Essential nutrients for your body Every day, your body produces skin, muscle, and bone. It churns out rich red blood that carries nutrients and oxygen to remote outposts, and it sends nerve signals skipping along thousands of miles of brain and body pathways. It also formulates chemical messengers that shuttle from one organ to another,…
How Friends Improve Your Healthy Strength in Numbers: Some Ways Friends Keep You Healthy Fewer Colds A study in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that after healthy people were given nasal drops containing a strain of cold virus, those with six or more types of social ties (including friends coworkers and fellow…
Calcium and Bone Health Calcium is a key nutrient for your body to stay strong and healthy. Almost every cell in the body uses calcium in some way, including the nervous system, muscles, and heart. It is an essential building block for lifelong bone health in both men and women, while not getting enough calcium…
Body Mass Index In Adults (BMI) The benefits of maintaining a healthy weight go far beyond improved energy and smaller clothing sizes. By losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight, you are also likely to enjoy these quality-of-life factors too. Fewer joint and muscle pains More energy and greater ability to join in desired activities…
There are many steps people can take to try to prevent heart disease. Here are 10 top tips for a healthy heart: 1. Stop smoking. Quitting smoking is the single most important thing a person can do to live longer. If you are a smoker, you are twice as likely to have a heart attack than…
We’ve been saying it for years, but now we have one more piece of evidence: Exercise can keep you young. Last week, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published research demonstrating that exercise was able to reduce almost all the visible and functional effects of aging in mice that had been genetically programmed…
What is testosterone? Testosterone is a hormone produced primarily in the testicles. Testosterone helps maintain men’s: Bone density Fat distribution Muscle strength and mass Facial and body hair Red blood cell production Sex drive Sperm production What happens to testosterone levels with age? Testosterone levels generally peak during adolescence and early adulthood. As you get…
5 Anti-Aging Benefits Of Yoga Yoga slows the aging process by gradually improving key factors in your physical health. Here are five reasons why you should consider not only practicing yoga now, but continuing your practice as you age for optimal health. 1. Balance Remember the old adage, “If you don’t use it you’ll lose…
You’ve heard the phrase – dress for success. It turns out this is true even in the domain of exercise and sport. In other words – the clothing you choose influences your performance on the sports field and in the gym. It sounds counterintuitive, right? You’re going to get hot and sweaty anyway. Why not just…
In an age where people are more obsessed with themselves as ever before, we always have a camera and take photos of ourselves constantly. While we have definitely taken it too far in the past like when we started bringing along our selfie sticks, sometimes a gadget comes around that we can actually see not…
