The ancient art of colon cleansing, cleaning the large intestine, dates back to ancient Greece. The two main methods for cleansing the colon include taking supplements through the mouth or rectum, and colon irrigation, whereby you insert a small tube into your rectum and flush water into your...
It’s fair to say that I absolutely LOVE Survivor. When the idea was presented to me to write an article on the the popular TV show and how it relates to weight loss, I jumped on it.
I’ve been watching Survivor since it aired in the year 2000. However, in the last 8 years...
I recently wrote about a law of learning known as operant conditioning. One of those types of operant conditioning was positive reinforcement. Reinforcement refers to a consequence that increases the likelihood of repeating a behaviour. Humans are more likely to repeat behaviours that are...
The lemon cleanse diet, also known as the master cleanse, is famous for being followed by Beyonce and its ability to provide dramatic weight loss results.
The lemon detox diet has been around for 50 years, but to tell the truth, I’ve only just heard about it. I’ve never...
To a child, LOVE is spelt T-I-M-E. When you have children, time for yourself, including time for exercise, is dramatically reduced. I’m not one to promote multi tasking but combining exercise and play with your children is very effective. Not only do you spend time with your children, you...
Positive punishment is just one way humans shape behaviour. Punishment is to make a behaviour less likely to occur and the positive component is about giving something. Can giving an aversive consequence to a non-desirable behaviour help you achieve your health goals?
In psychology, there...
Shake diets can help you lose weight FAST! There are also many stories of people losing weight fast but putting it all back on again though. Shake diets have been controversial because they no doubt get results, but how sustainable are those results?
The main reason shake diets work...
PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. It is a condition in which women have an imbalance of the hormones, oestrogen and progesterone. This leads to the growth of cysts on the ovaries. These cysts are benign but can cause problems with the menstrual cycle, fertility, cardiac function and...
Do you want to start exercising? Do you want to exercise more? How do people who lose massive amounts of weight, or run a marathon for the first time, do it? One of the strategies is a simple hack of the human mind. It’s so innate that you’ve actually been doing it since the day you...
The idea of counting calories has been around for a long time. It became popular around the turn of the 20th century when a scientist by the name of Wilbur Atwater noticed that the energy of food could be measured when you burned it. He discovered that you could measure how much energy was in...
The 2016 Olympic Games has been one of the most memorable olympic games in history. Billions of people tuned in to watch the world’s best athletes go head-to-head. We saw athlete’s experience euphoria, agony, and everything in between as they strived for their own level of excellence....
As a physical literacy consultant at the Northern Territory Institute of Sport I fully understand the importance of physical literacy. Matching one’s level of physical literacy with the appropriate exercise gives them the foundation to succeed and avoid injury.
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