Category: Health and Fitness

Appetite is influenced by sight. What you see makes a difference. If you are accustomed to seeing a full plate as you sit down for a meal, you eat and feel satisfied. When you diet, you obviously will see less food and...

The reasons to justify fun are that fun must obviously be your main goal if you are to keep ahead in this game of fitness. You can skimp and scrimp on many of the expenditures required in sports. You can do without...

During the course of your growing up years, you lived wherever your parents chose to live. You didn’t give any thought to the health implications of the location your parents chose, or if they had chosen a place that was conducive to your...

The present world is a world of conscious people who believe in strategizing everything thing they do to minimize the possibility of errors. There are many health conscious people in this world. They freak even at few extra calories or pounds in their...

People-especially those who are very thin for their frame, age, and height-would be very happy upon discovering that they have gained some weight. For them, this weight gain would indicate not only the condition of their health and fitness but also the improvements on their...

A cooling-off period should follow any workout. Cooling off, or more accurately tapering off, consists of slowing down to a crawl but keeping moving. After a vigorous game of squash, you might leisurely yet purposefully mosey around the court for two...

With cancer cropping up left and right, people are suddenly becoming more conscious with what they eat and do with their bodies. Fad diets have become a craze and so are gym workouts and alternative exercise for the body. But despite being the...

You pick up the magazines each day, and you’re bombarded with health and fitness information. Advertisements and articles that are designed to impart much needed information to the reader about the state of fitness and health in America today, and what we as responsible citizens should do. I want...

Pain should always be regarded as a warning in endurance sports. Pain in the dominant arm of a tennis player forebodes incipient injury. Pain in the hip of a mountain climber, in the calf of a runner, in the knee of a cyclist, or...

Fitness is individual. A person knows that he is or is not in shape. He also knows the various degrees of his own fitness. Or he can define his fitness in terms of others of similar age and state of health. He may be...