Better Out Than In
A recent review carried out by a team at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK has concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise outdoors....
Monthly Archive: March 2011
Salt & High Blood Pressure
In our previous blog post, we discussed how high blood pressure (or hypertension) can be impacted by lifestyle factors such as a high salt intake. So how does salt increase blood pressure? When our salt...
High Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. Each time the heart beats, it pumps out blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is at its highest...
Think Before You Drink
If you have too many alcoholic drinks, you might be sabotaging your weight management plans. Alcohol contains 29 kilojoules per gram, which is only slightly better than fat (with 38 kilojoules per gram). Alcohol...