods High in Essential Fatty Acids
If you’ve read this blog with any regularity, you know I often begin with a definition or two and that’s the case with this one. Essential fatty acids are forms of fat which our bodies break down into fatty acids. The “essential” part comes from the fact that our bodies need these fatty acids but…
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Best Ways to Improve Your Flexibility
I guess the first question that should be addressed for this post is, why does flexibility matter? Improved flexibility is just another way of saying improved range of motion and that simply means that you can move easily and farther primarily around your joints. You know, like being able to touch your toes while standing…
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Foods that are Good for your Gut Health
First, why do you need a “healthy gut”, and why is it so important? The short version is that you are born with a certain microbiome. A microbiome consists of trillions of tiny organisms, all of which we don’t need to know anything about. Suffice it to say there are good and bad organisms, and…
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What Does “Quality of Life” Mean to You?
Wow, that’s quite a philosophical question, no? It’s also one of those questions that has no right or wrong answer.
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Beach Workouts for Your Vacation
Look, a beach vacation is no excuse to allow your workout regime to lapse for a week or two. There are several reasons for this…if you stop exercising for more than a week it will be that much more difficult to get started back up again, if you ever do. I tend to relate exercise…
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Tips: Grilling your favorite meats on the BBQ
There’s a difference between barbecuing and grilling, we all know that, right? The terms can be used interchangeably, but generally speaking, barbecue is meat cooked low and slow over smoke, and grilling is meat cooked fast and with that great brown exterior. Yum either way. Today we’re going to talk about grilling your favorite meats….
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The Benefits of Water-Based Exercise
Water is awesome. It’s necessary for our very survival. It’s wet. It’s fun to ski and surf upon. It allows things to float on it. It supports forms of life too numerous to list here. It’s perfect for balloons and squirt guns. It falls from the sky. Mixed with dirt, it creates mud. It can…
