10 Tips To Maximize Your Metabolism Metabolism basically means the count of calories you burn per day Repeatedly you have might read from the articles about accelerating the rate of metabolism The most common reasons are consuming highly nutritious food and performing workouts If your metabolism rate is slower, it shows you are burning less of calories In order to increase the rate, you must follow the below tips: 1) Do not observe fasting because you burn too many calories at ...

Soup From Scratch Let’s think about health, not dieting, but health! Becoming healthy and staying healthy is a matter of lifestyle – a change, for life Long-term dieting has been proven, time and time again, to be a short-term solution that usually results in more weight gain after the fact You can only stay on a diet for so longDoes it actually sound healthy to exclude carbohydrates from your diet, eliminate fruit, eat only cabbage, start drinking shakes full of ...

Did You Know That Excess Salt Is Harmful? Salt (sodium) plays an important role in the regulation of muscle contraction, fluid balance and nerve impulses in the human body and it is essential for overall good health All our body fluids including blood, sweat, tears, etc contain sodium It is essential to maintain proper balance of sodium in these fluids Sodium in the body is mainly found in fluids that surround the body's cells, such as blood and lymph fluid When sodium intake exceeds the amount the ...

Heart Disease And Exercise About 126 million Americans currently have heart disease11 million Americans will experience a serious heart event this yearOne in four Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease Every 34 seconds one American will die as a result of cardiovascular diseaseNo other disease claims as many women's lives as cardiovascular disease One American woman dies each minute as a result of cardiovascular diseaseAround 700,000 Americans will have a stroke this years That's one stroke every 45 secondsHEART ...

Kids And Weight Training: When Should They Start? Weight training and exercise in general can be very beneficial to all children It increases bone density, increases strength, and improves muscular coordination In the past many people had concerns about children and exercise but now we are much better informedWhat age should they start?This is more of an ethical question A child can start training with weights at any age, but the real question is: should they? Providing they have a ...

The Fail-safe Weight Loss Formula - Turbo Model You know the fail-safe weight loss formula Eat LESS, Exercise MOREOf course the formula delivers positive results, but it takes time And success depends on your commitment over a long period of timeBut what if you could speed up weight loss so the pounds melt away like magic!How many times have you heard that promise – probably more times than you can count? Maybe, just maybe, there are answers for you in ...

Secondhand Smoke Could Kill You If you're not a smoker, stay away from those who do because smokers aren't the only ones being harmed by their habitAccording to the American Cancer Society (ACS), lung cancer is the worst cancer killer in America, taking more lives each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined ACS statistics show that an estimated 160,440 Americans die each year from lung cancer, accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths Over 173,000 new cases ...

Stop Snoring: Understand It First Stop snoring or sleep on the sofa, at a friend's house, in another city!Okay, it may not be that bad, but it certainly could beIf you love your partner, help him to stop snoringDo you suffer sleepless nights because your partner is snoring? Do you wish he would stop snoring? It may help you if you realize that snoring is not a disease by itself Yes, it is annoying actually, even uncomfortable Snoring is uncomfortable ...

Lifestyle And Cancer New reviews and research suggest that excess weight coupled with poor diet is the main cause of cancer Almost 1/3rd of eight odd million cancer deaths a year around the world are as a result of lifestyle and environmental factors Good habits may not rectify bad genes but they can counter their effects The main risk factors that account for more than 35% of cancer deaths are Smoking, no physical activity, alcohol, diets void of fruits and vegetables, obesity, alcohol, pollution, unsafe sex and reused ...

Pregnancy - A Few Tips Are you becoming a mother for the first time? Anxious? Nothing to worry about, make sure you keep in mind a few precautions regarding weight and diet What should you weigh? Not being of normal weight at the beginning of your pregnancy may effect your recommended weight gain The ideal should be a body mass index (BMI) between 20 and 25 BMI = weight (kgs)/ height (meters) Weight gain during the first quarter of your pregnancy is very little, 3-4 lbs The ...