Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Mention the word “diet” and just about everyone cringes… the word conjures up all sorts of unpleasant associations – deprivation, endless effort and hard won victories. More than a few of us have been on many diets in our day, so we know, first hand, about the frustration. Yet modern medicine tells [...]
Everyone knows how important it is to exercise, the thing is, most of us still aren’t making activity a regular part of our daily routine, leaving experts worried about our prospects for long term health. Finding motivation to start exercise programs can be the hardest part, so internet health and wellness [...]
Get this… just five minutes a day on a bike can help a woman minimize her weight gain as she enters middle age according to new research appearing in the June 28, 2010 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. This is especially true if you’re already carrying more weight than you [...]
Anyone who is avoiding workouts or eating healthy has lots of reasons… no time, no money, no motivation, no fun. Working out, shopping and cooking healthy just isn’t “fun”… at least that’s what weight loss experts are told all the time. But it doesn’t have to be that way – there are [...]
At a research clinic in Texas psychologist Jasper Smits is working on a very unorthodox approach to treating anxiety and mood disorders, including overcoming depression. The treatment is free, has no side effects, and has been recognized as beneficial as far back as the 1970s and 80s. This isn’t another form of [...]
If you’re a woman who is doing work with weights to help stay fit, you might be better off drinking two big glasses of milk instead of those “energy” drinks after your workout according to a new study out of Canada’s McMaster University. The researchers found that the benefits of drinking milk [...]
If this doesn’t have you starting (or re-starting) an exercise program, nothing will. One of the major benefits of exercise has been identified as the ability to hold off the physical and mental declines of aging… that slowing down that keeps older folks from doing the things they used to.
The story started [...]
Exercise health benefits from a good, hard workout… where you sweat like crazy and bring your heart rate up… can include reducing the effects of stress on cellular aging according to new research. It seems that brief bouts of vigorous activity reduced one of the most important signs of cellular aging – [...]
How often do you schedule things in ten minute increments? I’ll be there in ten minutes… Just give me ten more minutes… Ten minutes and I’m outta here… familiar to us all. Now science finds that ten minutes exercising benefits include metabolic changes that last for at least an hour. What’s more, the [...]
It’s hard to imagine exercise at work as helping you keep fit, after all, we spend hours at our desks, and there are usually plenty of calorie laden snacks about to keep you from suffering mid afternoon hunger pangs.
Still, a Mayo Clinic expert suggests that the office may, in fact, be an [...]
