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Tips For Safe Exercise After Open Heart Surgery

What is open heart surgery? Open heart surgery is a procedure commonly performed for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (for treatment of blocked arteries after a heart attack or to prevent a...

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10 Tips to Get Off the Exercise Roller Coaster

Ever heard of the exercise roller coaster? No, it’s not the latest ab trimming infomercial gadget.  The exercise roller coaster refers to when you start an exercise program and things are going...

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Tips for Safe Exercise After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

What is Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery? Coronary artery bypass surgery is a common procedure for reestablishing blood flow to heart muscle.  But before we get ahead of ourselves, it’s important to know...

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Guidelines for Exercise After Angioplasty and Stent

In light of my posts on exercise after a heart attack, open heart surgery, bypass surgery, atrial fibrillation, and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (see links below), I have received numerous...

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What Does “Clinically Proven” Mean in Advertising?

Clinically proven! We’ve all heard it trumpeted across the airwaves for health products. Just the other day, I saw an advertisement on television for a metabolism booster pill which claimed to be...

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“Truthful” But Fibbing Food Labels Can Be Fattening

Food labels can be as fattening as their ingredients if you’re not viewing them with a critical eye. It’s not always what they’re telling you, but more so what they’re not.  Imagine this: Food label:...

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Safe Exercise with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

Your heart beats in a controlled rhythmic manner in order to efficiently deliver blood—and the oxygen and nutrients it carries—to different parts of your body. Any disturbance in the heart’s electrical...

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LifePharm Global’s Laminine: Independent Review of Marketing Claims

Laminine the Happy Pill? LifePharm Global’s Laminine dietary supplement popped onto my consumer advocacy radar when I received a new Twitter follower whose profile referenced some sort of happy pill. I...

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Slendertone Review: Slimming Your Waist Or Wallet?

The Slendertone Flex Pro ab toner belt plopped onto my radar recently when a reader of my popular Ab Wave review left a comment asking me if I’d ever heard of it.  I hadn’t heard of this specific...

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In Defense of My Comprehensive Laminine Review

Althea Laminine Distributor Website Attempt to Debunk My Laminine Review I knew it was only a matter of time until a pro-Laminine distributor tried to obfuscate the truth by “debunking” my original...

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Hyperinsulinaemia Exercise Guidelines

If you’ve been diagnosed with hyperinsulinaemia, that’s not good news, but it’s also not the end of the world if you take action now to do something about it. In fact, when I work with clients who have...

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Tips for Safe Exercise With Atrial Fibrillation (AF or A-Fib)

What is Atrial Fibrillation? Before I explain what atrial fibrillation is, it’s important to understand that normal electrical signals in the heart are timed so that the chambers beat in a coordinated...

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Doctors’ Nutrition Knowledge: Settling the Doctor vs. Dietitian Debate

Imagine you’re driving down the road listening to your favourite song, humming along, tapping the steering wheel, just enjoying the beautiful weather. As you enter an intersection, a speeding car runs...

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Carbohysteria – An Open Love Letter to Carbohydrate

Dear Carbohydrate, I love you. I do. I’ve always loved you. From the moment I first set eyes on your chemical structure – C6H12O6 – I knew you were the one for me. Remember all the great threesomes we...

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Is Fruit Sugar Bad For You?

“Can I eat fruit?”  “Will fruit sugar make me fat?”  “I’m on a low carb diet so I cut out fruit because it’s fattening.”   I hear questions and comments like these on a regular basis during consults....

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Body Wraps: Do They Work For Weight Loss?

Let’s get right down to the bottom line:  do body wraps work for weight loss or are they a scam? In short: yes and no. The answer to this question really depends on your own personal expectations.  It...

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How Much Body Fat Should I Have?

I’ve run a LOT of DEXA body fat scans during my health career, but even with a trained eye, I can guarantee you can’t always tell who’s fit or fat just by eyeing up the person. Some people appear to...

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It Works Body Wraps Review

It Works body wraps repeatedly popped up on my radar over the past year after receiving emails from readers of my blog and from colleagues asking what I thought of the product. The It Works website...

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HCG Diet Review 2016 | Does It Work For Weight Loss?

The ugly truth about the HCG diet in 2016 The HCG diet has been around for decades, but does it work and is it safe? I’m not going to mince words: I’m calling the HCG diet yet another gimmicky,...

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Are Chromium Supplements Safe?

Chromium is a popular nutrition supplement which has been on the market for decades. If you’re a dieter, bodybuilder, or have diabetes, you’ve probably even tried it to give you a little jump start to...

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