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Nutrition & Life
Is Your Lifestyle Promoting Inflammation?
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Is the way you live fueling chronic inflammation? Find out by taking the short quiz in this article.Inflammation is often associated with red, swollen and painful bruise or cut which we get in freak accidents. But do you know that inflammation doesn't just happen on areas where we can see them? In fact, every disease and every pain that we suffer can be traced to inflammation. And you may even be suffering from chronic inflammation now without realizing.
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Wee Peng Ho used to be sick and tired most of the time despite his best efforts in following conventional health wisdom. After teaching himself the ancient art of meditation, he realized that an unconscious mind is the root cause of an unhappy and unhealthy life. So he decided to go back to basics, simplify his life and do things that will bring joy to his heart. That's how The Conscious Life is born.
Now, he writes articles to inspire his readers to improve their lives by thinking out of their conditioned mind. He also writes frequently about health issues such as inflammation and related diseases, as well as natural ways to reduce stress, enhance health and restore inner balance. He welcomes you to his website, and looks forward to exchanging views on health, consciousness and more with one and all.
Should we eat salmon at all? Part 2
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Climate change is one of the most important factors in the decline of the salmon stocks.I went to a very interesting lecture a few weeks ago about the decline of the Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks, presented by Dr. Glenn Crossin from the University of British Columbia. His studies of the Fraser River sockeye implicate climate change as one of the most important factors in their almost complete collapse this year. Ten million salmon that were expected to return to the Fraser River, simply did not show up at all. This disastrous collapse has caused the Canadian Government to launch a public inquiry in the hopes that we will not have a repeat of the cod fishery collapse of the early '90soff the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Is sickness caused by the germ or a poor immune system?
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Kill the microbe or improve the immune system? What is the best way to prevent illness?This question which first came up in France in the mid 1800s is still worth asking today, because one's view of how to obtain optimal health and wellbeing depends upon which side of this debate one agrees with. Germ Theory was put forward most famously by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, and states that certain sicknesses are caused by the invasion of micro-organisms that cannot be seen without a microscope. As such, treatment or prevention involves figuring out which microbe (bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite) has invaded the body and then killing it to prevent or stop the disease. This is the theory upon which western medicine is based. You get sick, you go to the doctor and get an antibiotic/antiviral/antifungal to get better. Much of our food, like milk, juices, canned food and even nuts like almonds are pasteurized in order to eliminate the bacteria to avoid sickness. Many people use anti-bacterial soaps and hand sanitizers in order to prevent the spread of infection. These actions are all about killing the germ, and are in support of Germ Theory.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Time Under Tension - the secret to weight-training success
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"Time Under Tension" is a technique that is useful in ensuring you get the results you want from your weight-training program.I remember being a fly on a wall many years ago, listening in on a conversation between two exercise physiologists at the University of Toronto, arguing over which is more important for overall health, a weight training program or a cardiovascular training program. I think weight-training program wins the argument hands down, especially when one considers that if the exercise program is designed well, the participant will be getting a cardiovascular workout at the same time. So unless you are training for a particular athletic event such as a triathlon or 10km race, why bother spend all that extra time doing cardio? Most of us have better things to do with our time, and furthermore, aerobic training tends to break down muscle tissue which is counter-productive if you are trying to build strength or burn fat.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Overcoming insomnia - another approach to getting some sleep
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is more effective than drugs in overcoming insomnia.Insomnia, or regularly not being able to get to sleep or stay asleep, is a problem that affects roughly 1 in 7 people in North America and can have serious consequences for daytime alertness and functional ability. Most insomniacs get less than 5 hours of sleep a night, and struggle with extreme fatigue during the day. It's not any surprise that insomniacs are more accident prone due to daytime drowsiness. Although I seem to be doing much better than before, getting enough sleep is one of my own personal battles, and I feel like I have tried everything possible to improve my sleep, short of quitting my business and going on a vacation for an extended period of time. It feels like my body has forgotten how to fall asleep, which must seem absurd to those who have no trouble sleeping. I'm cozy in bed, feel dead tired, I feel like I'm dropping off and I think I'll be asleep in a few minutes, but I just don't seem to fall through the "sleep threshold", and instead hover in that la la land between sleep and wakefulness for most of the night, with my brain contemplating topics that would probably put most people to sleep, but I seem to find endlessly interesting, such as why trigger points in the platysma muscle would cause ringing in the ears. (Why is that?)
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Are You Being Fooled by These Food Labeling Tricks?
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7 deceptive foold labeling tactics that might be fooling you.Food manufacturers spend a significant amount of money on the marketing that exists on the packaging of their products. They’re not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts to help you make smart food choices, but rather to sell their products and make money. Unfortunately, it’s obviously working well, otherwise they wouldn’t still be doing it.
The following are a number of the more common and misleading tactics used by food manufacturers to promote their products as healthy.
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Vin Miller is a certified health and fitness professional who is passionate about helping people improve their lives through healthier living and a more positive perspective. As someone who was able to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome, Vin knows what it's like to experience poor health and understands the aspects of a healthy lifestyle that prevent it.
In a society where poor health has come to be accepted as normal and is often blamed on age, Vin is motivated to help people rise above this self defeating mentality and realize the potential for the long and healthy life that optimal health can provide.
For more information about Vin, visit http://NaturalBias.com. To learn how to maximize your life through better health, fitness and perspective, sign up for his free e-course: 7 Simple Steps to a Leaner, Happier and Healther You!
Getting healthy food into kids
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What is healthy eating when it comes to kids, and how do you get your kids to eat healthy food?Let me say off the top that I don't have kids, so I can only imagine the struggles some parents go through trying to get their kids to eat vegetables, or in some cases, meat. I'll speak from a nutritional standpoint on what kids need and put out a few ideas, but feel free to post comments with ideas that have worked for you, so others can benefit too.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
The Foundation of a Healthy Diet
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The one simple and foundational principle of healthy eating that will help you cut through all the confusion.There is so much conflicting information in regard to healthy eating that most people are discouraged from trying to eat better, and those who are able to overcome the frustration often end up following bad advice. Fortunately, there’s one basic principle that makes healthy eating much less confusing.
The Invention of Modern Foods
Despite the many amazing benefits of modern technology, it has dramatically changed the way we eat. According to the documentary, Food, Inc., which I highly recommend that you see, our food has changed more in the past 50 years than in the past 10,000. Our reliance on technology for the production of our food implies a sort of scientific arrogance suggesting that we can outsmart nature. Considering that millions of years of evolution have finely tuned us to thrive on the foods provided by nature, and that we still have a lot to learn about the physiology of the human body and the variety of essential nutrients from food that it depends on, this is a tragic mistake.
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Vin Miller is a certified health and fitness professional who is passionate about helping people improve their lives through healthier living and a more positive perspective. As someone who was able to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome, Vin knows what it's like to experience poor health and understands the aspects of a healthy lifestyle that prevent it.
In a society where poor health has come to be accepted as normal and is often blamed on age, Vin is motivated to help people rise above this self defeating mentality and realize the potential for the long and healthy life that optimal health can provide.
For more information about Vin, visit http://NaturalBias.com. To learn how to maximize your life through better health, fitness and perspective, sign up for his free e-course: 7 Simple Steps to a Leaner, Happier and Healther You!
Sigg comes clean about BPA in their water bottle liners
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Consumers have been abandoning their plastic reusable water bottles in favour of metal ones in order to avoid the endocrine disruptor BPA.Retail stores reacted to customer concerns about BPA, and pulled the hard polycarbonate plastic bottles from their store shelves and replaced them with metal bottles, such as those made by the Swiss company, Sigg. This was completely a consumer-driven change. Nalgene, along with other plastic water bottle manufacturers that for years had declared that there were no health issues related to BPA, were forced to take the BPA out of their bottles due to consumer demand. It was not until October of 2008 that the Canadian government declared BPA a "hazardous substance", and it was placed on the toxic substance list. Then in March 2009, the US put through legislation that forbids the sale of "any bottle, cup, or other container that contains bisphenol A if the container is designed or intended to be filled with any liquid, food or beverage primarily for consumption from that container by children three years of age or younger.” According to the Canadian Gazette, "On March 16, 2009, in the United States, a bill to ban the use of bisphenol A in food containers, and for other purposes was introduced for the second time in the House of Representatives." BPA is particularly hazardous to infants, and many countries have now banned it from sippy cups, liners of infant formula containers, baby toys etc.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
No More White Pants, No More Sugar
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Why you should reduce your carbohydrate intake after summer.Labor Day marks the end of summer, and if you want to avoid trouble from the fashion police, it also means the end of wearing white pants. One thing about the end of summer that few people realize is that you should also reduce your sugar intake.
Ideally, we should always try to keep our consumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates to a minimum. However, many of us give in to temptations for sugary processed treats. In addition, even some healthy foods such as fruit and starchy vegetables are high in carbohydrates.
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Vin Miller is a certified health and fitness professional who is passionate about helping people improve their lives through healthier living and a more positive perspective. As someone who was able to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome, Vin knows what it's like to experience poor health and understands the aspects of a healthy lifestyle that prevent it.
In a society where poor health has come to be accepted as normal and is often blamed on age, Vin is motivated to help people rise above this self defeating mentality and realize the potential for the long and healthy life that optimal health can provide.
For more information about Vin, visit http://NaturalBias.com. To learn how to maximize your life through better health, fitness and perspective, sign up for his free e-course: 7 Simple Steps to a Leaner, Happier and Healther You!
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