Archive for the 'healthy lifestyle' Category
Weekend Recovery
Posted on July 19, 2010 - Filed Under Exercise, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Fun weekend full of Tepanyaki, nachos, burritos, peanut m&m’s, etc. Needed to start the week off right. Did 10.5 mile run through Provo this morning. Felt so good.
How do you recover from your sometimes not-so-healthy weekends?
How a Healthy Lifestyle Helps You
Posted on July 16, 2010 - Filed Under Heart Health, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
I know where I want my heart disease risk to be. You?
[Source: Harvard School of Public Health: Take Heart, underline added].
Motivation to Change
Posted on July 13, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
“When the motivation to change comes from within, based on heartfelt desires, rather than via external sources, like a financial incentive or urging one’s spouse or parent, the likelihood of sustained success is dramatically improved.”
— Margaret Moore, ACSM’s Certified News, April-June 2010, Volume 20; Issue 2
The desire to change has to come from you. No [...]
Diet vs Exercise
Posted on July 1, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Exercise, Nutrition, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
What’s better? Which is more important?
I get tired of these questions. Let me make it simple for you…
You need both. Bottom line.
What you eat matters. How much you eat matters. Deal with it.
Regular, consistent exercise (all kinds!) is just as important. Deal with it.
For better health (there’s more to health than just weight), you need to [...]
Healthy Monday – Forget Technology
Posted on June 28, 2010 - Filed Under Healthy Monday, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Each Monday, a simple health tip and challenge will be posted as part of Healthy Monday. Healthy Monday is a public health initiative founded in 2005 in association with Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, and Columbia Univerisity.
Their mission includes ending “chronic preventable disease in the U.S. by offering people and organizations a weekly prompt [...]
Exercise
Posted on June 23, 2010 - Filed Under Exercise, Prevention, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
“Other than not smoking, exercise is the single best thing you can do to get healthy or stay healthy and keep chronic diseases at bay. Exercise is far more than merely a way to lose or control weight.”
— Walter C. Willett, M.D., chair, Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health (from Eat, Drink, [...]
Exercise Boosts Confidence
Posted on June 22, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Exercise, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Source: The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Exercise and Weight Control
Healthy Monday – Avoid Soft Drinks
Posted on June 21, 2010 - Filed Under Healthy Monday, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Each Monday, a simple health tip and challenge will be posted as part of Healthy Monday. Healthy Monday is a public health initiative founded in 2005 in association with Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, and Columbia Univerisity.
Their mission includes ending “chronic preventable disease in the U.S. by offering people and organizations a weekly prompt [...]
Fruit, Triathlon and Questions to Ask Yourself
Posted on June 18, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Triathlon, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Food today is fuel tomorrow, right? Or something like that. This smoothie had skim milk, banana, yogurt, apple, spinanch, and a handful of frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, bluberries, blackberries). So good.
Triathlon (oly-distance) tomorrow. Hoping for a new PR. Training may not have been as great as I would have liked, so might be wishful thinking.
Also, [...]
Weighing the Evidence
Posted on June 17, 2010 - Filed Under Fad Diets, Weight Control, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns consumers to be smart about diet products. Here’s some of what it had to say:
“Achieving a healthy weight takes work. Take a pass on any product that promises miraculous results without the effort.”
“Even if you’re successful in taking the weight off, permanent weight loss requires permanent lifestyle changes. Don’t [...]
