BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Sadly, much of our stress seems unavoidable, perhaps working conditions, our home environment or relationship issues, but for many one national level stressor, the daily commute is most unavoidable. Stress comes in two basic flavours, EUSTRESS, or good stressors, such as amusement rides, scary movies, exercise, travel and DISTRESS, or bad stressors,…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY By now you have likely heard that refined sugar and excess sugar can damage your health and has caused hundreds of thousands of people to suffer horribly, die prematurely and age painfully. The reasons are not difficult to understand, because we have thousands of years of distant ancestors who had negligible contact…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY It is an established fact that the most effective way to lose weight is through nutritional changes and it can be sustainable through reasonable types of exercises. Dieting alone can carry you all the way with your fat loss, but without exercise the muscle loss may be significant. The common rule of…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Holidays come and go but the fear is that the fat will stay forever. You’ll likely know the experience. Socially, habitually and culturally you feel the need to enjoy the festive eating, all the while knowing that you could be putting your wardrobe, goals and health in jeopardy, but nevertheless, barreling along…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Life has certain immutable facts and, sadly, if you care about anyone, sooner or later they may become ill, you will lose them or they will lose you. The illness or death of a loved one can shake your very foundation. You may be grieving the medical challenges and possible loss of…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY WHAT EXACTLY IS A FOODIE? Foodie is a word coined by the New York Magazine’s restaurant critic, Gael Greene, in the early 1980s. What does it mean? Is it a word meaning, as journalists Ann Barr and Paul Levy, the authors of “The Official Foodie Handbook”(1984) describes it as, “a person who…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Way too often people fight bravely to lose excess fat and get to a safer healthier weight. Many do attain their goal, but agonizingly, all too often this is not the happy ending they hoped for as a very high percentage will relapse and regain weight with a heavier body, now older…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Many arguments have been put forward over the years for why humans should maintain a vegan lifestyle (not eating animals or their products, milk, eggs). I will examine a few of these here. Proteins are the building blocks of all known life, as such, any plant or animal source will provide some…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY In many circles rice has been getting a rough reputation when it comes to weight loss, and even staying healthy, but is it a deserved reputation, and is all rice equal? From the most basic perspective, regarding weight loss the answer is simple, if you ingest more calories than you expend you…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Fifty is the golden anniversary, and this is the only way that over fifty is golden. In fact, between thirty and forty life becomes more challenging, more interesting, in ways we would like to avoid. Thankfully we can manage these changes, it is proven that, proper diet, peace of mind and exercise create a super-combination of factors, not only are you more likely to have an increased lifespan,…