Stay on Track With Your Fitness and Nutrition Goals During the Holidays
Cookies. Pie. Ham. Eggnog. Champagne. The bottle of spiced rum that Uncle Jerry unearthed from the deepest recesses of his liquor cabinet. Christmastime is a ceaseless onslaught of earthly delights that no one possesses the fortitude to resist entirely. In other words, we eat and drink a lot of treats around the holidays. This is less than ideal because treats do unwanted things to our...
What Is Skinny Fat?
Small crowd. Open Secret. Pretty ugly. These are all examples of an oxymoron: a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear together. Did you know the word “oxymoron” is, itself, an oxymoron? It’s a combination of the two Greek words for sharp and dull! One oxymoron that’s gained a lot of traction these days is “skinny fat.” It describes a body that...
National Chiropractic Health Month 2021: Keep Moving!
The arrival of National Chiropractic Health Month doesn’t just give doctors of chiropractic an occasion to pat themselves on the back. Every October, the American Chiropractic Association selects an important message for its members to promote to their patients and the public at large. This year’s theme? “Keep Moving!” These past several months have taught many Americans about the...
Eating With Purpose
How to Eat to live and Not Live to Eat Why do you eat? You might think the answer is simple: because you are hungry. But approaching so foundational an aspect of your overall health deserves a little more contemplation than that. In truth you might eat for any number of reasons. Perhaps you are stressed out after a hard day at work and seek solace in an entire sleeve of cookies. (We have all...
30 Minutes a Day: 6 Benefits of Light Exercise
I give more time to exercise of the body than of the mind, believing it wholesome to both. – Thomas Jefferson It is no closely guarded medical secret that exercise is good for your health. Unfortunately, too many of us fall into the trap of thinking that exercise can’t benefit us unless we’re on a fitness regimen that would put Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to shame. In...
The Pros & Cons of Intermittent Fasting
There are as many diets which dictate which foods you’re allowed to eat as there are stars in the sky. (Okay, technically there aren’t one billion trillion diets, but you catch our drift.) But intermittent fasting (IF) is different. Instead of which foods you eat, it is more concerned with when you eat them. In a sense IF is less a diet than it is a pattern of eating. The concept...
Let’s Have A Heart To Heart
I will never forget the day my Uncle died. The details are fuzzy but the shock and the pain I felt are still very real. I was on my way to my future in laws house when my mother called. She asked to speak to my then boyfriend, now husband, we got off the interstate and into the parking lot at QT. We parked to the left away from the pumps, probably where most people would let their dogs use...
DON’T RESOLVE IN 2020 JUST “DO” IN 2020
We’ve got one resolution for you in 2020 and that’s NO MORE RESOLUTIONS. Make this the year the year you follow Nike’s proverbial slogan – “Just Do It.” Don’t make another resolution that you will break in a few days or weeks. Make better choices · Exercise · Relax · Learn to say NO · Pray and spend more time in nature and with God · Spend more quantity and quality time with...14 Habits Of People With A Healthy Relationship To Food
What does it look like to have a healthy relationship with food? Our friends at Huffington Post are here to tell us. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com There’s a fine line between thinking carefully about what we put into our bodies and obsessing over it or restricting it dangerously. Whether our particular issue is emotional eating, binge eating, disordered eating or we just can’t...