Diet & Fitness / Fitness
Many workout and fitness plans get derailed by some common mistakes and bad habits. Be careful to avoid the following mistakes. Working out without a battle plan — Some people walk into the gym and wing it — with no sense of how well they’re working out all their muscles,…
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Diet & Fitness / Wellness
Typically, childhood vaccinations are monitored and meticulously recorded on special sheets from the pediatrician’s office while adult vaccinations are often forgotten or overlooked by health care providers. Approximately 50,000 people die each year from diseases that could be prevented with vaccinations, 36,000 of those deaths are due to the influenza…
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Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body
Is your hot and steamy love life feeling more lukewarm these days? You might think you’re doing everything right, but there are sneaky sensual snafus that could be destroying your sex life. While most of them are easily fixed or avoided, you need to identify where you went (or are…
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Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
How many times have we started a diet, only to have a decrease in blood sugar sabotage our efforts by lunchtime? Sometimes dieting can feel like a double-edged sword. We do everything right. We count calories, fat and carbohydrates and we reduce our sodium. Then why does it sometimes feel…
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Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
Most people don’t use their freezer enough. However, the freezer can be a dieter’s best friend. If you’re cooking for one, buy produce and meats in bulk and individually package your purchases by serving size. When you plan your menu for the week, you can defrost the pre-packaged staples. If…
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Diet & Fitness / Fitness
by Tracey Lloyd For physical fitness results, take one capsule with food. Is this the future of exercise? No longer sweating it out at the gym but simply popping a pill? Researchers at Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that they give mice a pill which stimulates their body…
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Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body
Putting anger in its place isn’t always easy. We all deal with frustration in our lives – at work, home and in public. Whether it’s over small irritations like traffic jams or big life-changing situations like a divorce, the anger and stress we feel inside sometimes can bubble up and…
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Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
There’s nothing like that sense of accomplishment when you look down after sweating it out on your cardio machine of choice – whether it’s a treadmill, elliptical or bike – and seeing a big number in the calories burned column. But don’t be fooled. When you put in all that…
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Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
Fish and shellfish have always been practical diet staples because of their health benefits. Canned options fit well with the “recessionista” trend of spending less and getting more bang for your buck. Canned fish offer health benefits such as lowering cholesterol and reducing total blood fats. But be careful when…
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