You want your child to be happy and healthy. Children learn how and what to eat from you, and forming healthy habits during their early years promotes lifelong health. Your child needs proper nutrition for optimal growth and development and healthy eating in childhood can prevent serious health problems down the road, such as obesity,… Read more:
Tag Archives: Health
The co-worker drop: The ultimate office workout
If you are like most people, you spend most of your days sitting in a cubicle or office with your only exercise being a trip to the bathroom. This constant sitting literally takes years off your life. Even though the gym may be only a couple miles away, it seems like a hundred miles while… Read more:
Muscle balance: Keep your body balance in check
As I continue to train for what I am hoping will be my next world record attempt, I struggle with trying not to over train key muscle groups tied directly to the record attempt movement. Overtraining select muscle groups leads to body and muscle imbalance and can lead to injury and negative performance. Maintaining body… Read more:
Fun indoor exercises for kids
How many times have you been asked by your kids to watch a movie, play a video game or something similar? Some kids are inclined toward sports, while others are inclined toward reading and sometimes both. In this article we want to give you some options on what you can propose to your kid so… Read more:
Red Bull or the vegetable? In The Matrix of a food war, this kid chooses his pill
“There’s a war going on inside, no man is safe from: DDTs, PCBs, every corner in the hood got a KFC or McD’s. It’s crack speed like RED Bull-ish they pulpit – so caffeine, Kit Kat like a click-clack holes in your genes Cuz everything at market ain’t all what it seems.” – Food Fight… Read more:
Natural Remedies for Bad Breath
When it comes to getting rid of stinky breath, a majority of people adopt various temporary solutions rather than understanding the origin of the issue. In some cases, severe health conditions, lifestyle, habits, and dietary routine can make tremendous contributions to bad breath. A constant dry mouth also causes foul breath by gathering dead cells… Read more:
Fighting Obesity One Meal at a Time
As children are ever growing, appetites will fluctuate drastically. At times it seems like they might eat you out of house and home. The next day, they may have very little of an appetite. The trick to fighting obesity in a child is monitoring what they consume. Naturally, a child’s metabolism could be running at… Read more:
4 Simple Tips to Make You Healthier Than Ever
In the age of the obesity epidemic, thousands of new diet fads coupled with an overload of health and fitness information, there are really only a few key tips you need to keep in mind to stay healthy and fit. If you Google “best health tips” you will get over 1.3 million results. How is… Read more:
Energy Drinks: Caffeine Addiction Delivery Systems
I’ll begin by saying that I don’t drink ‘energy drinks’, and I don’t let my kids drink them either, just as I don’t let them drink coffee. So I’m a bit biased. I’d rather have my children drinking lots of water, or fresh juice or a smoothie, than I would have them drinking a flavored… Read more:
Tips for Getting Your Kids into a More Active Lifestyle
According to the government initiative for active lifestyles, Let’s Move, “you need to be active 60 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, for 6 out of 8 weeks.” Are you and your family getting the exercise you need? If you have vowed to make 2013 a more active year for you and… Read more:
5 Health-Promoting Foods to Plant in Your Spring Garden
Feeling trapped by the icy winter weather? Here’s an activity that’ll have the whole family dreaming of spring: Start planning your 2013 vegetable garden. Here’s a list of healthful foods to consider planting this year: Broccoli: Broccoli makes all the super-food lists. According to research, it’s a cancer-fighter, it lowers blood pressure, and it might… Read more: