One of the biggest mistakes people make whenever setting new health goals or new year’s resolution is to focus on quick results. Such goals as losing unwanted weight, or build lots of muscles quickly,

If you think you can get away with just working out your chest or biceps, or think that just cardio is good enough to avoid having to do any abdominal workouts, then you are just doing wishful thinking.

While this may sound like just another overused cliché, there is actually a lot of meaning packed into. We can not expect to be healthy, both mentally or physically, if we view exercise or eating well

Intermittent Fasting, or in other words occasionally or periodically fasting, has garnered some widespread popularity in recent times. But the question that remains is whether it is healthy or not. Although

If you are not quite sure how what the ideal weight is to lift, then maybe you need to consider lifting your own bodyweight. In fact often times, the ability to lift your own bodyweight well is the best

This is a very important health tip that we should always keep in mind, even to the point of not bothering to weigh ourselves. The reason is that being thin does not always mean that you are you fit or

If you wanted more reasons to try to avoid excess bodyweight, and in particular excess belly fat, then this study might be one you pay close attention to. Excess belly fat has been linked to a shrinking

Losing unnecessary weight is hard enough, but the real challenge is maintaining weight loss. This is because the body, and brain, has natural mechanisms to fight off against ANY change in weight. This

This is a very important finding that we all need to keep in mind whenever we decide to eat any highly processed food. If you are one of the many that find it hard to control your food cravings, then one

Depression is a lot more complicated than the common myth of it being purely something that happens in the mind. In fact it has a lot to do with our entire body functions, and one of the best ways to make

Father time is one opponent no one can ever beat, but there are ways to slow down just how much time affects us as we age. And one of the best ways to slow the aging process to look and feel a lot younger

This is a very interesting and important health tip to keep in mind, especially when you have a newborn baby. A recent study shows that something as simple as the size of the bottle used to feed a baby

This has long been pointed out by runners but the technology to actually measure the chemical changes in your brain and body had not been available until recent years. But what was long suspected has turned

This is a very common misconception about sit-in restaurants as compared with fast food restaurants. Regular sit-in restaurants are often perceived as a healthier choice than fast foods but this is mainly

This is one of the most widely held myths, and one that I used to believe, which is that your body needs 8 glasses of water a day to be healthy. In fact this is a big lie that has rooted from a

This is a true statement and one of the main reasons why there is a global obesity epidemic. Although sugary drinks are high in calories, mainly from sugar and/or refined sugar substitutes, their main

We often think that working out only makes our muscles stronger or our heart and lungs more efficient. But in fact one of the biggest benefits of exercise is that it makes our brains work and perform better

The word fat has many bad conations but in fact it shouldn't because there are many types of fats that are good for you. But it is this negative perception of fat that many companies exploit by marketing

If you think you can offset long periods of sitting down either on the couch or in your office chair by working out, think again! As our society is getting more technological, we have been sitting down

This is a very popular myth, that I have been the victim of following as well. Despite popular believe, you can't actually "catch up on sleep". What happens instead is that when you go many days