Tag: fitness
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Is There Really A Hockey Off-season?
In the past few years, I have noticed that the typical off-ice rest period that occurs during the spring and summer off season is being replaced by spring and summer leagues or tournaments, prospect games, and players starting back up skating programs three to four times each week. Essentially, there is a much shorter, or…
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Nutrition: The Ultimate Facelift
Do these creams and serums really work, and is giving your hard-earned money to these multi million-dollar beauty companies the best way to maintain healthy and youthful skin? The short answer is no. Your skin is an organ, and like any other organ in your body, it’s health and appearance mainly depend on what you…
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What makes a Superfood “Super”: Imposters vs. the MVPs
The term super food has been utilized by food producers for marketing purposes to sell their food as healthy when, in reality, it may not be that “super”, but where did this start?
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Diabetes: A Look Into The Growing Health Epidemic, Part 2
This diet along with my medication did not reverse my diabetes, it only ever managed it, and not very well. My A1C would go from 7.5 to 8 at times. Knowing that type 2 diabetes is high blood sugar, this nutrition would keep me a diabetic for ever.
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20/20 Vision: The Benefits of Sports Vision Therapy
Many athletes believe they have perfect vision because they see 20/20. A standard eye exam measures your visual acuity while looking at a stationary chart, however, the concept of vision is much more complex than that.
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Time off the Skates: The Benefits of Off-time for Young Athletes
In my 30+ years of experience, there is one sport that this commitment and dedication from not only the athletes, but their parents, stands apart from the rest. I think more than any other sport, hockey is the one that parents really push their children, from an increasingly young age, to pursue and excel at.
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Esport: A Real Sport?
Esports is one of, if not the fastest growing discipline in the sporting industry on the planet however, the classification of Esports as a legitimate sport has been controversial. So, the debate persists, is Esport a real sport?
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Honest Health and Fitness Advice in the Age of “Get-Fit-Quick” Schemes
All these fitness trends have one thing in common; they offer an easy and struggle free path to fitness but in the end, leave those who try them without results and questioning if they will ever achieve their fitness goals.