Assessments

Engaging in an appropriate exercise, nutritional and stress management program requires a prior health assessment that will identify areas needing medical attention and guidance

Our nutritional habits, even if established early in life and appear natural to us, frequently include aspects that are not consistent with a healthy life-style. Food composition, combinations of foods and/or nutrients, timing of food ingestion, food choices at specific time points of the day, may [...]

Physical performance analysis and determination of organ functional capacities and reserves is a critical dimension for the design of successful exercise intervention programs. For exercise to function as a beneficial biological stressor it is required that the thresholds for induction of adaptive responses and the safe [...]

Life-style changes require personal schedule modifications and a suitable living environment. The latter may require community-based measures, if appropriate facilities are not readily available. Alternatively, people would need to make relevant changes in their own micro-environment. Accordingly, community-related, work-related, psychological, time and financial constraints may compromise [...]

Many people often refer to a 'bad metabolism' as an important parameter explaining weight management issues. Relative potency of metabolic pathways largely dictates the fate of food consumed by an individual. Metabolic assessments produce personalized data on important aspects of energy and nutrient handling. Indeed, small [...]