Skip the Pain: Learn How Massage Can Help

Skip the Pain: Learn How Massage Can Help

Chronic pain is a problem that affects millions of Americans each year. For some people, chronic pain is due to a known condition that�s simply hard to fix, like a hurt back. For others, pain is related to harder to diagnose and treat conditions like fibromyalgia.

There�s also a group of individuals who experience pain regularly because of exercise. While you might think all of these people are athletes, many people who simply want to stay in good shape feel the aches and pains as they age.

Whatever type of pain you have, it isn�t something you just need to live with. Massage could be the answer you�re looking for.

1. Consider therapeutic massage aimed at your specific problem if you have chronic pain. For individuals with problems like lower back pain or chronic neck pain, there are clinics for massage therapy Calgary residents trust. Getting regular massages from a person who understands your condition could help to alleviate pain.

2. Check with your insurance provider to see if massages are covered. If you have a chronic condition like fibromyalgia, you may be able to have insurance pay for a certain number of therapeutic massages each month or year.

3. Go to a special sports massage clinic or practitioner if you regularly have pain due to physical activity. When you look for somebody that does sports massage in Calgary, you want to make sure that�s they�re primary focus since it�s a pretty different style of massage than others you may be familiar with.

Learning to love legumes - reblogging a great article by Sally Marchini

Well, seeing yesterday's post was about resistant starch and the gut microbiome, it's only fitting that today I want to share a post about one of the excellent natural sources of resistant starch- that would be legumes. Legumes are things like peas, beans and lentils and they are nutritional powerhouses with fantastic nutrient qualities, a great source of plant based protein, low GI carbohydrates and, you guessed it, resistant starch.

The blog I am sharing today is by my friend Sally Marchini - Accredited Practising Dietitian and the social media dietitian for Diabetes Counselling Online.  Sally can be frequently found on social media and over at her own place, Marchini Nutrition, and she has a wonderful, practical and balanced approach to good healthy nutrition.  Here's what Sally has to say about legumes (just click on the title below to go to the article)

Learning to love legumes

Her tips for using legumes in all sorts of ways are great and worth bookmarking for that day when you're all out of inspiration - I know I will.

Want to read more of Sally's great posts? A list of her blog posts can be found here - I recommend you have a look!
And don't forget to love your legumes!!

Lyndal @ Lean Green and Healthy

Resistant starch and a healthy gut

Happy Monday morning everyone!

There's an interesting commentary in today's Medical Journal of Australia on resistant starch - we should be eating more of it ! 

So what is resistant starch? 

Resistant starch is a type of dietary fibre that is fermented in the large bowel and feeds the gut microbiome- the bacteria in your bowel that do so much good. Despite the messages to eat more fibre, and people are doing that, most people are increasing their fibre with processed foods like cereals, which don't necessarily contain resistant starch. More fibre yes, but all the great health benefits, no.  There is evidence that a healthy gut microbiome plays a role in preventing diabetes, obesity and some cancers, so its worth taking a moment to understand how to keep it healthy.

Click here for more from the CSIRO:

So where do you find resistant starch? 

It can be found in some starchy fruits and vegetables (eg bananas and sweet potatoes), in legumes (have I told you how awesome beans, chick peas and lentils are lately?) and interestingly,  in some cooked and cooled starchy foods. Cooking and cooling starchy foods like  rice, pasta and potatoes, and eating them cold, lowers the GI and increases the amount of resistant starch. Add some healthy fats and lemon juice and you lower the GI further - so in great news for the southern hemisphere, summer is coming and its time for potato salad, pasta salad and rice salad OH YEAH!  

For more interesting information on resistant starch check out this post from Precision Nutrition here:
All about resistant starch

You can read the article from Medical Journal of Australia here:
Feeding a hungry microbiome


And here's some great recipes for summer salads from the Australian Healthy Food Guide, search the site for more:
 Tuna and chargrilled vegetable pasta salad
Classic potato salad
Veggie packed brown rice salad 

So there's your challenge for this week, go feed your gut!!

Lyndal @ Lean Green and Healthy

Commercial Fitness Equipment Store

In case you have no idea on what type of business that you should run or have, perhaps opening fitness center or gym could be the business that you want. You probably think it is weird to have fitness center as your business, but if you think about all the benefits, you know that you should have this business instead of other types of business. Now, the very obvious benefit that you can get if you have fitness center and gym as your business is you can get the chance to spread the awareness of healthy and fit lifestyle and you can use your body as the living-proof and example to the potential fitness center members. The next thing that you have to think about is getting the fitness equipment supplies for your fitness center and gym and there are so many fitness equipment suppliers out there, but only few of them which provide the best fitness equipments.

 

What you need is not only the best fitness equipments, but also durable because there are so many different members who are going to access your fitness center or gym. Durable fitness equipments mean future investment for you so you do not have to renew your fitness equipments for the next three years. The online Gym Equipment in Narellan is one of the well-known suppliers for fitness equipments as they have been supplying countless of fitness center, gyms, and even private fitness users. They are offering various fitness equipments like cardio and strength equipment from top manufacturers in the fitness industries. Other fitness equipments that you might need to complete your fitness center business are treadmills, upright bikes, elliptical machines, air rowers, pin- and plate-loaded strength machines and all of them are in the highest quality with the best price that you can compare to other online fitness equipment suppliers.
 

If you do not plan to have large fitness center, the medium-sized fitness center is enough and let the team of expert from the aforementioned fitness equipment supplier helps you to determine which fitness equipments that you should choose so you can fulfill your clients�expectations. Remember that you are going to serve clients with various backgrounds like students, military personnel, commercial gym patrons, and many others so whoever they are; you have to make sure that they are achieving their fitness goals. Besides the highest quality of commercial fitness equipments and the best price offering, the excellent customer service is one of the reasons why you should choose this supplier to supply the fitness equipment for your fitness center business.