In scientific terms, stress is defined as the nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it. Even when it feels like stress originates in the mind, the body is responding to it. More important than finding a definition for stress is understanding the effect it has on our bodies. Stress-producing factors, or […]
Primal Body, Primal Mind
Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life combines your body’s Paleolithic needs with modern nutritional and medical research for complete mind-body wellness. It also provides sustainable diet strategies to curb sugar cravings, promote fat burning and weight loss, reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep and moods, increase […]
Qigong Can Help Manage Stress
Qigong Can Help Manage Stress Qigong is a an ancient practice of self-healing that has been found to be quite useful in stress management, Qigong is becoming popular in the west with health practioners and Qigong experts offering classes for novices. Qigong is a type of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that is over 5,000 years […]
Is Exercise While Fasting Safe?
Whether or not to exercise during a fast is yet another controversy. Some experts have called for complete bed rest, while others suggested taking in a game of golf. In a magazine article in the January 1976 issue of the magazine Cosmopolitan, Alan Cott recommended water-only fasting for weight loss and suggested that exercise could […]