8 hard and fast facts about heart attacks
What comes to mind when you think of heart attacks? A grey-haired, overweight man clutching his chest with one hand, lit cigarette in the other? His poor heart suffocating in fat, struggling to pump?
How does obesity affect your health?
You are so much more than a number on a scale. BUT. Carrying extra kilos can cut your life short. Researchers have found that moderate obesity reduces life expectancy by about 3 years and severe obesity can shorten a person’s life by 10 years.
5 ways to improve your sleep.
Sleep too little? You feel like cr*p. Too much? You feel like cr*p. Always sleeping? You’d miss out on life. Never sleeping? You’d die.
TOP 5 TECH GADGETS OF 2018
If there’s one thing we love more than coffee it’s…actually there’s nothing we love more than coffee. But tech comes close. Here are 5 super cool tech inventions from 2018.
A New Year’s ResolUtion – PART 1
Flying home from Sydney last week, I found myself listening to the safety announcement made on every airliner in the world. I must have heard it hundreds of times, but I’ve never really taken it in properly. The part I happened to tune in to was:
A New Year’s ResolUtion – PART 2
Today’s children are the most inactive generation in human history. And it shows: one third of American kids are overweight or obese. This is triple what it was 30 years ago.
Heart attacks at Christmas
What do you get when you put Uncle Baz, Aunt Meryl, several cousins, 70kg of prawns, a double-decker Pav, and a heated political discussion in the same room? Christmas. And according to some studies – an increased risk of a heart attack.
Is skipping breakfast bad for you?
According to a study out of Sweden, opting out of breakfast may cause you to overeat for the remainder of the day. This is bad enough – ain’t nobody got time for feeling bloated. But get this: opting out of your morning meal may also affect your health later on in life.
How I became BFFs with my Fitbit
I began dabbling with fitness trackers 8 years ago when I purchased a Suunto. I wanted to track how far and fast I was running and what my heart was doing. I set up my watch excitedly…