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The Low-Down On Stand Up Desks

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Healthy TV Episode 082

Do you use stand up desks? Yes or no? Let me know in the comments below!

With all the stories about the ‘epidemic of sitting disease,’ and how ‘sitting is the new smoking’ it’s no wonder people are looking for an alternative…

Stand Up Desks are flying off the shelf and the increase in demand has actually brought a lot more competition to the market, driving prices down – wooo!! You can now get a decent desk-top standing station for ~$200 which is great, especially for anyone with a home office!

However Stand Up Desks are not a panacea for sitting-related problems, and come with some of the very same challenges that plague so many people who sit all day. What’s happening here?

Find out in this week’s episode of Healthy TV!

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(Video) Sugar, Your Brain & Type 3 Diabetes

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Your Brain On Sugar… The post-Halloween show!

Healthy TV | Episode 067

Did you know there’s such thing as Type 3 Diabetes?

Turns out sugar is not just bad for your body, when you consume too much of it, it also damages your brain!

The evidence is piling up tying the over-consumption of sugar to chronic, brain-based problems like Alzheimers and dementia.

It turns out when we have too much sugar, our brain cells develop insulin resistance, leading to what medical researchers are now calling ‘Type 3 Diabetes.’

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(Video) Why You Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night

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There is nothing more frustrating than when you wake up in the middle of the night for NO APPARENT REASON!

…and then your mind starts working overtime, and you can’t fall back asleep…

Sound familiar?

Healthy TV | Episode 066

I have personally struggled with this BIG TIME and in this episode I share my key (and easy to implement) strategies to correct the problem… well, most of the time anyhow! 🙂

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