You don’t know how to exercise right. If you have ever tried to exercise to lose weight I can almost guarantee you that you were doing it wrong. How do I know that? I know that because most people who exercise for weight loss don’t exercise hard enough or for long enough and (most importantly) don’t understand why they are exercising. If you want to exercise to lose weight fast you need to learn how to exercise properly, let me show you how.
Insulin resistance is a modern day problem that is the result of eating modern day foods. What insulin resistance means is that the cells in your body are resistant to insulin. While this may not sound like a big deal, it is. The more insulin resistant your cells become, the high your blood sugar rises (and your body hates high blood sugar). Let’s take a look at just how insulin resistance happens in your body.
Losing weight is not as difficult as it is keeping the weight off (you probably know that). But keeping the weight off is not as big of a mystery as you might think. You really don’t have to resort to some crazy diet plan like eating only rice or grapefruit, you do (however) have to change what you are doing. Remember the definition of crazy is trying the same thing over and over but expecting new results. In order to lose weight you have to change what you are doing.
Living longer is a goal for almost everyone. The headlines are full of healthful information about how to extend you life expectancy, the problem is that you have to look further down the road.
Health News Digest 1/07/2009
This article will piece together the bits of information out there on sugar and brain function to get a better understanding of what sugar is doing to our brains.
Exercise is a powerful way to change how you feel and it can actually alter or reverse many diseases. If exercise were a drug, doctors couldn't keep it on the shelf. Exercise is truly the best drug ever, and the incredible part about the exercise story is that this "drug" is free and it has virtually no side effects.
There are two ways to look at cold and flu season. The first is to think that there are bugs out there and if you are too close to someone who has those bugs, you are going to get sick. The second is to realize that there are bugs out there, but there are always bugs out there, and that you only get sick when the conditions are right for the bugs to thrive.
Do you find yourself scratching your head when you read the latest news? One headline suggests that coffee is good for you and the next reads that it is not good for you; another headline says alcohol is great for your health and then another tells you that it is not. What about a high protein diet, or a high carbohydrate diet, or an all-grapefruit diet? Do you choose bottled water or filtered water? What about using a microwave?
I've created this list of top Health Mistakes You Don't Want to Make because it will give you an idea where to best focus your energies. The Health Mistakes below are where you are going to get the most bang for your buck. Some of them are not easy (actually most are not that easy), and the reason why most people don't do them. But choosing to take care of you requires a bit of dedication because we live in a world that supports our ill health and not our good health.
