It’s generally accepted that the most effective lifestyle change you can make if you want to lose weight is to eat less. You can and should (if you’re physically able) also move more if you’re trying to lose weight, and I’ve written about this in at least superficial detail in this section. ‘Lifestyle [...]
Exercise is one of nature’s wonderdrugs. It helps us to maintain a healthy weight, lowers our blood pressure, lowers our risk of diabetes, heart disease, a number of cancers and dementia, lifts our mood, is anti-inflammatory, does wonders for our gut bugs and our epigenetics, and creates lots of feelgood chemicals in our [...]
Sleep is either one of our deepest needs or greatest weaknesses. Back in the days when we were hunter gatherers, sleep put us at a significant disadvantage from many perspectives. We were more likely to get hunted while unconscious, and had less time to search for food, find mates and care for our [...]
For many of us, stress means weight gain. Some people lose weight when they are stressed because they are either too busy to eat because they are dealing with whatever the cause of the stress is, or because they just can’t face food, but most of us respond to stress by reaching for [...]
