Health and Fitness

You are what you eat. I am sure that you have heard that saying before! Nothing could really be closer to the truth! The better that you eat, the healthier you will be. One major part of a healthy diet includes eating good fat. The benefits of these good fats include reducing the risk of developing: heart disease, cancer, depression and Alzheimer’s. Here are the top 5 sources of good, heart healthy fats.

1. Fish. Fish is very high in unsaturated fats and contain a large amount of omega 3 fatty acids. They are one of the best foods to eat to guarantee yourself a healthy heart. The best sources of fish are salmon, mackerel, sardines and tuna. Substitute them for meat several nights a week in order to benefit from their high amount of unsaturated fats.

2. Nuts. Nuts contain high amounts of monounsaturated fats, which protect you against cardiovascular disease.…

After reading the Time article “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin”, you can easily come away with the impression that exercise has little effect on weight loss, or may be the cause of you gaining more weight. Even though I agree that exercise alone will not make you thin – unless of course you have the time to exercise several hours each day-, the article’s somewhat dismissive tone that exercise is of little value in losing weight is false.

Yes, if you look at exercising from the point of view of the studies used in the article to make the argument of exercise’s limited effect on weight loss, then their assessment is true. Numerous studies have shown that exercise alone has a limited effect on weight loss, so in that aspect their argument is true.

However, the major study used in the article to make the argument about exercise’s effect on weigh…

Here are some tips for staying on track with your diet while eating out at a restaurant.

Know your menu
If possible, go online and see if you can find the menu for the restaurant you will be visiting. This way you can pre-plan what you will eat. If the online menu has the nutritional information, be sure to go through the items on the menu to find some of the more healthy options. Also, by having a plan of what you will eat prior to going to the restaurant, it will be much easier to not be distracted by so many menu options.

Going to a restaurant hungry
We have those times where we’ve planned a night out to one of our favorite restaurants, so we don’t eat all day thinking that will help will our calorie consumption for the evening. We know the restaurant menu very well and we know it is…

If you are like millions of other people who want to lose weight, you have probably bought more than your fair share of diet books. And like most people, you have found they do not work for one reason or the other. Some are too restrictive, some are too complex and others are simply crazy! Thankfully, a few diet books will help you reach your weight loss goals. You simply need to know what to look for when browsing for the next diet plan.

Balance

The one thing that cannot be stressed enough is the need for balance. Your body requires many substances to perform at maximum capacity. Starvation and restrictive diets may allow you to lose a few pounds but they do so at the expense of your overall health. Many times, in fact you are not losing fat at all but lean muscle tissue. This is why the scales will…

To tell you the truth there are many different diet and exercise programs out there that do work but they are not right for everyone. If you want to get fit and lean in 12 weeks then you need a program that is going to deliver fast results. The fastest way to lose weight in 12 weeks is to combine a healthy diet with a quality workout program.

Strength training must always be part of any exercise program. People do not realize how important muscle is. Without muscle your body would have no shape and definition. Muscle is what gives those magazine models an attractive physique. The great thing about muscle is that it helps your body burn fat even while your sleep. It turns your body into a fat burning machine.

Apart from strength training you also want to have a cardio workout so that your body develops endurance. The best…

It is essential to lose weight the healthy way. This is required because you want to give your skin enough time to shrink as well. Fad diets that promise you to lose enormous amounts of weight in a short time will only leave you with loose skin. It is therefore essential that you follow the right quick healthy weight loss regime.

With a healthy weight loss plan, you can be assured that the extra pounds will stay off for a long time. Before you begin on a weight loss regime, it is essential that you teach your mind to think positively. This will help you ensure that you don’t lose hope if you don’t see any results within a few days of your exercise and healthy diet regime.

You will need to focus on an outcome that is positive. Most people who intend to lose weight stick a picture of a person…

I’m going to share with you some of the more powerful bodybuilding techniques that you can do. This will lead to increased energy, muscle and testosterone. Remember that these need to be done on a regular basis to have any long-term effect.

Try doing the full squat instead of a regular squat. Regular squats you just go squat down to the point of sitting in a chair. A full squat is when you go down until your butt is almost touching your ankles. This will really give your legs a workout.

A military press is another great exercise to put in your routine. You need a barbell and you’re going to hold it above your head, gripping it at shoulder width. Next, you’re going to bend your arms and let it come down to your chest, then explosively push it back up. This will work the shoulders and upper chest area.

Try the…

Want a sure-fire way to help your body rid itself of unsightly body fat, better yet, keep it off for good?

Learn to accelerate your body’s metabolism. One way to do this is by incorporating resistance training (weight-training) into your routine. That’s because the more muscle mass you have, you more body fat you will lose, even at rest!

Your metabolic rate determines how your body utilizes calories throughout the day for energy.

Metabolism is simply the speed in which your body burns through food. It is the conversion of digested nutrients into components for energy or building muscle.

Having an accelerated metabolism means that we will burn more calories often because our body will be utilizing and burning off food more often. One way to accelerate our metabolism is by increasing our amount of lean muscle tissue in the body.

Muscle helps speed up your metabolism. Since muscle is metabolically active tissue, the more…

Myths provide our societies with irrational fears and often lead to individuals to stray from the right course of action. One of these myths happens to revolve around female bodybuilding; a lot of women shy away from weightlifting falsely thinking that it will make them look masculine and butch. This myth has been spreading for years now, although the biological factors in a female’s body could never allow such a thing without interference of steroids and hormone treatment.

Testosterone, a hormone found in abundance in a man’s body, helps a man to develop muscles and bulk up. Women on the other hand do have this hormone but in small quantities, thus they do not look buffed up no matter how much they exercise.

Weightlifting or strength training is actually crucial for women because of its many health benefits such as: maintenance of healthy bones, depression prevention, and back pains. Women weightlifters tend…

When most of us think about saunas, one of two things comes to mind: people sweating in a steam-filled room or in a wood-paneled, very hot room. Indeed, traditional saunas are typically extremely hot, with some maintaining dry heat and others dousing the heat source with water, creating steam. In contrast, infrared saunas heat the body without heating the surrounding air. The heaters in infrared saunas emit long, infrared wavelengths that deeply penetrate the skin. Essentially, an infrared sauna conveys all of the benefits of the sun without the sun’s harmful UVA and UVB rays. More importantly, the heat of a far infrared sauna has a body penetration of up to 1-3/4 inches, whereas traditional saunas only penetrate about 1/8 inch of the body. This can result in a number of potential health benefits, five of which are outlined here.

1. Weight Loss – When it’s hot, your body works hard…