You can see right away that Deb DeHaven is an athlete. She’s 5 feet 2, weighs 100 pounds, and stays strong by lifting weights three times a week. Here’s what you can’t immediately see: Deb’s doctor recently diagnosed her with hypertension at the crisis stage (180/100). “This is something I never would have expected,” says…
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Forget About Less – Do More Of These Things
Do you ever feel like you’ve gone through life being told what NOT to do? Well, let’s forget all that for now and flip it around. Focus on the positive actions you can take to build the healthy habits you desire. If you want to mature with strength, independence, and vitality – living life on…
Healthy Holiday Hacks to Keep You on Track
Not to be a total Grinch here, but… The holidays can really screw everything up. Think about it. From sometime around Halloween (all that candy) through January 1 (the hangover), we’re encouraged to: It doesn’t have to be that way. Take a look at these 7 Healthy Holiday Hacks to Keep You on Track. Because…
It’s Time to Take Control of Your Wellbeing
After the disruptions of the last couple of years, it’s more important than ever to take responsibility for your health and wellbeing in all its aspects. That includes exercise, of course. But we need to remember the other elements of wellbeing (or wellness), too. Most experts list six to eight categories of wellbeing or wellness.…
Workouts and Diet Make Gains against Diabetes
Lee Bacchi went on and off the exercise wagon for decades – not really training with a purpose, but going to the gym sometimes. That continued even after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes more than 20 years ago. But finally, this year, his growing belly was getting to be too much. Shirts were…
Belly Fat and How to (Seriously) Get Rid of It
Nobody likes belly fat, but almost everybody struggles with it to some degree. Among all kinds of fat, belly fat is the one that gets the most attention. We are frequently asked to help our training partners lose weight – and often, it’s specifically about the extended, round belly that tends to accumulate after 50…
3 Dieting Hacks That Work
Working out hard is an essential part of any fat loss plan. It sculpts your muscles, raises your resting metabolism, whittles down your waist and gives you functional strength and endurance. The only catch is that you can seriously slow, or even reverse, your results by eating poorly. There’s nothing quite as frustrating as when…
Stop Being Fooled
Are you still looking forward to the day that you’ll be lean and fit? Do you tell yourself that you’ll start living healthy tomorrow? Or next week? After you’ve had just one more pizza dinner and one more lazy day on the couch… Then you’ll commit yourself to eating healthy and exercising daily, right? It’s time to realize that…
It’s No Time to Neglect Your Immune System
After the pandemic, we all know how important it is to keep up a strong immune system, particularly among people over 65 or so. And now that the worst of Covid-19 seems behind us, you want to devote your new awareness to taking positive steps for your health every day. Regular exercise is among the…
Plant-Based Eating Gives a Healthy Focus
Plant-based eating is a fairly new term we hear more and more. But what does it mean for you? Well, it used to be simple when discussing dietary lifestyle choices. You were a meat-eater or a vegetarian, right? Then came more extremes — “whole food” eating that eliminates processed food, and veganism that cuts out…