How to Sculpt your Shoulders for Summer
It’s not too late to improve how you look and feel in your summer clothes, specifically bathing suits, tank tops, and sleeveless dresses for the ladies. A summer wardrobe means baring the shoulders to the world, making this the perfect time to sculpt your shoulders with deltoid exercises. The deltoids are the smallest major muscle […]
Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk
Exercises you can do on your break or during lunchtime can give you more time for other activities when your work day is finally done.
Healthy Snacks for Energy, Mood, Immune Boost, and Weight Control
When afternoon slumps hit, a healthy snack is the perfect solution for an added boost of energy, an immune boost and more. Even if you eat breakfast and lunch, if you’re like most people, you feel hungrier, moodier, and low on energy in the afternoon. Here’s what healthy afternoon snacks can do for you: Boost […]
5 Yoga Poses to Add Energy to Your Life
The five Tibetans is a unique sequence of yoga poses reputed to be the key to longevity. According to legend, the sequence was created by Tibetan monks in a Himalayan monastery and then brought into the world by British Army Colonel Bradford. The colonel was amazed by the monks’ vitality and superior health. They credited […]
Six Exercises to Tone Up Your Thighs Without Going to the Gym
Feel like any extra weight you carry goes straight to your thighs? Join the club with millions of others! The sad truth is, we really don’t have a say in how our bodies hold and store fat. We also have little control about where in the body fat loss occurs. For example, crunches alone do […]
Is a Shower Every Day Really Needed for Good Hygiene?
Most people won’t admit to showering less than once a day because of the stigma, so it is hard to say if it is really “normal.” Australia perhaps leads the world on most frequent bathing. According to a survey, 62 percent of people there shower every day, while 29 percent shower twice a day and […]
Whistling your way to better health
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, whistling was a popular way to entertain people in the United States and Europe. In music halls and Vaudeville, professional whistlers would whistle tunes and imitate bird and wildlife calls. Whistling was popular mainly with the working class, but today is more often associated with Disney dwarfs. […]
Lower high blood pressure with 4 easy yoga poses
When you think of yoga, flexibility, relaxation and maybe meditation come to mind. Yet, the application of yoga as a system of healing rarely enters the Western mind. Despite today’s widespread reliance on Western medicine (drugs), yoga has been used for thousands of years for concerns like high blood pressure (HBP). The University of Maryland […]
Exercises for the multifidus, the other back muscle
The other back muscle? Learn why overlooking the smaller back muscle known as the multifidus means your workout is not complete.
The best stretches you probably aren’t doing
Doing stretches is boring and you don’t need to do it. If it were really good for you, everyone would be doing it, right?” This way of thinking is prevalent in society, but when you see people losing range of motion and the ability to stand up straight, you have to wonder if doing stretches […]
Exercises to achieve strong feet and ankles
Everyone knows that a structure built on a weak foundation is not sturdy, but most people don’t realize this principle applies to the human body. Weak feet and ankles create instability, leading to poor posture and slow movements. Performing exercises to make feet stronger and more flexible will enhance sports performance, improve balance, increase range […]
Best Exercises to Build Core Strength
Ask most people what core exercises are and you’ll likely get an answer pertaining to six-pack abs. In reality, working one’s core has little to do with muscle definition and everything to do with preventing core stability of the torso and the spine in particular. If you allow the muscles that support the spine to […]
This is the best cardio exercise for your calves
Discover how with a few tweaks to your cardio exercise, calves can experience the same improvements as other areas of your body.
When is the best time to take supplements?
More than fifty percent of adults in the United States take dietary supplements, but many people don’t consider the best time to take supplements. Among the most popular supplements – including multivitamins, B-complex vitamins, calcium, and vitamins C, D, and E – are ones that offer more benefits when taken in the morning while others […]
Are You Sitting Your Way to Heart Disease?
Most people consider that getting in a few workouts a week and meeting standard exercise guidelines for general health lowers their risk of heart disease and other killers linked to a sedentary lifestyle. But not everyone agrees that the time you spend sweating at the gym is independent of how much time you spend on […]
Hum your way to better health
Looking for better health? Humming may be one of the simplest, most natural things a person can do, yet the benefits are surprisingly far reaching. Whether humming your favorite tune or humming the sound “Om,” the activity could help your heart, your stress level and your sinuses, and reduce risk for heart attack, stroke and […]
Herbs that alleviate menstrual cramps
(Health Secrets) Almost all women experience menstrual cramps, even if their premenstrual symptoms are relatively mild. It’s normal to feel pain in the lower abdomen as well as in the lower back and even as far down as the thighs. An excess of the hormone-like substances called prostaglandins could be the cause behind these cramps. Prostaglandins […]
Improve indoor air quality with these natural cleaning products
Research by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that indoor air quality is two to five times as bad as the air outdoors or even more. In some instances, it has been shown to be more than 100 times worse. Air pollutants indoors are considered one of the top five public health threats. These […]
Natural healing for adrenal fatigue
Did you want to take advantage of the long summer days – enjoy the barbecues, fireworks, road trips, and everything that summertime offered – but it seemed that the more fun stuff you did, the more you just wanted to crawl into bed? Some people simply cannot handle the normal stimuli that others around them […]
Natural remedies for tension headaches
Tension headaches are the most common kind of headache, so chances are that either from stress, overexertion, or a really bad night’s sleep, you’ve experienced the sensation of feeling like someone put your head in a vice. The University of Maryland Medical Center states that as many as 78 percent of people have experienced these […]
Natural weight loss supplements that really work
All weight loss plans have one thing in common: you have to start using up more calories than you consume to lose weight. Cutting back on calories creates a deficit so you can achieve fast weight loss, but eating less is challenging when your dietary choices are habitual. Weight loss supplements that suppress your appetite […]
