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Getting children to exercise can be challenging. But there’s no need to stick to run-of-the-mill, boring exercises like jumping jacks, push-ups and sprints. Here is a list of some fun and creative fitness activities for kids that will get them moving in no time at all
Is what you eat slowly killing you? Overtime the food you are eating has an impact on blood sugar and can lead to Type 2 diabetes. Understanding carbohydrate effects and glucose management not only can help you be happier and healthier it can save your life. The glycemic index helps understand the impact food has on blood glucose levels. Blood sugar levels above normal are toxic and can cause blindness, kidney failure, or increase cardiovascular risk.
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.
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.
Exercise Can Help Control Weight Obesity results from energy imbalance: too many calories in, too few calories burned. A number of factors influence how many calories (or how much “energy”) people burn each day, among them, age, body size, and genes. But the most variable factor-and the most easily modified-is the amount of activity people get each day.
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.
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.
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
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.