Health
I’ve had the pleasure of spending last week on the Greek island of Ikaria, located in the eastern Aegean Sea, near Samos. Ikaria is of interest not only due to its natural beauty and the mythical figure Icarus. The island is also remarkable because of the noted longevity of its inhabitants. In fact, one in three Ikarians live to be at least ninety years old!
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A lot of people often use a lack of money as an excuse to why they don’t lead a healthy lifestyle. Often it is just a cop out, but sometimes it’s a legitimate excuse. So the purpose of this post is to share some simple tips and ideas that I have found useful in my quest for a bigger, leaner and healthier body while living on a student budget without clipping coupons out of the Sunday paper (although there is nothing wrong with that!)
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It’s no secret that our caveman ancestors must have done a few things right. After all, they allowed more than 99% of their genes to be successfully passed along to modern man. Their lifestyle formed the basis for our current genetic blueprint; one that was adapted for diet, activities and environmental conditions that existed for hundreds of thousands of years. If you find yourself pondering all things paleo, it’s because we are perfectly adapted for life as a hunter-gatherer.
Many experts on nutrition advise people to cut back or eliminate coffee from their diets. At the same time, reports circulate in magazine articles about coffee’s incredible health benefits. Who or what are we to believe? It seems that the question of health versus harm as it relates to coffee would be best answered by a one-armed nutritional researcher, to avoid the inevitable “on one hand…” answer.
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It’s hard to believe that only three or four years ago, I was plagued by pain in my joints and leg muscles. I was in a stage of my life where I couldn’t get past a single day without taking Advil or another pain-relieving drug. It’s almost embarrassing to admit now, but less than four summers ago I was eating Advil almost like it was candy, because every four to five hours the pain would return. Multiple trips to various physicians didn’t shed much light on the problem, tests came up negative and all they could do was to continue to monitor my situation.
I know what you’re thinking. You’ve accepted the now-common wisdom that it’s a good thing to eat breakfast, and that it’s probably important to eat something ‘healthy’. But if your idea of a healthy breakfast is a bowl of a Raisin Bran with skim milk and a glass or orange juice, or some museli [...]
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Most everyone loves chocolate. Not just for the taste, but for the ‘feel good’ hormones it seems to posses! Unfortunately, most of the chocolate that people eat is not chocolate at all – it’s just candy. Overly sweetened, processed ‘chocolate’ bears little resemblance to the product that the ancient Incas prized so much that they used it as a currency!
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