Healthy Life Guide

The role that nutrition plays in ADHD is, as is true with most other illnesses and afflictions, grossly underestimated. Conventional medicine tends to prefer pills when it comes to the treatment of almost all health conditions; there’s less money in advocating a clean diet & exercise than there is in an expensive prescription drug that needs infinite refills. The downside is that a lot of the drugs are potentially very dangerous, and they really only partially (if you’re lucky) address the symptoms. Using nutrition to treat attention deficit disorder is by far and large the safer and more effective way to lessen the symptoms. Keep reading to learn more about how to build the ideal ADHD diet that can help eliminate or reduce symptoms to a point where they are manageable. “Let Food Be Your Medicine and Medicine Be Your Food” Hippocrates had it right. Lean protein – Lean meats, eggs, a large variety of nuts, beans (also a fantastic source of fiber), chee...

How many times have you sat around at a gathering of family or friends watching your or someone else’s kids run in circles, roll around on the ground, and just play for hours on end without tiring? There’s probably a 99% chance that you or someone else around you made the statement “I wish I had that much energy!”. I’ve done it, as I am sure almost everyone has. But a few years ago I had a light bulb moment. The key difference between “kid” and “adult” fitness My light bulb moment came while at one of those family gatherings as I was sitting in my chair with the other adults watching my cousin-in-law’s children chase each other around like they were on crack. At the time I had a middle-aged client whose main goal was to feel younger and more energetic. Well, someone said something about wanting to bottle the kid’s energy and sell it and it hit me like a ton of bricks. The reason kids are so energetic has a lot to do wit...

Study after study has come out showing that obesity is not only here to stay but is still on the rise, despite an ever-growing negative public sentiment towards those who are overweight and obese. So if being obese is so frowned upon, why are so many people falling victim to it? One reason could be that we are given more things to blame our extra weight on than you can shake an extra value meal at. The growing epidemic of obesity is not an easy disease to pin down and treat because for every proposed fix to a cause, there are two more causes that we come up with to blame instead. Common excuses around obesity: A slow metabolism and certain misleading medical conditions After working for more than a decade as a Nutrition Counselor and Personal Trainer, I have heard people blame weight gain on almost everything you can imagine, though the most popular excuse is a slow metabolism. Until recently, people blamed their slow metabolism on the idea that it just naturally slows as a person ag...

Oh, the rare and lovely days where we actually get to feel like we've done nothing at all. Even while we’re being completely lazy, our bodies are obviously still very busy (they've got a big show to run). The number of calories burned at rest is called the basal metabolic rate, and it’s a measure of how much energy your body uses just to keep all of your complex bodily functions up and running and in check (i.e. your body temperature regulated, your heart beating, your brain humming, and so on). The concept of burning off the body's energy stores while doing absolutely nothing is kind of exciting, until you realize how little you would have to eat in order to avoid putting on extra weight. Related : Search over 500 free workout videos that you can do in your own living room How many Calories do I Burn doing Nothing? Here’s the formula to find your resting metabolic rate: For Women: BMR = 655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 ...

Unbeknownst to this foodie, the Slimcado is not brand new to the scene. In fact, it has been around for well over 100 years. I just recently saw it in the produce aisle and it raised a red flag; even if the Slimcado was not genetically modified, how do you take a food that is mostly fat and pitch it as a “lite” product, without lessening its nutrition or completely destroying the taste? What is a Slimcado? The fruit boasts roughly 35% less calories and half of the fat of a regular avocado . It looks nearly the same as its traditional counterpart with a few slight variances. There are about 30 varieties sold commercially, but some of the most noticeable differences are that the large seed inside the center of a reduced calorie avocado is slightly fuzzy, and they tend to have a shinier, smoother outside skin. These fruits are grown in Florida in a climate that is much wetter than the ones that regular avocados are grown in. The result is a sort of watered down, less calorie ...

According to the CDC, roughly one out of every five deaths in America is a result of the health repercussions of smoking cigarettes. Smoking causes a person’s chances of developing a long list of various cancers to skyrocket. It impedes circulation and increases the chances of heart disease. On a much shallower note, it’s a very expensive habit, it yellows teeth, and makes a person smell terrible. There’s no doubt that smoking’s a nasty habit, and it’s highly unlikely that you don’t already know that. Having that knowledge doesn’t necessarily make it any easier to drop the habit. There are many tricks, tips, and gimmicks out there meant to help a person quit smoking, but by far and large the one that has the most health perks (not just the absence of health risks) is exercise. How can exercise help you quit smoking? Keep reading, and let the reasons serve as motivation for you to make the move to kick the habit. Exercise can minimize the feel...

An ADHD friendly diet is more complex than simply limiting caffeine intake or large quantities of refined sugars. Media is constantly cramming “health” foods down our throats, but truth be told your best bet in treating ADHD with nourishment is going to be sticking to the basics of the nutrition world, which is the foundation of this ADHD Diet Plan . In that light, there are not only foods that can help, there are also ones that can definitely make it worse. Here are some that you should do your best to steer clear of if you or your child struggles with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Foods to avoid Minimize consumption of packaged products There are very few exceptions to this rule; microwavable dinners, prepackaged lunch meals, energy bars, candy, chips, crackers, and 99% of cereals are loaded with either sugars, salts, preservatives or additives (or all four!). These are not healthy for anyone, but they are particularly risky for someone sensitive to ADHD symp...