Whole Health Partners’ Blog
How 30 Minutes a Day can Positively Effect Nearly every Bodily System
The benefits of walking are well known. Even just 30 minutes of walking a day will positively affect nearly every bodily system. Even better news? If 30 minutes sounds too hard to squeeze in, breaking up that walk into 10 or 15-minute segments provides the same health benefits!
The Secret of Sleep and Weight Loss
Squeezing in a run before work? Staying up late to hit the gym?
When you’re working toward a health or fitness goal—like losing weight for example—it can be tempting to sacrifice your sleep in favor of physical exercise.
But doing so may be shooting yourself in the foot.
How to Find Joy in Everyday Movement (Yes, Joy!)
At Whole Health Partners, we believe that you don’t need to overthink exercise. Joyful, healthy movement can encompass so much more than traditional sports or fitness routines. (Yes, even walking to a restaurant counts!)
This is why we often make physical movement a secondary goal, after tackling more complex things like nutrition and sleep with our patients.
Get these Tools to Sleep, Eat and Exercise Better!
You wouldn’t run a marathon without first investing in a good pair of shoes. Yet whether it’s recipes, exercise routines, or meditation techniques—we often jump straight to specific action steps and tactics when we want to make changes toward a healthier lifestyle.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
The wider medical profession has long understood that lifestyle and behavior plays a critical role in overall health. What’s sometimes been less well understood, however, is how to make behavior change actually stick.
Whole Health Method: What Is It, and How Can It Help You?
There are no silver bullets when taking care of your health. Yet there are countless decisions that each of us make every single day which can impact our wellbeing in both positive and negative ways. When we are in the thick of our day-to-day lives, however, it can be hard to stick to a plan.
Symptoms are a signal, but what’s the root cause?
Having practiced nutrition counseling and lifestyle medicine for more than a decade, one simple insight has become increasingly and abundantly clear: Many — if not most — patients I’ve worked with have one to three underlying factors or influences that are both driving the specific health issues they are facing, and also getting in the way of implementing solutions.
10 Ways to Improve How You Feel Today
Who among us doesn’t need more energy from time-to-time? Yet many of the go-to strategies for getting a quick ‘hit’ of energy— sugary foods, energy drinks, a tall caramel latte—can often end up being counterproductive.