"The regard for ones well-being and happiness." I believe that self-love is misunderstood and become a bit of a 'trend' if you will. Loving yourself and living a life completely to benefit you is actually pretty difficult, especially in this day and age. I believe self love takes two forms: emotionally and physically. You have…
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Frequent Questions about Diet and Health – Explained
"Losing Weight Quick" The answer to this is simple. There is no quick way to change something functionally within your body. There are a few reasons for this. Your body doesn't want to change if it doesn't have to. If you are functioning right now, your body doesn't understand why it needs to change. So,…
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The Vegan Diet – Review of “The Game Changers”
A vegan diet - a diet that is plant based and has no contribution from animal sources (meat, eggs, fish, butter, milk, cheese etc). This documentary "Game Changers", predominantly focused on vegan elite athletes and how this has impacted there performance. The documentary also touched on global warming and other benefits from a plant based…
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9 Myths Busted!
You can target a specific area for fat burn. This is wrong on every level. No amount of crunches will ever make you loose fat on your stomach. No specific exercise will ever target fat burn in a specific area. If you want to loose weight. Its simple, you eat SLIGHTLY less than normal, and…
Body Positivity!
Throughout the years the "ideal body type" has changed drastically. These changes in body types are widely variable. Due to this, attaining the ideal is physically impossible. Every one in this world is given one body in which cannot be drastically changed. We must learn to love it, love the body that only you have…
What you can do about it!
There are a multitude of issues in the food and health industry, too many to count, too many that differ dependant on you! It is therefore impossible to give a full proof, well explained solution to all the issues that we face with food and our health. The truth is there is no singular solution,…
The Power of You
The Manipulation of Food, Mind and Body We tend to view food as one of 3 things: A substance used to manipulate the body to achieve a specific body type or ‘look’.We view food as a way of comfort, a way of control.We eat for pleasure a form of entertainment and social connection. Society plays…
We need help!
We are a struggling nation, in many aspects, we are a dying nation. We rely on substance for pleasure, a non-constant, unreliable source. Societal roles and pressures have created a reality that relies on manipulation of the masses. The government’s main income is derived from the addictions and desires of the public. Our nation is…
Sugar Addiction
Refined sugar and its grip on the population is driving our obesity epidemic, eating disorders, self esteem issues, ensuring a loss of control over your own mind and body and causing many issues surrounding our declining health. Sugar and its toxicity is the world's best kept secret and this has to change. There are two…
About Me
My name is Mairi Gardner, i am 18 years old and i am currently in my second year of university, studying fitness, nutrition and health. I am using this blog mainly as a place to share my opinions, thoughts and feelings on the many complex and controversial subjects about health as a whole and what…
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