Posted: March 26, 2020
With spring finally here, you might be chomping at the bit to get outside for a bit of fresh air. But, even though the cold and flu season is behind us, you still need to worry about maintaining a healthy immune system to fight off viruses and infections. Viruses can attack anytime and anywhere. To help you stay healthy, you need to support your immune system all year round. How? Give immune-boosting supplements a try! Herbal Supplements That Boost read more…
Posted: March 25, 2020
To our Herbal One family, As we do our best to navigate through these uncertain times, we have the overall health and well-being of our community, clients, and employees top of mind. In response to COVID-19 and as a responsibility to the safety of our clients, we have temporarily closed all Herbal One locations across Canada. While our storefronts are closed, we are still very active! Making the shift to virtual consultations, our amazing staff continues to advise, direct, and read more…
Posted: March 24, 2020
What’s your day like after a sleepless night? Chances are that it’s not one of your shining moments. You feel sluggish, you can’t think straight, every action seems like a chore, and, well, you wouldn’t even want to be around you. What about when you have a great sleep? Quite a difference, eh?! What most people don’t appreciate is that every other system and part of your body has a bad day when you don’t get proper sleep. They all read more…
Posted: March 10, 2020
Following our last post about “ Why Dieting is Worse for You Than Being Overweight ”, we thought that many of you might be wondering what you can do to help you manage your weight. The first step would be to get yourself out of the “dieting” mindset of drastically changing your diet for a short period of time, hoping for long-term results. Sustained weight loss can only happen with sustained transformations to your diet and lifestyle. 4 Things You Can Do Instead Of Dieting There are way read more…
Posted: February 27, 2020
If we live in an information age, the downside is that a lot of the information is a bit of “the same old, same old”. If you’re battling to manage your weight, you probably see headlines like “Lose weight fast”, “Blast away belly fat” and “Lose weight for good”, almost daily. But, suddenly one headline leaps off the screen at you, one like you’ve never seen, and one that is at polar opposites to all the others . “Dieting Will Kill You Faster than Obesity” Wow. read more…
Posted: February 25, 2020
Maybe you’ve just decided to go easy on yourself and just be you. Maybe you’re tired of the disappointment of trying one fad diet after another, and never seeing any long-term results. One way or another, many people, who really would rather live life at a healthier weight, give up on doing so because of the difficulties and disappointment they experience have sapped their motivation. Headlines You Can Use to Motivate Your Weight Loss Losing weight isn’t just about looking read more…
Posted: February 17, 2020
It’s not like being overweight isn’t frustrating enough by itself. But, to add to the stress, many people don’t understand why they are overweight. It may not be in their family history, they may eat a healthy diet and they may be active regularly. But still, they carry the extra weight. From the barrage of unrealistic media images to human genetics, there are many factors that may not be immediately apparent, but that can make it more difficult to manage read more…
Posted: February 12, 2020
While getting things done is always a challenge, there are some things where just getting them started seems impossible. You know the feeling, the house is a mess and you’re wearing the same thing for the third time because the thought of cleaning or doing the laundry in unbearable. What’s perhaps most interesting in these situations is that, once you get finally get started, the cleaning or laundry aren’t nearly the chores you made them out to be Few things read more…
Posted: February 4, 2020
One of the worst things about being overweight or obese is that the news always seems to get worse. A quick example is exercising for weight loss. First, they told you you need to get more physical activity so you can burn more calories than you eat. Ugh. Then, someone somewhere decided you needed at least 150 minutes of “moderate to vigorous” exercise – every week – if you wanted to be healthy. Double ugh. Today we change all that. read more…
Posted: January 30, 2020
Alright, forgive the “weight-busting” in the title. It’s not like anything we mention below is going to produce any major weight loss by itself. But we want you to get pumped for this one because it’s something that you may not take advantage of. And we’re not just talking about turning housework into a workout. If we all got more used to the idea of turning almost every physical activity into a “workout”, we can add significantly to the calories read more…
Posted: January 22, 2020
Ok. That’s it. The holidays are over. It’s time for full-on hibernation mode. Except, while the animals in the woods eat a lot of food before hibernating, human hibernation can mean going on a Netflix binge while huddled under blankets with a big bowl of cheesies. Hibernation also means you’re probably less active. The combination of increased time in front of the TV, computer or Instagram, and simply not getting outside as much, delivers a double whammy to your weight read more…
Posted: January 14, 2020
“Most diet trials in the best journals fail even the most basic of quality control measures.” That line in the heading of a recent New York Times article hit us like a lightning bolt. Before we go any further, generally speaking, a diet trial is a controlled test of different diets on humans. Yes, we’ve told you many times about why it’s so difficult (impossible for many) to achieve healthy, sustained weight loss from weight loss diets. Yes, the best way to lose weight read more…
