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Be a BETTER You in 2018 – How To Conquer New Year’s Resolutions
Ah January! It is such a hopeful month- a whole year of wonderful experiences ahead. The start of a new year is for many of us a time of change, an opportunity for self improvement, a chance to rethink our habits- a new beginning, really.…
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Eating Behavior Specialist Tatiana Kuvardina Shares 8 Ways To Improve Your Relationship With Food
The topic of our relationship with food has been getting more and more attention recently. Our relationship with food is one of the most important relationships in our lives. Everything and everyone comes and goes, while food accompanies…
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I Did Flex Studio’s 10 Hour Pilates Challenge And It Changed My Life
I've never done proper Pilates before. I've tried the odd stretching class where they get you to do some Pilates moves but I've never used the machines. So when Flex Studio invites me to partake in a 10-hour Pilates Challenge, I'm…
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Hong Kong’s 10 Fastest-Growing Healthy Food Chains
People are always telling us wistfully that Hong Kong is so behind cities like London, Sydney or New York when it comes to healthy eating. A couple of years ago, we would have nodded our heads in agreement but today, there really is…
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How To Choose The Right Naturopath: Definitions, Education, Training & Licensing
Along with our current global obsession for all things #wellness, there is also a growing change in how regular people are dealing with their health issues. Where twenty years ago a visit to your local GP or family doctor was the norm,…
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Rise Of The Machines: Wellness Solutions For The Busy & The Lazy
There's no substitute for regular exercise and clean eating but if you find yourself too busy with work to make those a reality, or if you're just a more generally lazy person who prefers shortcuts, or if you've just been hitting Lan…
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Wellness Hacks: How To Choose The Perfect Yoga Teacher
Your yoga practice is a deeply personal (and oftentimes emotional) thing. Finding the right human to guide you through it is no easy task. We asked veteran yogi and yoga teacher Karen Holt, founder of The Health Seed, to share her…
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Green Queen Knows: The Best (FREE) Health, Fitness & Wellness Apps
The era of biohacking -or is it lifestyle hacking?- is definitively upon us. Our phones, and the data they collect about us, have become an essential tool in our daily routine, especially for us wellness addicts. In our hands we hold the…
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5 Facebook Pages You Need To LIKE: The Best Plant-Based Video Recipes
If you frequent Facebook, then you've probably seen one of the many recipe videos that auto-play on your feed. There is something so engaging about these one minute videos. They are little packages of goodness: visually entrancing,…
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World’s Largest Multi-Sports Festival Arnold Classic Launches Inaugural Asia Event In Hong Kong This August
What started out as a bodybuilding competition co-founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the US over 40 years ago (Arnie launched it in Worthington, Ohio in 1989) has morphed into the world's largest fitness and sports event. Incredibly,…
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iHerb Shopping Guide Series: Loula Natural’s Top 8 Tips for iHerb Beginners
If you are unfamiliar with iHerb.com (where have you been?), it is a vast online shopping website that sells a wide range of health & wellness products including supplements, cosmetics, bath & beauty products, groceries,…
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How To Choose A Personal Trainer: 5 Foolproof Rules
Finding a personal trainer in Hong Kong feels like choosing your future life partner through Tinder: the options are limitless, the pics are photoshopped and there's a lot of style but not much substance. With the exponential growth of…
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Perfect Smoothie: Where To Find The Best Protein & Superfood Powders For Your Daily Boost
Remember when you didn't understand what all the fuss about smoothies was about? It used to be that smoothies and blenders were the purview of health nuts. Today, a breakfast smoothie is commonplace, everyone's got a Vitamix and smoothie…
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Protein Primer: Everything You Need To Know About The Muscle Macro
What Is Protein?
Protein is one of the three macronutrients that provide energy, aka calories, for the body. The other two macronutrients are fats and carbohydrates.
Each gram of protein contains 4 calories, as compared to a…
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7 Ways To Improve Your Sleep Hygiene: How To Get Better ZZZs
If there's one thing we can all afford to improve, it's our sleep quality. When we are busy, stressed and distracted, a good night's sleep is the first thing to go. It is really easy to compromise on sleep as the long term consequences of…
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You’re Running All Wrong! A Marathon Runner Finds Relief With The Pose Method
I assume that you clicked into this article because you love running. But does running love you? Do you often suffer from muscle fatigue after your run or worse, do you have chronic pain in your joints or ligaments? If so, the problem…
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Exclusive: A First Look At HOME – Eat To Live, Christian CGM’s Incredible New Plant-Based Central Eatery
July 2017 Update: HOME has now closed down.
Green Queen could not be more honored to be the first to announce the opening of HOME - Eat To Live, an inspired new addition to Hong Kong's plant-based dining scene. Get ready to be wowed.…
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Hong Kong’s Best CrossFit Gyms
If you haven't heard of CrossFit yet, then you might actually be living under a rock. Like green juices, mindfulness and sexy sneakers, CrossFit has entered our cultural lexicon and there's now a global community of fanatically happy…
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Nutrismart Is A 30-Minute DIY At Home Food Sensitivity Test
Nutrismart is a pretty revolutionary product. The German engineered Nutrismart Food Acceptance Rapid Test kit allows you to to test your tolerance to 40 foods AT HOME and get your results in 30 MINUTES. No doctor's office, no waiting…
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Ask The Butcher: An Interview With Johnny Farrell, Hong Kong’s Very Own Meat Man
August 2016 Update: Johnny Farrel is now the head butcher at Blue - Butcher & Meat Specialist.
In Hong Kong, where most of us are divorced from the origins of our food, Johnny Farrell is quietly ushering in a meat revolution at…
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I Got A DNAFit Test And Here’s What I Learned About My Health
You know those people who tell you their genes are the reason they are overweight/out of shape/love to gorge on carbs? You can now call bullshit on those people thanks to the lovely folks at Absolute DNA, who have brought DNAFit genotype…
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