80/10/10 Explained

80/10/10, sometimes shortened to 811, is a way of eating championed by Dr. Doug Graham. It is the calorific ratio of carbohydrates/proteins/fats that he recommends for optimum health. In fact the 80 means, at least 80% of our calories should come from carbs and no more than 10% from protein and a maximum of 10% [...]

80/10/10 Explained

The Best Health Movie – Forks Over Knives

Of the many health movies that I have watched in recent years, one of the stand outs has been Forks Over Knives. The title is a play on words suggesting that using a fork, to feed ourselves the right foods, is a better way to look after our health than the knife, the surgeon’s scalpel. [...]

The Best Health Movie – Forks Over Knives

Best Juicer: A Buyer’s Guide

This guide will help if you want to know how to choose a juicer that meets the needs of your lifestyle. As someone who has been drinking fresh homemade fruit and vegetable drinks on a daily basis for nearly 10 years, and has used a number of different styles of juicers, I am confident that [...]

Best Juicer: A Buyer’s Guide

The Big Health And Fitness Lie

When it come to health and fitness, there’s several scams and rip-offs designed to do one thing. Put your wallet on a major weight loss program, even government agencies are in on the big con. After all the fitness and health industry, in all it’s forms, is worth billions in whatever currency you happen to [...]

The Big Health And Fitness Lie

All-in-one Stand Alone Pull up Bar Review

All-in-one Stand Alone Pull up Bar Review The All-in-one Stand Alone Pull up Bar is built to allow you to easily incorporate some of the most effective, body weight resistance exercises into your workout routine. Unlike flimsy, doorway chin up bars, the All-in-one Stand Alone Pull up Bar is stable, secure and built to support [...]

All-in-one Stand Alone Pull up Bar Review

Why Do Bodyweight Exercises?

Your own bodyweight can be used to get a really effective workout, for the times where you don’t have the time or inclination to go to the gym. Now I’ve got to admit that I thought that bodyweight exercise programs were going to revolve around the push up and the squat. So they were going [...]

Why Do Bodyweight Exercises?

I Hate Exercise

Okay, I’ve got to admit it. I hate exercise. Why do I hate exercise? For one thing it’s too much like hard work. Standing on a treadmill for half an hour or more at a time, getting all hot and sweaty is not my idea of fun. Then there’s the thought of struggling with lifting [...]

I Hate Exercise

Sore Muscles Rest Or Exercise

You stagger out of bed and your muscles are really sore from yesterdays workout, so what’s the best thing to do? Go back to bed, lay down and don’t move until you have no soreness anywhere. Or if you must be up and about, get someone to push you around in a wheelchair. Again until [...]

Sore Muscles Rest Or Exercise

Strength Trainer 3-Station Power Tower Review

The Strength Trainer 3-Station Power Tower is designed to provide a back-to-the-basics strength workout at home. As much as lifting weights and using exercise machines is in vogue these days, it’s the basics – pull-up, dips, chin-ups and push-ups – that really strengthen your body like no other exercises are capable of. The problem has [...]

Strength Trainer 3-Station Power Tower Review

Body Champ BRM3671 Cardio Dual Trainer Review

Two of the most popular types of home cardio equipment are exercise bikes and elliptical trainers. Each type of machine gives its own, distinct benefits, and each is great for weight loss exercise and overall cardiovascular health. Some people have trouble deciding which machine is the one that they should invest in. When you make [...]

Body Champ BRM3671 Cardio Dual Trainer Review