Tagged with: awareness health life Nutrition Whether you’re a casual gym-goer, fitness enthusiast or dedicated bodybuilder, your body needs the basic essential vitamins and minerals to maintain its normal daily functions and properly recover from any level of exercise. However, for athletes who are seeking improved performance and sustained energy as you endure your rigorous workouts, there are certain nutrients that can provide the added support needed.
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Protein is the macronutrient firmly in the public eye at the moment. With many purported benefits including building muscle, losing weight and maintaining our health, it is little wonder why protein is on the edge of many health and fitness fanatic’s lips.
Tagged with: awareness fitness health life Nutrition We are well and truly into bikini season now, and you might just be panicking if you’ve left it a little late to get your perfect beach body. But don’t worry, even if you are jetting off in the next couple of weeks, you still have time to shed some unwanted pounds, and that is with a juice cleanse.
Tagged with: awareness fitness health life Nutrition Chaga is a dark colored mushroom found mainly on birch tree. It is easily recognizable because of its burnt look and rough tree bark like texture. It is widely seen in birch forests across all over Eastern Europe, Russia and some Asian countries. It has long been a staple ingredient in ancient medicinal traditions because of its high concentration of nutrients and health boosting properties.
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It seems as if everyone who is into fitness has a ‘magic’ health or nutrition tip that will change your world forever. Many of the tips your friends and acquaintances offer are based merely on hearsay and/or personal preference. If you want to improve your health, you need evidence-based advice.
Tagged with: awareness fitness health Nutrition research Garcinia Cambogia (GC) is a tropical fruit, touted as a weight loss supplement. Also known as the Malabar tamarind, it looks like a small green pumpkin and used in the Asian cuisine for support digestion along with its sour taste. GC first came into the limelight when the compound found in its rind, called Hydroxycitric Acid (HCA), was associated with weight loss in 1990s.
Tagged with: diet high fats low carbs Nutrition Obesity For anyone fighting the imminent health risks of obesity, there are a number of diets available to aid their weight loss objective. One such diet is that consisting of high-fat foods. The association with fats in foods and excessive fat on the human body is no more than a common misconception. Nevertheless, there are both advantages and disadvantages to a high fat diet for everyone.
Tagged with: awareness education family fitness health life Nutrition Obesity Overweight and obese Americans regularly experience various forms of discrimination in many social settings and even at the workplace. For instance, on average, obese men and women earn $2 and $4 less per hour respectively at the workplace compared to non-obese workers. Sadly, a weight-based stigma can have a negative impact on a person’s health, self-esteem, and performance at work or school. This notwithstanding, 154.7 million Americans aged 20 years and older are overweight or obese. Fortunately, you can fight obesity and maintain a healthy BMI by doing the following:
Tagged with: awareness exercise fitness health life Nutrition Each year the pressure is on to make a change regarding health in January. It seems easy to say you want a change. However, making the commitment and keeping it, is a totally different outcome. In speaking with other aquatic professionals, the one thing that rings true is MOVE. Move forward into that change, mentally and physically. Create in you, a self-commitment, even if it is just one thing in your life you have changed. Here are some easy changes you can MOVE into:
