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Get Fit for Yourself and Your Business

Get Fit for Yourself and Your Business

Exercise can be a great way to improve both your physical and mental health. This is especially true for entrepreneurs. A good workout routine can help you focus, increase your energy levels, boost your confidence, and even make you more creative.

Chéz Balance invites you to take a look at all the ways that exercise can benefit you as an entrepreneur and, by extension, your business.

Exercise can keep you inspired.
Exercising can be a great way to boost creativity and inspire entrepreneurs on their journey to success. After all, having the most innovative ideas can be the key to creating a successful business. Not only does working out provide clarity for problem-solving and decision-making, but it also promotes healthier lifestyles that

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Life in Balance

Have you ever felt off balance in your life? Is your wellbeing out of sync with too many stressors pulling you off-balance? With my work as a wellness coach and background as a cardiac nurse, I have seen and heard many stories and a familiar pattern presents itself. Here are a few helpful tips to remember.

Nutrition plays a critical role since our gut is our second brain having more serotonin than our brain itself. Basically, serotonin regulates mood, appetite, sleep and much more. Moreover, inflammation is the root of many health issues such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Therefore, a healthy diet consisting of fruits and vegetables, fresh fish, and lean meat (if you are a meat eater) can be

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Stress and Sleep

Did you know that lack of sleep causes the hormone stimulating our appetite to increase while decreasing the hormone saying you’re full. So when you are tired do you ever notice that you tend to eat more?

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Demystifying Cooking with Oils

What are the healthy oils to use and how do you cook with them? Let’s demystify the oil puzzle and maze. Have you gotten confused about which oils are best to cook with or make salad dressings with? Hopefully this will help clarify.

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How Stress Affects Your Health

Did you know that stress affect your health in many ways?

As the stress researcher and endocrinologist Hans Selye, PH. D. pointed out with his research that most disease is rooted in stress. Of course many of us react to the normal stressors fine and adjust accordingly. However, when reactions are negative to stress and stressors remain for a long time, this  leads to chronic stress and  “dis- ease”.

For a brief summation, high levels of cortisol are produced with chronic stress. This tends to lead to inflammation which in the current literature seems to be the root of many diseases such as heart disease, cancer and autoimmune diseases. With stress there seems to be a tendency to eat foods high on the glycemic index load (high sugar/quick

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