A healthy diet and regular exercise are common recommendations to help support an optimal metabolism, but there are plenty of other simple ways to enhance metabolism. 1. Stand up and move—every 20 minutes. Are you sitting yourself to death? Standing [...]
Many people think metabolism is a simple equation of food intake minus calories burned. Derived from the Greek word, “metabol,” meaning “to change,” metabolism is actually a blanket term describing thousands of physical and chemical processes in the body that [...]
What is wellness? If you divide your life into four dimensions, physical, emotional, social and spiritual and take stock in each area—you will have a measure of wellness. Some authors of wellness also include “intellectual,” as a dimension of wellness. [...]
Actually, they have more than one secret, but the most important is “adherence.” If it were easy to stick to a fitness regimen—more people would do it without help. Half of all those who start an exercise program drop out [...]
1. Drink more water. Water increases energy and vitality, while helping to control hunger pangs. 2. Move your body. Fitness can utilize up to 30 times more blood sugar than rest and it is especially good for improving your mood. [...]
Iron is an essential nutrient for humans—and the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide. It causes fatigue in adults and effects motor and mental development in infants, children and adolescents. It is more common in developing countries, but appears in the [...]
If it’s time for your cholesterol check, consider one simple blood test that gives you cholesterol readings plus glucose levels, measures for kidney, liver and heart functions, potassium, uric acid, electrolytes and iron. And while you’re at it, in the [...]
Did you know people from Mediterranean countries—such as Spain, Greece, Italy and Croatia—have less heart disease, cancer and obesity? Do you know why? Diet and exercise. The Mediterranean diet originates from foods found in the area bordering the Mediterranean Sea [...]
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has joined seeks to empower Americans to make healthy choices with Million Hearts™ to offer three online tools to calculate heart attack risk, track and manage heart health, and a tool that shows you what [...]
Heart disease is a modern epidemic. Before the industrial revolution—when people had to do almost everything by hand (and foot), manual labor and diets rich in protein and low in carbs, fats and salts, kept the bodies of our foremothers [...]
