Eleni Psillakis Author Posts

Overtraining - The Impact on Your Mind & Body

There are numerous health benefits from being more active and less sedentary. However, people often believe that more is better in regards to training, while the research indicates otherwise.

Diet, Gut Microbiota and Mental Health

The gastrointestinal system is the largest immunity organ of the body. This article will take a look at the links between gut health and mental health.

Body Misperception - The Influence of Imagery

This article will consider the effect of what we are exposed to and how that may influence the continuing of body image disturbance.

Body Image, Self Image and Weight Training

Body image is how a person perceives their physical self and the thoughts and feelings that are experienced because of this. There are many individual and environmental factors that influence an individual’s body image.

Your Body Shape Does Not Define Your Worth

It seems that we are living in a society where it is becoming increasingly difficult to discuss certain issues for fear of offending someone. Yet, some of these issues need to be discussed.

Training As You Age

One of the best decisions I have made was to start exercising at a young age. The next best decision was to include resistance training.

Surviving Anorexia

The number on the scale became the only important factor, not even aware of the damage I was causing to my bones, hormones, digestive & reproductive systems.

Identifying Your Relationship With Food

Relationships are often developed and maintained around a meal. This certainly used to be the case for family life every night of the week. When dinner was ready and the table was set, it was a time for the family to sit down together and talk.