THE BETTER BEING BLOG
Research suggests that coconut water has everything your average sports drink has and more. For the last decade we have watched star athletes emerge from their respective sports and very quickly appear on television throwing back a Gatorade after a sweaty and exhausting workout. You may have...
As the Mckinsey Maxim goes ‘You can manage what you measure’.
However many people have the perception that if I am thin than I am fit. This has led to us defining our health by the numbers on a set of scales. That skinny somehow means healthy. But research shows this to be untrue.
It’s true. I lose 9 kilograms in 5 days through a combination of restrictive eating and carefully planned dehydration before each of my fights.
It’s terribly hard, probably not healthy and definitely not sustainable; I put most of it back on in 12 hours.
If you’re reading this...
I always find it interesting to watch people’s reaction when it comes to sugar. Some people’s eyes light up as though all their Christmases have come at once. For others, it is almost as if you are trying to poison them.
Sugar has become public enemy number one and with good...
With many people returning from their European summer vacations, they often struggle with more than just the post holiday blues. Studies have found that people often underestimate the impacts of flying with a 20% decrease in physical and mental performance. It can often take people 2-3...
After making decisions all day, the last thing you feel like doing at lunchtime is have to make another decision or travel half way across town to find something good for you. So often you gravitate to what ever is fastest, easiest and most convenient, but can it also be healthy?
In order to...
After over doing it at Christmas, is it any surprise gyms are inundated with the New Year resolutioners insisting that this year will be their year to get fit and fabulous! Only 2 weeks later they find themselves back in the same position, work gets busy, the summer days are longer, the...
It’s ok I trained today, so I will eat that cake.
I have been working hard so I deserve that ice cream.
I will have that packet of twisties and burn it off later.
The reality is, that side of fries with dinner would take 30 minutes of running on the treadmill. Let alone that steak,...
What is the best diet to follow?
Don’t eat carbs, because they’re full of sugar and make you fat.
Don’t eat fats, because they’re full of cholesterol and will give you heart disease.
Don’t eat proteins because your body finds it hard to break down and it can give you...
As corporate athletes many of us are warming up our days with a dose of the morning brew. However is our reliance on the strong almond milk latte doing us more harm then good?
Brain Function?
Many people drink coffee as they feel it works as an accelerator on their brains ability to perform....
During a trip to New Zealand in 1962, Bill Bowerman, a former track and field coach, discovered a concept called ‘jogging’ and decided to bring the phenomenon back to the United States. It was during this jogging boom Bowerman was introduced to a young entrepreneur and accountant, ...
Firstly let’s not kid ourselves excessive alcohol consumption is not healthy by any means. It has loads of calories, disrupts our hormonal balance, dehydrates us and wreaks havoc on our sleeping pattern (let alone the poor life choices we make while under the influence). But often it is a...
