Carolyn Hansen is co-owner of Anytime Fitness.
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Opinion: How exercise changes your brain
OPINION: Exercise influences our brain function and mental health.
Carolyn Hansen: Happiness in mind
OPINION: It’s the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality,
Carolyn Hansen: Can we have our cake and eat it too when it comes to being healthy
OPINION: Denial does not work nor does extreme dieting.
Mindful eating: The art of presence while you eat
OPINION: Cooking at home is a family bonding experience.
Carolyn Hansen: Mitochondria – the powerhouse of our cells
OPINION: Bad habits, unhealthy lifestyles decrease our energy levels and accelerate aging.
Don’t worry be happy, if you can - Carolyn Hansen
OPINION: Increasing tensions, negative feelings and emotions are rising around the world.
Carolyn Hansen: Improve your health by removing toxins
OPINION: Toxicity is all around us but there are useful steps we can take to reduce it.
Carolyn Hansen: Lifestyle plays a big part in chronic disease risk
OPINION: Chronic lifestyle diseases are incurable, but they are also preventable.
Carolyn Hansen: Your mind and your weight
Creating a healthy weight-loss mindset is key.
Opinion: Embracing the pain of change with a positive, healthy attitude is fitness for life
Feeling discomfort through change indicates we are expanding our horizons.
Getting back into the kitchen - Carolyn Hansen
It's time to reverse the dangerous trend of unhealthy eating.
Carolyn Hansen: The attitude of gratitude
Thankfulness, mindfulness and kindness are all related.
Carolyn Hansen: Vegetables are health superstars
Opinion: Raw vegetables are nutrient powerhouses.
Carolyn Hansen: Sweet tooth might be the missing piece to losing weight
Sugar addiction is nothing to joke about.
The benefits of getting back into the kitchen
OPINION: We've traded in our health and well-being for the convenience of eating out.
Carolyn Hansen: Living the best life possible
The human body has always trended toward being lean and healthy.
Carolyn Hansen: Health in mind
When we're healthy mentally, we're able to realise our full potential.
Carolyn Hansen: Living better for longer
OPINION: Extra quality years can be had just by turning on self-healing processes.
Carolyn Hansen: Use it or lose it
OPINION: We have become physically lazy and mentally slothful.
Carolyn Hansen: How to cope with our busy modern lifestyles
Overworked and under-rested people need time out to tap into nurturing self-care.
Comment: Be good to yourself
Place positive, uplifting messages, around the home and even workplace.
Carolyn Hansen: If your attitude towards exercise is bad, are you willing to change it?
OPINION: We all have the opportunity to keep ourselves healthy and well.
Living your best life possible
OPINION: The first step towards loving life is to love our bodies.
Carolyn Hansen: How to choose a gym
The reasons for picking a certain gym are personal.
Carolyn Hansen: Winning the mind game
To get your mind to assist you to reach your goals, stay focused on the solution.
Carolyn Hansen: The anti-aging lifestyle, what is it and are you living it?
In the minds of some, old age itself has become a disease to be cured.
Carolyn Hansen: Be your own best friend
It’s not always easy to get this healthy lifestyle thing down.
Comment: Powered by self-love
Opinion: If it’s positive change we are after, we must begin and end with love.
Carolyn Hansen: Does the all-or-nothing approach work?
Stick to proven methods of healthy eating and fitness that are sustainable.
Carolyn Hansen: It’s all in our state of mind
With the right attitude and action steps, we can develop a growth mindset.
Strength training for real life function
One of the most basic measures of physical fitness is your functional fitness.
Comment: The importance of vigorous physical activity
A challenging exercise session is the perfect panacea to tiredness, fatigue or stress.
Carolyn Hansen: Exercise for the ages
When your body is strong it becomes more disease resistant.
Carolyn Hansen: Beating the myth out of 'beating the bulge'
Tight hip flexors can lead to a lot of issues - not just around our stomachs.
Carolyn Hansen: If you want a healthy body, it all starts with the mind
The lifestyle habits that matter most for a healthy body and healthy mind.
Carolyn Hansen: Fitness equates to success in all areas of life
Personal fitness is the greatest discipline on earth.
Carolyn Hansen: Is gardening the secret to a healthy life?
It fills our hearts and minds with peace and our tummies with healthy nutrients.
Comment: Why not adopt the more flexible, lenient 80/20 rule for eating?
Once the cravings take over, the diet tanks and the guilt sets in.
Comment: Exercise connects our brains and hearts and helps silence our chattering mind
Numbers don’t lie and neither do scientific results.
Strength training exercise vital for strengthening immune system - Carolyn Hansen
Regular strength training exercise provide long-term immune protection - Carolyn Hansen
Comment: Creative visualisation can help you achieve health and fitness goals
You can never create the new in your life by clinging to old visions and beliefs.
Carolyn Hansen: What to to do about belly fat
It is not inevitable, but a result of our lifestyles.
Carolyn Hansen: How to manage cravings and temptations
If you do give in, pick yourself back up and get going again.
Negative thoughts and mental decline
Negativity breeds negativity and positivity breeds positivity.
Carolyn Hansen: How the western diet could be wreaking havoc on your body
Opinion: While chronic inflammation isn't acute, it's still severely damaging.
Carolyn Hansen: Factors that influence our hunger
Our hunger level plays a huge role in our energy intake.
Carolyn Hansen: Paying attention to lifestyle behaviours is key to greater health
Why the value you give to healthy eating and proper exercise is key in lifestyle changes.
Carolyn Hansen: Reaping the invisible benefits of exercise
This is the point where it goes beyond 'something you do' to 'something you become'.
Carolyn Hansen: Super-seeds will boost your health
These tiny but mighty warriors can boost your health.
Carolyn Hansen: Ride the momentum
It’s harder to stop the train and start it again then it is to keep it rolling.
Carolyn Hansen: No one will ever care as much as you do about your own health
It is far easier to keep good health than try and recover it after it is lost.
Carolyn Hansen: Like true beauty, fitness satisfaction radiates from inside
The better you feel, the more you want to feel better.
Carolyn Hansen: Try the 'addition' idea for your healthy eating plan
Make a list of foods that can be added to your eating plan.
Carolyn Hansen: The benefits of morning exercise
If it works for Richard Branson, it can work for us too.
Carolyn Hansen: We need to challenge ourselves and our behaviour
How to shift negative thoughts to a positive mindset.
Healthy eating and diet will help you lose weight - Carolyn Hansen
Being deliberate with eating and diet will help you lose weight
Carolyn Hansen: How to embrace being happy
Happiness is the real key and contributing factor towards our success.
Managing your stress levels is vital
Physical activity is what shapes and challenges our body to be stronger
Carolyn Hansen: Health and fitness myths that need busting
Be your own best friend and do the research.
Diligence is the essential key to success in any endeavour
People are always looking for shortcuts, they want things to be easy.
You are the only one empowered to make choices for yourself
Wellness and good health are something you must practice daily.
Factors that influence our hunger
Exercise habits have a huge impact on our energy intake.
Carolyn Hansen: Health and the mind body connection
With a little effort you can train your brain to think the thoughts you want to think
Carolyn Hansen: Happiness comes from within and exercise helps
Somehow, we must once again take pride in being in control of our own life.
The body regards dieting as starvation: How to lose weight healthily
A low-energy state is not a happy place to be.
Dreams are easy, goals are the blueprint, actions seal the deal
If we want our dreams to become reality, we must first turn them into goals.
Five reasons that muscle matters … a lot
The question remains. Why, when less calories are going in is weight not coming off?
Carolyn Hansen: Why do we empower procrastination?
There is not a person alive who has not given into the bad habit of putting something off.
Opinion: What can't freeze time but we can slow down ageing
Wellness is never about surviving, but about thriving.
Listen to your body, form healthy habits - and gain more than a decade of life
Carolyn Hansen says when it comes to health, proper exercise is a no-brainer.
Home gardening provides physical and mental rewards
It fills our hearts and minds with peace and our tummies with healthy nutrients.
Carolyn Hansen: The magic of exercise
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Why not make it the best day?
How to deal with stress - the silent yet deadly enemy among us
Carolyn Hansen says to think with your heart and love with your mind.
Comment: Benefits of a gym membership
Gyms don't make us sweat. They make us sparkle