Even plastic toy barbells are bright red, green, purple and yellow! Toy shovels, brooms, stoves and trucks are red, blue, purple, green and yellow, yet are somehow supposed to make the young child feel as Read more...
You cannot be physically fit in the absence of exercise, even if you're naturally on the thin side. Physical health is synonymous with exercise. Having an efficient cardiovascular system and strong joints come only with Read more...
Is gluten really the monster that celiac disease makes it out to be? Or if you’re normal can you eat gluten without worrying? Do you even KNOW what gluten is? Read Read more...
You shouldn’t smack your child if he says you’re fat any more than I should smack YOU if you say I’M fat. Don’t hide your bully behavior behind the guise of “kids need to be Read more...
Happy doesn’t mean healthy. A most weak defense by obese people who claim they’re healthy is when they point out deaths from marathon running. Obesity or being significantly overweight is a well-proven health Read more...
So when it comes to preserving mental function in old age, which wins out between physical exercise and mind activities? Read more…
There is a definite correlation between hair loss and heart disease. But this link between going bald and heart health isn’t just any kind of hair loss. Read more…
You have more control over “age-related” height loss than you may think. This is the conclusion of a new study from the University of Southern California, Harvard University and Peking University. For this investigation, 17,708 Read more...
If you make excuses for your sedentary lifestyle, beware, because you’re setting yourself up for very probable osteoarthritis in the future: Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint process that most commonly strikes knees, hips and spine. Read more...
You know that aerobic exercise keeps the brain young, but do you know just how? MRI studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine show what may happen in the Read more...
Developing melanoma, and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (another skin cancer) becomes much more likely in people who have undergone heart transplants. This is because after getting a heart transplant, a patient must then take lifelong Read more...
As a personal trainer, I’ve advised clients on how to design a boot camp right in their home for workouts. But you need to also know how to make the most of the equipment and Read more...
Do you think you’re “short waisted” (or “long waisted”)? What you really mean is a short torso! As in, "short torsoed," (though there’s no such word as “torsoed,” but at least “torsoed” makes anatomical sense. When someone Read more...
Anorexia nervosa is the name of a psychiatric disorder, a mental illness, but “obesity” is the result of certain kinds of psychiatric disorders. Read more…
If you’ve suffered permanent hair loss or permanently thin wispy hair from chemotherapy, you may want to look into platelet rich plasma treatment. Read more…
Taxotere is a chemo drug commonly used for breast cancer treatment, and has been linked to permanent hair loss (permanent alopecia) in a small percentage of patients. Have you ever wondered why, in articles about Read more...
Oh no, imagine the repercussions if a pill that replaces exercise is ever developed. However, researchers just got one step closer to inventing a pill that can mimic exercise. Read more…
Is a protein drink actually better than a carbohydrate drink after doing cardio exercise? A new study has an interesting conclusion. Read more…
There is one type of exercise for chronic heart failure patients that recent research shows is very beneficial. Heart failure is when the heart fails to adequately pump blood. The exercise for this? It is Read more...
Improper lat pull-downs are done by both men and women. Here is the wrong way to do the lat pull-down: Read more…