Health and Wellness

   Introduction Carb cycling, Paleo, Keto, Atkins, intermittent fasting, Mediterranean diet… These are just a drop in the bucket when it comes to eating plans and diets. All of them claim to help you lose weight but more importantly, they claim to be healthy nutritional solutions that instill good, lifelong eating habits. This is not true, as anyone who has tried one of these eating plans will tell you. Diets don’t last long enough to instill lasting habits. In addition, we have negative associations with them related to deprivation, calorie cutting, and hunger. These associations will not help our brains adopt good habits. Finally, diets don't last forever. Once we've shed the pounds and stopped dieting, we go back to our old eating habits and gradually gain back the weight. What's worse, dieting can actually create very unhealthy eating habits such as binge eating, cravings, and an obsession with dieting, where a person jumps from one diet to the next. This is why the wei...

 Keeping Your Body Active and Mobile Now perhaps the most important way to protect your body and mind against Aging: working out! That’s right: body and mind. Your brain’s primary purpose is to move your body and a huge amount of your grey matter’s real estate is dedicated to exactly that job. If you want to keep learning and creating new connections in your brain, then nothing will compare to staying active and exercising. What’s more, is that exercise stimulates the release of countless necessary neurochemicals including dopamine and serotonin. It has been shown to greatly improve memory and to boost the IQ too. Meanwhile, the benefits for the body are huge. Staying active can help to improve heart health and prevent the likelihood of heart disease. It can also improve your looks, combat diabetes, prevent depression, keep your bones stronger (especially if you train outside and get lots of sun) and much more. More importantly, as we discussed in the introduction, staying active i...

  What You Need to Know about Avoiding Lifestyle Creep   On the surface, you look successful. You’ve been climbing up the career ladder with one higher paying position after the next. You earn raises and bonuses. Yet, your savings are low and your life goals still lie far out of reach.   You may be experiencing lifestyle creep. That’s when your expenses keep increasing along with your income.   That could mean financing a flashy new car or moving into a bigger house each time you get more money. It could also involve less conspicuous purchases, like dining out and buying expensive phones.   The consequences can be serious for your finances and overall wellbeing. For example, you may not have enough money to retire or you may be stuck in a job you dislike.   Learn how to say goodbye to lifestyle creep. Try these suggestions for bringing your spending under control and changing your relationship with money.   Tips for Managing Y...