When the going gets busy, the busy individual gets smart with their food habits! When it comes to navigating a busy day, food often falls down the list of priorities; this is a shame because food is your fuel for those busy days. Food prep is time-consuming and therefore easy to cut out of your…
Staying energized with snacks? While we sleep, our body rests and fasts and this is why blood sugar levels often reach a low by 7 AM. Many of us wake up at this time and get going to be at work by 9. Say you are part of the minority who enjoys a balanced breakfast…
“Fitness” is not going to happen overnight. And what does fitness mean anyway? A ripped set of muscles or a killer beach body? No, we think true fitness is a body with less pain and less weight to hold you back from doing things you truly love; a body that will prevent an old age…
Sitting is not the unconscious activity we give it credit for It is much more insidious, contributing to obesity and risk for cardiovascular disease while simultaneously destabilizing the back, leading to pain and degeneration in your spine. And then you end up at the chiropractor’s office wondering where it all went wrong. Well, if you…
Rethinking the way we exercise Between working, commuting and relaxing, many of us are spending up to 70% of our waking hours seated! This is rough news for our bodies, particularly our backs and even people who make a pilgrimage to the gym after work still need to be wary of sitting for long periods…
Today, a subject that is certain to get the juices flowing: cerebral circulation. What price can you place on your brain? It is the central processing unit for your entire world, and it is hungry! For an organ that makes up only about 2% of body mass, the brain uses more energy than any other…
In the heat of a stressful moment, deep breathing is a powerful tool. There is so much wisdom in the saying, “take a deep breath.” But to go a step further we should try taking a full minute of deep breathing. In moments of panic, when stress is boiling over, our breathing tends to become…
Sitting all the time is the fastest ticket to back pain currently available. As humans we were not meant to sit for nearly as much time as we do- but more and more of us are being asked to sit for 40+ hours a week, plus our commute and recreation time. Sitting is insidious by…
The problems facing your hips are myriad. Let’s focus on how it relates to low back pain. As the largest joints in the human body, the hips are meant to support the weight of the human body during both static and dynamic (moving) posture. The entire region, known as the pelvis, contains the two hip…
Micro-exercise is the idea that you can capture great health benefits from small doses of workout How do we define the value of 60 seconds? 10 minutes? Certainly these small blocks of time can be measured in terms of productivity, but what about in terms of the benefit to brain and body? All across America workers…