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?
Obesity is a modern problem
80% of men and nearly 70% of women in the United Kingdom will be overweight or obese by 2020, based on data from the Health Survey for England.
The statistics from the National Heart Forum showed that 41% of adult men will be obese while 40% will be overweight by 2020. ...
Porridge your Healthy Start to the Day
This morning I woke up shivering. My room was freezing. With a rush of excitement, I leaped out of bed, ran to the window and threw open the curtains. Everything was white! A deep blanket of soft, fresh snow covered the whole view in front of me. The trees, the bushes, ...
What to eat before and after exercise
Whatever sporting activity you participate in, whether it's playing tennis, rugby, swimming , jogging or weight training, you need to eat as nutritious and as balanced a diet as you can, to fuel your body properly and resourcefully. Good nutrition has some simple basic ground rules, which when you follow them ...
Personal Trainer: The Plank
Your core is made up of all the muscles that connect the upper and lower body, including those of the stomach, lower back, hips and buttocks.
These muscles are essential for supporting the spine, aiding good posture, and almost every movement. By strengthening core muscles you will not only be on a ...
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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