Tagged with: awareness disability exercise fitness goals Nutrition Physical Activity wheelchair You don’t need to feel that your disability will keep you stuck with excess weight because even as a person with a disability there are many ways you can remain active and manage. The key to activity and weight loss lies in a healthy diet and exercises which concentrate on the abilities that you have rather than focusing on your limitations.
Tagged with: awareness exercise family fitness health Healthcare Professionals Nutrition study Vitamin D If you’ve ever wondered if the multivitamins you pop at breakfast do you any good, you’re not the only one. Multivitamins seem great in theory, but they might not be making the kind of positive impact you’d like to see, especially for what you spend. Chewy and sweet gummies make the pill easier to swallow for kids, but are they really worth buying at all? Do multivitamins actually benefit your health? Let’s take a look.
Tagged with: dining out eating out family health lose weight Nutrition If you find yourself getting home from work late several nights a week, the last thing you probably feel like doing is cooking a meal from scratch. It’s so much easier to order delivery, grab takeout on the way home, or gather up the family and head to your favorite restaurant. Unfortunately, if this becomes a habit instead of an occasional indulgence, you may see your wallet shrinking—and your waistline expanding. Eating out is very expensive, and restaurant meals are often served in overly large portions and contain high levels of salt, fat, and sugar. So how can you cut back if your habit is getting out of control? Here are 4 tips for eating well at home.
Tagged with: awareness fitness health Nutrition It’s the goal of thousands of people across the country. But losing weight can be a challenge that is difficult to achieve. This is especially true if you don’t have the requisite knowledge on how your dietary choices are affecting your lifestyle. To help you make healthy, effective choices as you work to lose weight this year, Physiomed is offering several weight loss tips in the below infographic.
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We’re an ever-ageing population and as we live longer, better advances in drug treatments and knowledge of how to better treat life-threatening illnesses means that we’re all living longer. For some, dietary choices made in early life are catching up with them and as a result many are having to adopt healthy eating regimes to counteract the damage they have done to themselves.
Tagged with: accessibility ADA advocate awareness disability education exercise family fitness goals inclusion kids life Nutrition Physical Activity programs sport Technology Last week I spent two days with the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) for an orientation as part of their new advisory panel. I am excited to serve as a bridge between NCHPAD’s work and the broader healthy out-of-school time movement. You might remember two of our past blog articles that included NCHPAD resources, 3 Steps to Including Kids with a Disability and Tips and Resources for Inclusive Physical Activity.
Healthy afterschool environments should be inclusive afterschool environments, right?
The National AfterSchool Association Standards for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity specifically encourage programs to train staff to “adapt physical activity opportunities to include children and youth at all levels of athletic availability and those with physical, sensory or intellectual disability.”
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People looking for weight loss techniques are raving about the wonders different diets and exercises are capable of achieving. We all live in a society where it has become a fad to look skinny, and everyone wants to shed all those pounds and flab in the blink of an eye. However, there’s no easy and fast way to do it. It is not always necessary to cause yourself much agony with all those forceful gym visits and not recommended to starve your body of food. Weight loss is over-hyped. Losing excessive weight needn’t be a complex, distressing, and depriving experience. Accomplishing a healthy body and a good weight management routine is achieved by following the simple pointers with minimal efforts listed below:
Tagged with: awareness exercise fitness goals health Nutrition Obesity The body needs to be cleansed, taken care of, and made stronger. A nutritious smoothie made from fruits and vegetable can help you achieve all your health targets. Do keep in mind to opt for Greek yogurt as your choice of base for smoothies as it is a naturally occurring probiotic that will help your body in many ways. Probiotics improve digestion, reduces cold and flu, strengthen the immune system, produces more energy within the body, and heals inflammatory bowel disease.
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Surgery can stir up a lot of nervousness, no matter how major or minor it may be. Once you’ve gotten through the hard part of the surgery itself, however, it can be a challenge to get back on your feet. Successful recovery can be a difficult test, and healing is largely a waiting game. With a little preparation, however, you can make your recovery a lot easier and a little bit more quickly. Here are five tips for healing after surgery, so you can take control of your successful recovery and get active faster.
Tagged with: awareness education exercise family food goals health healthy lifestyle Healthy Living life Nutrition The key to healthy living is to eat properly. When you consume healthy food your body is supplemented with all the necessary enrichment. So much so that eating right food has a direct impact on our way of thinking and how an individual feels. A healthy diet boosts immunity gives you energy and makes you feel good. All you have to do is find the right combination of food supplements which comprise required levels of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
