Small Steps for Big Changes - Recipe for Health

Participants will be asked to attend six one on one sessions providing diet and exercise counselling each lasting 20-30 minutes over the course of six weeks. The nutrition counselling will introduce participants to a healthy dietary changes for reducing added sugar intake and refined/processed carbohydrate intake as well as increasing vegetable consumption. After counselling sessions, participants will complete their chosen form of aerobic exercise: 1) traditional continuous exercise that involves exercising at a constant pace for 20-30 minutes (moderate-intensity continuous training, MICT); or 2) interval exercise that involves alternating between 30 seconds and 1-minute of brisk exercise and 1-minute of easy exercise for \~15 min (high-intensity interval training, HIIT). Both exercise forms could be completed on treadmill, elliptical or stationary bike. In total, each session will last approximately one hour.