Everyone talks about the importance of getting enough sleep and how a lack of sleep can affect your health and even cause weight gain. There’s no doubt that sleep is important, but how much do you really need for good health? The Risks of Getting Too Little Sleep Much research has focused on the health [...]
Doctors are recognizing the low amount of magnesium in American diets is causing a lot of pain. Without proper levels of magnesium, the muscles and tendons in the body cannot function effectively, and the result is often a painful condition called tendonitis. For many people, the good news is that taking a magnesium supplement of [...]
It’s an unfortunate reality that we lose muscle mass with age. This process of gradual muscle and strength loss begins at around the age of 30 and accelerates during late middle-age. The decline in muscle mass and strength that occurs with aging leads to a condition called sarcopenia. Sarcopenia causes older people to become frail [...]
If you’re eating a healthy diet and exercising but still finding it a challenge to keep the weight off, take a closer look at your medications. Medications are an underappreciated cause of weight gain and one that many people don’t recognize. Even common, over-the-counter medications used to treat hay fever can make it more challenging [...]
A cheeseburger, ice cream, a decadent chocolate brownie – they’re all temptations that beckon you to bite into them. If you’re like most people, you’re more likely to yield to these temptations when the weekend rolls around, especially if you’re exercised and watched your diet all week. A cheat treat or a cheat meal here [...]
It can be a challenge exercising outdoors during the first hot days of spring or summer. Even working out at an intensity you’re comfortable with can fatigue you quickly when temperatures are high. Fortunately, your body has the ability to adapt to the demands heat places on your body. Through a process called heat acclimatization, [...]
Fat tissue was once thought to be inactive, acting mainly as a storage form of energy and as insulation from the cold. But we now know that fat, especially visceral fat that surrounds organs in the abdominal cavity, produces metabolically-active molecules that increase inflammation. This isn’t a good thing since inflammation increases the risk of [...]
BMI or body mass index is a measurement doctors use to estimate whether you have a healthy amount of “mass” relative to your height. It’s calculated using a mathematical formula that compares your body weight to your height. To get your BMI, you divide your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in [...]
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