Health & Fitness
Touchless Technology Helps Keep Your Restrooms Clean And Healthy
Copyright 2006 The Janitorial Store Are you tired of cleaning grimy fingerprints off restroom faucets and soap dispensers? Indeed. One of the major sources of customer complaints is restroom cleanliness. The reasons for this go beyond the abilities of your cleaning staff. The more traffic a building gets the harder it is to keep high […]
Sunshine may slow weight gain, diabetes onset, study suggests
Exposure to moderate amounts of sunshine may slow the development of obesity and diabetes, a study suggests. Scientists who looked at the effect of sunlight on mice say further research will be needed to confirm whether it has the same effect on people. The researchers showed that shining UV light at overfed mice slowed their […]
Online Auto Racing At Its Best Is Only A Click Away
Online auto racing games are proving that they are the future in online gaming. The ability to play against other “drivers” from all over the world, anytime you want to race, adds to the enormous fun of the game. There are many professional racers who log on and race themselves. Who knows, maybe you have […]
Shutting off blood supply to extremity to protect heart
In a study just published in the International Journal of Cardiology, researchers from the K.G. Jebsen Center for Exercise in Medicine — Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway have shown that shutting off […]
Man Loses Nine Stone And Gains Fiancee
When Rob Poulton joined his local Weight Watchers group he lost more than nine stone and gained a fiancee. Rob, aged 53, said he had given up hope of ever finding love before meeting Kerry Cadman through the slimming group last year. Rob before the weightlossKerry before her weight loss But when he achieved his […]
The Benefits Of Keeping A Healthy Body
When a body is fit, it can handle the everyday stresses of life and helps maintain both physical and mental health. A fit body requires proper diet, regular exercise, and habits of moderation. Nutrition involves providing the body with the nutrients it needs to be healthy. To do this, we need to consume the appropriate […]
Fight against Alzheimer’s disease: New research on walnuts
A new animal study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease indicates that a diet including walnuts may have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delaying the onset, slowing the progression of, or preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Research led by Abha Chauhan, PhD, head of the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the New York State Institute […]
Organic Coffee Promotes Better Health
Around the world coffee is the second most traded item in the world, coming in just behind crude oil (although a distant second we’re sure). How ever as more and more people are paying attention to what they’re drinking and eating, organic coffee is sneaking up in the market share race. Organic coffee wasn’t a […]
Bariatric surgery success influenced by how people view their own weight
Negative feelings about one’s own weight, known as internalized weight bias, influence the success people have after undergoing weight loss surgery, according to research appearing in the journal Obesity Surgery, published by Springer. The study, from the Geisinger Health System in the US, is considered the first and only study to examine internalized weight bias […]