Aromatherapy for Winter Wellness: The Best Scents for Cold relief
While there's no cure for the common cold, there are ways to ease the symptoms and create a more comfortable environment at home. One such method is through the art of aromatherapy, using scented candles to promote relaxation and relieve congestion.
Best Beginner Workout Program for 2022
Picture this: you’ve thought about working out, but you’re not sure how you could possibly fit it into your already busy lifestyle. With the New Year coming up, it feels like the perfect time to reflect on your fitness goals and how to attain them.
Best Types of Yoga for Each Stage of Life
Yoga is one of the best ways to reach your highest sense of self and relaxation, but every single body is different. What’s the best type of yoga to practice for you? The easiest way to start your yoga journey is simply typing into Google “yoga for *insert age here*”, but no worries, below is a list of yoga practices for each walk of life!
Is the Keto Diet Right for You?
The ketogenic diet, usually called the “keto” diet for short, is a very low-carb, high-fat, moderate-protein diet. It was originally designed to help children with epilepsy, and has also been used to treat type 2 diabetes. However, in the last few years, the keto diet has become very popular for people who want to lose weight or change to a healthier lifestyle.
The Importance of Staying Hydrated for Weight Loss, Especially in the Summer
We all know it’s important to stay hydrated. If you’re like me, you can’t count the number of times you’ve said, “I need to drink more water.” And most of us would probably guess that it’s more important to stay hydrated in the summer months.
What is Cellulite?
FEATURED on so many magazine covers as a curse to be obliterated, what is cellulite?
A whole industry has grown up and around ways to banish cellulite, but it is a perfectly normal part of a woman’s body and has no health implications at all.
Why is Dental Health Important for Your Dog?
A DOG’S teeth are vital for its overall health – as any dog lover knows all too well, dogs use their mouths for pretty much everything from eating to playing. So, your furry friend has bad teeth it will not be living its life to the maximum – but it is quite straightforward to help your canine companion have top-quality teeth.
How the Diet Industry is Changing
DIETING has always been big business and as our focus on our health has come sharply into view over the past year, so the food and diet industry has responded. Dieting for the sake of just losing weight has fallen away quite sharply over the past few years, a combination of an increasing understanding of overall health and increasing information provided to consumers tanks to changes in FDA labeling rules.
Strength Training VS. Cardio
Strength is the place to put your time, money, and energy, even if cardio is fun and readily accessible. There is a large misunderstanding on how the human body adapts to physical activity. The questions "should I do cardio for weight loss?", "if I do strength training, don't I have to do cardio too?", "won't having bigger muscles hurt my cardio?" come up a lot. The overarching answer to these questions is that strength training will improve your cardio substantially, but cardio will not help your strength much.
Holistic Healthcare vs Western Medicine
How many times have you been to the doctor and you feel as if you are not being heard and you leave without the answers to your questions? It is common to go to the doctor’s and feel like just another appointment in a full day. The root of your issue is not discovered, but you probably head home with a prescription to treat one of your symptoms that may or may not help, but almost certainly will come with less than desirable side effects. In the end it's possible to end up feeling worse than when you started the process both physically and emotionally. For this reason, alternative approaches to medicine such as holistic healthcare have become more popular. You have a choice on how you take care of your body and to discover why western medicine may not be the best option out there.
Tips for Keeping Your Immune System in Tip-Top Shape This Fall
That cool tinge to the air can only mean one thing: fall has arrived. That’s right, it’s here once again and so are some of our favorite things like cute sweaters and scarves, pumpkin-flavored everything, and, of course, spooky season. But even though there’s a lot of love about fall, it means colder weather and less time spent outdoors. People tend to gather together more in warm, enclosed spaces during the colder months, increasing the risk of transmitting illnesses to each other.
How to Improve Your Financial Health by Tending to Your Physical Health
Health and wealth are inextricably linked in many ways. Taking good care of yourself by living a healthy lifestyle can put (or keep) money in your pocket both directly and indirectly. The immediate savings are important, but there are long-term financial benefits to making healthy choices, as well. Here, we’ll provide some examples of how tending to your physical health now improves your fiscal health presently and long into the future.
What is Cellulite and How Can You Keep it at Bay?
No one likes to have their legs compared to food, but describing cellulite as having an “orange peel” or “cottage cheese “ texture truly isn’t that far from the mark. Cellulite—a skin condition that causes lumps and dimples in the skin around the thighs, buttocks, and abdomen— is harmless and extremely common.
Exercise + Diet: You Can't Lose Weight Without Both
You’ve probably heard the saying, “You can’t out-exercise a bad diet,” and that’s certainly true. But, does that mean we can go without exercise entirely when trying to lose body fat? Is it more effective just to focus on consuming fewer calories from food?
Top 5 Lifestyle Changes for Weight Loss + Practical Application Pro Tips
How many fad diets can you name? Almost all of us can name, at least, a handful off the top of our heads--the Atkins Diet, the Ketogenic Diet, Veganism or even Raw Veganism for a start. Every fad diet has its own set of pros and cons, but these often extreme guidelines can be ultimately unsustainable if you don't decide on and implement your own personal strategy toward accomplishing your healthy benchmarks. If you choose to follow a diet plan, you should expect to follow one that will outline exactly what you should and should not eat.
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