When many think of strength training, they think of intense weight lifting and huge muscular men and women. Strength training, however, is much more than exercise aimed at getting huge muscles and everyone young, old, small, or big can benefit from it. It can help improve coordination, strength, circulation, bone density, and help keep older […]
3 Ways Exercise Can Promote Glucose Metabolism
Regular exercise is one of the best ways to promote health and manage chronic illnesses. The relationship between exercise and glucose metabolism, specifically, is important for everyone to know about. Athletes benefit from knowing how carbohydrates are used by the muscles to generate energy and under what circumstances. Non-athletes and those with type 2 diabetes […]
5 Amazing Benefits to Diaphragmatic Breathing
5 Amazing Benefits to Diaphragmatic Breathing Can Make Your Life Stress Free and Improve Airway Functions! Health Benefits of Diaphragmatic Breathing It is no surprise that how we breathe can affect our body and mind. If our body and mind are relaxed, for example, the breathing rate tends to be slow and not forceful. If we […]
1 Outstanding Little-Known Tiny Habit Can Change Your Life
When it comes to developing habits and creating change, Tiny is Mighty and this 1 Tiny Habit Can Change Your Life. Practicing tiny habits and behaviors is essential to improving health and maintaining happiness throughout one’s life. Small habits can begin with flossing once a day, completing one push up, drinking a full glass of […]
Do DNA Diets Work?
It is likely you have already encountered an advertisement for DNA-based diets on the internet. These may go by “nutrigenomics” or “precision nutrition” eating plans. These eating plans base their advice on a person’s own DNA to determine what foods are best for them. The diets are already available, but do they really work? Or […]
Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes is a complicated disease. While there are many types of diabetes, type 2 is gaining the most momentum and poses a threat to public health. This disease gradually damages health and organs. In addition, if left untreated it can even lead to blindness. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the prevalence of diabetes […]
Nutrition, Microbes, and Gut Health
There is a unique connection between the human body and microbial life. There are about ten times more microbes (like bacteria and fungi) in the human body than there are human cells. Microbes in the gut (the gastrointestinal tract), especially, play a unique role in the metabolism, immunity, and incidence of disease in humans. Diet […]
Why Diets Don’t Work
Diet fads are everywhere and more than often they do more harm than good. Diets plans tend to be strict, restrictive, expensive, short-lived, and (when unsuccessful) discouraging. Furthermore, the alarming number of diet fads out there make nutrition and health confusing for the common individual. The most common reason to diet is weight-loss, although it […]
How to Boost Your Metabolism
When we talk about the metabolism, we are talking about the sum of all the chemical changes occurring within your body to keep you alive and healthy. This is both the breaking down of calories to create chemical energy, and the construction of new molecules as your cells renew themselves. When we talk about boosting […]
The Effects of Nutrition During Pregnancy
For a long time, associations have been observed between adverse maternal intrauterine environments and the incidence of non-communicable diseases in later life. For example, the thrifty phenotype hypothesis studies the link between the epidemiological evidence of poor fetal and infant development with permanent detrimental changes in glucose-insulin metabolism (1). These alterations of glucose metabolism can […]
