By Vicki Haywood Doe, PhD, ACSM-EP When using anti-obesity medication, it’s essential to recognize that these medications work best as part of a comprehensive approach to healthy living. By incorporating specific foods and exercises, you can complement the medication’s effects, enhance weight loss, and improve overall health.
Postpartum Nutrition: What Every New Mom Needs to Know
By Gabe Sanders PhD, NSCA-CSCS A healthy diet can help moms recover from childbirth, support breastfeeding, and improve their overall health and mental well-being.
Lose the Weight! Protect your heart…
By Siobhan Hicks, MPH There are so many benefits to losing weight, especially as it relates to heart health and enhancing heart function, and improving metabolism. Being able to reach and maintain a healthy weight is a great start to improving one’s heart health.
Manage your emotions and improve your health and well-being
By Siobhan Hicks, MPH Researchers have suggested that higher emotional intelligence (EI) is linked to improved psychological and physical health. Those who have higher EI are skilled both in understanding and regulating their own emotions, and in reading and managing the emotions of others.
Are you a Believer of Daily Exercise and Lifestyle change?
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS The word conviction means “to hold a strong belief or opinion” and in this case, people must have a strong belief that a lifestyle change will help and transform their life for the better.
Get out of the Fast Food trap! It’s destroying your Mind
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS Aside from fast food wreaking havoc on your health and immune system, it can significantly alter your mood and mental health.
Suffer from Diet Derailment Syndrome?
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS Diet derailment syndrome occurs when you begin a diet and you stick to that diet; then you encounter an event in which food is abundant and the food available lacks healthy options!
Start your day off with control!
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS Because the long-term goal of changing behavior can seem overwhelming, it is advisable to focus on the now. This means to treat every disruption as if it is the first disruption of the day.
Olive oil and Exercise: A recipe for success
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS New research suggests the combination of olive oil and exercise can improve cardiovascular disease risk factors and overall body fat.