According to the World Health Organization, obesity is considered the number one health problem in the world. This opens up a huge market to immoral individuals interested in taking people’s money rather than actually helping them improve their health.
Because of this there have been many diet fads come and go through the recent decades. There’s [...]
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How Nutrition Effects Your Health : Part I: Calories In Versus Calories Out
Safe Workouts For Cold Weather Months
With the temperatures plummeting this time of year, many of us tend to hibernate inside our homes. But, hibernating is for bears. As humans it’s important to stay active through all four seasons. Yet, a poll of 5,000 people found that 30 percent get no exercise at all during the winter months.
Just because it is [...]
Beware! It’s Time for SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects about 5% of us severely and perhaps 25% of us more mildly. Women and young adults are more likely to suffer from it.
It’s a form of depression that, according to the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), is a real illness with sometimes severe symptoms. It’s worse in January and February, [...]
Making Healthy Restaurant Choices
At a popular pizza chain, the personal pan pizza with sausage packs 740 calories and 39 grams of fat. And at one major fast-food joint, a triple cheeseburger with everything has 810 calories and 47 grams of fat — two meals’ worth of calories and more fat than most of us should scarf down in [...]
Weight Loss For Women: Top 7 Reasons To Get Fit Not Slim
When you were born you were given a unique one of a kind gift. You were given the genetic code to be YOU, someone unlike anyone else in the world. Whether or not it is the particular gift you might have wanted, it is the gift you have. You can choose to honor that gift [...]