by Dan Williams | Nov 26, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Nutrition
Sorry, not that kind of spooning… This is a great way to make a change to your environment once and reap the benefits forever. The size of the utensils we use to eat plays a major role in how much we eat. Research has shown that we eat less if we are eating from...
by Dan Williams | Nov 24, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
More and more eating has become a social event – eating has taken second place to what we do while we eat. Watching TV, talking to friends, reading a book. An awareness of our eating habits plays a major role in determining how much we eat. The distractions that shift...
by Dan Williams | Nov 23, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
The availability of food is directly correlated with the amount of food we consume. This probably isn’t a surprise. Evolutionally speaking, with food being scarce in our environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, it was a survival advantage to eat when we could. We can...
by Dan Williams | Nov 22, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The vast majority of contemporary occupations are sedentary. Aside from quitting our jobs, there’s not a lot we can do about the lack of physical activity in the environment where we spend the majority of our waking hours. We have previously discussed ways to...
by Dan Williams | Nov 17, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
Alcohol in moderation has been shown to have a raft of health benefits. The ‘in moderation’ premise however ensures that the negative effects of our usual drinking patterns soon outweigh any positives. So the basic rule is that drinking less (alcohol) is better for...