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Foods That Help You Build Lean Muscle
There are two crucial aspects to building lean muscle: nutrition and physical activity. Many individuals will start training hard but not pay enough attention to what they are eating, stalling their progress. Challenging the body with intense workouts is a great...
Nutritional Psychiatry and the Science of Food
The human brain is always on. It works in the background to regulate your breathing, your heart, your senses. It manages your movements and thoughts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This kind of intense work needs suitable fuel, and the brain’s fuel comes from the...
How Not to Die: Reversing and Preventing Diseases Through A Plant-Based Diet
Increased research in the field of nutrition has led to a rise in the interest in whole food, plant-based diets as a way of promoting good health. These diets encourage the elimination of animal foods and by-products (hence the name plant-based), while the emphasis on...
Tips for Designing a Personal Workout Program
Regular physical exercise is one of the best things an individual can do to maintain fitness levels and stay healthy. For some people, the desire to exercise leads them to design their own workout program, which can be both fun and challenging. Such a program will...
Eating Before a Workout: What to Consider
For many athletes and fitness enthusiasts, the desire to achieve their goals leads them to seek an edge, whether it’s through new workout routines or nutrition. The latter especially can be a good place to start, as eating well helps the body recover faster and...
Top Motorcycle Routes in the UK
Being an avid motorcycle rider, Bernard McGowan likes to take his bike out on the weekends and explore the countryside. His interest in riding started at an early age, and together with his friends, he has managed to explore some of the best motorcycle routes the UK...
Tips for Home Workouts
For many, the thought of starting a workout routine means finding a gym, paying a membership fee and investing in new workout gear and apparel. Working out can include all of this, but it can also start with a home-based workout that’s just as fun and less expensive....
Wild Scotland: Mountain Biking in the Scottish Landscape
Scotland is blessed with a number of fun and exciting mountain biking spots, including Tweed Valley, Dunkeld, Kinlochleven, Fort William, Comrie Croft and Torridon. Each area offers its own beauty and adventure, and Scotland’s unspoilt scenery has been named as one of...
The Benefits of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
It has been discovered that some medical conditions are caused by inflammation, and these ‘chronic inflammatory diseases’ can often be greatly improved by following an anti-inflammatory diet. Inflammation is the body’s reaction to substances that are irritating or...
Food Wisdom from Some of the Healthiest Countries in the World
Recent research has shown that some of the healthiest countries in the world share a few things in common: eating small portion of seasonal and locally-produced foods, without adding too much salt, sugar or artificial ingredients. Nutritional therapist and personal...