WEIGHT LOSS WHY EXERCISE? LOSE BELLY FAT HEALTHY EATING
Every day we are told to eat more healthily and take greater responsibility for our health. So what does this mean? What is a healthy diet? What should you buy and eat to ensure that you are following a healthy eating regime. The concept of healthy eating is not new, but what constitutes a healthy diet does change. 50 years ago a healthy diet would have looked rather different to that of one today. Optimum Diet and Health Much...
How much exercise do you need to day each day? There are so many fitness systems and gadgets on the market today and they all contradict each other. The extreme systems suggest as little as 4 minutes of extreme cardio or 7 minutes of intensive weight training. More often people advise workouts of around 20 to 30 minutes. But what is best? Surely there is an optimum amount of exercise you should be doing? Here we look at advice...
With the forthcoming New Year, many people make Healthy New Year Resolutions. The most popular new year resolutions are to lose weight, get fit, eat right and reduce stress. All these four goals are actually intrinsically linked to one another. The lose weight, you must start to exercise more (get fit) and start to eat healthier, more nutritious foods to provide you with the energy required to be more active, without putting on even more weight. It is worth...
We originally ran this story in 2010, then come April 1st of 2011 we could not resist re-publishing it. An April Fool, but it really could be a good idea. Maybe more organisations should start running their own fitness competitions to motivate staff and members to get in shape. Weight loss clubs are not uncommon in offices around the world, so why not Mr. Corporate Universe competitions?
Researchers at St. Andrews University have found that people find healthier faces more attractive. Diet and exercise actaully makes people look more attractive than make up. Women all over the world are applying make up to try to improve their good looks, when really they should be applying themselves to a better lifestyle. Diet and exercise both have a direct impact on the quality and color of our skin. When people follow a poor diet the skin becomes dull,...
A few years ago (Feb 2007) there was an interesting documentary on the BBC about the growing popularity of bodybuilding amongst pensioners in the UK and USA. We were reminded of this story after hearing how the 73 year old Anthony Hopkins lost 80 pounds. Although he did not lose weight by bodybuilding, he is living proof that you are never too late to lose weight and get fit. Bodbuilding has many health benefits. Senior citizens that perform regular...
Our weight loss plan is broken down into 4 sections. Like any successful project you need to be organized and prepared to ensure that the program succeeds and you fulfil your weight loss and fitness goals. Once you have set your targets and set the foundations for your weight loss plan you can take action and start to see results. The first part is Preparation, the time to start planning for the task ahead. The second part concerns Action,...
Researchers from Liverpool and Oxford universities have reported that rates of obesity could be reduced and health improved if people made small changes to their diets. There is an ever growing number of obese and overweight people. However, many of these could regain a healthy weight with a few small changes rather than a large drastic change. It is generally agreed that diet plans fail because they are too much of a drastic change from a persons previous eating...
It seems that work is good for us. Many people dream of the day that they can retire, but in reality our work keep us healthy. A recent study carried out by The University of Maryland and published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology revealed that people that retire early are more likely to develop health conditions sooner than those that carry on working. This follows research from a few years ago that found that working helped to...
Some remarkable news has come out of Vietnam, from research carried out by Nottingham University. It seems that one of the reasons why asthma and other allergies such as hay fever and dust mite allergy has risen in the West is not as a result of hygienic living conditions, but a reduction of worms living in our guts. It is thought that the worms have been present in our guts throughout the development of humans, and actually helped to...
You may have seen the shocking adverts online about bacterial infection being the reason you are overweight or obese. The adverts seem very far-fetched, and designed to scare desperate people into buying a new product or service to help them lose weight. One advert even goes as far to claim that “99.8% of most doctors would rather you get sick and stay sick, as that’s how they earn their living!” (this is the claim of Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, who...
A recent study has revealed what many people have suspected for a long time – organic food is not any better for your health than conventional food grown using herbicides and pesticides. The organic food market is huge, with many families happy to pay more than double the standard price for some products, such as organic chickens and organic eggs. Organic vegetables and fruits are also being supplied in greater numbers by farmers, and the public are lapping it...
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