Author Archives : Bel Marra Health

Cholesterol is a wax like substance that is present in the cell walls throughout your body. When serum cholesterol levels are in a healthy range, cholesterol is actually health-supporting. However, if your cholesterol levels get too high, your risk for atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke and even cardiac death vastly increase. Luckily, nature has provided us ...click here to read more

The majority of the population would like to enhance athletic performance, overcome obesity, shape up or simply increase their energy. The gym is the perfect place to achieve these goals and fight obesity; however, with the ever increasing amount of exercise machines it can be hard to decipher the beneficial ones from the useless and/or ...click here to read more

Heart attacks and strokes are a very real problem in this country. The American Heart Association reports that 72 million people over the age of 20 suffer from high blood pressure. The Center for Disease Control states that there are 2 million heart attacks and strokes responsible for 800,000 deaths per year in the United ...click here to read more

It’s long been known that the foods comprising a person’s diet have a number of physiological impacts. New research, however, is suggesting that increased calorie consumption doesn’t just contribute to obesity, but also on the brain’s ability to function. Having a healthy diet, therefore, can combat obesity in seniors and also improve their mental performance, ...click here to read more

Long used as treatment for diabetes, insulin has shown to produce positive effects with regard to memory loss and overall brain function, while now being considered a possible remedy for the impacts of Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia in the world. It impacts memory and cognition, often resulting in with ...click here to read more

Everyone knows how important it is to get adequate amounts of sleep, especially before and after exercise or working out. If we don’t get enough sleep we will likely feel cranky and lethargic the next day, find it difficult to function and our performance will be compromised. Studies have shown that sleep regulates our mood ...click here to read more

Have you made a decision to lose weight? Have you tried numerous diets? Have you committed to a regular exercise program? Are you in good health but are still unable to shed those unwanted pounds? With your motivation waning, have you wondered if there’s something – anything – else you can do to help you ...click here to read more

If you were suddenly having a heart attack or stroke, would you know what to do? Each year, roughly 70,000 Canadians have a heart attack – that’s one heart attack every 7 minutes. And every 10 minutes, someone has a stroke. In fact, heart disease and stroke are two of the top three leading causes ...click here to read more