Prevent Chronic Health Conditions and maintain your best Quality of Life
Unhealthy lifestyle choices such as a lack of exercise, poor diet, and inadequate stress tempering techniques to relieve chronic stress can all lead to the development of chronic disease or increase the progression of it. Yes it is true that the chronic diseases that truly plague our society are in fact mostly ‘man-made’. But there […]
Sugar impairs our body’s ability to detoxify
Sugar impairs our body’s ability to detoxify by sabotaging our major detoxification organ, the liver. Processed sugar and high fructose corn syrup creates inflammation in the liver and promotes a fatty build up in this organ called fatty liver. Fatty liver is observed not only in Type 2 diabetics but more and more in children and teens […]
Be careful of New Year’s Resolutions to exercise more!
Many people start new exercise programs as part of their New Year’s Resolution to lose weight, but be careful! A rushed reconditioning program may find you injured instead. Doing new exercises with repetitive stress being placed on the muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and bones may find you more susceptible to sprains, pulled muscles, fractures, shin […]
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month
March is Colon Awareness Month Dress in Blue to show your support. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and NMR encourages making lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of all types of cancer. This month is also National Nutrition Month, which is another good reason to focus on improving your health. •Eat a variety of fruits, […]
Day #100. Weight loss goals met! The first 100 Day: A journey to health & wellness
2014 Boston Marathon Volunteer recap: Kristen, a Licensed Massage Therapist stretched and massaged runners after they finished the marathon. Sean, a Registered Nurse cared for runners along the course who could not finish the race. It was our pleasure to lend our skills to the marathon runners and to the […]
Day #90. Finish Strong. The first 100 days: A journey to health & wellness.
Day #90 We did not post an update last week because we realized that somewhere along the way we got 1 week ahead of ourselves (human error). Today Monday April 21, 2014 is in fact day #90. Today we are volunteering our time and skills at the 2014 Boston Marathon. Our assignments […]
Day #82. Beyond diet and exercise. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness.
Day #82 Beyond diet and exercise. We have and continue to learn about nutrition, exercise and ourselves. We are often asked questions about nutrition and exercise. But in reality, the key to being successful is not merely eating healthy food and exercising frequently. If you want to lose weight and […]
Day #75. The final stretch. The first 100 days: A journey to health & wellness.
Day #75 Progress update. We have completed ¾ of the 100 day project, we are in the final stretch. Last week we made a firm commitment to make exercise a priority! Going forward we will do more of the same. Our nutrition will stay the same and we will continue to make […]
Day #67 Weight loss goal met, now what? The first 100 days: A journey to health & wellness.
Day # 67 Sean: I hit my weight loss goal! I have lost 20 lbs. My weight loss had plateaued for a few weeks and to be honest I was becoming a bit discouraged. Since making a few changes suggested by Dr. Sferra, I have lost weight two […]
Day #50 (halfway point). What we’ve learned so far. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness.
Friday 3/7/14 marked our Day #50. We are at the halfway point of our First 100 days: A journey to health and wellness project, but we are just beginning our life long commitment to living a healthy lifestyle. On January 20th 2014 we started Dr. Sferra’s weight management plan offered at Natural Medicine & Rehabilitation because we wanted […]
