Blog Posts
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Can being lonely affect your health?
Humans are social creatures by nature. We’ve evolved this way out of necessity as being alone in centuries past would challenge one’s ability to survive. We needed each other for protection and acquiring food. Nowadays the threats from isolation and loneliness are not as apparent. But being socially isolated or lonely is still detrimental to…
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Reduce Your Exposure to Pollution and Improve Your Health
Pollution can have a number of effects on your health. While air pollution is probably what comes to mind for most people, there’s also noise and plastics pollution (read about microplastics and your health here). Most would agree pollution is bad for us. Yet it’s a common belief that there’s nothing we can do about…
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What does it mean to be healthy?
We can’t go anywhere without hearing or seeing messages telling us to be healthier. Social media is flooded with fitness and diet influencers. And magazines fill check-out counters with covers screaming at to lose weight, eat healthier, exercise, sit less and get more sleep. Every week it seems a new life-enhancing diet comes out. Even…
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Are organic foods healthier?
If you’ve gone into a grocery store, you’ve likely seen organic foods. They often have their own separate section, with all organic foods together. Fruits and vegetables are the ones people are most familiar with, but you can get organic milk, meat and even cookies and ice cream. They often cost more than conventionally grown…
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When is the best time to start exercising? Now
Historically, humans needed to be active to hunt and gather food, escape predators, migrate from place to place and do strenuous activities for daily living. Over time, the need to be active for basic survival decreased creating the need build activity into daily life. This generally is promoted as exercise- discrete and planned bouts of…
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Can exercise make you live longer?
If you want to live longer and be healthy, you should exercise regularly. Or at least that’s what we’re told. Constant physical activity is one of the hallmarks of the so-called Blue Zones; areas where there more people live past a century than anywhere else. And if you ask anyone over 100 years what’s their…