The Healthy Lifestyles Living Wellness Blog with Larry Lewis

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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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 ...
Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

You are responsible for your position in life at this moment. It is your responsibility to create the person you want to be and the life that you want to live. Do you want to carry on as you are? Do you want to change so you can create the life ...
Learn How To Be An Old Man In A Young, Fit, Healthy Body

Learn How To Be An Old Man In A Young, Fit, Healthy Body

 “We do not stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we stop exercising.” -Dr. Kenneth Cooper It’s never too late. Don’t use your age as an excuse for those aches and pains. Age is just a number. The saying goes “You’re only as old as you feel,”. Today you find ...