I specialize in writing for healthcare & design. I also do UX research, IA, and content strategy. Email: kaitomboc at gmail dot com
Sleep and Aging: Improving Sleep Quality in the Elderly
This long-form guide highlights the most recent research on why sleep gets more elusive as you get older and the steps you can take to finally drift off to a night of deep, restorative sleep.
What is Information Design and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
Information design — sounds complicated and nerdy, right?
By and large, the primary goal in information design is clarity of communication.
In this blog post, we’re going to take a closer look at how this goal is accomplished and why information design matters now more than ever.
3 Brainstorming Techniques for Original Infographic Content
Running low on creative energy every time you’re about to start on an infographic project?
Curious why no one’s paying attention to your infographic content?
Is It Healthy to Have a Low Body Fat Percentage?
Months before a bodybuilding competition, male bodybuilders usually aim to cut body fat as low as 3-4 percent body fat for that shredded look, while their female counterparts go as low as 8-9% for that beautiful, lean physique. This has led many to believe that their body fat levels should fall between the same percentages as bodybuilders. Is this healthy? Let's find out!
How Dehydration Affects Your Body Composition
You’ve probably heard or read about how you can survive for weeks without food but that you can only survive for days without water. Your parents probably told you repeatedly when you were young to drink at least eight cups of water a day. Water is known to help cleanse out the toxins in your body and to quench your thirst on a hot summer day. But what role does water play when it comes to body composition?
While most of us are predominantly preoccupied with total body weight, body fat percentage, or even BMI, total body water and hydration status are often overlooked.
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Choosing a Diabetic Diet: Manage Type 2 Diabetes with the Foods You Eat
Whether you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes recently or want to prevent diabetes because it runs in your family, you’ve probably gone through countless websites and online forums on what to eat but still feel lost and overwhelmed.
What food can you eat if you're a diabetic?
This article is written and designed to make you feel less overwhelmed when making diet and nutrition decisions that are “diabetes-friendly”. Overall, you’ll learn about the right food choices for people with diabetes and eventually stop second-guessing your meal plans.
Why the Mediterranean Diet is Worth Trying If You Want to Improve Your Body Composition
For many people, being on a certain diet is the norm these days. After all, food fuels our bodies from the inside out and it has the power to heal (or destroy) us. For some, butter is the enemy, but for others, it is the foundation of their high-fat diet. Others have sworn to shun carbs for the rest of their lives because it’s what they consider the healthiest.
This article will dive deeper into the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) — what it is, what the experts have to say about it, and recent established research findings of the diet and its role in improving body composition.
Your Body and You: A Guide to Phase Angle
For body composition devices using Direct Segmental Multifrequency-BIA technology (DSM-BIA), you can also track other valuable outputs like your skeletal muscle mass, body water distribution, segmental readings, and phase angle values.
Although your body fat percentage can be a strong indicator of your overall health and current state of your body composition, the aforementioned outputs are equally useful metrics that can help predict or detect health issues.
In this article, let’s go beyond the usual discussions on body fat and muscle mass when it comes to body composition. Embrace your inner Sherlock and read on to uncover one of the most valuable outputs provided by a huge chunk of today’s BIA devices — your Phase Angle (PhA).
What Every Woman Needs to Know to Achieve Her Desired Body Composition Goals
Read on to uncover some common threads and insights from recent research that can truly help women who want to feel better and stronger.
In this article, you’ll learn several important gender differences in terms of anatomy and physiology, and how these differences can impact your training and nutrition decisions, minus the bro science, of course (why isn’t there such a thing as sis science?). Let’s get into it!
How to Stop Overeating Once and For All
You thought you’ve overcome overeating for good, yet it turns out that you’re back to square one when it comes to getting your cravings under control.
Why is it so hard to break out of this cycle?
Is there a way to kick this ceaseless habit for good?
Does it have to do with self control and having an endless supply of willpower?
Or is there some otherworldly, mystical force that you need to tap on in order to break free from binge-eating episodes?
To help us figure out if it’s sorcery or science, this article is divided into two parts.
How to Become a Graphic Designer: The Ultimate Guide
A lot of non-designers tend to assume that a graphic designer’s job is easy. Anyone can come up with a logo or design a flyer, right? Heck, someone’s nephew (who likes to draw since he was five and the only artist in the family!) can supposedly get the job done in a couple of hours.
But is it that simple really?
Whether you’re a student who’s thinking about dabbling in graphic design once you get out of school or you’re already in your 30s and would love to switch careers, look no further for the ultimate guide on how to become a graphic designer.
Qualifying Leads: How to Identify and Score Qualified Leads
This guide will help jumpstart your lead generation efforts by ensuring that your leads are more qualified and properly nurtured before the official hand-off to your sales team.
This guide is divided into three digestible sections:
Why Lead Qualification and Scoring Matters
A Primer on How to Qualify Leads
Qualifying Sales-Ready Lead with Lead Scoring
Pros and Cons of Putting a Marketing Video on Your Website & Landing Pages
As a marketer or business owner, what can you do to make a good first impression and keep visitors engaged on your web page? For many, a marketing video is a powerful solution.
When done well, it can rake in record-breaking sales. When done badly, it can hurt your conversion rates.
What to Eat In Order to Gain Muscle
As previously discussed in an article we published about how much muscle you can gain in a month, the three main pillars of muscle growth are: nutrition, exercise, and hormones.
In this article, we’ll put the spotlight on nutrition — muscle building nutrition to be specific, and address your most frequently asked questions about what to eat in order to gain muscle.
Let’s get started!