Tick tick tick The number of days until Christmas is counting down pretty quickly and the stress at this time of year for many people is quite overwhelming. I know it and you probably know it too. I know that when I write to you about fitness it is usually diet and exercise but today […]
Fasting may help your heart
This is about a month old study but I thought that it would be a good idea to give out this info on a study that had to conclude that fasting seems to lower the chance of heart attacks in people that fast one day a month. The anti-fasting people will not like this and […]
FDA says OK to Prilosec and Nexium
Earlier this year there were some stories around about fears that Prilosec and Nexium may not be quite as healthy as they should be for people taking them for dealing with acid reflux disease and that they increased heart attack risk. The FDA is now saying that there are no increased risk of heart attacks […]
Getting Started With Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic Diet, also just known as the Keto diet has gone from being an interesting offshoot from the Atkins diet to a very very popular diet with lots of scientific backing. Did you know the standard American diet (SAD) contains 45-65% of calories from carbohydrate rich food? That’s why there is an epidemic of […]
How often to do core exercises
I find that people either do their ab exercises every day or never. Some people do them a couple of times a week and I thing that that is a good plan but the way that they are done is kind of haphazard and not really in a way that is conducive to reaching your […]
Fruits and Vegetables – The Good Carbs
One interesting line I heard once has stuck with me for years when it comes to carbohydrates, “If it is white, don’t eat it” Well that may be true for a few reasons that I wanted to cover today. When we eat carbs they tend to come in all colors, fruit has all sorts of […]
Training the core of your body
When doing any kind of exercise and even at times when you are not doing any exercise you will notice your core of your body. Your core is the muscles right around your torso, that is the muscles of your abdominals right around your lower back and everything in between.The muscles of the core of […]
Using Exercise for better sleep
The amount of physical exercise that you exert during the day is one of the key ingredients to helping you get a good sleep at night. The more active your body is during the day, the more likely you are to relax at night and fall asleep faster. With regular exercise you’ll notice that your […]
Why do the Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers diets work?
As someone that follows the ebb and flow of diets I get a chance to see a lot of diets as well as the reports as to whether they work or not. Over the last few years there have been probably 100 diets released on an unsuspecting public, some gain traction and others don’t but […]
Using your Wii for fitness
I know lots of people have talked in the last year about using a Wii for getting exercise but I sat on the sidelines, sad because I had no Nintendo Wii. Well this has all changed now since I got a Nintendo Wii yesterday for the kids for Christmas. I am not sure if the […]
Vitamin B Niacin supplements
Vitamin B niacin is an essential vitamin for your body, and it is just one of the eight water soluble types of B vitamins. Nearly all of the B vitamin classes will help the body convert carbohydrates into sugar or glucose, which can then be burned to produce energy. Also known as complex B vitamins, […]
Running Into A New Year
Up here in Calgary the weather has been nice although only a little cold over the last couple weeks. I have been on holidays so have not really been at the gym getting exercise and instead have been trying to get workouts in and cardio done outdoors. I am sure I will be kicking myself […]
Gastric Bypass is the wrong answer
I set off a bit of an email flurry a couple of days ago when I suggested that Gastric Bypass surgery is bad and is the wrong way to lose so I thought that I would explain why I do not like the idea of losing using gastric bypass surgery. Gastric Bypass for those that […]
An introduction to Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy has become a standard alternative medicine that many people use and believe to work. I know very little about Aromatherapy except for the simple fact that in the shower I find that the different smells of our different soaps make me react differently emotionally. Aromatherapy is very esoteric and new age but I still […]
Exercise at the computer
As we all know it is difficult to do exercises at our computers and stay in shape. Most of the time you are probably sitting just like me right now, hunched over the keyboard, body frozen in a position to type and slightly tightening the shoulders (that will not feel so good later today). The […]
