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Keeping Fit When Life Hits

Being established in a home means more than staying in one place for longer than three weeks. Not only do you have the nearest gyms, best priced supermarkets, and routes to school memorized like the back of your hand, you have also maintained a friendly and borrow-a-cup-of-sugar based relationship with the neighbors around you. So, …

Unlock Your Personal Fitness & Success

You’ve decided to join the hordes of Apple-ites across the globe that enjoy the benefits of a phone, camera, iPod, and fashion accessory all in one. Let’s face it: along with being incredibly functional, iPhones are pretty sexy. Even though the many iPhone perks are undeniable, there is not a lot of room for originality! …

Electrolyte Balance Tips and Tricks

Exercise is an absolutely essential component to weight loss. Along with the best diet pills and eating healthy, exercise is something that you really can’t avoid if you are on the search for long-term health. The best diet pills can take your hour session at the gym to the next level by increasing your ability …

Healthy Living Habits

A whopping 90% of Americans believe that the diet they eat is healthy, says a U.S. Consumer Report that surveyed 1,234 Americans. But since obesity rates are steadily climbing, there must be some disconnect between what people perceive as healthy, and what kind of lifestyle habits will result in healthy bodies. Since it is painfully …

Workout Recovery – How to Speed up Recovery after a Hard Workout

It’s the day after your intense training session and you can’t move. Your trainer worked you so hard yesterday and today you are paying for it with extreme soreness. Everything hurts. What you do after your workout can be almost as important as what you do during your workout. A lot of people just end …

Nature and Us

“We give ourselves altogether too much credit in our dealings with other species.” –Michael Pollan Nature does miraculous things. Have you ever considered that certain fruits only come about at certain times of the year–and that those times happen to be the time they’re needed (by humans) most? There are other things too, like, the …

Superfood

Borecole, commonly referred to as kale, is a thick leafy vegetable closely resembling cabbage, and is from the Brassica family. Kale is an extremely nutritious food enriched with powerful antioxidant qualities. Kale is considered to be an anti-inflammatory, however not strong enough to be used to cure headaches. Some of the things that make kale …

Vegetarian Diets

Most people believe that if they switch to a vegetarian diet, they will lose weight. A vegetarian diet is not a weight-loss program but more of a lifestyle. Many people follow this kind of diet for cultural, religious, or ethical reasons. Some choose to eliminate or reduce meat, poultry, seafood, and other animal products to …

Exercise Intensity

When you work out, how do you know if you overdoing it or under doing it? Exercising at the correct intensity can help you get the most out of your physical activity. When you are doing aerobic activity, such as walking or biking, exercise intensity correlates with how hard the activity feels to you. It …

Good Carbs vs Bad Carbs

Have you always wondered what’s the difference between white bread and whole grain bread? Or, the difference between French fries and side salad with spinach, tomatoes, and carrots? All these foods are carbohydrates, but how do you know which ones are the good ones? Carbohydrates have had a reputation of being bad and being the …