Articles tagged “Exercise”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Change Your Sedentary Lifstyle, Step by Step By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Feb 11 2008 You don't have to sign up for a gym membership, buy top-of-the-line exercise equipment, or overhaul your entire life to get off your butt and become moderately active, says Dumb Little Man. It's also a good way to clear your mind, get some fresh air (your mileage may vary, depending on where you live), and enjoy the... + READ MORE

Give Your Kids a Healthy Heart By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Feb 4 2008 Put your kids on a better path to a healthy heart this Valentine's Day by changing their diet and exercise regimes, say experts from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center (UMCVC), especially if heart disease runs in your family. Total fat intake should be between 30 percent to 35 percent of calories for... + READ MORE

Map Your Run By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 31 2008 Plan a jogging route around your neighborhood on MapMyRun, or pick out a route someone else already plotted out. You will also find free tools to help you keep track of workouts, exercise routines, and training schedules, as well as weight changes, shoe mileage, and even morale. + READ MORE

Get Physical, Feel Younger By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 30 2008 If you needed another reason to shake your money-maker more often, new research suggests that physical activity may influence aging. After adjusting for body mass index, smoking, socioeconomic status, and physical activity at work, the authors surmised that the most-active individuals (3 hours and 19 minutes of... + READ MORE

Build a Green Library: How to Go Further with Woody Harrelson & Friends By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jan 23 2008 Speaking from experience is one of the more compelling ways to give quality advice, which is something that Woody Harrelson and his friends put to good use in How To Go Further: A Guide to Simple Organic Living (2005, Warwick Publishing). The journey turned out to be a life (and lifestyle) changer for Harrelson, who is + READ MORE

Join the Shift to Thrift By Lloyd Alter IN Tech & Transport Jan 21 2008 In the United Kingdom, one of the surprise hits in the book world is David Kynaston's Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (2008, Walker & Company), which documents the way Britons adapted to the dire shortages after World War II.Create a soap ball in the kitchen: Collect tiny fragments of soap from elsewhere in the house, then + READ MORE

Get Fresh-Looking Skin, Naturally By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Jan 18 2008 Forget chemical peels, surgical face-lifts, or Botox, you can get fresh, glowing skin by following a few simple directives. Sugar and highly refined carbohydrates, including white bread, white rice, French fries, and sugar-laded soda, can increase acne and speed aging by causing glycation-the result of sugar breaking... + READ MORE

Use a Pedometer to Lose Weight By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 17 2008 Participation in a pedometer-based walking program can help you lose a modest amount of weight, even without changing your diet, according to a University of Michigan Health System analysis of nine studies that was published in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Annals of Family Medicine. Participants lost an average of 0.11... + READ MORE

Clean Our Air, Clean Your Lungs: Quit Smoking By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 15 2008 : We're already tackled that other big New Year's resolution, so now we are going to take a look at quitting smoking. Avoid alcohol while you are trying to quit: Not only do people find alcohol a trigger, because they often smoked in social settings with a drink, but alcohol will lower your ability to say no when that... + READ MORE

Lose that Holiday Weight (and Keep it Off) By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 11 2008 Okay, so we are now a week and a half into the new year. Exercise, exercise, exercise: When people say they don't have time to exercise I think, "You don't have time to be healthy?" + READ MORE

Add a 15-Minute Workout to Your Day By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 9 2008 Call it the busy person's workout: Exerting yourself in 15-minute bursts, whether at home or on the move, can pump up your heart rate, stretch and strengthen your muscles, and go a long way to boosting your health and wellbeing. If you want to perfect your walk for optimal calorie burning, stand straight, bend both... + READ MORE

Give Yourself DIY Cardiac Bypass Surgery By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 7 2008 It isn't as grisly as it sounds: You can give yourself on-the-spot cardiac bypass surgery with nothing more high-tech than a pair of running shoes, according to cardiologists at Harvard Medical School. But just like cardiac bypass surgery attempts to reroute blood around clogged vessels to create new pathways to your... + READ MORE

Get in Shape Without Leaving Home By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 2 2008 Forget about sweating it out with a bunch of strangers at a health club: You don't have to invest a lot of money in a gym membership or equipment to develop a fitness regime you can stick to, according to Colleen Greene, wellness coordinator with MFit, the University of Michigan Health System's health promotion division. + READ MORE

Best of 2007: Lose Weight By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 2 2008 If you've resolved to trim your waistline and get into fit, fighting shape this year, you willn't have to look far to find kindred souls. The amount of food you actually get on your plate, in the package, or at the counter, is often much bigger than the designated nutritional serving-so unless you're a rabid reader of... + READ MORE

Have Fun While You Go Green and Healthy By Lloyd Alter IN Food & Health Jan 2 2008 It is that time of year where everyone is either making resolutions or making lists of resolutions for everyone else, usually involving giving something up or getting more exercise. + READ MORE

Lower Your Blood Pressure Without Drugs By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Dec 5 2007 When you consider that high blood pressure punches holes into the lining of your arterial walls, it's easy to understand why keeping it under control is so vital. While the average American has a blood pressure of about 130 over 85, you should strive for an optimal blood pressure of 115 over 75 to minimize your risk of + READ MORE

Lose Weight by Standing Up By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Dec 4 2007 Man does not lose weight by exercise alone, according to scientists at the University of Missouri (MU). Compound that with overeating, poor dietary habits, and precious little exercise, and you have a possible smoking gun for the dramatic uptick in obesity rates, says Marc Hamilton, associate professor of biomedical... + READ MORE

Stay Healthy This Christmas By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Nov 30 2007 It is a sad truth that retailers begin pushing their Christmas wares in Canada the day after Halloween.For many people office parties, office lunches, Hanukkah parties, family Christmas parties, friends' Christmas parties, as well as Christmas day and New Year's Eve are just an endless string of eating too many bad... + READ MORE

Take Inventory of Your Pantry and Donate the Duplicates By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Nov 28 2007 It's awfully easy to get overwhelmed with stuff-decorations, food, gifts, and more-around the holidays, and if you're not careful, too much stuff can become more and more clutter. And though holidays are typically donation centers' busiest time of year, this exercise should be repeated several times throughout the year; + READ MORE

Ride Your Bike All Winter: Part 2 By Lloyd Alter IN Tech & Transport Nov 27 2007 Lots of people ride their bikes all year round; the picture shows a parking area at a train station in Hyvinkaa, Finland, where it gets colder and darker earlier than anywhere in America. Plan your routes: Roads are a lot narrower in winter when they plough the snow to the side but don't remove it.Back roads that left... + READ MORE