WELLNESS

For centuries, the sun was revered as the creator of life. Our ancestors believed that the absence of sunlight made things worse and brought suffering. So, they would try to make the most of the sunlight and its healing properties. With time, we lost this connection with the sun. Then, there came a time when we started shying away from the sun because we found out that it could cause premature aging and skin cancer. After decades of completely shunning sunlight, people now realize the importance of sunlight once again. With vitamin D deficiency increasingly becoming a major public health...

It’s that time of year again! After the year that has been, I think we are all amazed that it is finally coming to an end. With it, comes the hustle, bustle and craziness of end-of-year celebrations. Getting dressed up, donning those high heels, gorging on good food and wine… it’s no wonder everyone always feels extra festive during the festive season. And so we should! This year especially, we all deserve to celebrate in style as we say goodbye to the year that was (and good riddance) and hello to a fresh start in 2021. But, we don’t want...

Have you ever been told you should take some magnesium after working out to help with muscle pain? If you’re like me, you probably scoffed at the idea. I’m that person who makes it to the gym when I can (let’s not get into numbers here), but I am hardly an avid gym goer. I never considered the need to supplement it considering my very low weight-lifting threshold. Then I discovered all the wonderful benefits it actually offers, and low and behold, these apply to the non-pro-weight-lifting champions…ie the people like me. As you would expect, magnesium plays an important...

Find out how to implement the 3 key steps to getting rid of bad habits and cementing new ones.  We’ve all got bad habits that we’d like to eradicate from our lives. However getting rid of them in isolation can be almost impossible. A far smarter strategy is to pair the bad habit that you want to get rid of with a corresponding good habit that you can replace it with.   Let’s consider a simple 3-step method to allow you to do exactly that.  How Habits Work There are three steps to the creation of habits: The Trigger The Behavior...