Just a quick note to check in and see how you've all done with the first two weeks of the Best Your Stress challenge. Have you been able to stick with the commitments you've made? What have you noticed so far?Most people have more trouble sticking with stress management programs than they do making dietary changes or following a supplement regime. Adopting a new diet or taking some pills does involve changes in behavior, but it ...
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One of the major recurring themes of the Paleo f(x) Theory to Practice Symposium I attended this past weekend was the importance of managing your stress.Beyond poor diet, many other lifestyle factors can greatly increase your level of stress, such as overtraining, not sleeping enough, or not including enough pleasure in your daily life. Many of the conference speakers (including myself) focused on how stress causes cortisol dysregulation and subsequent weight gain, sleep disturbances, and even a reduction ...
Exercise is a major component of a healthy lifestyle, and the benefits of regular physical activity are well established. When adopting a Paleo lifestyle, modifying your fitness routine to include more high intensity exercise can bring great benefits to energy, body composition, and overall fitness.However, there are many people who take their physique and physical fitness to an extreme level, particularly in the Paleo community. Certain styles of exercise take the participant to a state of ...
I write a lot about diet and nutrition, and there's absolutely no doubt that the food we eat is one of the most important factors that determines our health.But it's a mistake to assume that food is the only consideration that matters when it comes to health, and that all health problems can be solved simply by making dietary changes. Unfortunately, this seems to be an increasingly common assumption in the Paleo/Primal nutrition world these ...
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