Archive for 2010

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Positive Goals … Motivating You to Achieve

Positive Goals … Motivating You to Achieve

You can start working towards Health Lifestyles Living at any time. Around the New Year, most people make resolutions to be healthier -- to starting living a healthier life and maintain a Healthier Lifestyle. But how many of us actually keep that up? It's important to make a healthy lifestyle change ...
The 300 Workout

The 300 Workout

In 480 BC, the Greek city of Sparta sends 300 of its finest warriors to meet the Persian king Xerxes’ massive army at Thermopylae. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the Persian invasion of Greece. The Spartans ...
Shaping Up: Getting Back into the Routine

Shaping Up: Getting Back into the Routine

It is so hard to get back into the "groove" after a long lay off! But last week, I decided enough was enough, and that I had to throw myself at weight training once again. I needed to get my fat ass out of my chair and back into the weight ...
Low Gi Eating

Low Gi Eating

Have you ever questioned why you're always craving white bread and sugary foods when you're dieting? Well, the answer is simple, you may be eating too many foods with a high-GI. GI stands for the 'glycemic index' which ranks carbohydrates from 0 to 100, based on the rate at which these foods ...
Our Children – Don’t Let Them Be The Victims Of Obesity

Our Children – Don’t Let Them Be The Victims Of Obesity

A quarter of children in the UK are estimated to be clinically obese, that’s 1 in 4, making this in my mind one of the most critical problems of our time. In the last twenty years obesity has trebled, and unless drastic steps are taken now, within 10 years it is ...
Healthy Lifestyle Tip

Healthy Lifestyle Tip

To maintain a healthy weight, a daily intake of a variety of foods in moderation is necessary. This is in order to gain the nutrients required to fuel our every day activities and nourish our bodies.
Finding inner Peace in your Everyday Life

Finding inner Peace in your Everyday Life

An article in the Daily Mail Newspaper said that according to the Mental Health Foundation around seven million adults in the UK are so tense that if they saw a doctor they would be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. They headline this article as follows: 'As Cheryl Cole turns to meditation to cope ...
Healthy Lifestyle Tip

Healthy Lifestyle Tip

  There are many components of healthy living: eating good and wholesome foods - ones that come mostly straight from nature; drinking good pure water; exercising daily; sleeping well; breathing clean air and thinking positively. The principles are not difficult, but they do make a difference in the way you look and ...
Healthy Lifestyle Quote

Healthy Lifestyle Quote

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life.  Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop ~ Quentin Regestein  
Limit the Fat in Your Diet

Limit the Fat in Your Diet

Every year a multitude of people endeavour to lose weight. Many do it as part of their New Years resolution, others are driven by a forthcoming special occasion like a wedding or school reunion, and some do it for the reason that they're unhappy with their weight and have been for ...