by Dan Williams | Dec 8, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Flexibility, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons
Hydrotherapy offers rehabilitation and recovery to a group of people who may otherwise not experience these benefits. Water based exercises allow the user to experience increases in joint mobility and range of motion without the impact associated with land based...
by Dan Williams | Dec 7, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology
Gyms worldwide are characterised by huge floor to ceiling mirrors, framing lycra clad step aerobics devotees. Seems though, that these mirrors actually make it harder to gain the benefits of exercise – harder to lose weight. The theory behind this is the fact that...
by Dan Williams | Dec 6, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology
Self help books preach the power of positive thinking and optimism. Sounds good – but science tells us that this isn’t actually the best way to motivate yourself to exercise. Surprisingly, research tells us that the best way to motivate yourself to exercise is not to...
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...
by Dan Williams | Nov 12, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Nutrition
The word we use to describe one of the essential macronutrients is the very same word that we use to describe an unwanted body shape. Fat never stood a chance. How is it possible for anyone to think anything other than the fact that fat makes you fat? Now, we don’t...
by Dan Williams | Oct 14, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Nutrition
Osteoporosis refers to a loss of bone mineral density – resulting in bones losing strength and becoming more brittle. While significant on its own, the nature of this condition is amplified by the prevalence of falls and the resulting bone fractures in osteoporosis...
