Fitzone Prince Edward Island

With just a little planning and preparation, you can feed your family a healthy and tasty dinner even after the most grueling workday. How many times have you found yourself driving home from work with no idea what to make for dinner—or not even a clue as to what’s in the fridge? These are the times that test our resolve to eat well, and they often leave us making a beeline for the nearest fast-food joint. If you are the [...]

A popular myth is that there is a specific range of heart rates in which you must exercise to burn fat. Even many cardio machines display a “fat-burning zone” on their panels, encouraging people to exercise in a specific heart rate range. Have you ever wondered if you really have to exercise in a specific heart rate zone to lose fat? And what happens if you venture out of that zone? Jason R. Karp, PhD, a nationally recognized speaker, writer [...]

When was the last time you heard an infant say she couldn’t come out to play because she was having a bad hair day? How many toddlers do you know who’ll refuse an ice-cream cone because they want to squeeze into their “skinny jeans”? We are not born with a body image. The way we feel about how we look is learned and influenced by family, friends and the media. It is also influenced—positively or negatively—by our race, our gender [...]

The holiday season, now upon us, is a time of celebration and abundance. Teeming with tasty temptations (not to mention tons of stress!), the holidays can present challenges to clients trying to maintain healthy habits. Each festivity or social function can create anxiety for the calorie-conscious struggling to maintain weight as co-workers serve sugary treats at the office and hectic schedules make it difficult for clients to uphold physical activity routines. While it’s estimated that the average American puts on [...]

The statistics tell a scary story.  Some estimates are that more than 80% of those who have lost weight have regained all of that lost weight within 2 years.  Some have regained even more than what they lost. We know that this extra weight is a health risk and this means emotionally and physically.  Emotionally it is frustrating because you may feel like you have failed or you let yourself down. Physically recent studies have correlated this lose weight-gain weight [...]

Polyunsaturated fatty acid oils such as krill oil may actually activate specific genes that help your body regulate fat cell differentiation as well as glucose homeostasis. I know those were some pretty big words.  Fat Cell differentiation is a process where an unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a fat cell. Glucose homeostasis is any process involved in the maintenance of a steady state of glucose within the cell.  So essentially minimize blood sugar spikes. A new study that was [...]

Ingredients: 2/3 c. vanilla almond milk (sweetened or unsweetened) 1 tsp. Cinnamon 1 heaping tablespoon 100% pumpkin- NOT the pie filling 1 tsp. Vanilla Protein powder 1 egg Whisk ingredients.  Dip both sides of a sprouted whole wheat or high protein, whole grain bread of choice.  Using non-stick spray or a lightly oiled griddle, fry both sides of the french toast. Makes 8. Nutrition Information: (per 2 French Toast) Calories:  208 Protein: 10 grams Carbs:  39 grams Fat:  3 grams

Low carb diets were all the craze a few years ago and no one knew why or how they really worked.  Or why some people lost a ton of weight and others lost hardly anything. Then the scientists and researchers got involved to help sort all this out and a good amount of research regarding low carb diets was conducted over the course of the next few years. What they found was that when followed properly you can be pretty [...]