Struggling to maintain an ideal weight year-round? Many people sign up for events with weight loss goals, achieve some success, but then watch the weight creep back on. Maintaining a stable weight requires consistency, discipline, and behavioural changes—just like maintaining…
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Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition Whether you’re fully committed to a vegan lifestyle, exploring vegetarian options, or simply adding more plant-based meals to your diet, understanding proper nutrition is essential for optimal health. This guide provides evidence-based, practical strategies to help…
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A recovery meal after exercise is important because it helps promote muscle repair and growth, replenish energy stores, and enhance overall recovery. During exercise, muscle glycogen stores are depleted, and muscle protein breakdown occurs. A post-workout meal should include carbohydrates,…
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Longer days, warmer temps and blossoming flowers sounds like heaven to many people, but for some its sounds like bouts of stuffy nose, hay fever, headaches, itchy skin, eczema, fatigue, digestive issues and in severe cases anaphylaxis. Why? … because…
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Fasting has been around for centuries, and was no doubt a normal state of affairs for our ancestors. Without grocery stores, restaurants and convenience shops, or with the structured routine of schedules and lunch breaks – they would have gone…
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Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms that people seek help from a health care practitioner. The brain is the first organ to feel low energy production, resulting in exhaustion or fatigue. Energy in the human body is produced…
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Importance of Strengthening your Immune System Over the past 12 months most people have thought more about their immune system than ever before. We are constantly exposed to foreign invaders like viruses, parasites and bacteria, and the immune systems job…
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Have you ever wondered exactly what alcohol does to your health and what the implications are of drinking too much long term? The process of metabolizing alcohol via the liver requires a number of essential nutrients. As the liver uses…
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Regardless of which dietary protocol you follow (low fat, keto, paleo, plant based, vegetarian) a calorie deficit is the only way you will lose weight, and eating more calories than you are expending is the only way to gain weight.…
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Most runners understand that discipline and consistency in following a training plan will get you to the start line in the best possible shape. What if you applied the same rules to your nutrition? Every decision you make about what…
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