Whole grains offer a complete package of health benefits. A growing body of research shows that choosing whole grains and other less-processed, higher-quality sources of carbohydrates, and cutting back on refined grains, improves health in many ways
Protein is found throughout the body—in muscle, bone, skin, hair, and virtually every other body part or tissue. It makes up the enzymes that power many chemical reactions and the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood. At least 10,000 different proteins make you what you are and keep you that way.
When it comes to dietary fat, what matters most is the type of fat you eat. Contrary to past dietary advice promoting low-fat diets, newer research shows that healthy fats are necessary and beneficial for health.
Type 2 diabetes are rates skyrocketing globally and occurring at younger and younger ages. The good news is it is highly preventable
In addition to eating high-quality foods, physical activity can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight. Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. It lowers the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and certain cancers, and it can also help control stress, improve sleep, boost mood, keep weight in check, and reduce the risk of falling and improve cognitive function in older adults.
Rationalizing weight gain during the pandemic and why we need to prioritize our health now, more than ever.
Is glorifying obesity promoting healthy self-esteem or are we really creating new health crisis? What are we really doing by promoting body acceptance? Is media trying to create positive self-esteem at the cost of global health? A look at how media is shaping our lives self-esteem, self-confidence, body acceptance, and how their challenging the unrealistic fashion industry standards is challenging the standards of health.
Genes Are Not Destiny Genes influence every aspect of human physiology, development, and adaptation. Obesity is no exception. Yet relatively little is known regarding the specific genes that contribute to obesity and the scale of so-called “genetic environment interactions” the complex interplay
The amount of carbohydrate in the diet – high or low – has less of an effect than the type of carbohydrate in the diet.
Optimally Balanced was born out of a simple goal, to find something, anything, that would help reduce and control chronic pain. Anyone who lives with chronic pain knows that feeling, that pleading, that desperate hope that there must be something beyond just the traditional pain management. There must be something that will let me have some semblance of a ‘normal’ life. A life where I can move or even play with my kids (or grandchildren) without having to be in a foggy state from an overload of pain medications. When you live with chronic pain the physical pain is only half of the battle. What pain takes from you, what it does to your life, is just as devastating as the physical pain itself.
Rationalizing weight gain during the pandemic and why we need to prioritize our health now, more than ever.
Is glorifying obesity promoting healthy self-esteem or are we really creating new health crisis? What are we really doing by promoting body acceptance? Is media trying to create positive self-esteem at the cost of global health? A look at how media is shaping our lives self-esteem, self-confidence, body acceptance, and how their challenging the unrealistic fashion industry standards is challenging the standards of health.
Rationalizing weight gain during the pandemic and why we need to prioritize our health now, more than ever.
Is glorifying obesity promoting healthy self-esteem or are we really creating new health crisis? What are we really doing by promoting body acceptance? Is media trying to create positive self-esteem at the cost of global health? A look at how media is shaping our lives self-esteem, self-confidence, body acceptance, and how their challenging the unrealistic fashion industry standards is challenging the standards of health.
Let’s think about this for a minute, there are many quick fixes on the market but they all require changes in your diet, exercise and mentality for long term results. The techniques that “shrink” our fat cells are great but if we continue to eat poorly and not exercise, our fat cells will refill over time. The techniques that suck out our fat cells sound even better, but if we continue to eat poorly and not exercise, our remaining fat cells can grow larger in other places causing different problems.