Stress Ages Of all the negative aspects of life that affect our wellness, stress can be a constant that has an immeasurable effect on our long-term health. Although it is difficult to fully gauge the impact of stress on our bodies, a blood test can reveal cortisol levels. Higher than normal ranges of this stressContinue reading “Stress Ages”
Category Archives: AIM Healthy Cell Concept
Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition
You’ve likely heard a lot about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables ever since you were a child. Children who develop a taste for both take on a healthy habit that can last a long lifetime. While research in Europe and America has produced mountains of evidence to support fruit and vegetable intake forContinue reading “Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition”
5 Ways to Wellness with the Healthy Cell Concept
When considering what keeps our bodies in good health, we have to zoom in on a microscopic level to get to the source of where wellness begins: our cells. The human body is said to be made of an estimated 37.2 trillion cells, working together amazingly in the miracle of life. Zoom back out andContinue reading “5 Ways to Wellness with the Healthy Cell Concept”
Stress Ages Your Immune System
The impact that stress has on our minds and bodies has been difficult to measure. The nearly two years of pandemic life is the most stressful experience shared by humankind in modern times. The domino effects of COVID-19 continue to affect our lives to this very day. For example, travel has become much more stressfulContinue reading “Stress Ages Your Immune System”
Exercise Ave.
The AIM Healthy Cell Concept™ covers five avenues we can use to improve and maintain our physical and mental well-being: food, exercise, environment, protection and attitude. All are mutually related in achieving balance. The Choice of ExerciseExercise is one avenue that has many definitions, depending on where you get your information. Some people never joinContinue reading “Exercise Ave.”
Lifestyle Medicine
Change is not always an easy thing to manage. It takes a concerted effort to make healthy alterations to your lifestyle and not revert back to old habits. But the proof is in the pudding for doing so: lifestyle medicine The American College of Lifestyle Medicine defines it as “evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic intervention—including a whole-food,Continue reading “Lifestyle Medicine”
Keeping It Simple
It seems that their will always be an endless amount of health advice for people to follow. This has been going on for centuries. In the late 1500s, Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman, wrote a bestselling book titled, The Art of Living Long. Over 400 years later, Suzanne Somers, an American actress, wrote the bestsellerContinue reading “Keeping It Simple”
A Word about Nutrients
Some words do not require a definition. You sort of know the meaning without having to check a dictionary. One of those words is nutrient, and it’s something you just know is good for you. By consuming a healthy and balanced diet, you ingest nutrients that provide nutrition for your body. Two of the mostContinue reading “A Word about Nutrients”
Aging Well Tips
Moms deserve a day every May that honors them because they have one of the most demanding, unpaid jobs in the world. As such, motherhood can speed up the aging process. Yet not all women age at the same pace, which is why there are so many questions about this aspect of being alive. WhyContinue reading “Aging Well Tips”
FAT
There are so many contradictory ideas floating around about fat and the amount you should consume in your diet. Just like most things in life, one size doesn’t fit all. So it is good to turn to science and not just the latest diet fad to try to find some answers. The focus of theContinue reading “FAT”