healthy lifestyle
By strengthening the muscles that support your joints, strength training may lower the risk of sports and exercise injuries. The key is to do it safely and to avoid strength training injuries. How can you do that? Here are seven ways to lower your risk of training injuries when building strength.
Genes play a role in whether you develop certain health problems, but they aren’t the full story. A healthy lifestyle matters too. In fact, there’s a branch of science that focuses on gene expression in response to lifestyle. Can you reprogram the genes you inherited through lifestyle?
Some research shows that exercise suppresses immune function for several hours after an intense workout. However, more recent research finds that the shift in immune function may be beneficial rather than harmful. Here’s why.
Have you ever tried to make a healthy lifestyle change that didn’t stick? Soon enough, you were back to your old ways and less than healthy habits. Don’t let it happen! Here are 6 ways to make healthy habits stick.
If you’ve chowed down on fast food and led a sedentary life and you’re past middle age, can you still get health benefits if you mend your ways and start eating a nutrient-rich, whole food diet? Find out what science says.
With so much focus on exercise and eating healthy, a significant number of Americans must be following a healthy lifestyle, right? Not according to a new study. In fact, the number is abysmally low. How low? You might be surprised.
How do the lifestyle choices your partner makes affect your own health and fitness goals? A new study looked at this issue and came to some interesting conclusions. Find out how getting your partner to eat healthier and be more active works in your favor and how to get a reluctant partner to make better healthy lifestyle choices.
We now know low-grade inflammation is a factor in some diseases including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases and cancer. You also know that a healthy diet helps keep inflammation in check – but what about exercise? This article discusses the role exercise plays in reducing inflammation.
Middle-age spread and middle-age weight gain – no one wants to experience it. One study looked at the contribution different types of food play in weight gain during the middle years of life. Read on to find out what “weight gain” foods to avoid.
Can the lifestyle you lead change your metabolism? New research shows that eating a healthy diet and exercising may impact how cells function at a genetic level. What you eat and drink and whether you exercise can actually change gene expression. Find out more.
The French have a significantly lower rate of obesity compared to Western countries, despite the fact they eat a diet that’s relatively high in saturated fat. Why might this be – and what can we learn from them about maintaining a healthy body weight? Find out.
The following article takes a look at the various vitamins, why you need them and which foods to find them in. Vitamins which appear to be missing from the list, such as B4 and B8 are synthesized by the human body and are therefore not normally required in additional amounts.
