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Dispelling common myths throughout the Healthcare and Fitness Industries
February 27, 2019
The Absolute Best Knee Rehab and Prehab Exercises
Knees and Shoulders. Ask any trainer which joint in the body gives them and their clients the most trouble and they will most likely answer with one of those two. Some feel as if the human body has yet to evolve past the quirkiness of these joints. Or maybe they are just so troublesome because
February 20, 2019
The Low Down on Vegetable Oil and Margarine
The American public has been completely confused as to what fats are healthy, what oils they can cook with, and whether dietary fat consumption will make us fat. This article from wellnessmama.com does a great job of cutting through all of the confusing data, research, and recommendations that we’ve been exposed to for the last
February 14, 2019
The Outdated and Corrupt Food Pyramid
I’m shocked that the USDA’s Food Pyramid, and its principles still exists. Since its inception, obesity rates have skyrocketed from 15% to 35% of the population. The low fat, high carb diet does NOT work for most people. How often do you hear people today touting how much weight they’ve lost from cutting back on
February 06, 2019
Should I Hire an Online Trainer or Nutritionist?
Today, there are many options for personal training beyond the typical in-person, one-on-one model. Two of the most rapidly growing sectors of the industry is online personal training and online nutritional counseling. The online nutrition aspect is easy enough for most people to wrap their head around, but online personal training can be a hard
January 31, 2019
WHY ICING INJURIES IS NOT VERY “COOL” ANYMORE
“Put some ice on it.” You hear it all the time when someone gets injured or is suffering from some type of topical inflammation. The problem is that Icing injuries could be doing more harm than good. Inflammation and swelling are natural immune system responses. Reducing inflammation and/or swelling might not be the best idea.
January 21, 2019
Florence Kendall: The “Mother” of Physical Therapy
One of the simplest, yet most powerful books every therapist should have in their library is “Muscles, Testing, and Function” by Florence Kendall. I find myself referencing it on a weekly basis sometimes. I find it so amazing that Florence, as a woman in the 1930’s and 40’s, was so ahead of her time in
January 10, 2019
5 Lifestyle Tweaks To Optimize Brain Health
Most of us (even the healthy ones) do little to work on or maintain the health of our brains. It’s usually not until late in life when words like Alzheimer’s and Dementia are thrown around that we start to pay attention to brain health. And even when we do, most of us are resigned to
December 12, 2018
ARE EGGS DAIRY?
It’s funny how often people categorize eggs as dairy. Even waiters in restaurants. It’s perfectly understandable though. They’re sold in the dairy section, they come from a farm, and plenty of people are allergic to them. But to clarify, “eggs are definitely NOT dairy”. Dairy implies a food that comes from the mammary gland of
November 28, 2018
Big Pharma Has Its Eyes Set On CBD Oil
This is sad, but not all that surprising.Big Pharma sees CBD oil as major competition. CBD oil has proven to be more effective in treating a wide range of ailments…without the toxicity, side effects, and mortality rate as compared to prescription drugs. So if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Or in this case, force