The Passover season is upon us and this eight day Hebrew festival requires a lot of preparation as you cook for the elaborate Seder meal for your family and friends. While most holidays are centered on food, Passover gives a whole new meaning to holiday eating. Though it may seem impossible to make healthy food choices during the holiday week, mindfulness is key to not letting the festivities hinder your weight loss efforts...
What Do Weight Loss and Exercise Have to Do With Each Other?
If you have been reading about weight loss for any length of time, you probably realize that it is a matter of taking calories into your body and burning them. Since 3500 calories equals a pound of body weight, you need to either be at a deficit of that many calories in order to lose a pound or at a surplus of that many calories in order to gain it. Although it may seem like a simple matter of cutting down on the amount of food that you eat, weight...
Your Weight Loss and Physical Fitness Program and the Stock Market
In the last few years, stocks have been on a down swing for awhile. During the turn of the century (late 90's), there was definitely a boom. Then, in the late 2000's, there was definitely a bust. Currently, the Dow Jones index (which is a major indicator on the condition of the stock market because it is composed of a variable mix of private companies) has been going up (after going down). For many years, I have tried to "predict" the market by investing...
Lose Weight After 40 - Who Can Succeed?
Who can succeed to lose weight after 40? Most healthy individuals after 40 have a greater chance of weight loss success than in their younger years. That may seem like a strange statement, because, most people know that your metabolism slows down as you age. Also hormones play a role in weight variances. So why would 40 year old's have a better chance of losing weight than they did 10 years previous? The answer lies with time. Most people in their...
Making Small Changes to Re-Energise Your Life
Staying fit can sometimes be a challenge, but so can getting the motivation to even start a productive fitness regimen. When you get home from a long day at work, the first thing you really want to do is sit down and put your feet up. But sometimes you have to push yourself through the end of day slump and get yourself re-energised, giving yourself the motivation you need to really make a difference...
What Exercise Regime Should You Be Considering?
There is now no serious dispute between medical professionals, as to the relationship between a sedentary lifestyle and an increased risk of cardio-vascular problems arising.
In fact, some authorities believe that the lack of exercise in a typical western lifestyle is a far bigger health risk overall than obesity alone....
Top 10 Superfoods Particularly for Weight Loss
Before I detail out - particularly for weight loss - top 10 superfoods (among many others), let me tell you something. I am in the health and fitness industry for more than 25 years now; such vast experience has made me realize the fact that weight loss, weight gain or weight maintenance (overall good health) directly depends on the given four factors that are vital and...
The Best Body Building Foods
Keeping up with nutrition is an important part of successful body building and weight loss. Even if you have an excellent exercise regimen in place, you're not going to get the results that you're after unless you also eat the right foods and sports supplements where appropriate. Once you strike the right balance between exercise and diet, you'll begin to see some great results quicker than you would without...
Weight Loss & Sports and Energy Drinks - What Role Do They Have in Weight Loss?
Sports and Energy Drinks - Who Needs Them?
Sports drinks have become a staple of American athletics. Every major sports team including the NFL, Major League Baseball, and NASCAR, are sponsored by and use sports drinks. Given the large amount of calories and sugar in the drinks, the issue is who needs them and do they quench thirst and really rehydrate people...
5 Reasons Why You Are Not Fit
1. You don't know how to start.
Any person who has never been into a serious workout before would always think that running is the best exercise to start building a better and healthier body. This is somewhat a misconception, I should say. Running can be effective in losing weight or removing excess body fat. It improves your cardiovascular health, stamina and leg strength when done right...
Erect Penis Enemy: Diabetes
Diabetes is a serious condition that causes many problems; it is an enemy to good health in general, as well as to an erect penis in particular. As a matter of fact, studies show that between 35% and 75% of men with diabetes will suffer some form of erectile dysfunction related to their condition. While practicing good penis care can help, it's important that a man takes special pains to prevent or deal with diabetes in order to have a more satisfying...
Does Your Disorganization Make You Feel Like You Have ADHD?
It is not unusual for me to work with a client and have her say, "I must have ADHD!" She sees her inability to stay focused, organized, and in control as symptomatic of the condition known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. For those diagnosed with ADHD, compensating for impaired executive function (the organizing, prioritizing, and focusing part of the brain) is extremely challenging...
Advantages of the Physical Exercises
The experts as regards health encourage us to include the
physical exercise like integral part of our daily program to remain in
health. As well as a healthy and balanced food mode, the exercise is
recommended for an optimal health...
Physical Exercise and Heart Rate
Since birth to the moment it stops your heart works
inexhaustibly. In your life time your heart ticks more than two and a
half billion times without a moment of rest. Assessing your heart rate,
at which your heart beats, is a useful and easy way to evaluate how hard
also your heart works at any given time. Your heart works harder and
faster during exercising to cope...
Why Should Elderly People Resort To Physical Exercises?
When a person becomes old, his body becomes weak. As a result, it
loses its immunity and becomes an easy prey to diseases and ailments.
Although there are many medicines that can keep an old body safe by
curing diseases, it is always a better option to go for the natural
remedies. However, you need to keep in mind that elderly people have
some limitations, and they cannot always afford to eat the "normally healthy" food items...
Physical Exercise and How It Benefits the Brain
There are so many benefits to exercising, and scientific research
continues to reaffirm how important it is for our physical and mental
health. Some of the latest research goes against what we have been lead
to believe over the years, such as the notion that exercise you can be
too old to start exercising, and more exercise is necessarily better.
Both of these premises have been proven wrong. Although it is best to
exercise consistently throughout...
Physical Exercise, Finding The Place And Time To Do It
All of us, if not most, know that physical exercise is good for
our health and body. Due to our busy lives, however, this knowledge is
placed at a low priority. Lost though procrastination. You end up with
no physical exercise routine at all. Time passes by and so fast. Then,
looking at yourself, you find yourself in such a mess. Fat and flabby,
weak, unfit, stressed, with health conditions. The human body is
designed to be active, moving...
Benefits of Performing Physical Exercise
Do you know you can lose two years of your life with your
waistline exceeding your chest size every inch? If you are aware of it,
then you must also agree that performing physical exercise on regular
basis can give you a solid solution to this silent-killing phenomenon.
To remain physically fit means to help your body maintain, repair, and
improve itself to an amazing extent. Let's dig into other benefits of
performing regular physical e...
Physical Exercise and Drug Recovery
The road to recovery from an addiction is one of the toughest,
ongoing challenges that an individual can experience; physical, mental
and emotional stresses are inherent with the recovery process and are
often more frequent and difficult at the start of recovery. One of the
most effective supplements to a sound recovery process is physical
exercise, with benefits that include stress relief, physical
strengthening of long-neglected muscles...
How Important Is Physical Exercise And What Can You Do About It?
Ever since we were kids, the benefits of physical exercise were
already introduced. Now that we are old enough to follow the right path
that could mean good health and long life then it is expected that we
work our means to do proper exercise daily. Its benefits are extended to
all ages and races...
Enhance Your Private Life Along With Physical Exercise
Physical exercise will work for everybody old and young. While
working with a routine workouts plan over the 7-day period, you will
discover a huge difference in your feelings, and will also improve your
power all the way up, while you really feel much better...
10 Steps to Spring Clean Your Creativity
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We
keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because
we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."...
Benefits of a Couple Workout - Team Up To Slim Down
When it comes to working out, not many people enjoy doing it.
Dieting and exercising is not one of their favorite to-do things on the
lists. Whereas; there are those who would love to go the Gym and sweat
out. To avoid boredom, engage in couple workout program. The couple
workout program is a great way to engage couples who want to regain
their fitness levels by working out together...
The Right Skin Care For You
It is very important to do what is necessary to prevent damage to
your skin from sunlight, wind, other natural elements, and harsh beauty
products. Whether you have dry, oily, aging, sagging, or normal skin,
it's important to give each type its necessary unique and specialized
skin care.
Live Healthily
If you want to have a healthy
appearance, then you have to live that way. It is recommended that you
get sufficient rest, partake in regular...
Childhood Obesity - The Physical Effects
We parents want what's best for our children. We're careful about
immunizations, we take them to the dentist and eye doctor regularly. We
don't plan for childhood obesity to be a problem, but it happens. This
article is about why we need to tackle the problem.
High Blood Pressure:
Obesity does not discriminate on age when obesity is involved. There
are children who have to take medication to control their blood pressure
and it's a growing...
Destroy Belly Fat: 6 Solutions
FOR THOSE OF YOU who've read my articles you've
probably suspected that I've been battling a weight problem. And I'm
winning the battle with proper, precise information, the desire for
all-around good health, and the dogged determination to actively to
something about it. Weight is the outward problem and one aspect of that
is BELLY FAT. If you looked at me from the belly up, or the belly down,
you probably wouldn't think that I'm fat. However,...
Physical Exercise Perfect For Women On The Go
Most people think that engaging in routines and rigorous physical
exercises is an activity that is exclusive to the masculine specie. To
the women, this appeared as nothing but a waste of time that can be
rather spent on some other notable things such as tending to household
chores, shopping or bonding with fellow girlfriends. What we do not know
is that although the physical structure of a woman is a little fragile
compared to that of a...
The Importance Of Physical Exercise
You hear a lot today about living the right lifestyle. We all
tend to live our lives at 100 miles per hour these days, spending too
much time at work, grabbing fast food meals as and when we can, rushing
here and rushing there, being under financial pressure, generally living
stressful lives, and often drinking too much alcohol or coffee or both,
too.
There's only so long you can go on living your life in this
way. It will eventually begin...
Three Approaches to Incorporate Physical Exercise Into Your Life - Get Going Right Now
While many people know they will need to workout, the majority do
not do so since it is not something these people enjoy. Various other
folks see exercising as a problem as well as a thing that is not
successful except if you are sweating, worn out, and about to drop.
Nonetheless, there are three less complicated techniques to utilize
physical exercise into your day-to-day life-style.
1. When you
work outside the home in a high-rise building,...
The Value of Regular Physical Exercise and Fitness
Is physical exercise a necessary part of our lives? Yes, it
definitely is. Without regular physical exercise, our bodies degenerate
faster and our lifespans are shorter as well. It is a well known fact
that regular physical exercise not only strengthens our muscles,
tendons, ligaments, bones and internal organs, it also makes us more
immune to various kinds of diseases. Apart from these benefits, it also
makes us look leaner and younger and...
