Will Sizeable (tackle everything at once) Change or Small (little by little) Dietary Change, have the most Impact on your Health, Weight and Performance?

Once you have the one percent rubric on nutrition continue searching for the one percent improvement everywhere including; movement, strength, recovery, sleep, hydrating, time in nature, breath work and meditation, creating meaningful relationship and being creative.

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Your inner thoughts are frequently the real produces of stress rather than the situation itself.

Pay attention to the feelings that result from the words you choose. Listen to the words with which you choose to speak to yourself. Some of the words contribute to our distress. Our language communicates the amount of control we believe that we have with a person, place, or thing. The less control we feel, the more distress we can experience.

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Component Nutraceuticals - Will they Amplify the Benefits of your already Healthy Lifestyle

Using the wisdom of our ancestors blended with up-graded living through science to optimise our health. Ancient cultures used root, stem, leaf and concentrated oil extracts and just because they weren’t encapsulated or in tubs doesn’t mean that they weren’t supplements.

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Is Your Fat Loss Journey on Track?

The people that joined me on this ride had a different outlook as they premised that a Paleo lifestyle would get so much easier once they survive the initiation of Eating Whole 30. They were looking for a diet protocol that they could abide to, follow strictly to get them on target towards being in the external body they desired. But the opposite is often true. It gets much harder because …

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Upgrade your Nutritional Mindset - Don’t Eat Late at Night or You will Add Fat to your Girth

Absolute claims are a heavy burden — we get stuck in one place, rather than exploring our possibilities.  The “don’t eat late” myth has caught many people and continues to harm healthy progress.  I’ve found trials that support eating early and then concluding your eating earlier in the day and those that show an advantage in late eaters, who delay their first meal of the day and  finish their eating for the day a little later.  On the surface of these studies there is no super impressive difference between the two.  But none of these trials  on offer are “perfect, real life studies”, there are so many compounding variants that destroy the credibility of a real life scenario.

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Is Coconut Oil Right For You?

The American Heart Association advisory warns against coconut oil, yet many zealot internet health advisors tout it’s benefits. Once again we are returned to the “nothing is black and white” caution. The minimum that you need to consider is that coconut may increase cardiovascular disease risk, but the evidence is super conflicting (we really don’t know). Observational evidence is positive, however trial evidence on humans is mixed.

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