5 Foods For A Healthier You
Eating foods that are packed with nutrients provides the body with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that can help you live your healthiest life. Regularly incorporating leafy greens, berries, cruciferous vegetables, whole grains, and nuts can make for a healthier you! Vow to incorporate more of these superfoods in your diet every day. Leafy Greens. Rich in […]
Tips To Improve Coordination & Balance
Coordination and balance are two essential conditions in the performance of any action that involves movement and requires adequate body control. Improving balance and coordination will provide lots of benefits. Having exceptional balance and coordination helps avoid falls, improves strength, increases flexibility, and makes you feel healthier overall. Coordination can be defined as the ability to use different parts […]
Walk Your Way To Health
Exercising is important for overall health. And it doesn’t need to be complicated! Simply walking for 30 minutes a day can provide lots of benefits for people of all ages. Walking can help ward off heart disease, lower blood pressure, strengthen bones and muscles, prevent weight gain and even boost your mood. If you haven’t […]
The Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean diet is a style of eating inspired by the traditional eating habits of denizens of that particular area. It encompasses the cuisines of Greece, Italy, France and Spain. Though the citizens of each country may have slightly different cuisines, the Mediterranean diet emphasizes plant-based eating using healthy fats, primarily olive oil. The diet […]
Body Language
Body language is an important part of how we communicate. Our facial expressions, posture, eye contact and tone of voice are important clues to the messages we are sending to those around us. Body language is seen as a natural, unconscious language that broadcasts your true feelings and intentions. Your nonverbal communication cues—the way you […]
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is an essential micronutrient. Humans must get micronutrients from diet and the food we eat since our bodies cannot produce vitamins and minerals (for the most part). After being consumed, vitamin A is stored in the liver until needed by the body. Vitamin A is important for many physiological processes. It aids the […]
When To Exercise
Everyone knows that exercise is a very important component of a healthy lifestyle. Regular workouts help boost heart health, increase strength and balance, and improve endurance. But is there a best time of day to exercise? The answer may not be the same for everyone. Some of the benefits of exercising in the morning include: […]
Teach Healthy Eating Habits
Every family wants their children to grow up happy and healthy. Parents and caregivers are the biggest influence over childhood experiences. Positive experiences about food early on will help children maintain healthy eating habits for life. Most children and families today have busy schedules. This can make it difficult to sit down to healthy, homemade […]
Managing Stress
Stress is one of the body’s natural defenses. It activates our ‘fight or flight’ mechanism whereby our body prepares to confront a danger or retreat to safety. During a stress response, the body produces larger than normal quantities of certain chemicals that improve a person’s ability to respond to a potentially hazardous or challenging situation. […]
All About Vitamin C
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is an essential nutrient. Our bodies don’t produce Vitamin C so we need to get it from our diet. A deficiency of Vitamin C can cause symptoms such as fatigue, irritability and weight loss. Severe deficiency can result in a disease called scurvy (though such a diagnosis is […]
