The dangers of hormone replacement therapy
When considering the question of whether or not to go on HRT, it’s vitally important to do your own research on the topic. When you look at it from outside of the pharmaceutically-supported medical industry, you’ll notice a mass of research and advice, suggesting that HRT is one of the most dangerous drug treatments around.
Stimulate brown fat for weight loss
Do you know that you have two types of fat stores in your body? You have white fat, which is ‘storage’ fat and you have brown fat, which burns energy instead of storing it. In a sense, brown fat acts more like muscle than fat. By activating this type of fat, you can apparently increase your fat-burning potential by 300% (so says Tim Ferriss, author of The Four-Hour Body).
The importance of staying present
I’m struck more and more – when working with clients – by the fact that people’s lives are on an ever-increasingly rapid treadmill. I know you know the feeling! How can we become calmer and more productive in the midst of this?
So many of the health or weight issues that clients present, stem from this pace of life we’ve come to call normal. In my experience, there’s a yin and yang to everything, including our ability to either expend or create energy.
Be conscious and grateful when eating
How often do you think about your food while you’re eating it? In our modern world, with our tendency to outsource food production, we’ve lost our connection to almost every aspect of the food chain. My feeling is that this is bound to have consequences down the line...
The Happy Body’s philosophy on health
Considering what it is I do (work-wise), I’m often asked what my philosophy is on living the ‘good life’. My feeling is that attaining good health and ideal body weight is a fairly simple formula (note – I say ‘simple’, which may be different to ‘easy’!). In a nutshell it goes like this...