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What Is a Calorie Deficit Diet? Experts Break It Down
17/03/2025
When you want to lose weight, it only makes sense to do your research to see what the most popular diets are right now. But, while there are plenty of trendy eating plans floating around, there’s an old standby that’s suddenly become popular again: the calorie deficit diet.
The diet is simple at baseline: It doesn’t tell you which foods...
4 Signs You're Consuming Too Much Sugar Without Realizing It
14/03/2025
The US consumes more added sugar than any other country in the world. But in a country where sugar is added to many of our foods, it can be hard to track your intake.
Added sugar refers to the sugar you'd find in processed foods, not the naturally occurring sugar found in fruits. The former is associated with greater risks of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart and liver diseases...
8 Ways to Cope If You Can't See Family and Friends This Holiday Season
11/03/2025
The start of this new decade has been full of anxiety, stress, frustration, confusion, fear, and disappointments. For many people, it's meant losing a job—or a loved one. For others, it's forced them to make difficult decisions about significant life events, like canceling their wedding or giving birth alone. No matter how the coronavirus pandemic...
How Early Experiences With Sports Shape How We Feel About Fitness in the Future
08/03/2025
As an adult, I enjoy working out, but this certainly wasn’t the case when I was a teen. “Who likes being a sweaty mess, anyway?” I used to tell myself. I thought that I hated sport, but in retrospect, I actually hated the toxic culture surrounding high school sport: the lack of teamwork and the focus on winning above all else...
7 Foods That Will Boost Your Mood, According to Science
05/03/2025
There's plenty of evidence to suggest that activities like working out, spending some time outside during the day, and cuddling with a pet can lift your spirits, and as it turns out, what you eat can also have a big impact on your mood. Whether you've been afflicted with the winter blues or find yourself in a funk you just can't seem to get out of...
Here Are Stretches and Yoga Moves That Can Help Scoliosis
02/03/2025
Scoliosis, a condition that involves a curvature of the spine, affects about six to nine million people in the United States.
The abnormal spinal curvature that defines scoliosis often occurs laterally (or to one side), in an S- or C-shape, according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)...
Struggling With Mental Burnout? Aerobic Exercise — Like Running — May Help Your Brain Recover
27/02/2025
Whole Grains Are Linked to Better Heart Health
24/02/2025
How to Take a Guilt-Free Mental Health Day & Make the Most of It
21/02/2025
It seems that we all can agree that if you’re not feeling well, you should stay home from work. If your nose is running, you have a fever or severe cough, calling in sick for work is a no-brainer. But why do we only allow ourselves time off for those types of “sick” and not others? (Especially now that so many of us are working full-time from home!)...
What Is the Blue Zones Diet? A Eating Plan for a Longer, Healthier Life
18/02/2025
In parts of Italy, Greece, Japan, Costa Rica and the United States, there are pockets of people who are living longer than most of us, and they’re staying healthy well into their later years. Researchers call these areas Blue Zones, and they’ve studied the people who live there to tease...