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Have patience with weight loss
The best weight loss tip? Have patience! During the first few weeks of a diet, a rapid drop in weight may happen. Most of that lost...
by Eve Lees
Nov 25, 20162 min read
Exercise is important, but make nutrition your top priority
We need to be physically active and nutrition is vital to fuel and support physical activity. Over 35 years ago I began my career in the...
by Eve Lees
Nov 13, 20164 min read
pH balance: Can diet make you ‘acidic’?
Originally published in The White Rock Sun, November 2016 Among the many highly debated health topics is the belief your body can become acidic from eating acid-forming foods, like meats and grains . . . and that being ‘acidic’ is linked to poor health. These assumptions are partly right and partly wrong because they have been extremely simplified. Your body’s alkalinity or acidity – your pH balance – is a very confusing, complicated process. Can we become acidic? Well . .
by Eve Lees
Nov 3, 20168 min read
Avoid exercise/diet overkill
Previously published in 1993 (as Eve’s newspaper health column) in The Langley Times, The Surrey Leader, The Abbotsford News, Today’s Times, and Mackenzie Report Inc. Also published in the Oct-Nov-Dec 1999 issue of Personal Health Newsletter Small steps best for making lifestyle changes . . . Simon, James, Dick, and Marcie all made big, overnight changes to their lifestyles. Simon Wilson (not his real name) eagerly threw himself into a seven-day-per-week exercise program
by Eve Lees
Nov 1, 20163 min read
