Tag: heart disease
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How to Keep up Your Healthy Routine During the Holidays
With Christmas and New Year’s around the corner, the festive season is upon us. A time to connect with family and friends, whether it’s a workplace party, a friend’s get-together or even a quiet night at home watching Christmas movies. While enjoyable, these events can disrupt your healthy lifestyle habits. A recent survey reported nearly…
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How to Combat Sitting for Your Health
Sitting. Whether it’s at work, school, driving or watching TV, can’t avoid it. Many of us spend a fair amount of time sitting. And sitting for long periods can affect your health and increase your chances of an early death. That’s why guidelines recommend sitting less. So what can you do to combat sitting? It’s…
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What is the Mediterranean Diet?
You’ve probably heard about the Mediterranean Diet. It’s likely the diet most rigorously studied and most promoted in health circles. And it’s consistently rated as the best diet out there. What is the Mediterranean Diet? Like its name, the Mediterranean Diet is based on food patterns of people living along the northern side of the…
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Will losing weight make you healthier?
Advertisements, news articles, celebrity interviews, blogs, books, social media. We’re inundated with information on weight and weight loss. Along with it is the notion weight is closely connected to health. And, with that, losing weight will improve one’s health. It may not come as a surprise then that the weight loss industry is worth approximately…