Tips & Tricks
Diabetes Nutrition Tips, 6 foods that could save your life
1. Fish One of the best choices for diabetics is fish. This food choice contains plenty of protein without the high fat content found in meat and poultry. Furthermore, fish contain a significant amount of omega 3 fatty acids, which are excellent for keeping triglyceride levels low and your heart healthy. Individuals with diabetes should try to eat fish [...]
VIDEO : ETX trainer offers women workout tips for weight loss
As it turns out, one of the hardest parts about working out for just about everyone is finding the motivation to go do it. I spent a little time with a personal trainer yesterday, and she tells every client she sees the same thing when they first start working out and working on their weight. [...]
How to get Motivated for your Workout
Talking about getting fit used to be one of my very favourite pastimes. There was nothing I liked better than a proper girly natter with friends (preferably over a bottle of wine and a big bowl of pasta), going over latest fitness fads and diets. “I really need to start a diet tomorrow.” (slurping up [...]
15 Best Workout Tips of all time
Tone Up on the Treadmill “Save time at the gym with this 10-minute cardio/sculpt session: Hop on a treadmill holding a three- to five-pound dumbbell in each hand, and set the speed to a brisk walk. Do a one-minute set each of shoulder presses, biceps curls, triceps extensions, side laterals, front laterals and [...]
4 Tips for fitting in Exercise
Wake up with a 10-minute workout: Nothing saves time more than a workout at home, so start your day with a total-body 10-minute workout — you’ll burn calories, raise your heartbeat, and tone all over before you even have to take a shower. You don’t even have to spend time making up your own circuit; follow [...]
Tips for Keeping Your Workout Routine on Track
Set Realistic Goals When it comes to your workout and exercise plan, you must set realistic goals. If you have not been a very active person, do not expect to be running 20 miles a day within the first month. You will become discouraged. This is one of the main reasons that exercise programs fail. [...]
Tasty Tips for Healthier Eating
Try incorporating these tips from Koff to help make healthier food choices year-round: Be a qualitarian: Choose the best quality food available at every eating occasion — you are what you eat, and your body runs best on better-quality fuel. Go all-natural: Make sure when you buy something that claims to be “all-natural,” it really is as [...]
4 Tips for Fitting in Exercise
Wake up with a 10-minute workout: Nothing saves time more than a workout at home, so start your day with a total-body 10-minute workout — you’ll burn calories, raise your heartbeat, and tone all over before you even have to take a shower. You don’t even have to spend time making up your own circuit. While [...]
10 Tips for Healthy Eating
Start your day with breakfast. Breakfast fills your “empty tank” to get you going after a long night without food. And it can help you do better in school. Easy to prepare breakfasts include cold cereal with fruit and low-fat milk, whole-wheat toast with peanut butter, yogurt with fruit, whole-grain waffles or even last night’s [...]
Healthy tip of the day: Hidden Sugars and Salts
How sugar is hidden on food labels Check food labels carefully. Sugar is often disguised using terms such as: cane sugar or maple syrup corn sweetener or corn syrup honey or molasses brown rice syrup crystallized or evaporated cane juice fruit juice concentrates, such as apple or pear maltodextrin (or dextrin) Dextrose, Fructose, Glucose, Maltose, [...]
