Day 10 – Connect | BREATH – A 30 Day Yoga Journey

More Westerners are starting to assume an active role in their health, they are eating more fish than ever before. If you’ve considered healthy eating from the sea, let’s take a look at the benefits of adding fish to your diet.

Protein shakes have had their fair share of doubters. A lot of people are not convinced that they are as effective as they say. After all, something that helps you lose/gain weight or build more muscle at the same time seems too good to be true.

With Christmas and New Years around the corner, a little weight gain is not something you will be unfamiliar with. Everyone’s New Year resolution is to lose weight, get fitter and have a leaner, stronger body. To help to achieve this goal, we list out the fruits which you should definitely include in your diet that will increase your metabolism and help decrease your weight. Many people struggle with low metabolism and losing weight can be a huge problem. With our hectic lifestyles, getting the right amount of vitamins and minerals is also a conundrum.

This article highlights the beneficial aspects of raw cacao, which hosts a myriad of medicinal properties, thereby helping you to promote a healthy lifestyle. This great source of nutrients stimulates proper physical growth and offers you better protection against severe diseases.

With a ‘low carbohydrate, healthy fat’ diet, it is possible to remove sugars from the diet and fight back against obesity. This article looks at the way to avoid sugary and starchy foods that trigger sugar addiction.

Whatever type of groceries we are putting in our shopping trolley will make that difference to our well-being. Although our choices or varieties of foods have increased, maybe ten folds over the last couple of decades, but not all for the better. Unfortunately most people are of the opinion, whatever being sold in the grocery store or supermarket is for their benefit. For the easy way of shopping yes, but for the benefit for their health, no.

It is very important to complement your hard work in the gym with the correct type and amount of nutrition. Working out is just the beginning of the process of muscle building, as the nutrition that you provide the body with, can make a difference to the amount of muscle you gain.

I spent some time watching a group of pro tennis players turning those bright yellow balls into fiercely propelled orbs this week. What fuels these players and keeps them on point with the physical and mental stamina needed to stay in the game? My current client group doesn’t include professional or high-performance athletes; the group does include folks striving for better fitness and a few weekend warriors. The basics on fitness and health are pretty similar-mental stamina and good nutrition are important if you’re looking to achieve winning results at any level.

Fructose and glucose are simple plant sugars and are natural products of photosynthesis in nature. Both are found within a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Sucrose also is a simple plant sugar, though sucrose results from the natural union of glucose and fructose in the plant. The presence of fructose and glucose and sucrose, though, varies from plant to plant. Each compound is a natural source of energy for plant life and for the animal and human beings that depend upon them for food and energy. Neither compound is intrinsically unhealthy. Overconsumption of refined concentrations can be unhealthy, though.

A ‘low carbohydrate, healthy fat’ diet for everyone in the household will not be easy to enforce. The trick is to ‘gradually’ replace the carbohydrates with healthy fats. This article explains how to do this.

Snacking between meals is a major cause of obesity. A diet that contains healthy fats and which is low in carbohydrates will prevent the habit. This article explores why, and suggests healthy foods that can replace traditional ‘carbohydrate-heavy’ ones.

Fructose is a simple sugar generated naturally in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Though glucose is the principal sugar formed in the process of plant photosynthesis, fructose appears rapidly, also. Once eaten, fructose is quickly and easily absorbed across our intestinal walls. It travels to our liver where it is converted to glycogen and fatty acids and long-chain triglycerides. Fructose is thus converted principally into storage forms of energy and is not utilized by most of our body’s cells or tissues as a primary energy source.