Fitness

Finding Your Healthy Balance At Empowered Health, we offer a body composition analysis that evaluates your body’s balance between muscle and fat. This easy-to-use device measures factors such as total body water, body fat percentage and skeletal muscle mass percentage.  Body composition is essential for understanding your physiological makeup and is appropriate for all age…

Zen Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh puts it, “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”  Mind-body practices, such as meditation or yoga, have been shown to improve symptoms for people suffering from chronic diseases. These effects may be reflected in benefiting people with hypertension and cardiovascular disease through the lowering of…

We have all heard of cholesterol. What exactly is cholesterol and the different types? How do we check for problems with cholesterol? At what age should we be screening for problems with cholesterol? How do we manage high cholesterol from lifestyle interventions? These are all questions that will be discussed in this article. Heart disease is the #1 killer in the United States and is…