Category: Lifestyle

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Let’s get our plate in shape, that is! March has arrived and with it is National Nutrition Month®, coined “Get Your Plate in Shape”. So while we usually strive to get in better shape come spring, let’s start our focus with our food plates this month!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – February may be ending, but Feeding Our Hearts with health- giving foods is a year round important habit. This leads me to ask, “How many times during this week did we consider how our food choices are connected to the function, appearance and health of our body”?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Yardley, PA (February 2012)—Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and if you listen closely you’ll hear America heave a collective sigh of resignation (from the couples who must run out and buy obligatory gifts) and gloom (from the singles who feel like hiding sulkily under the covers). Yes, many people dread this seemingly benign holiday more than a trip to the dentist.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s a New Year, 2012 (Oh my!) and as in the past, losing weight, increasing our fitness and eating healthier make up the top New Year Resolution’s list. All of these include making new habits, and/or changing old ones; not something that is easy to do.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – This week I’d like to discuss my fav Top Holiday Foods, that is! I believe in the “Power of Food” and while we may overeat during this holiday season, I think we can have it all with my top ten foods, that is enjoy and maintain our weight too.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s the holiday season and what better reason is there to overeat? Well, there’s always a reason to overeat and one is definitely the holiday season. But if we only overate during the holidays, we wouldn’t be on so many diets! Why do we overeat in general? There are many reasons why we overeat and we all have our own reasons when we do it.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – When we strength train using either free weights, machines or our own body weight as resistance, a few tips are in order not to just reap the benefits, but to avoid an injury.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The saying “Don’t Put Off For Tomorrow, What You Can Do Today” is true for many things including our health & fitness regimen. Since we’re about to enter the holiday season we may find it hard to get to the gym. We may also find ourselves eating and drinking more? Well, I suggest that we “Make the Time” instead of trying to find the time, this way we can avoid gaining that infamous holiday weight. And we can start now!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Chocolate that is! Chocolate is the most popular candy we eat and in general, the news isn’t all bad. In fact, it’s rare that any single food is “bad” when we eat just a little. It’s Halloween this week, (our children will be bringing home lots of candy) and I think that if we eat just a little bit of chocolate we can have our sweets, keep our healthy eating, and not gain weight too.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – My motto is, “Stretching is for Everyday”, and I do practice what I preach (I admit it, I’m biased!). Flexibility is a component of fitness, so whether we stretch every day, or several days per week as part of our fitness programs, let’s not underestimate its benefits. Research has indicated that regular stretching may be more effective in preventing injuries than occasional stretching and a systematic review of 7 out of 9 studies indicates that regular stretching improves sports performance.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Bone is living tissue made up of cells that we lose and gain each day just like the tissue and cells of our skin. Physical activity such as weight – bearing and high intensity strength training is a major component to which bone responds favorably to.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – I believe that Strength Training is truly Anti-Aging Magic and that the “Fountain of Youth” is within us. Our bodies have amazing regenerative powers, which can be tapped into through exercise. The old “use it or lose it” saying does apply to our bodies, especially as we age. As we age, most of us experience the effects of muscle loss that is accompanied by an increase in body fat, making us appear heavier whether we are or not.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Let’s strengthen our immune system by following a regular exercise program, that is! “Exercise is a Natural Medicine” vital to our health and well- being, and every day we do hear about the health benefits to our engaging in a regular exercise program.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s in the Beat of Our Heart, one measure of our health and fitness level, that is! Yes, by measuring our heart rate at rest, during and after exercise, we can get one clue to not only our fitness level, but a measure of how healthy our cardiovascular system is too. This is also one way to know that we are exercising at an intensity that will improve our cardiovascular health.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – September is Healthy Aging ® Month so let’s exercise for our health regardless of our age (We’re all aging regardless of our age!). Healthy aging is a national health initiative developed to help us think more positively about growing older (See link below for the founders of this initiative).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Results of the study — based on a survey sent to deans at medical schools across the United States and Canada — showed that 33.3 percent of medical schools that responded spent zero hours on LGBT health-related content during the students’ clinical training, which usually takes place during the third and fourth year of medical school. Questions about course content ranged from topics such as sexual identity, chronic disease risk within the LGBT community and sex-reassignment surgery.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s back to work, back to school, and “It’s Back to the Gym” too! It’s post Labor Day so getting back on track isn’t new. Similar to getting back to work and school after summer, getting back on the fitness track is a great head start to practice and achieve our goals before those New Year resolutions!

(HealthNewsDiget.com) – Yes, “Bake an Apple this Holiday” because September begins the season for apples! We’ve all heard the motto “An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away” and apples are known as “The American Fruit” no matter how we eat them.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES — September 1, 2011 — Do you always get popcorn at the movies? Or snack while you’re on the couch watching television? A new paper by USC researchers reveals why bad eating habits persist even when the food we’re eating doesn’t taste good. The study also reveals the surprisingly simple ways we can counter our habits to gain control over what we eat.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Teacher, pilot, nurse or engineer? Sex hormones strongly influence people’s interests, which affect the kinds of occupations they choose, according to psychologists.