Who can resist the comfort and the creeping feeling of warmth that pervades the body from a beautiful big bowl of homemade pea and ham soup? It is my go-to bowl of pleasure food on a cold winters evening. It has become a firm family favourite over the years - so full of goodness yet so easy to make. And don’t be afraid to make more than you need as it is a great stand-by to … [Read more...] about My Best Ever Pea and Ham Soup Recipe
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Discover the Most Important Muscle for Achieving Your Health and Fitness Goals – and It’s Not What You Might Think.
It seems everyone has an opinion when it comes to longevity and lifelong fitness……including me. Fitness gurus are always telling us which exercises to do to get a serious six pack, which muscles to use to strengthen and pop our core, build our biceps or achieve those rock hard glutes and calves. And as if that isn’t enough to contend with we also have to navigate the … [Read more...] about Discover the Most Important Muscle for Achieving Your Health and Fitness Goals – and It’s Not What You Might Think.
Discover How Women over 50 Can Benefit From Pilates
First let’s find out what are the health benefits of Pilates for Women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpjZphRFsBA Pilates is designed to increase the strength and flexibility of your core muscles. The beauty of Pilates is that it can be done by just about anyone at any fitness level. It involves very little in the way of exercise equipment and can be done … [Read more...] about Discover How Women over 50 Can Benefit From Pilates
9 Holistic Approaches to Improve Your Health and Wellness
It is not a matter of just preventing disease – you have to learn to Thrive! When you start throwing around words like holistic and wellness some people back off thinking things are going to get a little weird or that maybe some extra-terrestrial being is going to enter their body and change them forever. Don’t worry…..it is nothing sinister like that at all. Let me … [Read more...] about 9 Holistic Approaches to Improve Your Health and Wellness
9 Symptoms of Vitamin and Nutritional Deficiency – Caused from Dieting for Weight Loss or Not Eating Properly
Are you getting all the essential nutrients (vitamins and minerals) you need for your body to function properly and improve your immunity against diseases? Well guess what? Regardless of what you believe, the answer is ... probably not, especially if you are dieting. The caveman diet, the ketogenic diet, dairy-free diet, Atkins, South Beach, Dukan, carb-restricting … [Read more...] about 9 Symptoms of Vitamin and Nutritional Deficiency – Caused from Dieting for Weight Loss or Not Eating Properly
The Top 5 Tips for Women Who Want to Build Lean Muscle
Every day thousands of women worldwide are looking at ways to improve their fitness levels; partly for health reasons and partly for looks. When it comes to looking more toned, this can achieved by building muscle tone. By making your muscles stronger and leaner they become much more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. But how is muscle tone achieved, especially for … [Read more...] about The Top 5 Tips for Women Who Want to Build Lean Muscle
6 Unexpected Benefits of Exercise for Seniors…..
.....and the psychological benefits of exercise for older adults is also quite amazing when done on a regular basis. For many baby boomers I know, the thought of starting a new senior exercise program can be very daunting. But, whatever your age, I encourage you to come to grips with the proven fact that exercise is one of the healthiest things you can do on a regular … [Read more...] about 6 Unexpected Benefits of Exercise for Seniors…..
Is Your Health and Fitness Suffering From Digital Damage?
And…….what is the Effect of Electronic Devices on Your Well-being? I often say to my active ageing clients, health and fitness is a lot more than a quick cardio session or throwing a few weights around for forty minutes or so three to five times a week. It is far more encompassing than that. Total wellness is an overall feeling; something bordering on the edge of a kind of … [Read more...] about Is Your Health and Fitness Suffering From Digital Damage?
5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Wellness
Wellness, along with mindfulness, has recently become one of the latest buzz words in the world of health and fitness. Wellness seems to be popping up everywhere and it is relative to all age groups. A whole new industry has evolved with wellness coaching, retreats and wellness workplace conferences all leading the new wave of wellness. So first, let’s have a quick look at … [Read more...] about 5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Wellness
5 Things You Must Do to Reach Your Peak Physical Potential – Regardless of Age.
Getting to or reaching ‘peak physical fitness’ is not a place where most of us are ever going to tread or even want to go. That is the realm of Olympians, Tri-Athletes, Ironman and marathon competitors like Chris my son-in-law, NRL footballers and the like. It is a long, hard slog that doesn’t happen by accident and would leave most of us lying scattered along the … [Read more...] about 5 Things You Must Do to Reach Your Peak Physical Potential – Regardless of Age.