Stretching for Strength: 5 Flexibility Standards

Although stretching may be overrated, Al Kavadlo says there are five flexibility standards that everyone should try to achieve.

If you look around any commercial gym, you’re likely to see a wide variety of activities taking place: strength training, aerobics, simulated bicycle riding, people doing god-knows-what on a vibrating stability platform, and of course, good ol’ stretching. Most gyms even have a designated stretch area. Though you sometimes see serious-minded folk in these rooms, the stretching area in many fitness facilities seems to be primarily for people who want to screw around, be seen at the gym and feel like they accomplished something productive. Read more

Cancer Patients Who Exercise Could HALVE Their Risk of Death

Cancer patients who exercise could HALVE their risk of death, claims a Loyola University study.

We all know exercise is good for us but now scientists have found that physical exercise significantly increases the life expectancy of cancer survivors.

Men who beat cancer and who burned more than 12,600 calories a week exercising, almost halved their risk of death, a new study found. Read more

8 Foods That Speed Up Aging While Promoting Sickness

Avoid these eight foods that speed up aging while promoting sickness, says Paul Fassa.

Eating what’s quick, convenient, and tasty may fit your lifestyle for now, but you may be subjecting yourself to progressively worsening health. If you don’t shift to a healthier diet, someday sooner rather than later you’ll be a young person in an old person’s body, wondering what happened. Below are 8 foods you should avoid to age gracefully and avoid sickness.

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Understanding Supplements for Maximizing Body Building Workouts

If you're trying to build muscle in your workouts, Katherine Flowers reveals which supplements can help.

Choosing the right supplement to optimize your workout can be difficult. Most individuals believe everyone needs to take in every single nutrient in order to help them build their muscles. This is actually far from the truth. Instead, you can increase your performance by knowing how your body utilizes certain body building nutrients. Below is a detailed discussion on each supplement and their effect during your workout.  Read more

Which Country Has the Healthiest Diet?

Which country has the healthiest diet? The Netherlands takes the number one spot - while the U.S. doesn’t even make the top 20.

The Netherlands is the best place in the world to eat, according to new research.

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6 Natural Ways to Lower High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a serious condition that needs to be dealt with, but before submitting to a lifetime regimen of pharmaceuticals, you may want to try these natural ways to lower high blood pressure.

Millions of people take medication for high blood pressure, and that is unlikely to change despite new guidelines that slightly relax hypertension standards for older Americans.
 

One of the nation’s top cardiologists says that having high blood pressure does not mean you have to stay on hypertension drugs for life. There are natural ways to lower blood pressure, says Chauncey Crandall, M.D., that allow many people to stop taking side effect-causing medications.  Read more

Coffee Does Not Dyhydrate Us

The myth that coffee dehydrates us is an example of how establishment science and medicine mindlessly parrots nonsense based on nothing. (The myth that low-fat diets are good for you is another famous example.) In fact, a new study found that coffee DOESN'T dehydrate us: A few cups a day are "as hydrating as water."

The idea that drinking coffee dehydrates us is a myth, scientists said last night.

They said that while we may find it hard to believe, a few cups of coffee a day is as hydrating as water.

The Birmingham University researchers called for health advice to b Read more

How Centenarians Explain Their Longevity

If you want to live to be 100, Joseph Mercola discusses the lifestyle changes that can help you reach a healthy old age.

... Do you want to live to be 100? How about 110, or even 120? Statistically, the younger you are, the greater your chances of reaching those milestones—that much is known.

There is even a fairly strong possibility that lifespans beyond 150 will be possible in the next few decades as improvements in 3D printing, stem cell, and nanotech continue to improve.

But when it comes to understanding the complexity of human longevity and all of the factors that determine your lifespan, there is much we still don’t understand. Researchers have the advantage of an ever-growing pool of centenarians and supercentenarians. Supercentenarians are those rare individuals who live past 110. Read more

4 Natural Remedies to Banish Dandruff and Boost Scalp Health

If you suffer from dandruff or dryness, Danna Norek reveals four natural remedies than can boost scalp health.

The dry winter air in most climates can certainly do a number on your hair and skin, but it also can have a drying, irritating effect on another, less visible area – your scalp. Scalp health is incredibly important when it comes to overall hair health and the ability of your hair follicles to produce plentiful and strong hair.

An itchy, dry and flaky scalp is all too common in a day and age where so many shampoos, conditioners and other hair care products contain harsh chemicals, drying surfactants and strong perfumes. These can all further dry and damage the scalp.

Combine this with diets that are often lacking in the fatty acids, vitamins and minerals that contribute to a healthy scalp (after all, the scalp is just skin, it needs the same nutrients healthy skin requires), and scalp health issues are a common complaint. Thankfully, there are several different natural oils and other naturally sourced remedies that can greatly help with the most commonly voiced scalp complaints. Read more

Getting Fit? It Only Takes a Minute

High-intensity interval training is not only effective and time-efficient, it's also less boring than traditional workouts.

There was an odd thing happening in the Equinox Gym, the newly opened temple of fitness that occupies part of what was once the Biba building on Kensington High Street.

Alongside the honed and toned hard bodies pounding the exercise machines, in among the glistening biceps lifting weights only marginally less substantial than a new Routemaster bus, a sudden reversal of evolution appeared to be taking place. The several million years it took for man to walk on two feet had, in less than an hour, been wiped out. After no more than 45 minutes in the place, I was no longer capable of standing upright and was reduced to crawling about on my hands and knees.

That is what happens when you engage with the latest fitness craze to arrive here from the United States: you feel it to the point where you end up barely able to stand. But the temporary return to primitive perambulation is worth it, or so its advocates insist. The rewards are substantial. Read more

5 Penis Enlargement Myths Exposed

Caitlin MacKenna exposes five myths about penis enlargement. How many do you believe?

Many men are unhappy with the size of their penis, but the majority never do anything about it. Why not? Probably because they don't think they can. They believe the myths about penis enlargement that doctors or friends have told them all their lives. If they knew the truth about these myths, they might be motivated to take action. Here are the five most prevalent penis enlargement myths: Read more