Overview

Not that long ago, you probably viewed your office chair as just an innocent piece of furniture. Then those headlines started popping up everywhere:

Sitting Is the New Smoking!

Sitting Disease Is on the Rise!

Stop Sitting Before It Kills You!

It turns out that your office chair is not so innocent after all.

Sitting for long periods of time has been shown to raise the risk of developing diabetes, experiencing a cardiovascular event or getting certain types of cancer.

The Health Hazards

Leading experts agree that sitting can cause as many, if not more, negative health effects as smoking. Sitting for long periods of time has been shown to raise the risk of developing diabetes, experiencing a cardiovascular event or getting certain types of cancer.

Overview

If you hop on the elliptical or treadmill and zone out for 30 minutes, your workout strategy needs adjusting — especially if your goal is to burn fat and lose weight. The good news is that you’re halfway there. If you already have the resolve to get to the gym and do your workout, all you need is one minor tweak: interval training.

Sprinting is one of the most challenging and effective workout routines for fat loss. Short periods of all-out activity challenge your muscles and energy systems to produce intense efforts much more effectively than typical steady-state cardio. By incorporating it into your existing cardio routine (in addition to regular strength training), you’ll accelerate your fat loss and reveal all the hard work you’ve been putting in at the gym.

In one 2013 study published in the journal Kinesiology, researchers had six physically active men repeat three 30-second cycling sprints and found they required more energy in the subsequent 24 hours than following 30 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise.

Cholesterol is a natural component of cell membranes, which is made by the body and also absorbed from the food we eat. Cholesterol is actually beneficial when its concentration in the blood is not excessive. It is carried in the blood by lipoproteins; HDL and LDL are lipoproteins. Regulation of cholesterol is done by altering the levels of lipoproteins in the blood. Cholesterol accelerates atherosclerosis, which causes high blood pressure. Both cholesterol and high blood pressure can be prevented naturally.
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Low-Fat Diet

Reducing your intake of fat and dietary cholesterol are great ways of lowering your cholesterol. A significant amount of cholesterol enters the body through the food we eat, so try to avoid saturated fat and trans fat. The Cleveland Clinic advises the use of olive oil in cooking most foods and the use of canola oil for most baking. Fat provides twice as many calories per gram, in comparison to carbohydrates and proteins. Weight gain results when the intake of calories exceed the amount of calories used. Calories from fat should not exceed 30 percent of total calories per day.

Guess what is deadlier than cancer? It is the treatment the patients undergo to get rid of it. The side effects are devastating. They suck out the patients’ spirit and energy. They drag patients into the holes of hell, and sometimes, the victims never come out.

Isn’t there a solution to this? Can cancer be treated only in such a dreadful manner? Isn’t there a better way of curing the disease?
Maybe there is. And that is what we are going to talk about today.

The Research

The statistics from Canada are shocking. According to the Canadian Cancer Statistics, above a million Canadians who were alive in 2009 underwent cancer diagnosis in the last ten years. The statistics have also revealed that two out of every five Canadians will suffer from cancer in their lifetime. And one out of every four of them will die.

A weight loss journey is one that you must travel alone. You need something to keep you going: motivation! One can do wonders if properly motivated! Let’s look at how to stay motivated during your weight loss journey!

1. Don’t try too hard

Your fuel tank needn’t be full to drive your car. Similarly, your motivation tank need not be full either. All you need to do is ensure that it doesn’t get empty. Experts say that people need not waste their precious time and energy for staying highly motivated. A drop in motivation is not a signal of failure. So, don’t try too hard to be brimming with motivation.

Do you know that your mental health is as important as your physical health? In my opinion, your mental health is your most prized possession.

Most of us agreed that our mind and memory are most crucial to our purpose of living and we cannot afford to lose them.

Without them, life becomes meaningless and we become helpless.

You are what you are today because of your mind and memory. So, it becomes essential to take good care of them, which means to possess good health mentally.

You may not be able to control any unforeseen incidents, circumstances, biological problems, hereditary traits, or diseases from damaging your brain and memory or losing your mind.

However, you can always take precautions and live life in a way that helps prevent memory loss and keep a sound mind.

Let us understand mental health and why you need to create mental health awareness.

No, that skin cream cannot reverse aging. It can’t repair DNA damage and it can’t cure rosacea.

One product at a time, the Food and Drug Administration is taking on the beauty industry and some of the over-the-top claims being made for some of the products. Five warnings have gone out since November.

The latest warning letter went out to Strivectin, whose wrinkle creams are sold at retailers that range from Costco to Nordstrom.

The language FDA objects to?  

• “Clinically proven to change the anatomy of a wrinkle”
• “This superb age-fighting serum is super charged with …potent elastin stimulating peptides”
• “Potent elastin-stimulating peptides help enhance skin structure”

Nearly everyone experiences a headache or leg cramp on occasion. Typically, these and other seemingly minor pains are waited out or treated with over-the-counter medicine. But when do these aches warrant a visit to the doctor’s office, or even hospital? There may be serious symptoms behind those pains. 

Listed below are the few types of pains which you should never ever ignore, as they can be vital and may be serious:

1. Leg or calf pain

Could be: Deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot in a leg vein

People at risk for Deep Vein Thrombosis, or DVT, include recent surgery patients, anyone on bed rest or women on birth control. The condition is sometimes called “economy class syndrome” because it affects car or plane travelers who have been sitting long hours in cramped spaces.

If you have a pain in your leg that feels different than a cramp, “get to the emergency room," Vinocur said. "They will do ultrasounds. If it’s positive, they’ll give you blood thinners because we don’t want the clot to travel to your lungs and cause pulmonary embolism."

For the last two years, the United Nations has set aside March 20 as a time to recognize “the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings.”

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Celebrating yet? Or do the stresses of everyday life mean little opportunity to feel happy when there's never enough money, work leaves you gritting your teeth and love seems elusive?

We spend much of our lives chasing happiness, inspiring a growing field of research devoted to finding out what makes us content. Experts say it’s not always what you think.

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Most of you must have read about the health benefits of meditation. Some of you probably haven’t tried practicing meditation because of the lack of scientific proof about its benefits.

Not anymore! Scientists have used scientific methods to test the meditation benefits and its correlation with the state of your body and mind.

You need not hold yourself back any longer. Meditation is one technique that brings you health and happiness without any side effects!

Meditation makes you feel better both mentally and physically. It also helps you connect to your innerself, and many use this technique for spiritual purposes.

But meditation is not only about spirituality. This is one myth that makes people shun meditation.

Meditation can also make you achieve your materialistic aim – to be happy and healthy.

Wouldn’t you enjoy your life more if you’re more attentive, calm, focused, emotionally stable, and physically immune?

Of course, you would. In fact, I’d go to the extent to say that your health and wellness is not complete without mediation as a part of your daily routine.

Believe it or not "a healthy heart is one of the keys to happiness in your life".

That’s right, if your heart is in a good shape, you’re not only likely to live long, but also love more and appreciate all the good things in life.

Many people are ignorant and they do not know how their actions affect their heart.

They indulge in substance abuse like smoking and heavy drinking. They live a sedentary lifestyle that mostly involves sitting or lack of physical exercise and movement.

That is why sometimes sitting is considered equivalent to smoking.

“Did you know that your heart does the maximum physical work of any muscle during a lifetime, beginning from just after a month of conception?”

Your heart also beats about 100,000 times in one day and pumps around 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime.

Don’t you think this hard working organ of your body needs more attention and care?

Trust me; you would not want to suffer from a cardiovascular disease at this age! I know I wouldn’t

Sad to say, but about one American dies every 40 seconds from cardiovascular disease. This is not only alarming, but also shocking.

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If you already knew this fact and aren’t still doing anything to improve your heart health, then it is surely devastating.

So, before it’s too late, let’s identify the risks and learn how to have a healthy heart.

It’s no secret that coconut oil can do some pretty amazing things, from replacing your pricey moisturizer tospeeding up the healing process on a surface wound.

But some of the tips we’ve heard sound too good to be true—coconut oil as sunscreen, really?

So we teamed up with a few experts to get the scoop on what the oil really can do, and which tips are, well, snake oil.

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Can coconut OIL work as a makeup remover?

Here's the scoop on 10 common claims:

1. Coconut oil can tame frizz.   

True! This trick definitely works, says hair stylist and New York City salon owner Nunzio Saviano. Rub coconut oil in your palms to warm it up, and then simply massage it into strands. Wash it out a few hours later.

“The molecules in coconut oil are small enough so it penetrates the hair shaft,” he explained. “It locks the moisture in. That’s what keeps the hair nice and healthy looking. When your hair is dehydrated, that’s when you get flyaways and it gets really frizzy.”

Government groups will soon update dietary standards with familiar suggestions — more veggies — and vintage tips: go ahead and eat the occasional egg. But how do those recommendations help you decide what to plate up for your family tonight? 

Every five years, the new dietary guidelines for Americans are updated to help us make better food choices. In this year's preliminary report,