Balance the Body

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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Looking After Yourself

Looking After Yourself

Taking the time to look after yourself is a vital part of healthy lifestyle living. Your daily routine can be exhausting and stressful. So many people run themselves into the ground, over extending themselves trying to juggle all their responsibilities. Almost everyone is juggling more than one thing at a time. ...
Take care of your immune system … fight off the Common Cold

Take care of your immune system … fight off the Common Cold

There is nothing worse than needing to blog, and being struck down with man flu. Previously I wrote a blog regarding this dreadful life threatening disease that only us poor male species can attract, it was called When Even a Healthy Lifestyle Can’t Protect You. This seems to have happened to one ...
The Principles of a Healthy Lifestyle Eating Plan

The Principles of a Healthy Lifestyle Eating Plan

‘Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness’ ~ Edward Stanley A varied, well balanced diet is a basic requirement for healthy lifestyle living. Without the proper "fuel" your body and mind won’t function at peak performance. A healthy body ...
Quick, flexible breakfast options to grab at home

Quick, flexible breakfast options to grab at home

By following a healthy lifestyle eating plan you are able to eat a wide variety of healthy foods that will make you feel great and maintain your energy levels throughout the day. Healthy eating requires you to consume small frequent meals throughout the day, instead of the traditional three meal routine. This ...
Getting Back Into Summer Shape

Getting Back Into Summer Shape

To most people, understanding the principles of healthy lifestyle living is only slightly less confusing than understanding Einstein's theory of relativity. A new diet book or fitness article comes out weekly telling you the latest wonder method to achieve your results. Every time you read something new it tells you a ...
15 Ways to Rev up your Metabolism

15 Ways to Rev up your Metabolism

‘The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine’. ~ Hippocrates So do you have a sedentary lifestyle. Sit at a desk all day. The only exercise you do is walking from your house to your car. You miss breakfast simply because you ...
10 Foods to Boost Energy

10 Foods to Boost Energy

Before I give you the run down of the top 10 foods to boost energy I want to quickly explain what energy foods are and why its vital to incorporate good energy boosting foods into your diet. What are good "energy foods"? The term "energy foods" is a bit deceiving. All foods give ...
Music to Boost your Workout

Music to Boost your Workout

  I am a 48 year old male who works out 5 or 6 days a week. I weight train, do cardio, and circuit train. I never do this without my MP3 player. I’m one of those guys that likes to just totally immerse myself in music during my training sessions and ...
Yours Kids need to be living a Healthy Lifestyle

Yours Kids need to be living a Healthy Lifestyle

Helping kid’s lead healthy lifestyles is a vitally important step towards a lifetime of good health. I have recently been working with two young teenage boys in my role as a personal trainer and fitness instructor. Both were extremely inactive, struggling with both physical and mental problems caused by weight issues. Studies ...
Why Do You Struggle with Healthy Eating?

Why Do You Struggle with Healthy Eating?

Are you persistently frustrated by your weight loss attempts? Are you weary of the number of times you have started a new diet and exercise programme, only to fail? You’ve read all those promises how you can achieve fantastically quick weight loss in time for that fast approaching event. They tell you ...