We are always trying to find a hack for weight loss. We want a diet, a pill, a surgery or maybe even hypnosis that could get us to our desired result. Shed the fat pounds. Here is an unpopular hack that will work for most. (Some people have so much wrong with them that they need much more help than this, however this is one area that will help every issue). Nutrients. Nutrient dense food is your friend. Color, fiber, variety and don’t forget some of it is to be eaten raw. Yes

I just watched an interview with the author of The End of Alzheimer's, Dale Bredesen. This fills me with so much hope. Not because I have experience cognitive decline, but because this is another of the BIG scary diseases that rips your life from you that has a solution. It is the same feeling I had when I have watched documentaries or read articles about real solutions to the diseases that most people fear. Whether it is cancer or Alzheimer’s, disease is preventable and cura

Nutrition to me is such a very broad topic. I know it can be a daunting task to think about becoming healthy, I promise you it really isn’t! Nutrition is something you progressively develop as time goes on. I encourage you to take it step by step, learn one thing at a time, and you’ll begin to be able to apply each practical nutritional principle into your lifestyle with ease! One vegetable that we all know is good for you, thank you Popeye, is spinach! Spinach can be eaten r

People want to lose weight. Often people think that running is the best way to lose weight because runners are generally skinny. Although running does burn a fair amount of calories, it is not the highest calorie burning exercise. What is it? What is the fountain of skinny exercise? An exercise that uses more MET’s. I am not talking about the New York Mets, but metabolic equivalent. When you boil it down it tells us how much energy you are expending. You probably have seen ME

Food As Medicine Review This movie primary takes you through several people’s lives as they explore eating the right food as their prescription for health. Most of these people have some serious conditions such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and heart arrhythmia. This and the constantly changing linear biographies help the film to keep your attention and even fascinate you. It seems as though most of the film is filmed in Oregon, although that isn’t mentioned. Th

My last blog was about the importance of health. Read it if you need to in order to understand the Four Quadrants of Time Management and my arguments that you already agree with me about your health. Fitness is a tougher sell to people. I think fitness is a tougher sell because it takes effort. Honestly, your health takes more effort and dedication in more areas of life than fitness does, but caring about your fitness level means you have to subdue your body. You have to...,

My whole life I heard older people, (my definition has changed with every half decade), “wait until you are my age and see if you can do that.” The “that”, was to perform some kind of athletic action. When I was in my 40’s people said, “wait until you are 50 and see how your body acts.” When I was 50 people continued to say, “wait until you are…”. They told me about the body aches and how hard it was to keep the extra weight off. They told me that I wouldn’t be able to do wha

High Blood pressure can be treated with lifestyle changes. That is hard! Sleeping more, resting more, enjoying life more often means less production. This doesn’t sit well with high pressure jobs or highly motivated personalities. So what do you do? Before you solve your issue with a pill, and a lifestyle overhaul seems too ominous (it won’t forever, in fact it really is appealing), how about adding a few things to your diet? NO (Nitric Oxide) is a wonderful compound that is

Have you ever seen the Four Quadrants of Time Management? If not, click on the hyperlink. Basically, there are things that are urgent or non-urgent, and things that are important and non-important. I would like to propose that you can keep your health out of the urgent box if it is in the important box. Let me explain. Health IS important to all of us at the time of some type of dysfunction. Whether it is disease or injury, our bodies are always important to us. When you have

Sustainable is one of the best and most hopeful movies about health and our food system. It takes you through a journey of our food system. Well, not really our conventional food system, but the small and growing system of sustainable crop production. This film, unlike so many, has no axe to grind except for using our land to produce wonderful food without using up our land. If the film was a river, it would have many streams that it travels down to help us to understand how

What is happening to the word “health”. I think It is getting hijacked. For a long time I have seen guys and gals who have tremendous looking physiques but eat like crap. Then there is the guy getting his last drag on a cigarette before stepping into the gym. I understand there has always been a fuzzy line with fitness, buffness and being in shape, but the word health? Really? We talk about health like it doesn’t mean what we all were taught it meant. The meaning has been exp

I finished a difficult leg workout this morning and had a thought. “I never pushed myself this hard when I went to a big box gym.” Especially legs! I did more machines and less free weights on legs because…, it was easier. Even though the burn was in the muscles and maximum effort was attained, it still doesn’t compare to our leg workouts here. Was the difference using free weight? I do think that is a factor. While machines have their place, for most of us, we will benefit m

I have watched a few documentaries about pharmaceuticals. A new one came out this last year on Netflix that talks about Adderall. The thing that we can all agree on, for those who think for themselves, is that we have been trained and taught that if you have something wrong with your brain or your body that there is a pill for that. There are pills for the side effects of pills, but that is another topic. Today’s topic is high blood pressure. Hypertension. There are pills for

Do you want to be healthier than you are? Here is your opportunity. Total Life Pursuit and The Sound are holding a Physcial Health Training Course on January 12 - February 25. We will meet at 12:15pm at The Sound in the Fireside room to have lunch and encourage one another for the next weeks challenges. We will meet for one hour. Health is more than push ups, running and organic vegetable eating. Physical health is multifaceted. You will be challenged to understand why you li

Many people scoff at eating well. I get asked a lot about my “cheat day”, which I don’t have. For most people, eating well is all about looking good and physical health and fitness. Not so fast Batman! That is so far from the truth. Let me give you two examples. Most of us have heard of dopamine. It is the reward feeling neurotransmitter that is essential in helping us sense the enjoyment of things. A lack of dopamine, according to Psychologistworld.com, has been linked to Pa