Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

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Rest Periods Are Essential to Workouts

People who are involved in a regular or daily fitness program see progress and with it they often get a desire to challenge the body to even better fitness. It’s fine to increase the intensity of your workouts; however, there is an aspect to fitness that many exercise advocates forget. Scheduled rest and recuperation time [...]

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How to Gain Energy: Like the Energizer Bunny

Something about the combination of winter, the cold weather, and the end of the year always seems to drain out all my energy.  You know the feeling I am talking about: you wake up from a decent night of 7 hours of sleep but still feel sluggish and slow.  No matter how many cups of [...]

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From Bowling to Belly Dancing, Ways to Find Your Zen

With life’s incessant pressures it’s very easy for a person to shut away their heart’s desires for personal growth and enrichment. But as the years go on, those little suppressions start weighing you down, and it’s easy to become bitter without really understanding why. Yes life is busy and it sometimes seems impossible to carve [...]

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Best Smartphone Apps For Your Health

It really does seem like there’s an app for everything nowadays, but your smartphone can be useful for more than just playing games, finding out which celebrities are going into an alcohol treatment facility and settling arguments about various elements of trivia. There is a range of apps out there that can really improve your [...]

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How to Detox after Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner and like every festive period, we are all a little nervous about piling on the weight after the hefty home cooked Christmas dinner is always a concern. But not to worry as your new year resolution can encompass taking the plunge into fitness and health by starting with a [...]

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Three Tips for Feeling Young Again

Oh the glory days.  Remember them?  When we could play around for hours without tiring.  When we ran less on sleep than on pure adrenaline.  When our libido was like an unstoppable force of nature?  What happened? The answer, of course, is that we got older.  That’s not to say that we sill don’t have [...]

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On Your Own Two Feet: The World’s Most Extraordinary Walking Records

From the moment we are born, using our own two feet becomes a big part of our lives. The first few steps you take as a toddler, your first egg and spoon race at school and nervously taking those steps down the aisle on your wedding day, walking can symbolise the most important days of [...]