Laugh Your Way to Good Health with Laughter Yoga

“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…)

Don’t Exercise for the Wrong Reasons

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?…

Protein Can Help You Build Muscle

This year it is time to make a resolution that you can stick to. Stop focusing on trying to lose weight and instead focus on trying to eat healthier foods and staying in shape. The healthier you eat the more weight you will lose.

When it comes to eating healthy you have to know what to eat and what to stay…

How Your Emotions and Your Thoughts Can Risk Your Health

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…

Organic Foods vis-à-vis Conventional Foods

According to a recent study, the foods produced in the conventional methods are in no way inferior to foods produced organically, in terms of the important nutritional components they contain. Alan D. Dangour, Ph.D, who is a public health nutritionist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says, “Our aim was to find out whether…

Top 15 Reasons to Motivate you to Exercise

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. …

Take These Steps to Work Your Way Out Of Depression Naturally

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…

Top 10 Must Dos to Succeed in Weight Loss Programs

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. (more…)

Yoga Can Be Safe for Seniors

Yoga has become a popular means of exercise for older adults. And no wonder. It makes their bodies fitter and their minds calmer. Seniors benefit from improvements in balance, stronger muscles, reduced joint pain and more energy.

Modifications should be made to the various yoga poses for seniors with osteoporosis and joint problems. Instructors should be knowledgeable about these necessary…