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Tips On Getting A Good Night's Rest
Why do we sleep? It may surprise you that there's no bonafide consensus among the scientific community to answer this question. After all, our minds never take a break, even when we're under. The b...
3 Tips For Healthier Snacking
Work a desk job? Me too. An unfortunate side effect for me has been developing a nasty habit of unhealthy snacking. My relationship with the vending machine has grown a little too close, while my r...
What's Really In Your Drinking Water
Bottled water is often see as the "pure" choice for drinking water. These beverage companies would have you think that tap water is bad for you: contaminated with pesticides, bacteria, etc. But how...
3 Ways You Should Be Eating Chia Seeds
Chia seeds have long been popular in the natural health community (and, well, in a seemingly never-ending barrage of Chia Pets...) but with an increased awareness of their health benefits, they can...
5 Easy Superfoods to Add to Your Diet
You may have heard the buzzword "superfood" thrown around a bit lately. No, they aren't newly available food items in the form of a powder or a meal bar or anything like that. In fact, many of them...
5 Tips for a Healthy Hike
Not everyone wants to hit the gym or take a jog down the street in order to get a workout in. Let's face it, exercise can be boring at times. If you are one of those people who simply do not like t...
Carb Confusion - The Good & The Bad
Carbohydrates are misunderstood creatures, too often labeled as criminals by many of us who want to drop a few pounds. But the truth is that carbs come in a variety of forms and are essential to a ...
10 Myths About Getting Great Abs
Who doesn't want to have a toned stomach, especially during beach season? You'd be hard pressed to find a single person who says they don't. At one point or another, almost everyone has tried to fo...
Why Sugar Is Bad For You
There's no denying it: Humans have a love/hate relationship with sugar. Each year, the average person consumes more processed sugar than his or her body weight. And the human body is not geneticall...
Micronutrients vs. Macronutrients - What They Are and Why They Matter
Macros vs. micros. Sounds like a hotly contested battle in some gaming fantasy world except we'd spell it Makros vs. Mykros, and set the scene in an ancient Greek amphitheater. In modern reality, m...
4 Ways to Protect Yourself from Injury
Any fitness aficionado is familiar with the risks associated with exercise, including injury. To maximize your results without endangering your body, consider the following: 1) Condition yourself ...
Six Ways to Keep Cool in Warm Weather
As summer approaches and the weather warms up, you may need to adjust your exercise routine in order to boost your results without sacrificing your safety. 1. Go out in the early morning or late af...
HIIT Training vs Cardio: Which is Better?
To burn the most calories during a cardio workout, you have one of two choices: 1) increase the intensity, or 2) lengthen the duration. Unless you are secretly a superhero, you can't do both. You'l...
5 of the Worst Food Additives
Food additives are natural or synthetic chemicals and compounds that help with food preservation, appearance or taste. With over 40,000 different kinds of items at your average grocery store, learn...
25 Ways to Burn 100+ Calories in 30 minutes or Less
Summer is coming quickly, which means that swimsuit season is coming along with it. To help you get ready for that ever shrinking swimsuit, here are 25 ways to burn 100+ calories in 30 minutes. Su...