Some must-have staples to keep your pantry full of the necessities Healthy eating and cooking can be a very quick and simple task, but, only if you have the right recipes and ingredients on hand! A well-stocked pantry is key. Having healthy staple items stocked in your pantry will ensure you can make quick, healthy [...]
Category Archives: Lifestyle
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Apr
Apr
Tips to help you Gain Muscle Mass Whether wanting to increase your lean (muscle) mass to improve strength, performance or physique, the core principles can be focused within three main strategies. It is about training and, what can sometimes get forgotten: complementing that training with nutrition that maximises adaptations and results. #1 Provide the Stimulus [...]
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Mar
Mar
What do you do when you lack the motivation to work out? Motivation can be a fickle friend. Sure, it wants to be besties when you’re just starting out, have a new goal, or start a new program, but how about three or four weeks in? Suddenly it’s not so keen to hang out with [...]
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Mar
Mar
Simple and Effective Steps to Becoming Healthier Try these steps to start living a healthier lifestyle today. Plan Ahead Set aside sometime during the week to plan ahead for what your meals will look like for the next several days. Maybe this means you plan recipes and a grocery list to cook meals at [...]
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Feb
Feb
A Mindful way to Cut Sugar Out of your Diet Registered Psychologist Patrea O'Donoghue, talks about how she overcame her 'addiction' to sugar and cut it out of her diet for good. My partner read Sweet Poison about 9 years ago after attending an 8-week challenge at his gym. The dietitian/nutritionist mentioned Sweet Poison and [...]
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Jan
Jan
Why Supplements are Essential in our World today Our soil has been over farmed and is nutrient depleted, which means that we don’t get the nutritional value from our food that we used to. There has also been a rise in pollution, toxins and chemicals in the environment. As a result, the liver needs to [...]
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Jan
Jan
6 Fat Facts that may surprise you 1. Obesity is now recognised as a disease, not just a lifestyle factor. This will have an important influence on the way obesity is viewed - by society, obesity patients, and the medical profession. This change in the way of thinking will mean obesity sufferers will now qualify [...]
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Dec
Dec
Pilates as part of your self care routine We live in a fast-paced society. From the moment you step out your door to when you recline into bed some 15 or so hours later, we are bombarded with notifications, deadlines, meetings, emails, and concerns. With our on-the-go lifestyles it’s no wonder the stress levels felt [...]
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Dec
Dec
How to Lose Weight without Exercising How to lose weight without exercise? It may sound too good to be true, but it certainly isn't, at all. In fact exercise is only responsible for approximately 20% of weight loss, and sometimes not even that. The bulk of weight loss is due to one thing, our DIET. This [...]
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Dec
Dec
Coconut Oil and its Health Benefits for You Although classed as a saturated fat, coconut oil functions differently in your body to other saturated fats, which are know as long-chain fats. Over half of the fats in coconut oil are medium-chain fatty acids – MCFA (also known as MCT Medium chain Triglycerides) which provide a [...]