Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis, or arteriosclerosis, is a buildup of fat deposits on the walls of your arteries. These deposits cause cartilage in the arteries to lose elasticity and the artery walls to become hard and thick....
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Wake Up and Take Action
As obesity rises, so do the rates of related conditions. Type 2 diabetes is a risk for anyone carrying extra pounds: Weight. Maintaining a healthy weight can help prevent it. Sedentary lifestyle. Regular physical...
Asthma
Asthma is a condition in which a person’s airways – the tubes through which air travels to and from the lungs – become periodically inflamed. The inflammation causes the tubes to narrow, restricting the...
Setting a Positive Example
While making efforts to improve your own health, you naturally become more aware of other people’s choices. While you may have the urge to share some health tips, it’s probably best to keep your...
What is Canola Oil
Canola oil is extracted from the seed of hybridized rapeseed. The hybridization is very important in canola’s case because rapeseed is quite high in erucic acid, which is toxic, as it contains high levels...
Anxiety
Anxiety can be a normal state of mind that allows you to react appropriately to uncomfortable or dangerous situations. However, several million Americans find themselves burdened by excessive apprehension, fear, and stress. When this...
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that arises from a person’s intense fear of being overweight. There are many ways that anorexic people control their weight, including starvation, obsessive exercising, purging, and taking diuretics....
Walk and Roll
While the backdrop of your day may be ringing phones and chatting coworkers, it doesn’t have to be the soundtrack to your walks. Musical accompaniment kindles motivation, engages your senses, and relieves tension… heightening...
Diabetes and Processed Foods Intake
The Obesity Society points out that Type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity and physical inactivity. The American Heart Association states: Obesity is now recognized as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease....
The Hunger Zone
When you’re trying to lose weight, it seems like your stomach is growling more than ever. As you adjust eating habits, you may truly be experiencing more episodes of hunger or you may be...
Ending Exercise Excuses
In hopes of getting fit, most women have started an exercise routine. But like dieting, most of us don’t stick with it. Instead, we come up with all kinds of excuses. Here’s how to...
Press Away Pain
You’ve heard of acupuncture, where doctors stick needles in a patient to treat pains and illness. But have you heard of acupressure? Instead of those sharp needles, it’s as simple as using a finger...
Healthy Living for Healthy Kidneys
In the US, 26 million adults are living with chronic kidney disease. While you can’t do anything about some risk factors (such as age and a family history of kidney conditions), many are in...
Walk This Way
While fitness walking might seem like a walk in the park, more intensity will work your lower body and exert your cardiovascular system. Turn your casual amble into a strenuous trek with these techniques...
Don’t Go Overboard on Nutrition Fads
If zoot suits came back in style, you wouldn’t go out and replace your entire wardrobe, would you? Nutrition advice comes and goes like the latest fashions. When an item is labeled “superfood” it...
A Cold Needn’t Freeze Out Exercise
It might be the tail end of cold and flu season, but don’t consider yourself out of the woods yet. If the sniffly-sneezies get a grip on you, don’t let it put a wrench...
Focus on Avoiding Eye Strain
Do you spend much of your day parked in front of a computer? All of that time staring at a monitor can cause eye strain. While it’s typically a minor problem, eye strain symptoms...
Lace Up Right
From trail shoes to hiking boots to casual sneakers, there’s no shortage of walking footwear. Follow these tips for selecting the most comfortable and functional: Gravitate to early-evening shopping sprees. Gravity commands your circulation...
Tone Up for Summer
Though you might not be in beach mode yet, this is the time to start prepping for swimsuit season. If you packed on some pounds during “winter hibernation,” you can wake up your body...
Eating Healthfully on a Small Budget
What’s bigger — your car payment or your grocery bill? According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, grocery prices rose 3.9% in 2007. And it feels like they’ve been going up ever since....
Fast Food Non-Transparency
One advantage the fast food industry has over its competitors in the stores is that there is very little transparency required compared to what must be put on a package in a store. Labeling...
Corn Sugar
Amazingly some good news has emerged from the mass food production industry – some large food producers are switching away from the use of high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has...
Need to lower high blood pressure but don’t want to rely on drugs?
First of all, exercise more. For sedentary people with high blood pressure (hypertension), just 10 minutes of walking can reduce blood pressure. Imagine the effect that a regular exercise regimen will have on high...
Weight loss saboteurs and how to defeat them
Late night snacking. Sleep doesn’t burn many calories, so late night foods don’t get burned away. Make a point to stop eating 2-3 hours before bedtime. Impulse eating. Plan your meals and snacks, and...
Rye and Rice
Rye Rye is a cereal grown in colder parts of northern and central Europe and Russia. It is mainly used for animal feed, but is also used to make breads and crispbreads. Rye contains...
Pumpkin seed
Pumpkin is of New World origin, and was widely distributed over central and northern Mexico and the south-west USA. Archaeological remains, dated about 8750 BC, have been found in Mexico. It was an integral...
Lean mean muscle machine
Lactic acid, or more accurately lactate, has been blamed for the cause of a burning sensation during intense exercise and the subsequent soreness that accompanies vigorous exertion. It often comes as a surprise to...
Nuts
In the popular sense the term “nut” is applied to a seed or fruit with an edible kernel inside a brittle or hard shell; the botanical definition is somewhat more complicated. – remains have...
Drink these teas to avoid snacking
Drinking herbal teas throughout the day is an effective way to help kick the annoying habit that so many of us are guilty of. Herbal teas prevent feelings of craving and restlessness because they...
Weights and Measures
Take a shower for low back pain Never underestimate the power of hot (but tolerable), surging water. If your pain is the sudden result of a wrenching strain, then wait 24 hours before applying...