Fat around your abdomen is worse for your health then the fat you carry around on other parts of your body, like your hips or thighs. More damaging than visible fat, however, is the fat you can’t see. Visceral fat is the body fat that is stored in your abdomen and surrounds internal organs such […]
Regular exercise is one of the best prescriptions I can give. For anyone with chronic pain, depression, or any chronic disease, here’s one of the most effective ways to heal: get sweaty.
Exercise is a miracle treatment. Almost nothing else has so many pluses. It helps you look good, boosts your cardiovascular health, […]
Here’s one of my favourite analogies. The chemical makeup of your body is like the soil that we grow plants in. For your body to grow and heal, your chemical makeup needs to be full of balanced nutrients — just as soil has to be full of balanced nutrients for beautiful and healthy plants.
Sitting is making us sick. We know that too much sitting leads to huge increases in our risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Some health professionals have started calling sitting all day a “serious health hazard”.
Our bodies were made to move- to perform thousands of different movements through the day. In our developed economies […]
We sit a lot. We drive to work, sit at our desks, and watch TV after dinner. Most of us spend more than half of our day sitting and this sitting is making us sick.
The effects of sitting are scary. We’ve found that sitting leads to a huge jump […]
