Many people get frustrated when they exercise every day but do not see the scale changing. Use these 10 tips to help you break any plateau and reach your brain and body goals. Realigning your lifestyle choices and changing your habits with the recommendations below can help you live a brain healthy life. Do a…
Nagging and lecturing your man: 150 calories burned. Check. You also asked him to join www.myfitnesspal.com, and he just gave you that look. You asked him to try paleo. After looking it up in the dictionary, he grunted, scratched his belly and reached for the remote. An ancient Chinese proverb says, "A journey of a…
Think of calories like money. Every bite is a caloric deposit. Dollars, Pesos, Euros… The deposits you make have different exchange rates. Some will yield better energy, focus, and overall improved health. As we begin to transition from the winter season those end-of-the-winter goals, big hopes, running shoes, and fad diets begin to emerge. Fad…
“How can I have a brain healthy breakfast, while keeping the ‘breakfast calories’ off?” has got to be one of the most asked questions. But it shouldn’t be anything complicated, really. Did you know that when Olympians plan what they eat in the morning, they rarely call it breakfast? They look at it as a…
Nagging and lecturing your man: 150 calories burned. Check. You also asked him to join www.myfitnesspal.com, and he just gave you that look. You asked him to try paleo. After looking it up in the dictionary, he grunted, scratched his belly and reached for the remote. An ancient Chinese proverb says, “A journey of a…
Have you ever noticed how "flu season" often happens to strike during the holidays? Perhaps it’s not a coincidence! One obvious contributing factor to ill health is the extreme change in our diet. For so many of us, the holidays are synonymous with gorging on excessive amounts of sugar, fat and salt. In excess, these…
Many people, especially low-income earners, say they can’t afford to eat healthy. The problem is they are thinking of oranges, apples, squash, avocados…when they should be thinking of sweet potatoes, beans, quinoa, eggs, turkey, kale and fish. Did you know that the very same nutrients found in many of the higher-priced food can also be…
Brain Fit Life Nutrition Coach, Tana Amen, BSN, RN, is absolutely passionate about brain and body health—and understandably so. After battling cancer several times in childhood, undergoing multiple surgeries and working as a trauma nurse, she realized that while certainly life-saving, "band aid" medicine has serious limitations. So, she began focusing her energies on prevention….
Summer is officially over, and now that the season has changed it’s beginning to look like fall in many places around the country. With this change, you should be focused on protecting yourself against cold and flu symptoms. When people start coughing and sneezing around you, what should you do? If possible, get as far…
Believe it or not, positive thinking — and its rewards — can be learned. You can change from being a “glass is half empty” person to one who sees that glass as half full. In order to do this, one of your first tasks is to identify any ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) — the tendency…