Exercise comes with an incredibly large pool of benefits, such as prolonged life, disease prevention, and weight control, but that doesn’t mean that the idea of breaking a sweat and sacrificing time out of your day is always appealing. So, what do you do if you’ve decided to live a healthy lifestyle, but you have a spouse who is, shall we say, reluctant? How can you convince your loved one to get on ...
Some things are a staple of childhood: The first time you hit a home run in your little league game, the smell of a new book when you flip through the pages, the laughter of friends at a sleepover; unfortunately, it seems that broken bones are also something that many children run across in their lives. So, if your child has broken their bone, what is the next step? Sure, you should bring them into ...
Sure, everyone knows that it’s healthy to run. No matter who you are, no matter what culture you are raised in, running is universally seen as an act of health and a way to get in better shape. However, most people never consider what it is that makes running so good for you. So, why is it that we as humans are conditioned to have positive responses to running? What exactly are the benefits ...
So often in America, we are all focused on the next diet craze and the overnight way to achieve the perfect body, even if we are focused on it for all the wrong reasons. However, some elements of that pursuit, when done for the right reasons, are very advantageous in their own right. One of these practices is cutting calories. Although we tend to think of calories as part of a diet, and counting calories ...
So often, we focus on getting healthy only after a problem arises. When we become overweight, we quickly go on a diet and try to resolve the issue. When we learn we have diabetes, we make sure to take the proper steps to counteract it. When we sprain an ankle, we tape it up and rest. However, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of medicine. The best way to fix your health issues ...
If you’re anything like most Americans, you constantly are planning on working out, but never quite find the time in your day to actually exercise properly. So often dreams of weight loss and six packs are replaced with the reality of working late at the office and putting your kids to bed at a proper time. So, how exactly can you get the exercise in your routine that you’ve been craving while making ...
