July 2009

Give Up Watching TV for Better Health

July 31, 2009

I blame many heath problems on a sedentary lifestyle. Watching television is probably one huge contributing factor. Just some statistics, Aussies spend about 21.5hrs a week watching TV. Thats from the source: Roy Morgan Single Source Australia Jan 2008 – Dec 2008. Representative sample of 20,865 Australians. So it is a recent figure. Heck, the [...]

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The Fundamental Conditions for any Fat Loss Diet Attempt

July 30, 2009

Read these, print it out, stick it on your fridge to remind yourself about them everytime you try to reach for the cookies. I’ve heard this a lot. The person will rant on about needing to lose fat, saying its so difficult, talking about eating so little and not seeing it happen…..rant rant rant. However, [...]

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The Most Basic Beginner Routine for Sedentary Folks without weights

July 26, 2009

Alright, so let’s just give a super simple program to get anyone started off with resistance exercise. It does not have to be hard like in the picture. It does not have to be complicated. It does not have to be time consuming. This is not for anyone who has any training experience and it [...]

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The Desire to get Healthy

July 26, 2009

The picture on the right is a unique one. It was made by combining several different pictures and then editing them in Photoshop. What I like the most about it is that it seems to convey the message of a ‘spark of creation’, made possible only from various sources of knowledge and inspiration. Why I [...]

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The Need for Resistance Training

July 24, 2009

Research Cited: (all are available for free download via the links) Effects of aging and resistance exercise on determinants of muscle strength The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease Influence of muscle strength, physical activity and weight on bone mass in a population-based sample of 1004 elderly women Effect of combined exercise training [...]

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What the internet means for health (and almost everything in general) – the short version

July 21, 2009

A short post, and a quick summary. We obviously know that the internet has changed the way we work. There is too much choice, there is too little time. There is too much connectivity, there is too little credibility. So what does this mean for the general health of the population? I think there are [...]

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Sitting for too long gives you bad posture

July 20, 2009

Firstly, I am going to refer to this article by JC of JCDfitness: Improve Your Life by Improving Your Posture Additional Resource: Soft Tissue E-manual To sum up the article, a young and athletic 22 year old managed to get Lower Cross Syndrome simply because he was sitting around too much. What do you think [...]

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Basics of Nutrition – the very short version

July 17, 2009

Alright, this is going to be the crash course necessary for any further discussion in this topic. It is the bare minimum that one needs to know about nutrition. Though it is the very short version, it probably isn’t classified as a short blog post. If you want the long version, just pick up any [...]

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My take on fast food and why it isn’t all bad

July 16, 2009

Well, I guess that you can see from the picture that I am not a big fan of fast foods, but it isn’t for the health reasons. What the research says I would like to refer you to the article by Lyle MacDonald titled “Hormonal Responses to a Fast Food Meal Compared with Nutritionally Comparable [...]

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Health Defined

July 15, 2009

I define health to be freedom. Health is: – freedom of enjoyment – freedom from ailments – freedom from worry Basically, health is being able to experience life optimally. We strive to maintain health so that we can see our grandchildren grow up, complete a lifelong project, travel the world, and basically anything that we [...]

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July 2009

Give Up Watching TV for Better Health

The Fundamental Conditions for any Fat Loss Diet Attempt

The Most Basic Beginner Routine for Sedentary Folks without weights

The Desire to get Healthy

The Need for Resistance Training

What the internet means for health (and almost everything in general) – the short version

Sitting for too long gives you bad posture

Basics of Nutrition – the very short version

My take on fast food and why it isn’t all bad

Health Defined

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