Gum Tissue: A Look Into Overall Health
We all need to practice some sort of oral hygiene routine daily. Gum tissue is often overlooked as an important part of overall health. There is a lot to be learned from observing gum tissue. Here is a quick overview of gum tissue, disorders that can be associated with gum dis-ease, and supplemental support. Gum…
Energy Drinks
As energy drinks become more and more popular, questions about their safety and efficacy are growing. Safety concerns associated with energy drink consumption include adverse effects on the cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, renal, and endocrine systems, as well as psychiatric symptoms. For example, cardiovascular complications associated with consumption include elevated blood pressure and heart rate, arrhythmias,…
Cardio–Strength Combo: Maximizing the Benefits
With today’s fast-paced lifestyle and time being a prized commodity, when it comes to fitness, people want it all—cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility training—in just 50 minutes. It’s easy to design individual or small-group programs that combine several exercise modes so that you can meet multiple goals in a single session. But there is one challenge to keep…
Can Tea Be Good for Your Kidneys?
There’s much conflicting information about tea out there. First, it’s good for your health. But then it may not be good for your bladder. Which version should you believe? Well, the confusing thing is that they’re both correct to different degrees. So, if you want to know the facts behind tea, keep reading. Find out…
3 Creative Ways Families Can Get Active
If your family is spending too much time loafing on the couch, watching television, playing video games, or checking social media, you are not alone. Families often allow their electronics to take over their free time, even when the weather turns nice and they can break free of their sedentary winter lifestyle. If you’d like…
Intermittent Fasting
Raise your hand if you’ve ever followed a diet that’s become or already is a fad. In all likelihood, probably about 100 percent of us have a hand over our heads. And that doesn’t even count the number of people who have followed some crazy exercise routine in order to try to make good on…
Why Strength Training May Help You Live Longer
It is a well-known fact that exercising regularly can be beneficial to our bodies on so many levels – it promotes better sleeping, helps us deal with everyday stress, reduces our chances of developing certain illnesses and strengthens our organism as a whole. Doing all that, also helps us live longer and enjoy every opportunity…
Asparagus and Citrus Salad Recipe
In the coming weeks, stalks of green asparagus will appear beside piles of citrus fruit at your local market. From late February to early June, asparagus spears rapidly rise from underneath the fern leaves of asparagus plants and are cut down only hours later. Asparagus is a tender delicacy and is best when consumed as…
Hip Exercises For Women To Get Sexy and Slimmer Hips
Looking to slim down and tone your hips? Try this routine for hip exercises that will get you sexy and slimmer hips. Perform each exercise one after the other completing 20-25 repetitions per exercise. Build up to going through the circuit 2 times. LYING HIP ABDUCTION Lie on your side with the bottom leg bent…
Whole Food Snacks to Keep on Hand at Work
Let’s face it: If you work, you get hungry. First of all, unless you spend just an hour or two at the office, you’re going to spend the majority of your time at your desk or workstation, and just the progress of the hours means that you will find the need to eat. And we’ve…
