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After a long, hard week you may be reaching for a nice, cold beer or a glass of wine. Sure, an alcoholic drink can take the edge off and lower your stress for a bit. However, it could increase your appetite and make healthy eating very hard to do.
Could it be? Could the delicious sweetness of chocolate actually be good for you? The answer is yes, but in moderation. Chock full of antioxidants, this delicious treat may be able to help you combat heart disease.
Sometimes it may seem that over the same period of time, on the same diet and exercise regimen, that men lose weight quicker than women.
Probiotics are getting more press each and every day for their health benefits. From skin health, improving bone health, and of course, enhancing gut health, the possibilities seem endless.
Tunnel vision is usually used to describe someone with a narrow point of view. Taken literally however, it can describe the type of vision that results with untreated glaucoma.
Night shifts, or working from evening to morning, can be rough on your body and mind. Your meal patterns can become confused. Sleeping patterns can become thrown off course.
Probiotics have become the talk of the town, and for good reason. Every day more research shows that taking probiotics can reduce inflammation in the gut, and in turn, may help reduce risk of inflammatory conditions such as heart disease, eczema, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Whether you walk, run, swim, cycle, or dance, exercise is a great way to keep your heart in tip top shape. Exercise is also recommended for weight loss, controlling blood glucose levels, and even for helping reduce stress by releasing endorphins.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. It accounts for one in four deaths each year.
When you don’t get enough sleep, it can affect your whole day. You may move slower, have less energy, your mind may have a hard time learning or remembering things, and you may be more easily stressed and irritated.
So much focus is placed on diet and exercise to stay healthy, that sometimes mental health care can be forgotten. However, the health of both mind and body is important to be in your best state of health.
Sleep. Work. Eat. Repeat. Does that sound like your day, or something like it? Sleep is often set aside as just something that a person does at the end of the day. It is often overlooked as a very important part of optimal health.