Posts Tagged ‘exercise’
5 Lifestyle Tips To Help Your Brain
These Lifestyle Tips Could Help Save Your Brain
Research has shown that there are a number of activities that can be incorporated into your lifestyle that can prevent cognitive and physical decline. Adopting some simple daily habits, and doing them regularly, as well as paying closer attention to the ones you do anyway, will result in both cognitive and physical health, as you get older.
Energy Drinks And Sports Drinks
Are you getting more than you bargained for?
Looking at the wide variety of these drinks leads one to conclude that they are very popular, and obviously provide a lucrative benefit to the suppliers.
Brain Research To Help Your Athletic Performance
How your brain can help you achieve more
Although the notion of using personal development tools to enhance athletic performance is not new, having been started in the early 1920's, modern brain research has added further insights.
Whenever you learn something new, and send it your memory, the structure of your brain changes in minute ways. After all, how could you possibly retrieve that information if it hadn't caused some kind of physical change to the actual structure of your brain? Modern neuroscience has uncovered the finer details of how this happens.
Why And How Stress Makes You Fat
Stress less to lose weight
If you've been battling to lose weight, even though you're being good and avoiding the refined carbohydrates and bad fats and added exercising and the right fats, you may find the solution is learning to manage your stress levels.
Your Aging Brain Needs Specific Nutrients To Stay Healthy
Your brain cares about what you put in your shopping trolley
Although the discussion about brain aging generally centres on cures for dementia, with Alzheimer’s being the most common type, very few people discuss the possibility of preventing the problem in the first place. Isn’t prevention always better than cure?
Food, Mood & Time Of Day
What you eat at what time can influence how you feel during the different stages of the day
Your body and brain require different nutrients at different times of the day, and when you know what they are, you can maximise your effectiveness.
Athletes Need Fat – Not Just Carbohydrates And Protein
EFA’s can help athletes improve performance
Many athletes end up suffering more from ligament, joint, bone, and spinal injuries than the rest of the population due to the excessive strain that their bodies experience while they pursue athletic prowess.
Why Most Athletes Get Fat When They Stop Exercising Competitively
Fitness Doesn’t Always Equal Health
When you watch an athlete at the top of their game you are amazed at how beautifully their bodies work. They seem to flow from one movement to the next, effortlessly, capable of enduring physical hardship and extreme exhaustion. They are in peak condition, and envied by those that are not at the same level of fitness.
Female Hormones And The Right Fats
How EFA’s Can Help You To Manage The Transition You May Be Dreading
Let’s break the hormone story down into manageable chucks, so that it’s easier to understand these important compounds, and how to manage them. Hormones are tiny chemical compounds, which act as messengers and cause specific signals to occur, in your body and brain. Hormones are produced by glands, and transported via your bloodstream, throughout your body, giving instructions and transferring information between cells.

