Apr 02

4 tips for healthy eating over the festive season

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Holidays are a beautiful time of the year we all wait for, and at the same time some of us are low-key afraid of due to possible overindulgence.   With the amount of delicious food and drinks, it might be challenging to stay on top of your healthy daily routine. However, you can still enjoy the holiday season and all the tasty dishes without feeling guilty. Here are a few tips on how to maintain your healthy eating habits during the festive season while living your life to the fullest.   Stay hydrated Staying hydrated is one of the most effective tips to keep yourself from going overboard with heavy, fried, and sweet foods. Having a glass of lukewarm water an hour before you consume a big meal will help your body digest well. Sometimes when we think we are hungry, we are actually thirsty. Even when you feel hungry before meals, have water first, if your hunger subsides, it’s a sign that you were thirsty in the first place.   Plan ahead If you’re heading out for some holiday feasting, make sure you’re not going on an empty stomach. While skipping breakfast and lunch before heading to grandma’s Christmas […]
Apr 02

Here’s The Best Diet For Different Skin Types

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Skincare: Read on to figure out which foods are best for your skin type. Your diet, of course, affects how your body processes hormones, which in turn affects how healthy your skin is. To improve your skin, it’s vital to include some foods and cut out others. Your skin type will have a significant impact on the foods you choose to eat, just like it does for skincare products. Increasing your intake of some meals and cutting out others can assist your skin. Depending on your skin type, you should eat certain foods. This tactic is comparable to how you could pick a different moisturiser for your skin type than your friend. Read on to figure out which diet and foods are best for your skin type.   What are the different skin types? Broadly, your skin type can be separated into 4 types. These being: Dry (irritated, flaky) Oily (appearance of a shiny film) Normal (does not have any oiliness or dryness) Combination (flaky and dry at some spots while oily and shiny in other areas) What are the best diets & foods for your skin type? Now that we understand different skin types, let’s discuss what foods can […]
Apr 02

6 Effective Yoga Poses That Will Burn Fat Fast

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Yoga is an excellent way through which you can burn fat. People often think that yoga just instretching and can’t help them lose weight. However, if you stick with it and know what you’re doing, yoga can be a useful tool in your weight loss journey. This workout helps you stretch your muscles, which makes you feel better and helps your blood flow. It can speed up your metabolism over time if you do it right. Yoga has many health benefits, but the best thing about it is that anyone can do it at home. You don’t need any special tools or machines to do yoga. All you need is a good yoga mat.   Yoga Poses to Burn Fat Fast Check out these six easy yoga poses that will help you burn fat and lose weight quickly.   1) Adho Mukha Svanasana This asana is a great way to stretch out your body and burn fat. It can help your arms, legs, and stomach get stronger. It can also strengthen the muscles in your shoulders. In this type of yoga pose, you bend forward, which can be good for your health in the long run. Here’s how this exercise […]
Apr 02

10 Fitness Tips for Busy Professionals

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Being a hardworking professional probably means that most of your time is spent either commuting or at the office. It can be difficult to find time to get your daily workouts in, which is why so many professionals slowly get more and more out of shape over the years. Don’t let that be you! Here’s how you can be a fit hardworking professional:   1. Hit the Gym Near the Office If you’re lucky enough to work near a gym, make it one of your daily stops. No excuses–hit the gym every day.   2. Make Your Commute a Workout Do you live close enough to your office to walk, jog or cycle? At least a few times a week, forget about taking the bus or driving, and instead make your commute your daily workout.   3. Skip Lunch Just because it’s called “lunch break” doesn’t mean you need to spend that time at a restaurant. Instead, take your hour of lunch as a time to get your exercise in–either at a gym, in your park, or in your nearby Yoga studios. You can then eat your lunch at your desk.   4. Do an Office Workout You would be […]
Apr 02

Lose Belly Fat and Slow Down Aging With These Strength Exercises

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Look and feel younger by losing excess belly fat and slimming down.   As you get older, your body begins to change pretty quickly. It becomes harder to get back into shape and keep a solid routine, because bad habits die hard. This is especially true if you developed belly fat in your 20s and 30s. With aging comes a slower metabolism and loss of muscle, so it’s important to get active with the right fitness choices to kick up your game. What’s the best way to start? Get going with these muscle-building strength exercises that’ll help you lose belly fat and slow down aging. You’ll look and feel so much younger! The absolute best way to lose belly fat and build muscle is through strength training. When it comes to choosing the top-recommended strength training exercises, you need to go with compound movements—and for good reason. These movements involve more muscle groups, require more effort, and will burn more calories. Here are some ultra-effective exercises to perform as a full workout, or you can easily incorporate them into your existing routine. They’ll be extremely effective in helping you reach your belly fat loss goal, and help you look and […]
Apr 02

21 Health Benefits Of Napping

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Naps have a poor reputation, mainly when they occur at work. However, evidence indicates that this way of thinking is entirely outdated, and there are several benefits of power naps and their health benefits. Extra sleep can help you remember things better and minimize stress. There’s also the whole “naps feel good” thing. So here’s the scientific evidence you need to feel entirely at ease spending some extra time with your pillow today.   1. Right now, you’re probably sleep-deprived According to the National Sleep Foundation, you can obtain seven to nine hours of sleep each night. If you’re like most people, you’ll fall short of that goal: According to a survey published in 2015 by sleep tracking software Sleep Cycle, South Africans get just over six hours of sleep each night on average, the world’s lowest average sleep time. “If getting enough sleep isn’t possible, napping is the next best thing,” says Dr. Abid Malik, medical director of Orlando Health-South Seminole Hospital’s Sleep Disorder Centre.   2. You will become a genius as a result of it A group of German neuropsychologists discovered that napping after learning anything improves your recollection of that material five times compared to being […]
Apr 02

How to Start Working Out Again When It’s Been Awhile

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If you’ve been hibernating all winter (or, let’s face it, all year), the thought of figuring out how to start working out again can seem a bit daunting. And while there’s no way around it—when you’re not in the habit of working out, you lose progress—don’t be deterred from sweating it out. Challenges can be a good thing! There are some things to think about when you’re easing back into a workout routine whether you’ve been taking a break for the past couple of weeks, months, or even years. Barry’s Bootcamp trainer Kellie Sikorski and physical therapist Karena Wu, DPT, MS, CSCS, know what’s up when it comes to getting adjusted and avoiding injury. Here are 11 things to keep in mind as you kick-start that fitness grind.   Planning One of the first steps before you actually dive back into a workout routine is to plan out what you want your routine to look like, and how you want to get there. If it’s been awhile since you last worked out, you’ll definitely want to start small. “Doing too much too soon can overwhelm you mentally,” says Sikorski. “And a rigorous routine may eventually feel like too much to […]
Apr 02

What happens when you don’t eat post-workout?

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Workouts take away a lot of energy from the body, making you feel tired and hazy, sometimes. Hence, you need all the nutrition in the body to refuel it. And if you don’t eat proper meals after pumping that iron, it could lead to disastrous results. Read here to know more.   A good workout makes you feel elated. And why not? Exercise is known to boost mood and release happy hormones. But to remain happy, you need to eat and nourish the body. Skipping post-workout meals can make you feel more tired and hazy. Those who suffer from health conditions like diabetes can also get disoriented from low blood sugar. Doctors recommend eating at least 30 minutes post working out to replenish and refill the body, especially with carbs and proteins to repair the damage done to the muscles. Also, not eating can seriously hamper your body’s goals since there are no calories to burn. Here is what happens to the body when you don’t eat enough after exercising:   Breakdown of the muscle: During intense workouts, there is a lot of muscle wear-and-tear. Not consuming protein and carbohydrates can hamper the repair. Poor weight management: Many people exercise […]
Apr 02

Three Activities to Improve Mental Well-being in Youth

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Help kids develop good mental hygiene before symptoms of mental illness develop. Like adults, children can develop a wide array of mental health issues. What if, instead of waiting for mental health problems to develop and then treating the symptoms, we taught children how to maintain mental well-being and proactively care for their mental health? Mental illness would still develop in some individuals, but the prevalence and severity may diminish in the overall population. Following are three activities or experiences that children can be exposed to or taught to improve their mental well-being.   Meditation There’s substantial data suggesting that meditation improves mental health in adults. Studies in children indicate similar positive results. Children who learn to meditate have better emotional regulation than nonmeditators; they are able to deal with difficult emotions in more positive ways than children who do not meditate. Children who meditate are also less likely to self-harm or have suicidal ideation than their nonmeditating peers. Overall, meditation allows children to face difficult situations with greater calm and more easily deal with emotional volatility than those who do not meditate. Additionally, creating what may become a lifelong meditation practice could have significant positive health benefits over the […]
Apr 02

Here’s What Happens to Your Body (and Mind) When You Run Every Day

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From your muscles to your mental state, you gain a plethora of benefits from daily runs. Are you in the midst of the #RWRunStreak and feeling like a different person than when you started? That’s because you are. Running every day triggers a variety of mental and physical benefits, all of which can help improve your athletic performance and make you a healthier human. “If running or exercise were a pill, it would be the most widely prescribed drug in the world for all of the benefits for your health that it has,” Todd Buckingham, Ph.D., chief exercise physiologist at The Bucking Fit Life, a wellness coaching company and community, tells Runner’s World. “Exercise really is medicine, and running is medicine,” he says. If you’re wondering about the effects of your daily dose, here are a list of all the benefits of running every day. Let it fuel you with motivation to keep running toward your run streak goal.   Your Heart Gets Stronger and More Efficient As a new runner, those first couple of runs can be brutal. Your breathing is labored, and your heart feels like it’s pounding against your chest. Meanwhile, your legs are barely moving. But, […]
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