If You Upgrade Your Lifestyle Later in Life, Do You Still Get Health Benefits?
Most of your life, you’ve eaten French fries and washed them down with soft drinks. Your refrigerator is stocked with more cookies than carrots. But you’re now in the middle or latter stages of your life and have heeded the calling of the Golden Arches too many times. Now, you…
What is a Normal Resting Heart Rate & What Does It Say about Your Health?
One thing you can count on. Every minute you’re alive, your heart is beating rhythmically inside your chest. If you place your hand on the left side, just above your breast, you can feel its perpetual pulsations. Your heart is one of the hardest working organs in your body, right…
How Weak Hips Can Lead to Knee and Back Problems
Do your knees ache when you walk or climb stairs? If you have knee pain, the problem may actually come from your hips. Hip weakness is a common cause of knee pain and weak hips can lead to other orthopedic injuries by changing gait biomechanics The hip is one of…
Is the Size of Your Waistline a Marker of Brain Health?
Your brain only weighs about three pounds. Yet, there’s a lot of gray and white matter packed into the small space that makes up your brain, and it’s a busy place! Your brain houses around 100 billion neurons that carry information and uses about 20% of the body’s total energy.…
Can Too Much Sitting Damage Your Internal Organs?
It’s no secret that too much sitting is harmful to your health and well-being. When you sit too long, your body goes into hibernation mode. Just as a hibernating bear’s physiological processes becomes dormant when he retreats to his den for the winter, the same happens to you when you…
6 Reasons Taking Calcium Supplements Could Be Harmful
Calcium is an essential mineral that your body needs in relatively large quantities, unlike trace minerals, like iron, that your body needs only in tiny amounts. 99% of the calcium you take in is stored in your bones and teeth. You need the other 1% on a minute-by-minute basis to…
5 Scientifically Proven Reasons Fitness is the Key to Healthy Aging
Who doesn’t want to live a long, happy life and stay healthy, happy, and functional as they age? According to research published in the journal Immune Ageing, how we age is 75% lifestyle and only 25% genetics. Lifestyle matters! One lifestyle habit that’s intrinsic to any successful aging program is…
Break Out of a Biceps Curls Rut & Get More Shapely Arms with These Exercises
Are biceps curls your “go to” arm exercise? If you’re like most people, it is. Don’t give up curls! You need them in your routine as they’re a focused exercise for the biceps muscles, the muscles that make the front of your arms look strong and firm. Biceps curls are…
If You Could Do Only One Strength Training Exercise, This is the One You Should Do
Hopefully, you never have to choose only one exercise, but let’s pretend for a moment you do. The gods of exercise tell you that you must select only one exercise to get stronger, preserve muscle mass, and stay in shape. What’s your top choice? You might choose squats. Not a…
The Healthy Food You Should Never Eat Raw
Do you top your salads with sprouts? These days, you have an abundance of sprouts to choose from. Some of the most popular are broccoli sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, clover, and mung bean sprouts and they’re readily available in little plastic packages at many grocery stores. Unlike the mature plant, sprouts…