Alcohol and Sleep
Origianlly Posted from Tuck. Our primary mission at Tuck is to promote sleep health awareness. Alcohol causes drowsiness. This has led to the popular misconception that it can aid sleep. Up to 20 percent of Americans report using alcohol as a sleep aid. However, alcohol negatively impacts the quality of your sleep, as well as how…
How Full-Body Workout Exercises Are Ideal for Professionals
For many professionals, work usually gets in the way of health and fitness, with much of their time and effort devoted to their various tasks and responsibilities. Sometimes, 24 hours seem insufficient, and this is why a lot of professionals can’t find time to work out, let alone play sports like tennis, which Destiny Management…
Trying to Lose Weight? Here Are Five Tips You Absolutely Need to Succeed
You look into your bathroom mirror, and you recognize that you’ve gained some weight. Your favorite clothes are considerably snug on your body, and there are flabby areas in places you’ve never had flab before. Even worse, you are beginning to feel the extra weight whenever you walk across a parking lot or up a…
Stay Motivated and Destroy Your Dread of the Gym – Here’s how!
The first few weeks of your Health and Fitness program are inspiring, at the entry stage, you will be heavily encouraged to sign up for someone on one Health and Fitness sessions. Most gyms out there even include some free training packages, but this does not make it easy or cheap by any means. Usually,…
Fitness Is The Key To Overall Wellness
Written by Terry Linde If you want to achieve overall wellness, then you have got to know that fitness is the essence of it. Unlike the popular perception that attaining fitness is very difficult, the fact is it is easy when done correctly. Body posture does not explain how fit someone is. The fact is…
Low-Fat Versus Low-Carb Diet? It’s a Draw
For decades researchers have sought to find the best diet to help people achieve the elusive goal of permanent weight loss. In the context of a worsening obesity epidemic and massive efforts underway to attempt to curb it, health professionals and the public are hungry for an answer. What diet will best help us improve…
Metabolic Health Versus Weight
by Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RDN, FAAP Despite more than a decade of intensive efforts to reverse the adult and childhood obesity crises, obesity remains widespread. Generally, the first treatment recommendation is to lose weight, but losing large amounts of weight and keeping it off is difficult, and possibly not even the best reflection…
What Are Ketones And How Does Your Body Use Them?
People have been searching for the best way to get in shape, get healthy, and lose weight for decades. There have been hundreds, if not thousands of different types of diets and weight loss fads that have come and gone, but most people are still searching for something that works for them. Everyone wants a…
How to Build Your Own Workout Routines – Advice from a Two-time Olympian
After almost a decade as a full-time, elite athlete, it’s safe to say that I have built up a pretty good bank of knowledge when it comes to training. Whether it be aerobic conditioning, circuits, sprints, or strength training, a career as an international hockey player has, at one point or another, covered it all.…
Are Sauna Sessions Heart Healthy?
Relaxing in a dry sauna may not only be relaxing, but research has shown that a 30-minute session may also benefit your heart and circulatory system. TanjaninaLaukkanen, a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, states that she is not clear why dry sauna heat provides the effects that humid heat does not. The heat…
