Workplace wellness is becoming increasingly difficult for all of us to achieve. Many of us bring home the aches and pains of our workday. It seems hard to believe that being a “desk jockey” can be a bumpy ride. However, when we spend long hours sitting in one position doing repetitive tasks such as typing, a bumpy ride it is. And at the end of the road are carpal tunnel syndrome, neck pain and stiffness, chronic lower back pain, eye strain and headaches. (more…)

Pilates seems to be the perfect exercise regimen for the people that are over the age of 50 due to its low impact exercises that will ensure that a person’s joints remain flexible and that general mobility is increased.

Pilates exercises along with a good nutritional plan will allow those over 50 to look and feel many years younger. You can combine the low impact exercises of Pilates along with weight bearing exercise and with resistance training. This is absolutely crucial for maintaining and building bone density to make sure that osteoporosis does not set in after menopause. (more…)

A heart attack is referred to in the medical arena, as a myocardial infarction. This coronary event follows after the heart muscle has been deprived of oxygen, due a blocked artery or arteries. Many cardiac problems are related to partially blocked coronary arteries that nourish the heart muscle itself. The formation and buildup of plaque in the internal walls of the arteries may make them more inelastic, and increasing the risk of total blockage and the resultant heart attack. (more…)

“Yoga – the new age fitness mantra”, but Yoga is not new age at all. It’s just that the benefits of the same are being discovered again. Yoga is a way of life, an art of righteous living or an integrated system for the benefit of the body, mind and inner spirit. This art originated, was perfected and practiced in India thousands of years ago. (more…)

A poor self-image is not the domain of fat people alone. There are millions of people of all shapes and size who suffer from the same syndrome. Fat or thin, they are victims of themselves. Themselves? you may ask. Think. How many times has somebody told you, “You look like a washed-out dish rag”? Once? Twice? Three times? or perhaps, never?

Who decides that you are attractive, intelligent, or on the other hand, that you are unattractive, stupid? You will be surprised at the answer – you! Yes, you are the decision-maker of your identity. (more…)

Our perception and response to our environment and community plays influences our mindset, behavior, and perception about other people and the world we live in. We can be pessimistic, allowing gloom and negativity to haunt our every waking hour; or we can choose to be optimistic and see our stress and anxiety as normal human reaction to life’s challenges. But there is more to human response to stress and anxiety than just having a “bad day.” Our disposition not only affects our behavior but the state of our health, as well. (more…)

We all know that exercise is good for us, but doing it is another matter. We can always find an excuse not to exercise: too much work, not enough time, or just too tired. However, the main incentive to make you start exercising is overall natural health improvement. It can help you not only in your physical well being, but with mental health as well. (more…)

If you are reluctant to go straight for those happy pills, how should you go about a natural course of treatment for depression? The best way according to many experts is to exercise. It may be hard to shake that not-wanting-to-do-anything mood, but the more you do, the more it will slip away, leaving you a better model of yourself and ready to go forward with a new self-confidence.

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Exercise and weight loss programs each have different attributes that may or may not help you be successful. My 10 commandments have stripped them down to the stuff that really works for weight loss.
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