What Happens to Aging Muscles
As people age, their skeletal muscle mass starts to deteriorate. Your skeletal muscles (also known as lean muscle) are the muscles that attach to your bones and are under voluntary control. [more…]
Seeking Insurance Approval for Your Weight Loss Surgery
One of the happier moments in your weight loss surgery journey is when you get the seal of approval from your insurance company.
Most insurance companies realize the long-term effects and cost savings associated [more…]
Signs of Vitamin Deficiencies in Your Diet
Nutritional Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) are broad enough to prevent vitamin deficiencies and avoid the side effects associated with large doses of some vitamins. If your diet doesn’t meet these [more…]
Breathing Your Way to Good Health
You can help alleviate stress through the simple practice of yogic breathing. Among other things, breathing loads your blood with oxygen, which maintains your health at the most desirable level. Shallow [more…]
Why You Need Protein in Your Diet
Protein is an essential nutrient found in animal products, nuts, and beans. The name protein name comes from the Greek word protos, which means “first.” Your body uses proteins in your diet to build new [more…]
Taking Baby in the Bath with You
Bathing with your baby is a convenient way for you to mix play, skin-on-skin contact, warmth, and massage all at once. In this article, we show you how to do so in ways that are safe and enjoyable for [more…]
Considering Herbs for Pregnancy
Whether you're planning a pregnancy or are already pregnant, herbal remedies are a time-honored and safe way to go. Several herbs are recommended widely by midwives and are considered safe to use during [more…]
Knowing Your Running Safety Rules
Most running safety rules are just common sense. But you see so many runners — both male and female — who violate them every day that a rules review is indeed in order. [more…]
Keeping Food Down during the First Trimester
Some women are unable to gain the amount of weight they need because they vomit or feel nauseated whenever they eat. And if you're not gaining weight as you're supposed to, your healthcare provider may [more…]
Build Muscle by Working Out with Strength Training
When you lose weight, you lose more muscle than fat. So, you need to engage in activities that help build muscle. Strength or resistance training, such as lifting weights or working out on exercise equipment [more…]
Deciding to Try Pilates
First things first. Pilates does not rhyme with pirates. It's puh-LAH-teez. Pilates teaches fundamental movements that are easy to learn and are completely safe for the average Joe. [more…]
Mineral Deficiencies and Their Effects on Your Health
What happens if you don’t get enough minerals and trace elements in your diet? Potential for deficiency depends on the mineral itself — some are absolutely necessary; others, not so much. [more…]
How Your Body Turns Carbohydrates into Energy
A diet that provides sufficient amounts of carbohydrates keeps your body from eating its own muscles. Carbohydrates are an essential part of a healthy diet because your body converts them to glucose and [more…]
Recoiling from Rebound Headaches
A rebound headache is a headache that you end up with just because you go in search of a little relief from the constant pounding in your noggin. You feel bad, so you take a pill — you feel worse, so you [more…]
How Nutritionists Measure Calories
Nutritionists substitute the word calorie for kilocalorie, which is really 1/1000 of a kilocalorie. Your body burns food to produce energy in the form of heat. Nutritionists measure the amount of heat [more…]
Massaging Migraines Away
Several types of massage can be helpful in relieving the pain of migraine headaches. But there aren't enough studies to show how effective — or ineffective — these therapies are. Typically, migraine sufferers [more…]
Fighting Arthritic Pain with the Right Foods
The idea that food can cause or relieve arthritis isn't new. More than 200 years ago, English doctors prescribed cod-liver oil to treat gout and rheumatism. More recently, some health writers have insisted [more…]
Keep an Exercise Log to Record Your Daily Activity
If you have decided to use diet and exercise to shed weight, try creating an exercise chart to put up on your fridge or tape to the bathroom mirror. An exercise log can help you see results and keep you [more…]
How Amino Acids Relate to Protein in Your Diet
Proteins are essential nutrients found in any healthy diet. All proteins are made of building blocks called amino acids, but not all proteins in your diet contain all the amino acids you require. Nutritionists [more…]
Using Reiki for the Family Pet
Animals, like people, benefit from Reiki. Whether you have cats, dogs, birds, fish, ferrets, horses, or other larger animals, you can use Reiki to help your pets. [more…]
Recognizing the Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
If you regularly get less sleep than your brain requires, then you are, by definition, sleep deprived. Every year, thousands of sleep-deprived people are involved in automobile and industrial accidents [more…]
Boron: A Trace Mineral Necessary for Good Health
Boron is a trace mineral essential to human health and must be obtained from diet or supplements. This nutrient recently gained popularity after researchers found that it helps the bones use calcium. Increased [more…]
How to Figure Athletes' Weight Goals Considering Body Fat
For athletes, reducing percent body fat should be the focus of weight-loss efforts rather than reducing total body weight, otherwise optimum performance will be compromised. In some cases, total weight [more…]
Relating Calories to Nutrients in the Food You Eat
Calories are simply a way to measure the energy in food and the energy released in the body. Although the technically correct name is kilocalorie, everyone, including dietitians, uses the shorter [more…]
Recognizing the Pros and Cons of Roux-en-Y Weight Loss Surgery
Roux-en-Y (often abbreviated RNY, and pronounced roo-en-why) gastric bypass surgery is known as the gold standard of weight loss surgeries. Approximately 80 percent of all surgeries performed in the United [more…]
