10 Quick, Easy & Healthy Snack Ideas

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At Lifestyle Health Retreats we believe that you CAN take control of what you eat by going for some healthy snacks that can be prepared quickly. The whole idea of planning, preparing and cooking food can seem overwhelming at times and it is early to quickly turn to fast food restaurants, microwaves, and packaged foods. […]

5 Common Running Mistakes to Avoid

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At Lifestyle Health Retreats we understand that a big part of establishing a daily practice of health and fitness is working out safely. Whether you are optimizing your health by running or walking, the point is to move more and establish habits that fit your lifestyle and fitness level. If you are someone that enjoys […]

6 Easy Tips for Learning How to Think Positively

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At LHR we believe that an integral part of over health and wellbeing is mental health. Often how successful we are is directly related to our thought patterns. Positive thinking is a mental attitude that expects good and favourable outcomes from life. A mind that is in a positive state allows you to anticipate happiness, […]

Discover Why Your Diet May Not Be Working

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At Lifestyle Health Retreats (LHR), we recognize that achieving optimal health and wellness involves more than just following a diet. Many individuals embark on diets with high hopes, only to find them unsuccessful. Let’s consider the case of Jennifer, a middle-aged single mother with a six-year-old daughter. Despite her efforts to cut out sweets, control […]

How You Can Lose Weight by Making the Right Choices about What You Eat

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At Lifestyle Health Retreats, we recognize that a healthy lifestyle is maintained by what happens once you get back home from your fitness, weight loss or yoga holiday. One of the important factors in long term weight loss is dictated by making the right choices when it comes to diet and nutrition. Avoiding fatty foods […]

Discover the benefits of “5-P” Precision Medicine

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By Dr. Kostas Papadopoulos Have you heard of it before? Have you ever experienced personalized medicine or “Precision Medicine”? Let me introduce you to the “5 P” medicine system. It is defined as Precise, Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory. This can change your life, and your health. Precision medicine can transform health care as you know […]

UNRAVELING THE COMPLEXITIES OF YOGA

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A group of yoga teacher friends and I were having a discussion recently about our students: despite our specific efforts to offer multiple versions, or levels, for some poses, our students almost always jump straight to the most difficult one. Often, this decision leads to a loss of strength and form, lots of shaking, and […]

“Reversing & Averting Diabetes” before it rules your life!

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By Dr. Kostas Papadopoulos One of my latest patients and a good American friend; we call him John, came to me one day looking tired….really tired. I thought it was because John had been working too hard lately as an English teacher in Bangkok due to many late hours, early mornings and too many KFC meals! […]

Detox vs. Weight Loss Retreat – What is the right choice for you?

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By Jeff Nieuwenhuizen “Should I do a detox or weight loss retreat?” This is probably one of the most important questions to ask yourself before booking a retreat. So many clients ask this question that it is worth explaining why a detox retreat is not the best choice if you want to lose weight.   […]

Lose fat, not weight.

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                      The commercial weight-loss market generates nearly $36 billion each year. How? Repeat business. Conventional weight-loss programs experience a 98% failure rate. Why? People lose lean muscle, not fat. Once they resume normal eating habits, the weight returns – plus more. You can’t starve fat […]

Excuses Are Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Efforts

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Sometimes it is really quite entertaining to listen to the amount of excuses that people use that are sabotaging their weight loss efforts. No different to ‘why haven’t you done your homework’, we are conditioned from a young age to give excuses and reasons to justify why we haven’t done something that we know we […]

Throw Out Your New Year’s Resolutions in 2013

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The internet is full of articles to help you overcome the same challenges you face every year. Resolutions themselves are the problem! So this year, I want to do something different.

Here we will offer you some inside tips to help you become that 20% and ensure your resolutions remain in tact and become achievements. Never again will you need to make these New Year resolutions.