If you want to build muscle, simply going to the gym a few times a week is no guarantee for success. It takes a lot of planning and dedication to put on just a pound or two of lean muscle, so here’s a few tips to point you in the right direction.
Vary your workouts regularly
If [...]

Let us discuss carbohydrates in this months “Diabetic News”, this is so important to us all !
Like fats, carbohydrates are essential, but just as we have been duped into believing that all fats are healthy, so too are we misinformed about carbohydrates.
The biggest threat to our health is refined sugar and [...]

Food Packaging – How much is too much?
There’s no doubt that food packaging is a necessary part of food production. Imagine going into the supermarket and buying soup, with no can, tin, bottle or bag! In order to transport our food home we need some form of packaging. The problem comes when the packaging is [...]

Inversion was documented as early as 400 B.C., when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, first watched a patient have his knees bound and ankles tied to a ladder, to be hoisted upside down for a dose of what’s come to be known as spinal traction. The Greek theories on inversion are still valid, [...]

Ensure that children eat a healthy breakfast each day. Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. It boosts the metabolism and improves the concentration throughout the day. Encourage children to eat a healthy breakfast low in [...]

Power Plate – sending vibrations through the fitness world
Regular readers of IOH will have become familiar with Power Plates over the past few issues. Rarely, if ever, has one piece of fitness equipment created so much interest. Power Plates have taken the fitness world by storm over the past few years and their popularity [...]

Many sporting activities offer to improve overall health and well-being, however if care is not taken injuries can result, sometimes with debilitating effects on the muscles, tendons and ligaments. Stretching the muscles prior to and after exercise will help prevent injury, but stretching alone will not address the muscle weakness and joint mobility problems that [...]

There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.
About half of all smokers will eventually die from smoking-related diseases. If you are a long-term smoker, on average, your life expectancy is about 10 years less [...]

We seem to read about it, watch it, and hear it all the time: there’s no doubt that people in the Western World are gradually getting fatter. There are many reasons for this trend, with both poor diet and lack of exercise being the key factors. The answer may seem simple to many people, just [...]

There’s a new revolution that everyone’s talking about, and it’s coming to a town near you. It’s called RAW!!!!!
So what is this raw revolution I hear you say? Don’t you have to be a Birkenstock-wearing, commune-living, tree-hugging, carrot- munching, beard-scratching trustafarian or hippy to be part of the raw food gang? Absolutely not!
Over the last [...]