Archive for 2011

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

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Thought Provoking Questions to create a Balanced Healthy Lifestyle

Thought Provoking Questions to create a Balanced Healthy Lifestyle

A healthy lifestyle consists of eating healthy, getting the right amount of sleep, exercise, spending time looking after yourself, creating a positive mindset and yes having some enjoyment. In a previous post  I wrote ‘If you want to achieve true success in life, you must take steps to ensure you maintain ...
Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Despite the proliferation of materials and education about losing weight, people are getting fatter than ever. How you look, and how you feel is very much down to what you eat. Lack of muscle mass, high body fat, lack of energy, bad skin, digestive problems, sleep problems, mood swings… All of these ...
Healthy lifestyle ‘may reduce breast cancer risk’

Healthy lifestyle ‘may reduce breast cancer risk’

This morning an item on sky news talked about how unhealthy lifestyles and heavy drinking are contributing to high rates of breast cancer in Britain, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO). There has been a substantial increase in cancer rates with the ageing population, obesity rates soaring ...
Combine aerobics and weights for diabetes

Combine aerobics and weights for diabetes

New research has shown a combination of aerobic exercise with resistance training could be the best solution for people with type 2 diabetes. People who did both types of exercise had lower glycaemic levels than people who did no exercise, and better results than people who did either aerobic or resistance ...
Active over 40 – It’s Not Too Late To Get Fit

Active over 40 – It’s Not Too Late To Get Fit

Alas a majority of people over 40 are not very physically fit. Most believe that exercise at their age is too hard, too unsafe, or that it's just too late for them to get started. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Just a small increase in your current activity ...
Focus – or be like a Headless Chicken

Focus – or be like a Headless Chicken

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. —WILFERD A. PETERSON There are so many things competing for and demanding your focus in life. Thus, if you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus and decide in advance which ...
Get Active in the Morning

Get Active in the Morning

People in today’s supposedly fast paced world are actually becoming far less active. Not a lot of energy is used by your body when you use cars to travel everywhere you want to go; remote controls when for example you want to turn over the television; food processors when you are ...
Make Yourself a Priority

Make Yourself a Priority

"It’s not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself - Suze Orman How often do you make time for yourself? Most of us take on way more than we can handle. We have so much to do and not enough time to do it. We stress ourselves ...
Take a Step Back from your Thoughts

Take a Step Back from your Thoughts

I received a wonderful comment left on my blog by a lady named YogaSavy who writes a blog called ‘Live Laugh Breathe’. Just a short concise comment, but one which is so powerful yet simple. She said: ‘Stress is something we create. If we just stepped back and observe it then the ...
When Pressure gets too great

When Pressure gets too great

Many would find it difficult to explain what stress is. Stress is purely a normal physiological response of the body to situations or stimulus which are perceived as 'dangerous' to the body. Stress can affect anyone at anytime in some point of life. When stress occurs regularly it cause harm toone's ...