18Aug

Stress Relief Methods

1. Forest Bathing Forrest bathing is the practice of going in nature, or the forest to relax. Trees produce special essential oil like molecules that have been proven to improve the immune system. Going in nature also reduces cortisol. Reacher's conclude "A total of 971 articles were screened; 22 of them were included in the systematic review and 8 in the meta-analysis. In all but two included studies, cortisol levels were significantly lower after intervention in forest groups if compared...

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16Aug

Epicaloric Control

In are culture we believe that calories are everything. As long as you don't eat to many calories, you can stay thin, right? Well today your going to learn how this isn't true, and the many factors that control what calories actually do in your body. 1.Thermic effect of food This means that it takes calories to digest calories. For example, if you have 100 calories of protein, it takes 30 of the calories just to digest the 100, so your only...

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14Aug

5 Fat Loss Myths

1. Caloric restriction When  you restrict calories, it may work in the short term, but in the long term it's going to destroy the metabolism. The metabolism becomes less efficient, and starts to store all calories as fat because it thinks it's starving. 2. Using the scale Using the scale can work for some people, but for most, it gets people focusing on the numbers too much. When we don't focus on the progress we've made, and were constantly looking at the numbers,...

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