What is your ideal bodyweight?
Here’s a good one for you. This morning as I was preparing to write today’s blog, I went online to a site that claims to calculate your ideal bodyweight. I put in my parameters—frame size, height, weight and gender—and guess what. It came back and said I was one pound OVERWEIGHT. Me—the person that consistently eats a healthy diet, works out vigorously six days a week, and at age 57 still wears a size...
Forget age—this is a better indicator of your life expectancy
The saying, “Age is just a number” is usually said to comfort and reassure someone who reaches an upper milestone birthday and is feeling old! But recent studies have shown that there’s a lot of truth to that statement. Especially when you’re talking about someone who engages in regular exercise! Although it’s a dreaded word for many people, you can’t deny that regular exercise provides some pretty impressive health benefits, the most obvious being...
- Tags: Aging, Exercise, Healthy Living, weight loss, Weight Management
How to have younger-looking skin (without Botox)
I once spoke at a “Healthy Living” event that I will never forget because most everything I saw around me was anything BUT healthy. The exhibit hall was filled with displays of muscle-building (yet very processed) foods, drink powders (that hinted at being a substitute for a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables), fad diet shakes and pills, and most significantly…LOTS of people (mainly women) who have obviously had several Botox treatments. I’m not...
- Tags: Aging, Anti-aging, Hair and Skin, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living
Could this be the fountain of youth?
It’s been said that there are two certainties in life—death and taxes. I’ll add another one onto that. AGING! Time marches on for all of us, and eventually our bodies show the effects of getting older. But the good news is you can help S L O W down the aging process and encourage better physical health as well as a more youthful appearance! Let’s take a look at what aging really is, and...
- Tags: Active Living, Aging, Anti-aging, Exercise, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living
An important message about your health
Are you brainwashed like this too?
We are at a point in our existence where health problems are viewed as normal and even expected…and it’s frightening that so many people are like brainwashed sheep and don’t even realize something’s terribly wrong.