Be Healthy

Each week we will continue to post a new question in one of the Swiggtalk sections with an answer from the University Women’s Group.

Question: Is six hours of sleep per night really enough?

This is worth spending time watching.  It will make you feel amazing and help remind you to appreciate each day.

SWIGG recently ran a Girls Night In at a school in Mississauga, Ontario. Teen girls asked questions about things they wanted to know. The Swigg Editorial Staff then met with a group of women from the University Women’s Club (women with experience who are mostly over 50) and they were kind enough to share their wisdom and life experience to answer the girls’ questions.

This is amazing!

Click the body parts you want to tone and they give you specific exercises for it!

Who decides how you should look? Have you ever noticed how much influence the media has?

1)  A no-fat diet is good for you.

Fiction

When the words 'no-fat' or 'low-fat' appear on a package, you may think you can't go wrong but it's not so! You need some fat in your diet to lose weight because the body actually needs fat to operate efficiently. You just don't want to go overboard with greasy fried foods and stick to more healthy oils.

2) The faster you lose weight, the better.

Sometimes you may fall down but look what can happen when you make the decision to get back up!

Check out this amazing female runner, Heather Dorniden who fell halfway through a race but never gave up.

The best way to keep our bodies healthy is to move them! Could it be that simple? I think so. Each of you has over 200 bones and 700 muscles: so, your body’s potential for movement variety is endless.

I remember walking into the gym club and looking through the window at these girls wearing bright coloured gym suits, up high on this balance beam flipping and flipping, turning and turning, leaping to the ceiling with grace and determination.