Posted on November 24, 2009 by admin
Ever wished you could undo 20 years of bad habits? Well now you can. Scientists have finally discovered a way to turn back time and the good news is it’s cheap, it’s easy and everyone can do it.
It turns out that the key to eternal youth isn’t a beauty serum or botox — it’s exercise. [...]
Posted on November 21, 2009 by admin
About.com has a good item about perfectionism and how it can sabotage your ongoing fitness efforts.
An all-or-nothing approach can really hold you back from seeing long-term fitness improvements that turn into a lifestyle of good health and good-looking fitness.
I’ve listed this quiz below and if you want to actually score yourself, you can jump to [...]
Posted on November 21, 2009 by admin
Knee injuries are more prominent in women, with factors such as wider hips and hormonal fluctuations contributing to the fact that they suffer nearly twice the number of problems as men. Fortunately, weak knees aren’t every woman’s destiny. According to Brian Halpern, M.D., associate clinical instructor of sports medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center in [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009 by admin
Surging obesity rates, especially among children, may be putting the brakes on progress made in the past few decades against heart disease, researchers report.
And it doesn’t help that many obese or overweight Americans still consider their weight “normal,” as one study found.
One of several studies on the subject of obesity presented Tuesday at the American [...]
Posted on November 16, 2009 by admin
AOL Health has an interesting article on why Kraft Macaroni and Cheese may not have too much cheese. Okay, so this is not the typical food choice to discuss on a health & fitness-related blog like this but the principle applies to health foods too: Read the lables!!
With the FDA poised to go after food [...]
Posted on November 13, 2009 by admin
On weekends an average person consumes 50% more than normal, according to a Pennsylvania State University study. Researchers suspect that it’s not the food but a tendency to lengthen the meal to keep the good times going. Part of this increase is the tendency of people to eat with others on the weekend days off [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2009 by admin
Okay, this whole Red Bull craze has passed me by but that doesn’t mean it’s not going stronger than ever. The younger generation of college age adults has really adopted Taurine-style drinks like Red Bull and its competitors- if you’ve ever pulled all-nighters in a college dorm to finish a term paper than you can [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by admin
To get down to a healthy weight, obese and overweight people often struggle to cut their daily caloric intake by a necessary 15 percent to 40 percent.
But new research suggests that a twist on alternate-day fasting may make dieting easier to tolerate and boost heart health to boot.
“This diet has been around about 20 years, [...]
Posted on November 11, 2009 by admin
Okay, so the obesity epidemic has a number of different causes but the high sugar, high fat, overprocessed foods we eat keep coming back in study after study of what causes people to get fat.
Now a new study shows that the bacteria in the human digestive tract- these microbes allow us to digest our food- [...]
Posted on November 6, 2009 by admin
1. Next time you’re asked, “Soup or salad?” order the salad. +2 years
Italian researchers found that eating as little as 1 cup of raw vegetables daily can add two years to your life. Why raw? Cooking can deplete up to 30 percent of the antioxidants in vegetables. To eat your quota, fill a ziplock sandwich [...]
