Tag: fitness
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Preventing Dementia with Healthy Living
Diabetes. Heart disease. Stroke. Dementia. Four life-threatening diseases that none of us want. But they also have more in common than just that. They are all related to your lifestyle and prevention is based on a foundation of healthy living. That’s right. Healthy eating and being physically active and can help lower your chances of…
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Exercise Your Way to Happiness
There are a lot of things money can buy, but happiness isn’t one of them. Don’t fret though, you’re in luck. There’s a cost-free path to being happy and it’s through exercise. Exercise is so effective at improving your mood it might as well be a drug. In fact the way in which exercise makes…
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Even a slow walk is faster than sitting on the couch. And better for you.
When it comes to exercise and being active for our health, a lot of us have the wrong perception of the type of activity we should do, how hard we do it or even how often to exercise. This isn’t your fault. Many of us grew up in a time when we were told to…
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When Exercising, Motivation gets us Started, but Discipline Keeps us Going
It’s 6 am. You’re alarm goes off. It’s dark outside and you can hear the rain pelting against the window. Time for your exercise. How many times has this happened and you’ve laid in bed debating whether to get up and go for that run or bike ride? Or even whether to brave the short…