Reduce Grains and Sugar to Lose Weight and Improve... For several million years, humans existed on a diet of animals and vegetation. It was only with the advent of agriculture a mere 10,000 years ago – a fraction of a second in evolutionary time – that humans began ingesting large amounts of sugar and starch in the form of grains (and potatoes) into their diets. Indeed, 99.99% of our genes were formed before the advent of agriculture; in biological terms, our...

The Pelvic Floor Muscles... The pelvic floor muscles are frequently overlooked, even though they are one of the most important muscle groups in the body, contributing significantly to the role of sexual response, child birth and support of the bladder, womb and bowel.  Weakness in the pelvic floor muscles can lead to stress incontinence, a particularly devastating condition that occurs in more than one in three women between the ages of thirty...

Training Clients with Arthritis... 3  Major Types of Arthritis 1. Rheumatoid: An inflammatory, multi-joint, multi-system disease. Affects wrist, hands, knees, feet and cervical spine. Suffers morning stiffness >30mins, acute and chronic inflammation and loss of joint integrity. 2. Osteoarthritis: A degenerative joint disease. Affects hands, spine, hips and knees. Joint pain and stiffness, osteophyte and cartilage destruction. 3. Psoriatic: An inflammatory,...

Take Away Choices... Where you get stuck away from your normal food sources you should always be cognoscente of your unique metabolic requirements and plan your meals to fit roughly into the same portion sizes. If uncertain of the source of the food aim to make vegetables your main meal with meat, noodles, pasta and rice as accompaniments. Indian Chinese Always choose a plain vegetable dish first. eg Chinese broccoli or bok choy or choy...

76 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health... In addition to throwing off the body’s homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar’s metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications. 1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease. 2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body:...