Energy drinks cause insomnia, nervousness in athletes
A study analyzing the positive and negative effects of energy drinks on athletes has seen that, although in principle their sports performance was seen to improve by between 3% and 7%, there was also an increase in the frequency of insomnia, nervousness and the level of stimulation in the hours following competition. The consumption of […]
The Surprising Reason You May Not Be Getting Results
If you work out and “eat right,” you may still be frustrated by a lack of results. There is a very surprising possible reason why and it concerns the placebo effect—or more accurately, the “nocebo” effect. The right combination of exercise and nutrition—applying the right physiology to the problem—is usually enough to […]
The Best Golf Fitness Exercises For The Quickest Results
Golf fitness exercises that are the most effective are rotational in nature, incorporating your core. This is the engine to your swing! If your core is weak or restricted, you will have a very difficult time generating clubhead speed and power at impact. Golf fitness exercises don’t need to be grueling, sweaty and in a […]
Paul Dolan Believes All Humans Strive For Happiness, Which He Defines As A Combination Of Pleasure And A Sense Of …
Bosses who find their staffreading copies of Paul Dolans Happiness by Design should feel wary. The social media person at Penguin read the book and quit, Dolan tells me. Someone else read the draft and dumped her boyfriend ofeight years. I have come to meet Dolan in his office at the London School of Economics, […]
Fitness – Anaerobic Training
Anaerobic fitness is the force component of fitness in general, which also contains at least two other essential components: aerobic fitness (the part of cardio-vascular resistance) and joint mobility. Speed and skill are native qualities and they are not very relevant for the health state which is the main concern in mass fitness, the […]
Women’s Health Advice: Discover Anti Aging Vitamins
Women age as their body cells die and when new healthy cell generation is hindered simultaneously. Premature aging can result from inadequate nutrition caused by years of poor dietary habits. Why? Because our bodies need certain amounts of vitamins to produce healthy cells and repair damaged cells. For many women, healthy cells can promote anti […]
Memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s reversed: Small trial succeeds using systems approach to memory disorders
Patient one had two years of progressive memory loss. She was considering quitting her job, which involved analyzing data and writing reports, she got disoriented driving, and mixed up the names of her pets. Patient two kept forgetting once familiar faces at work, forgot his gym locker combination, and had to have his assistants constantly […]
8 Signs You’re Meant to Be a Health Coach
Have you been considering expanding your career or starting a new one altogether? If you find yourself drawn to the health coaching profession, chances are you possess certain characteristics that inspire you to want to help other live their most fit lives. Here are eight signs that you were meant to be a […]
Asking parents smart questions can help obese kids lose weight
Preventing childhood obesity may begin at home, but there’s plenty nurses can do to help parents embrace healthy lifestyle choices, says Rita John, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC, DCC, director of the pediatric primary care nurse practitioner program at Columbia University School of Nursing. For tips about diet and exercise to stick, clinicians need to take the […]
Fat chats: The good, the bad and the ugly comments
Cyberbullying and hurtful “fat jokes” are disturbingly prevalent in the social media environment, especially on Twitter, says Wen-ying Sylvia Chou of the National Institutes of Health in the US. Chou is lead author of a study in Springer’s journal Translational Behavioral Medicine which analyzed well over a million social media posts and comments about weight […]