Healthy Lifestyle
After weight loss surgery, people could experience discrimination when interviewing for jobs
People say that they would be more likely to hire someone who has lost weight through exercise and dieting than through surgery. This is just one of the stigmas faced by obese people who undergo weight-reducing bariatric surgery, reports Robert Carels of East Carolina University in the US and his team of researchers. The findings […]
Effective Advice For Losing Weight
For any person looking to lose weight, there is plenty of advice available. It seems like everyone is promising the secret to lose the additional pounds easily and quickly. Does the magic bullet to help you lose weight without any effort really exist? Weight loss diets and programs are plentiful,making it difficult to choose the […]
Readiness to change is a vital facet to committing to New Year’s resolutions
Wanting to lose weight or quit smoking are often resolutions made at the beginning of the New Year. One University of Alabama at Birmingham wellness expert says there is a key ingredient to being successful health-wise in the coming year. About half of the most popular resolutions made each year are health-related, according to the […]
Effective Strategies For Long Term Weight Loss
For the person who is trying to lose weight, there is no shortage of advice. Take a look at how many diets and weight loss programs there are, trying to choose just one will leave you baffled. They all say they have the real secret to losing weight fast. Well, just like with anything else, […]
Echolocation acts as substitute sense for blind people
Human echolocation operates as a viable “sense,” working in tandem with other senses to deliver information to people with visual impairment, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Ironically, the proof for the vision-like qualities of echolocation came from blind echolocators wrongly judging how heavy objects […]
Health Tips For The New Year
Dr. Sylvester Ikhisemojie | credits: File copy Many people will agree that 2014 was a memorable year in the health of our country. It was the year of the Ebola virus and one in which repeated strikes across the health sector promised to undo what little achievements had been recorded over many years. Although it […]
Learning About Hatha Yoga
Yoga has become one of the most popular types of alternative medical treatments and its popularity is growing rapidly every year. Hatha yoga is only one of many “types” of yoga that exists today. Yoga was originally meant to be a spiritual treatment of the mind and the soul. It has, in today’s world, become […]
Weight training appears key to controlling belly fat
Healthy men who did twenty minutes of daily weight training had less of an increase in age-related abdominal fat compared with men who spent the same amount of time doing aerobic activities, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues. Combining weight training and aerobic activity led to […]
Partner HIIT Workout: Pre-holiday Workout for Co-workers, Comrades and Couples
December 23, 2014, 12:00AM PT in Fitnovatives Blog | With the holidays approaching, there will plenty of time to work out, right? Wrong! We all know that when holidays approach, family events, work parties and the hub-bub of holiday shopping can throw a wrench in our plans to stay fit and healthy. […]
New distance rehabilitation system developed for patients with heart pathologies
A team of Spanish researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the company Medtronic have participated in the development of a new distance heart rehabilitation system based on physical exercise routines for people affected by heart pathologies. The system is designed for both chronic patients and the recovery of […]