Tag Archives: health

These Workouts Are So Convenient, You Can Do Them in a Hotel Room

If you have been following a workout routine at home, it can be a little stressful when you are going to be away from home for a while. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t exercise every day. If your hotel doesn’t have a gym, go ahead and use the room itself for your workouts. Here […]

Vegetarians: Do They Really Have Stronger Immune Systems?

Over the past few years, vegetarian diets have become increasingly popular for a number of reasons. Some people do it because they believe it to be morally right, while others try it out to see weight loss benefits. Many have claimed that by going vegetarian and maintaining a plant-based diet you will boost your immune […]

Women’s Health: 3 Simple Ways to De-stress and Get More Work Done

Between careers, kids, aging parents, relationships, finances, and who knows what else, women have a lot of things that can potentially cause great stress in their lives. Stress can cause a compromised immune system, depression, weight gain or loss, loss of sex drive, difficulty concentrating, and just plain crabbiness. What can we do to help […]

3 Most Common Chronic Conditions Related to Your Gut

How is your digestive health? That is a question that isn’t always the easiest to answer for most people. Digestive health is a specific part of your health that includes how well you digest your food without disturbance and how well you absorb the nutrients in the food that you’ve eaten. When you look at […]

4 Common Myths About Nutrition You Should Stop Believing

Proper nutrition has been a hot topic in the media lately. Whether it’s people trying to lose weight or live longer, it has been discussed at length in everything from daytime television to countless articles. Unfortunately, with everyone and their moms talking about it, it has allowed rumors and myths to spread like wildfire in […]

Heart Disease: The Number One Killer of Women

For many years, heart disease was thought to be mainly a problem in the male world.  Until about 20 or 30 years ago, most research on heart disease was only done on male patients.  Researchers then took that information and generalized it to include women as well.  Only in the last two or three decades […]

How Men Deal with Depression

Though they don’t often discuss it or seek treatment as women do, many men suffer from depression. The reasons for suffering in silence are often linked to societal expectations of how a man should feel and behave. Society has conditioned men to believe that emotions are a sign of weakness. The truth is that millions […]

How to Balance Your Blood Sugar

If you have diabetes, you likely already know that this disease is caused by having too much sugar in your blood, called blood glucose. Naturally, one of the things you need to do with this disease is to balance out the blood sugar. There are many ways you can do this, including the following. Eat […]

What to Do After Being Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

So you have just been told by your doctor that you have the dreaded type 2 diabetes; now what? Well, this is a common condition, so keep that in mind. Many people are living with it and you would never even know it. The important thing now is to listen to your doctor’s orders and […]