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June 14, 2013 In Eliminating Toxins, Green & Healthy Living, News, Spotlight, Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

How Healthy is Your Liver? Gallbladder and Liver Flush by Andreas Moritz

In April of this year, I spent the month in Costa Rica at the Blue Sprit Resort, the first week was comprised of attending a yoga retreat that YYoga organizes at this resort annually and the remaining three weeks were spent working and relaxing at a home we rented on the Blue Spirit property. It was a magical month but what I am most grateful for is learning about The Amazing Gallbladder and Liver Flush by Andreas Moritz. How I learned about the flush: During the week of the yoga retreat, I went for a Chi Nei Tsang Therapy massage with Pascal, one of...

November 2, 2012 In Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Dial Down Your Stress Levels With Yoga

Yoga is one of the best ways of coping with the stress of modern life. It doesn’t involve drugs or great expense, and can be practiced by anyone of any age in any physical condition. Most adults spend their lives in a chronic state of being busy. Earning a paycheck, raising children, keeping up a household, and maintaining social relationships require effort and time, and the result is mental and physical stress. Chronic stress is harmful to health. Prolonged stress causes the secretion of various stress hormones, shallow, rapid breathing, and an elevated heart rate. Over time, stress can manifest...

September 8, 2012 In Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Benefits for the Employee

A healthy lifestyle impacts every part of your day-to-day work environment. Corporate Wellness Programs translate into fewer injuries, less human error, and a more harmonious office environment. They also let you know that your organization is concerned about your general health and well-being. A good Corporate Wellness Program will also help reduce stress, which the United Nations has called "the 20th Century Disease." A large majority of office workers complain that their job is stressful - a problem that affects all levels within an organization. Stress from the workday also affects our personal relationships and activities. Human beings are just not designed to...

September 8, 2012 In Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Challenges for Employers

The corporate environment is unique and challenging – and forever changing; however there are some fundamentals that remain the same: the need to be productive and effective in reaching your business objectives and the necessity of having great employees to make that a reality. Employers must achieve both of these objectives without damaging the bottom line. As a part of their process, our clients have shared some of the following challenges/desires: Attracting and retaining the best and brightest talent Improving staff productivity Minimizing health care costs Minimizing WCB and extended claims Maintaining a highly motivated staff with good morale Promoting positive mental health and assisting those...

May 1, 2012 In Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Health Coaches Can Promote Wealth, Too

Do you have a spare $100,000 in your retirement account? That’s the average amount a retiree will likely spend on healthcare as they age, according to recent research from Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research. Fortunately, you can adjust your asset allocation strategy—today—and lower your risk of huge bills later in life. Invest some of your cash in a health coach. Licensed or certified health coaches are health and nutrition experts who can help you develop a regimen to achieve goals like losing weight, lowering cholesterol or boosting your immunity. They may also be doctors, physicians' assistants, or nurses. Many people seek medical intervention after...

March 28, 2012 In Food, Food and Recipes, Green & Healthy Living, Holistic Health, News, Spotlight, Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Eating Ayurvedic: A Diet for Balancing Kapha

The diet to balance kapha corresponds to the many of the low-fat, mostly vegetarian diets out there including that recommended by health and wellness guru Dr. Dean Ornish, as well as those who advocate for raw food veganism. This diet is proportionally rich in antioxidant and anti inflammatory nutrients, and typically low in protein and fat. In Ayurveda this diet is suitable for people that have a sluggish metabolism, that tend to gain weight easily on a rich, nourishing diet. This diet is also an excellent choice to promote detoxification, by shifting energy balance in the body towards elimination. As...

October 3, 2011 In Fitness, News, Spotlight, Uncategorized, Workouts By Vancouver Health Coach

A Personal Trainer’s Guide to Exercise Design

The benefits of exercise are heard everywhere.  Lose fat, gain muscle, improve cardio, look good, feel good, improve sports performance and so on are all reasons as to why people workout.  Many of us will go to the gym with the best intentions but arrive and stare at the large building like a deer in headlights.  For others, they want to get started but don’t know where to start.  How do good coaches help their clients to reach their goals?  Consider the following guide to help you along your journey. 1. Know what your goal is. This seems like a simple concept. ...

May 27, 2011 In Fitness, News, Running, Spotlight, Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Treating Running Injuries With Prolotherapy

With the sun coming out and Spring in bloom, training season is already in full force as runners gear up for this summer’s races.  Sports injuries can get in the way of training and set back an athlete’s progress. Typical treatments for running injuries involve rest, ice, compression and elevation.  The RICE protocol is effective for alleviating acute inflammation, but it does not correct chronic joint dysfunction nor does it repair damaged connective tissue and cartilage. Many athletes are choosing prolotherapy as a treatment for their sports-related injuries.  Prolotherapy is a non-surgical treatment that repairs weakened, stretched and torn ligaments and tendons,...

July 26, 2010 In Food and Recipes, Spotlight, Uncategorized By Vancouver Health Coach

Gluten–Free Breakfast Burrito

A burrito, also named taco de harina, is a type of Mexican food. It often consists of a flour tortilla wrapped or folded around a filling. Southwestern cuisine, New Mexican cuisine, and Tex-Mex in particular, has popularized the breakfast burrito, in which elements of an American breakfast are wrapped inside a flour tortilla with green chile. While Tia Sophia's, a Mexican café in Santa Fe, New Mexico, claims to have invented the original breakfast burrito in 1975, Fitness Goop offers this gluten-free mouth watering option. Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Without it your metabolism will slow...