Category: physical activity
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How To Start Exercising
Congratulations. You’ve decided to start exercising. A fantastic first step. Exercise is great for your health. Not only does it reduce your chances of getting disease and early death, it also improves your mental wellbeing and even one session will refresh you and make you feel better. But where do you start? Do you sign…
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Why is fitness important?
Fitness and physical activity. One would think these two go hand in hand. Because of course you can’t get in good shape without being active. The two are closely related but not the same and that’s why fitness is important as much as how active you are. While physical activity is a behaviour defined as…
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The Power of Peer Support in Your Health
“As dear as my cardiologist is, he just doesn’t have heart disease.” A patient said this after completing my study in which women with heart disease were connected to other women. Her quote truly captures the power of peer support Peer support occurs when two or more people share their experience, knowledge and skills to…
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How to Build Healthy Habits
Habits often get a bad rap. When we think of our habits, or those of others, it’s often the negative ones that spring to mind; he has a habit of interrupting, she has a habit of leaving the lights on. But habits by definition aren’t necessarily bad. You can have good habits, such as brushing…