Posts tagged Fitness & Health
Part 2: Swallow This - Flavourings & Colouring

The one thing that should be crystal clear is that the process of mass food production and industrial manufacturing causes grievous bodily harm to natural ingredients, flavours, aromas and textures – mainly by the process of extreme heating, sterilisation, deodorising, pasteurisation etc, involved in the process, that actually turns the food off and rancid.

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The Myth of Women & Weight Training

These days, if you peek into any CrossFit box (gym), it’s not unusual to find an almost 50/50 split between the sexes. However, if you go into any standard gym chain the weights section is still a heavily male dominated area. There’s a few reasons for this, but the consistent offender is to do with the myth surrounding weight training and women, and as one female client put it “ not wanting to turn into a man…. with muscles”.

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Exercise & The Brain

Exercising has many benefits that we are used to hearing about in the media, like lowering the risk of many cancers, decreasing our chances of CHD (coronary heart disease) and stroke, halving our risk of type 2 diabetes, and many more including decreasing the onset of dementia, depression, and stress. And although I agree with all those statements, the articles in the media never really give us a proper insight / scientific description as to why exercise is good for us.

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