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AK Lifestyle Guide
AK Lifestyle was created to encourage balance and holistic living. Our team firmly believes that combining all of the elements below will help you achieve health on a new level. Although food is only one part of a lifestyle change, living it fully with these actions can really change your life.
Could your hormones be contributing to weight gain?
Life is all about balance. This is a common philosophy that has been adopted more and more in today’s society. Balance comes in many different forms. Many of us strive to achieve balance in our personal lives and work...
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Happy Mind = Happy Life
Having a positive mindset is something that needs to be cultivated. One of the most effective tools in cultivating this is through a gratitude practice.
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Is there such thing as eating too clean?
So you eat clean. Great! You eat clean consistently. Great! You eat the same clean foods consistently. Not so great. Eating too many of the same types of foods, even the cleanest foods, can alter your gut bacteria and...
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Mindfulness is Your Weapon Against Stress
Mindfulness has reached its tipping point. Once a mysterious, fringe practice, it simply means becoming more attuned to the present moment, often through meditation. Top achievers — from financier Ray Dalio to media magnate Arianna Huffington — have raved about its benefits. Athletes having been...
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The Death of Diets
As a health and fitness professional a frequent question I find myself answering is what I think of the newest fad diets on the market and dieting in general. Let’s just say I don’t believe in them!
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Environmental toxins
As shocking as it may sound, factory based food systems use many chemicals such as: harmful preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, food colouring (dyes), artificial flavours, food chemicals to preserve, genetically modified foods, hybridization of natural foods, and hydrogenated oils. Toxic...
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Grass-fed beef
In today’s world, with all the exposure created by social media, it seems very difficult for anybody to keep anything away from the public eye. The industrial meat production industry, has however done an incredible job of keeping their...
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Healthy Hormones = Healthy You
When we think of food we generally think of our stomach. If it’s full - we stop. If we feel we have room for more, we keep eating, and sometimes we just can’t stop eating due to the nature...
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Artifical light and learning to unplug
The light bulb was one of the greatest inventions in history. We light our homes, hospitals, streets and more. With the innovation of Artificial light came new jobs, and the practice of the “night shift” was created. Now businesses...
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Not all calories are made equal
Calories may appear the same, but are they really? This is a subject that has had many different perspectives, it's very critical to understand the different types of calories and how they effect our overall health.
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Processed foods and pills. The new normal?
It’s called junk food for a reason and it’s making you sick. Processed foods are made of chemicals and unnatural ingredients that harm our health. To counter attack, the damages, we now see an increase of medicines created to...
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Why do diets generally FAIL?
We don’t like the word diet. We call what we do a lifestyle, one where we live it every single day. A lifestyle has to be sustainable, yet full of experiments, there are learnings, highlights and some pit falls.
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