Love Your Love Handles – Tone them up!
Let’s face it – unless our full-time jobs involve dancing or instructing at a gym, we all have love handles. Our partners think they’re cute, until they blow up to Aunt Marge a la Harry Potter proportions, and then all hell breaks loose. Stop hell from breaking loose, lose your love handles with these simple [...]
Inspiring Transformations From The Worlds Biggest Losers
The Biggest Loser has turned into a viral television phenomenon across the world capturing millions of viewers attention from Lebanon to Slovakia and just about every corner of the world. People have been glued to their screens as contestants fed up with their weight struggles go through a grueling several weeks of intense exercise, diet [...]
5-Move Workout For An Hourglass-Shaped Body
Curvaceous women are balanced beauties who fill out a bikini top and bottom. When they gain weight, it tends to be all over. Like pears with larger chests, they have the curves, but what they usually lack is all-over muscle tone. #1. SIDE PLANK WITH KNEE TUCK Tones: Core (especially obliques) and butt Video: Side [...]
5-Move Workout For A Pear-Shaped Body
As the name suggests, pears are proportionally smaller on top, easily pack weight onto their lower bodies, and have a hard time toning their arms and shoulders. You’re a bit wider on the bottom than you are on top. Tone your arms and shoulders, and get tighter all over with this pear-friendly workout. #1. LIFT-OFF [...]
Target Hamstrings In 3 Easy Stretches [Videos]
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Tight and inflexible hamstrings may lead to lower-back pain; so limber up fast with these 3 moves designed to keep your hamstrings flexible and strong. Beginner: STRAP STRETCH 1. Lying on back, raise left leg and place the center of a yoga strap around arch of left foot. 2. Keeping right leg on floor, slowly [...]
Fight Flab In Just 5 Moves, 15 Minutes
No Treadmill, no fancy equipment; Just a modest dumbbell to kick up the calorie burn of this 15-minute flab-fighting cardio routine. What you’ll need: a pair of 3- to 5-pound dumbbells RUNNING ROW Targets: Back, biceps, triceps, and quads 1. Holding a dumbbell in right hand, stand with feet hip-width apart. Bend right elbow behind [...]
Cigarette Warning Graphics: Across The Globe
Brazil In 2002, Brazil forced all cigarette manufacturers to sacrifice an entire side of their packaging for graphic warnings. Coupled with stark images, the warning were pretty straightforward; “When smoking, you inhale arsenic and napthalene, also used against rats and cockroaches“, “Nicotine dependence causes sadness, pain, and death. and probably the most cheekiest one, “smoking [...]
Get These 3 Immune System Boosters, Daily!
You already know you need to eat well to stay healthy, but scientists are now zeroing in on specific diet strategies that can help bolster immunity. With The.Worst. Allergy. Season. Ever. here, find these 3 immunity boosters to add to your daily arsenal. #1. Don’t let VITAMIN D get on short supply Your immune system [...]
5 Amazing Facts About Sleep
Image Source “Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake, one must stay awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Sleep is a very important part of human life. Our body and mind are built and coordinated to have a fixed amount of sleep every night. Without that sleep, the body clock and functions go off [...]
Turning 50? Beware of Cancer Symptoms
You have recently turned 50 and you feel such a relief in your life. Your finances are taken care of, kids are in good college, life never looked better! But are your really safe and secure from everything? Even cancer? Probably not! Cancer is much more likely to be curable if the symptoms are caught [...]
Unbelievable Medical Wonders
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. – Frank Gillette Burgess How true it may sound; but the fact is, our body is still a mystery to a large extent. It’s structure, functioning, reflexes, responses still amaze scientists and laymen alike. No wonder, sometimes when the uniqueness evolves into something too grotesque, it leaves [...]
Bones – Fun Facts
Bones give our wonderful body its structure. Without them, our motion, actions would just cease to exist. Let’s look at some fun facts about bones. 1. The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long. We may owe [...]
Keeping Safe From Winter Snowstorms
Winters are a reminiscent of snowflakes, warm romantic woollens, long coffee breaks and no New Years eve is ever complete without a snowfall. But then life is not always so poetic. More so often, nature’s fury, reminds us of its power, we certainly feel helpless, when winter temperatures drop significantly below normal, staying warm and [...]
7 Silent Stress Symptoms
It’s Monday again and you can’t get off that slowly creeping stress on your mind. Are you more stressed than you think? But repetitive stress from a demanding job or a personal life in turmoil may lead to some varied subtle symptoms. Now these are very simple aches, or troubles, but in the long run, [...]
