Archive for July, 2012
10 min Booty Shaking Waist Workout
Eat Your Way To A Flat Belly
Call it a spare tire, a pot belly or muffin top. Belly fat plagues millions of men and women, but some say you can minimize your middle by eating certain foods. 3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl has more on the belly busting diet. Mary Morin lost 20 pounds, but she’s still working [...]
Food to improve your workout performance
Energy stems from food, hence it is important to note which food is an energy booster and which helps in building your body. Add to that the fact that muscle recovery and performance is directly related to what you eat before and after each exercise session, and you realise just how important workout snacks really [...]
Study serves up healthy choice of rice
Rice consumers concerned about reports that rice is linked to diabetes can rest assured that rice can be part of a healthy diet, with scientists finding that the glycemic index (GI) of rice varies a lot from one type of rice to another, with most varieties scoring a low to medium GI. The findings of [...]
Dieting: Top 5 healthy drinks
Flat Belly Drink: Watermelon Smoothie As long as they’re made without sugary mixers like sherbet, smoothies are a guilt-free way to hydrate—and watermelon is a terrific, low-cal smoothie base. Not only is it a natural hydrator because of its water content, watermelon is also loaded with nutrients, including cancer-fighting lycopene, as well as an amino [...]
Coffee: Bad Reputation, Good Health
Coffee has long had a special place in my heart. Although I am not too fond of American brewed coffee — it’s too weak, in my opinion — even that is a variety I am learning to like. Nothing beats the smell of a freshly pulled shot of espresso. It livens the senses in every [...]
Chest and Back Workout Video
Why eating bugs is good for your health and the environment
What would it taste like to eat a cricket? That’s what I wondered recently while watching a mother bird feed its fat, hungry babies. As it happens, Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo has an insect chef serving crickets on the weekends this summer, so I had the chance to find out! While at Brookfield’s Xtreme Bugs exhibit, I tasted crickets [...]
4 Ways To Turn Your Walk Into A Workout
A daily walk is a great way to maintain good health. These variations on your stroll can make the exercise even better. We typically look to measurements like weight, cholesterol level and blood pressure when we evaluate our health. But we may want to add another statistic to the list: Our number of daily steps. [...]
Dance your way to fitness with Zumba
People of different age groups take to the zumba, a Latin American dance form, not just for recreation, but also to give them that effective workout. Dance was long seen as the best way to relax after a hard working week, with city ladies and men letting their hair down over the weekend in discotheques and clubs, [...]
