Fad diets began in the 1930s with the liquid diet and the grapefruit diet. A fad diet consists of a diet that eliminates one or more food groups.
Accountability is “an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.” I’m sure many of you have heard the term accountability, especially in a professional setting.
Self-efficacy is your belief in your own abilities to deal with a situation or complete a task. Also looked at as your belief in your own ability to succeed.
As your heart beats it pumps blood around your body to provide energy and oxygen. As your blood moves it pushes against the walls of your blood vessels. The strength of this pushing is your blood pressure.
Your waist circumference is the measurement around your waist. It is important to understand your waist circumference because it can be used to indicate if you are at risk of things like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease.
Depression is a common but serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, think, and act. It has been shown that depression affects about 17.3 million American adults 18 and older.
Knowing the difference between good stress and bad stress is extremely important. If you allow yourself to experience to much bad stress it can cause a lot of harm to your body.
Meditation is a simple way to reduce your daily stress, it can help you to restore your calm and inner peace. In meditation you focus your attention and get rid of any thoughts that are crowding your mind and causing you stress.
Walking each day can have many benefits to your health including weight loss, improvement in your mood, more energy, and it can even help with your digestion.
When we’re at home it can often be easy to fall into sitting on the couch and watching TV everyday when you get home from work. After a long and stressful workday, the last thing you want to do is exercise.