Are you looking for ways to improve your health and incorporate more healthy "to do's" into your lifestyle that are enjoyable? How about sauna's and steam baths? Can't get any more relaxing and enjoyable that that! Saunas and steams also provide you with one of the best ways to detoxify your body and provide many benefits for better health.

Skin is exposed to hundreds of chemicals during the course of a lifetime. Shampoos, shower gels, lotions, soaps and deodorants, household cleaning solvents, detergents and chemicals from the bath or shower water affect the skin. The winter months, clothes that are confining, sun exposure and lack of activity and not working out adversely affect the skin. A sedentary lifestyle leads to holding toxins in the body longer and is not healthy for the skin and overall health. Studies have shown that environmental chemicals, poor diet and stress cause 95% of cancers.

Steam rooms and saunas can be more than just a luxury. They can be a very healthy addition to your home and weekly routine at the gym. A typical steam room session can sweat out up to 30% of its toxins that have built up.

Steams and saunas works by providing the right amount of heat to the body to improve the rate of blood circulation and produces sweat eliminating toxins out body through the pores. Another benefit for skin care is increased blood flow to the tiny capillaries (just under the skins surface) causing the skin to glow and look healthy because the blood cells carry minerals, vitamins and oxygen: vital for a healthy body.

By Carolyn Phillips

Carolyn Phillips has a 20 year history as a certified personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and Certified Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant, teaching lifestyle management, nutrition, weight training, cardiovascular, fitness testing, and behavior modification.  Carolyn is featured on WFSB Channel 3’s, Better CT and on radio 96.5 TIC FM with Damon Scott as the fitness expert every Wednesday.

Carolyn Phillips is founder and CEO of Fit Behavior (http://www.fitbehavior.com) and. Carolyn’s Menu of Life (http://www.Caroylnsmenuoflife.com) The facility has a 13 -year history and has been awarded winner of the best place to workout and best Pilate’s studio by the Hartford Magazine and voted best by The Hartford Advocate for its nutrition and cardio program. Carolyn won the prestigious 40 Under Forty award from the Hartford Business Journal for outstanding leadership in the greater Hartford area.

Carolyn has over 25 years of combined comprehensive sports and education experience.

• ·         2000-2010 ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• ·         2010 ACE Certified Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant
• ·         2007-2010 Featured on Better CT Channel 3 as a Fitness Expert
• ·         2009-2010 96.5 TIC FM's Damon Scott radio show as the weekly Fitness Expert
• ·         2007-2010 The Mary Jones Radio Show, WDRC-AM 1360 - guest Fitness Expert
• ·         2008-2010 West Hartford Community Television - Fitness Expert and Group Instructor on air
• ·         1990-2010 Guest Speaker on ESPN, WHCN, WCCC, WDRC
• ·         2002-2010  President - Board of Directors at Chrysalis Center Inc.
• ·         2009 BS in Organizational Leadership, Quinnipiac University
• ·         2007-2008 Published writer for Natural Nutmeg Magazine
• ·         2007-2008 Nutmeg Community Television - Fitness Expert and Group Instructor on air
• ·         2000 40 Under 40 Award from the Hartford Business Journal
• ·         2004 Licensed Professional Mountain Biker
• ·         1998-2004 CT State and Regional Mountain Bike Champion
• ·         1990-1997 CT State Bodybuilding Champion and National Competitor
• ·         1974-1980 VT State Gymnastic Champion and Junior Olympics Competitor
• ·         3 years coursework in Health Sciences

·         Currently studying for Master's Degree in Nutrition

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