Fitzone Prince Edward Island

It starts sometime after you hit 30: you get out of bed one morning and your back feels like a stiff branch and your knees are more creaky than they’ve ever been. For at least a few seconds, you take slow steps, one by one, until your body loosens up and feels no pain, like it normally felt when you were a younger person. That morning, when you got out of bed, you realized that the hill you’ve been climbing [...]

It’s one of the most dreaded words out there: Cellulite. What exactly is it? Can you beat it? Once it shows up is it a lost cause? Cottage cheese                           Orange Peel                             Rice Pudding Even though this sounds like it, I’m not talking about food here.  These are just some of the names given to an undesirable skin condition known as cellulite that plagues the backsides and tummies of women all over the world. Sure, some men are affected by it, [...]

There are several risk factors for cardiovascular disease including older in age, if you are a male and if you have a history of cardiovascular disease. Other major risk factors are cigarette smoking, high cholesterol and hypertension. Of course there are the smaller factors that are still risk factors but don’t seem to play as significant of a role in regards to increasing your risk. Needless to say there are more than a dozen risk factors if not two dozen [...]

No one likes to feel hungry and we all know by now (hopefully) that starvation diets do not work. Sure, you may lose weight, but you’ll gain it all back, plus more – and what good is that?  Yet, for some reason, countless men women turn to fat-blocking drugs and appetite suppressants hoping to lose the extra 20, 30 and even 60 pounds they’re carrying around.  But, do you really know how dangerous these weight-loss “solutions” really are?  Do you [...]

It’s a scary thought, but well over half of the people in the US are walking around with pre-diabetes, chronic inflammation, hypertension, fatty livers and plaque in their arteries. And, most of them don’t even know it.  All they know is that their belly’s have gotten bigger than they should be, and their cholesterol is probably high. These poor health markers are a cluster of symptoms classically known as Syndrome X, or Metabolic Syndrome. It occurs as a result of [...]

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 [...]

Hopefully very few of you reading this have ever had a stroke, but you probably have a family member or friend who has.  This article is to shed some light on what research is looking at in regards to improving the recovery of a stroke patient and minimizing the damage caused because of a stroke. In the Translational Stroke Research Journal published online there is a study titled Docosahexaenoic Acid Therapy of Experimental Ischemic Stroke.  Now don’t get overwhelmed by [...]