Aerobic activity is defined as any physical activity that raises the heartbeat. It can vary in it’s intensity from low to high. Cardio or aerobic activity strengthens lungs, heart and overall improves the body’s function...

Nasa is offering to pay $18000 to participants for a clinical trial that requires the participants to stay in bed for 70 days. The participants will have to be in the bed rest facility of NASA's Flight Analogs Research U...

How you start your day sets the context and your mindset for the rest of the day. Yet, most people start the day with procrastination by hitting the snooze button, telling their subconscious that they don’t even have the...

Exercise only focuses on the body. Turns out, exercise is the single most important factor which can boost and grow the brain cells. A fit mind after all truly lives in a fit body. ( It’s the single most proven way to ge...

He explains, “ the power of now”, which however trite it may seem, the practice is far-fetched. Not many people have adopted meditation the benefits of which are huge. When the mind is just focused on “now” not worried a...

Some good news about this cold weather. Shivering in the cold has benefits like exercise. ( and study and found that shivering and bouts of moderate exercise are equally capable of stimulating the conversion of energy-st...

Pinky Roshan, Hrithik Roshan’s mother at 60 is fit as a fiddle. She works out regularly at the gym. It seems the ( for the Roshan family is gym. Hrithik got his mum on a fitness routine –she lost 25 kilos and look at her...

An article in ( talks about the impact of having breakfast on weight loss. Numerous studies are out there which prove that having breakfast in the morning helps with weight loss. But, this particular article says that li...

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper said the magic words ( Bob Harper is a trainer at the ( He has been shown to push contestants out of their comfort zone and train harder. Yes, to get thin diet is the only key. For the simple...

about how Oprah was judged not just because of her color but also because of her size. She goes into detail stating that most shop assistants look down on women over size 10. While she may have connected two totally diff...

Every minute of exercise increases your life by at least seven more minutes How much or actually how little exercise is needed to be on a steady climb towards a fit you? A recent article in ( talks about just 75 minutes...

A recent article in ( talks about a study to see the effectiveness of just 4-minute exercise. Yes, just four minutes per day-you cannot complain that you don’t have the time! While 4-minute exercise cannot help you lose...

The article in ( talks about the study how high fat diet is bad for the brain , but , if a high fat diet is accompanied with exercise -it almost negates the impact of fat on the brain . Excerpt from the ( : "But those an...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

Exercise: The Most Powerful Medicine Available Regular physical activity is perhaps the single most impactful health intervention available—more effective than most medications at preventing and treating disease. Yet in...

Just as you were ready to tuck into a nice three-egg omelet again, comforted by the reassuring news that eggs are not so bad for you, here comes a study warning that for those over 40, the number of egg yolks consumed pe...

A growing body of research has identified a perhaps unexpected correlation: people who exercise regularly tend to earn more money. The relationship is not simply explained by health — the mechanisms are more interesting...

For most of the history of public health messaging around physical activity, the operative concern was getting sedentary populations to exercise more. The risks of inactivity — cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 dia...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

At some point in almost every fitness journey, the routine that once produced results stops working. The body adapts. The same miles on the same route, the same machines in the same order, the same weight class — they st...

IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings. They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point p...

The holiday season brings many joys and, unfortunately, many countervailing dietary pitfalls. Even the fittest and most disciplined of us can succumb, indulging in more fat and calories than at any other time of the year...

Personal trainer Kathryn Doyle Boulware returned for a second installment of holiday eating guidance — reflecting the genuine demand among readers who found the first piece useful and wanted more practical, non-guilt-lad...

Few questions in recreational fitness have generated more confident, contradictory advice than whether to stretch before exercise — and the science, when examined carefully, offers answers that confound both the dedicate...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Dress to impress. Most women love to dress up in style and with the new fashion trends making history in the fashion world, women go bonkers over clothes, accessories and other...

Did you know there's more than one way to do cardio in order to lose weight? Most people only know about the 1st way, which is to run (or bike, etc.) at a steady state for about 30-60 minutes. Typically people keep their...

Exercise abandonment follows a predictable pattern: a period of consistent activity, a disruption—travel, illness, a demanding work stretch—and then the peculiar psychological resistance that makes restarting harder than...

MYTH: The longer and harder my exercise sessions are, the more weight I will lose. REALITY: If you exercise hard for a long time, the body starts producing excessive amounts of stress hormones, including adrenaline and c...