Health & Nutrition Blogs
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Health Blog: Exercise – The Fountain of Youth, Part 2
You can boost your immunity through proper exercise
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Health Blog: Exercise – The Fountain of Youth?It’s time to stop aging and start youthing
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Men’s Health Blog: Tackle Male Menopause NowFight the ‘Beer Belly Blues’ with diet and exercise
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Health Blog: Counterfeit Estrogens and Your MetabolismIs your body being fooled into gaining weight by xenoestrogens?
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Health Blog: Obesity and Cancer – What You Need to KnowThese two conditions are increasingly being linked
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Health Blog: How to Defeat Diabetes 2With type 2 diabetes, its about diet, exercise and sleepType 2 diabetes is a huge and growing problem in the West. If it continues at this pace, the costs to society will be enormous. And it is tough for the person who has it. Type 2 diabetes accounts for almost 90 percent of overall diabetes, and is usually caused when the insulin receptor sites on our cells become resistant to insulin, rendering it non-effective.
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Health Blog: Quell the Inflammation in Your BodyInflammation is at the core of heart diseaseExcess body fat can lead to a host of heart diseases. Veins and arteries become more compromised, and blood vessels in legs and microcapillaries in eyes can wear out three times faster in overweight individuals. There is also an increased risk of high blood pressure with each additional pound of fat.[1]
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Women's Health Blog: Testosterone and Women – Sex, Muscles and MetabolismTestosterone: ‘hormone of desire’ for womenHormones play an integral role in the way we look, feel, and perform from day to day. The premiere sex hormone, testosterone, is important for men, but it also plays an important role for a woman—especially a woman’s healthy interest in sex.
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Health Blog: Enhancing Metabolism with Fiber – The Insulin ConnectionDon’t forget to eat your fiberWhen the majority of people decide to follow a healthy eating plan, they almost always consider their protein, carbohydrate, and fat intake with very little thought, if any, to dietary fiber. The fact is, though, that dietary fiber is not only essential to overall health and the continual elimination of waste, it is required—in sufficient quantities—for an optimal metabolism, in large part due to its blood-sugar-balancing capabilities.[1]
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Health Blog: Can We Blame Weight Gain on the Environment?Weight gain is on the riseAccording to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the latest studies indicate that, in the past 20 years, overweight and obesity rates have more than doubled for adults and tripled for children.[i] So why the sudden expansion (pun intended)? |
Health Blog: Does Excess Stress Relate to Your Waistline?Stress plays havoc with your systemLet’s face it, everyone is stressed these days. According to Kenneth Pelletier PhD, author of Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer and scientific board member of the American Institute of Stress, between 80–90 percent of all illnesses are linked to stress and 75–90 percent of all visits to the doctor are for stress and anxiety-related concerns.[i] |
Health Blog: Muscle Your Way to a Longer LifeThe body fat-disease-aging linkEverybody wants to live a long and healthy life. But, if you carry excess body fat on your frame, then you may be setting yourself up for a shorter lifespan than the one you were aiming for. |
Health Blog: Is Stress Making You Old Before Your Time?Stress causes agingDon’t you wish sometimes that you had a shut-off switch for demands on your time? Seriously, how many of you find yourself checking your e-mail at ungodly hours? Often precious downtime is consumed by our willingness to be constantly available by electronic means. When we go, go, go without enough downtime, or we constantly worry about things – most of which (thankfully) never materialize – we create an unfavourable stress response that can rob us of our youth, biologically speaking. |
Health Blog: Optimism and Optimal Health – the Power of a Positive MindsetThree simple tips for achieving optimal healthHow many times have you said to yourself, “This time I’m serious, I’m going to follow a healthy eating plan,” or “I’m starting to exercise tomorrow,” only to find yourself doing the exact same thing you’ve always done, putting it off for another day?
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Health Blog: Maintaining Weight During Cancer While excess body fat is often blamed for up to 20 per cent of all deaths from cancer[i], the fact remains that many people living with cancer and undergoing conventional cancer treatments sometimes find themselves facing the opposite problem—how to gain weight or at least prevent further weight loss. |
Starting in adolescence our body’s internal army, the immune system, slowly begins to lose its ability to fight off invaders such as viruses and bacteria. The reason for this is believed to be the gradual shrinking of our body’s primary organ of the immune system, the thymus gland, which begins to shrink around puberty and by age 60 is barely visible.
All of us at some time in our lives have wondered what it would be like to live forever, to never grow old. While we know this is not realistic, we would all love to at least slow the effects of aging. So we press on at all costs, looking for that fountain of youth, that one magic pill that will erase all our aging woes even though reality tells us it doesn’t exist. or does it?
If you are over a man over the age of 40, whether you like it or not, you have already begun to experience male menopause, or andropause, a drastic decline in your male hormones. I prefer to call it “beer belly blues,” since two of the hallmarks of male menopause are an enlarged waist circumference and a decline in your once jovial mood. 
You may already know that estrogens are critical elements for maintaining health and balance in the body. But did you know that there are estrogen mimickers in our environment that can lead to hormonal imbalance, weight gain and disease?
Everyone knows that smoking is a major cause of cancer. Yet, according to research published in the British Journal of Public Health, obese adults have more chronic health problems than their smoking counterparts, some of which greatly increase their risk of cancer.
