Prevention & Lifestyle Blog
How Antioxidants protect you from Skin Cancer
Antioxidants, from food, can not only help remedy sun damaged skin, they have the ability to protect and lesson your risk of skin cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT9kgEpOxqE
What Does A Health Promoting Exercise Routine Look Like?
I recently wrote an article titled Is Your Exercise Routine Helping Or Hindering Your Health (click to read), where I outlined specific practices that will either improve or downgrade your health. What many of you are now wondering, is that despite healthy or...
Is Your Exercise Routine Helping Or Hindering Your Health?
Regular exercise is an extremely beneficial practice for your health, that’s a no brainer. The question however, is how much exercise encourages optimal health, what type, and is your current exercise routine actually helping or hindering you health? In order to help...
Part 2: The Single Most Effective Choice You Can Make For Your Health Today
If you’ve just finished reading part one of this post , you now have a basic understanding around the importance of proper nutrition as the single most effective choice you can make for your health today. So, in terms of how this translates into your daily routine,...
Part 1: The Single Most Effective Choice You Can Make For Your Health Today
We’re all aware that there are a multitude of positive choices you can make in favour of your health. The problem for many, is trying to maneuver the decisions as to which ones are most impactful. Even the healthiest of healthy sometimes struggle to know which of the...
Fish Oil And Bleeding Risk, Do We Really Need To Worry?
There has been a tendency, in both conventional and integrative medicine, to frequently recommend that patients stop taking all fish oil supplements prior to surgery due to the theoretical concern that it may increase the possibility of bleeding. What recent research...
Wellbeing Versus Wellness, Why It Matters?
The words wellbeing and wellness are often used interchangeably when referring to how you feel, how healthy you are, your happiness or how you’re doing overall with respect to living a balanced life. The difference between the two, however, can be significant. Whereas...
Doing Nothing Is Often The Best Medicine
If you’re anything like the rest of the world, life seems to be getting busier and busier. When it comes to bettering your health, there’s definitely no shortage of advice, programs or videos to help try to get you there. Despite the obvious benefits of engaging your...
6 Simple Ways To Put Your Health First
We all know it, life can be quite a ride. Unfortunately, amidst the chaos, your health can be the first to suffer. Despite the distractions that pull you off track, here are 6 simple ways to put your health first. Start Your Day With A Healthy Choice...
Are You Immunocompromised? You Need More Than Just Social Distancing
As of late, the harsh realities of the world’s health crisis and pandemic have only begun to rear itself as the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, a large proportion of the population are still not heeding the advice of what it's going to take to slow the spread and...
What Does It Mean To Simplify Your Health?
If you’re anything like me, a simpler life is an approach to be welcomed with opened arms. All things considered, with a little effort, a simplified life isn’t actually all that difficult to achieve. But with life, comes health. And health, as it happens, can majorly...
Live Longer And Healthier By Sitting Less
Research has confirmed that sitting too long is not good for your health. New and surprising? No. Helpful? Yes. The pattern and results of sedentary behaviour from this study illustrate that sitting for a period longer than 30 minutes at a time is highly associated...