Articles tagged “Exercise”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

10 Earth Day Ways to Save the Planet, Your Health, & Money! By Laurel House IN Home & Garden Apr 21 You don’t have to be an Extreme Greenist to Go Green! Just one Daily Green Decision can go a long way. The average person decides to Go Green for one of three reasons: -The Environment (*) -Their Health (+) -Save Money ($) Choose one of the 10 green actions below to help the Earth today. Then select something different tomorrow, and the next day……. + READ MORE

Stop Checking! A Travel Writer's Tips on Packing the Perfect Carry-On By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 17 If there is one thing I have learned from being a travel writer, it’s NEVER CHECK YOUR LUGGAGE (except for extreme circumstances where lots of luggage is a must). The second thing I learned about luggage by being a travel writer? There is definitely an art to packing the most efficient, space-saving, light yet loaded carry-on bag. Here's how... + READ MORE

What You'll Have to Do to Burn Off Your Holiday Feast... By Laurel House IN Food & Health Dec 23 2011 A post-holiday dinner walk is custom for lots of families. But a marathon? Before you serve yourself with several helpings of Thanksgiving dinner, think about the amount of calories that are quickly adding up, and what the after-dinner repercussions will be. Charles Stuart Platkin, author of “The Diet Detective’s Count Down” breaks down each food item’s calorie and fat content, then equates it to the amount of time you will have to spend working it off! Be afraid, be very afraid….. + READ MORE

When You Know It's Time To Take Up Golf... By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 20 2011 Trekking Mt. Kilimanjaro, climbing Mt. Everest, cross country skiing to the North Pole... for an extreme adventurer those aren't that crazy. “People often ask me what I am planning to do when I can no longer climb or do things like ski to the top of the world. I guess that is when I will take up golf.” + READ MORE

Traveling for the Holidays? Do These Quickie Workouts to NOT Gain Weight By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 19 2011 I’m the first to admit that an out-of-town attitude includes skipping out on my regular workout. But that’s the great thing! It's your opportunity to try something new, work new muscles, and maybe even LOSE, as opposed to GAIN weight! I know... the holidays can be brutal for your diet. You're too busy, tired, and full to do your entire regular workout routine. Instead, slip in several quickie workouts into your day, every day, to keep your metabolism stoked and naturally burning off even more calories for you. + READ MORE

Insect-Eating Plants, Beauty Gush, Cowbells, Risotto, and Trotti'ing... A Trip in Switzerland By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 17 2011 What's the point of traveling half way around the world only to sit in a tour bus and "see" the sights? Next time you travel, don't just sit there, get in there! Ask the tourism bureau about festivals (like the Alpabfart Festival), find out about local favorite activities and foods, then go and experience them! Your vacation, and your life, will be richer because of it. Here's a sampling of what you can do when in Switzerland. + READ MORE

A Healing Retreat Founded by the Founder of Greenpeace By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 29 2011 I needed to get away, regroup, think about who I am, where I have been, and where I’m going. There was one destination that I felt was calling my name- Hollyhock. Situated on Cortes Island in British Columbia, between the glaciers of Vancouver Island and the Coast Mountain range of the mainland, is Hollyhock Retreat, a healing oasis that guests can’t help but make repeat pilgrimages to. + READ MORE

Get Your Butt Ready For Your Vacation By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 16 2011 When it comes to getting your butt into vacation shape, there are two things you must do: -Get a Fanny Facial -Do a Quickie Workout in Bed (daily) Exfoliated, lifted, and toned, you will soon be able to put your best butt forward and show off those assets on your beach vacation. + READ MORE

5 Ways To Age Gracefully and Healthfully By Julia Austin IN Food & Health Jun 24 2011 Did you know that only ONE THIRD of what controls how gracefully we will age is determined by genetics? It’s shocking, I know. Maybe your dad’s gray hairs that popped up at the age of 30 or your mom’s arthritis doesn’t have to be a major panic point for you after all. One third is genetics. That means there is an entire two thirds that are completely based on your own choices. + READ MORE

The Surprising Way I Spent My Las Vegas Vacation By Julia Austin IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 22 2011 It’s pretty hard to avoid having an all around unhealthy, overly indulgent stay in Las Vegas. The entire Strip, with its smoke-filled casinos lacking any hint of natural sunlight and fast-food courts around every corner, lends itself to that “I wasn’t very good to my body” feeling. That’s why I was amazed to come back from my recent trek into the city of sin feeling rested, cleaner and, yes, thinner! + READ MORE

Video Games: The Secret to Losing Weight… For Good This Time? By Laurel House IN Tech & Transport Jun 22 2011 Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Zelda… aside from seriously working the fingers, plus the occasional shoulder and back action as your body uncontrollably gets into the gaming action, video games of the past were, yes, sedentary activities. Not anymore. The Wii put fitness gaming on the map, and now with the new Kinect for Xbox, “playing” a video game can rival, if not beat, any gym workout (a fact that some personal trainers are expressing concerns over). + READ MORE

Skinny Margaritas and Jicama-Dipped Guacamole: How to Indulge on Vacation w/out Gaining Weight By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 21 2011 You’ve been preparing for your big beach vacation for weeks, getting your body in bikini-strutting shape, waxing out every last hair, even tending to those back pimples. You feel like a million bucks when as you step onto that sand and strip down to your barely there skivvies, finally showing off that bod that you you’ve been hiding underneath your heavy clothes. But after a week of eating too much, drinking too much, and exercising… um, not at all, you feel more than ready to wrap it up and hid behind your clothes one again. Not this year! + READ MORE

Is Sweat A Turn-On? By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jun 13 2011 “Never let them see you sweat” may be a mantra that has been drilled into you thanks to sweat's perceived relation to nervousness. But what about “smelling” you sweat? Odd but true: the Journal of Neuroscience reports that humans, like rats and butterflies, may use chemosignals to attract mates. + READ MORE

Your Office Job as Dangerous on the Body as Smoking? By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 12 2011 Sitting vs. Smoking + READ MORE

7 Ways To Slim Down Instead of Blowing Up on Summer Vacation By Sara Novak IN Food & Health May 3 2011 Staying slim on vacay? It's all in how you plan it. + READ MORE

10 Different Ways to Motivate to Diet & Exercise By Laurel House IN Food & Health Mar 31 2011 Sometimes, regardless of the fact that you know you should workout, you just somehow can’t convince yourself to. In fact, you have pretty much become a pro at convincing yourself otherwise. You are able to justify exactly why you don’t have to work out and why it’s ok for you to eat that entire bag of M&Ms… until the next am when you regret that decision. Here are 10 ways to motivate yourself to stay on your fit plan. + READ MORE

Top 10 Most Toxic Cities & Top 10 Fittest Cities in the US... Is Your City On the Lists? By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 6 2011 Think you live in a pretty green town? While smog levels, health food stores, and the number of treehuggers might seem like legit indicators of toxicity levels, have you ever broken it down and analyzed its Air quality, Water quality, TRI (the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory- tracking chemicals released in manufacturing), and Superfund sites (abandoned areas that have become overrun by hazardous waste)? No? Not to worry, Forbes Magazine did the dirty work for you and just released their annual Top 10 Most Toxic Cities list. + READ MORE

Battle of the Sexes: How Men and Women Get Fit is Completely Different By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Mar 4 2011 Men pump iron and women hit the treadmill. That's such a ridiculous stereotype, right? Wrong, in fact men and women do get fit completely differently, according to research done by Weight Watchers and reported in the Washington Post. + READ MORE

Brazilian Wax to Workouts… How To Be A Brazilian Beauty, Naturally By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 22 2011 Want to have the kind of body that a Brazilian bathing suit was designed to drape over? When traveling to Rio de Janiero, the city that, to many, pretty much defines the ideal image of “beauty,” it’s no shocker your average chick might for a moment wonder: “what trade tricks can I pick up…” And that was my mindset when I boarded the American Airlines non-stop flight from Dallas to Rio. + READ MORE

Beating the Odds: Blind Hiker Prepares for Over 3,000 Mile Trek By Rebecca Lange IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 16 2011 Hiking is a great way to get outdoors and exercise. But most of us would never even dream of hiking the length of the United States. Trevor Thomas, an avid hiker from North Carolina who lost his sight in 2005, is preparing to hike the entire span of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), a 3,100 mile trek that stretches from Canada all the way down to Mexico. + READ MORE