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5 Healthy Daily Habits for a Longer and Better Life

On April 30th 2018, Harvard researchers published the results of a massive longitudinal study on the impact of adopting healthy daily habits on mortality risk. It encompassed 34 years of data from 78,865 women and 27 years of data from 44,354 men. The results were able to quantify what we health and wellness professionals have known for a long time…Following …

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The #1 Reason Why You Can’t Lose Weight

As an industry professional, for a long time now, I have been wondering why people can’t lose weight or succeed nutritionally even if they are trying different types of diets and workouts. Food is essential to life, amazing in taste, diversity, and the power it possesses to heal and fuel our bodies. However, I didn’t always believe, understand, or follow …

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Should You Have “Cheat Meals” In Your Diet?

You may have heard the term “Cheat Meals” before. It’s a common approach to dieting and nutrition where people “eat clean” or follow a strict diet for X amount of time. They then set a regularly occurring meal or day where they purposefully indulge in all the things they’ve restricted themselves from having throughout the diet phase. After this “Cheat”, …

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Sugar And Sweets In Our Diet

Happy Monday! The subject of today’s topic we all have in our diets and it makes many foods taste great. However, it’s also wreaking havoc on our health. The consumption of sugar, and sweets, has gone through the roof over the past few decades and it shows. Type II Diabetes is everywhere, and many who don’t have full-blown diabetes are pre-diabetic …

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How To Overcome The Fear Of Change

Today I want to shine some light on a common issue in life, health, fitness, and people’s weight loss goals. Its FEAR. Let’s talk about what is fear and how to overcome the fear of change. A client I had this week was the inspiration for this post. She is representative of many people on their weight loss journey and …