Swimming is One of the Most Efficient Workouts You Can Do

24/11/2025

If you're looking to freshen up your workout routine, and even push it to the next level, try swapping your weights and treadmill for the pool.

Swimming is an effective way to build and tone your muscles while improving endurance. It blends a frequent cardiovascular workout with simultaneous strength training due to the resistance of the water, according to Philip Abundo, a private swimming instructor...

8 Tips for Coping With Work-Related Anxiety

21/11/2025

Does your stomach clench or get flooded with butterflies when you're facing a looming work deadline? Do you fret at your desk over an upcoming performance review? If you have to give a PowerPoint presentation to a client or co-workers, do you become so filled with anxiety that you find it hard to concentrate on your tasks?..

Dietitians Say This Could Be Why You're Not Losing Weight

18/11/2025

A whopping 45 million Americans diet and spend $33 billion on weight loss products each year, according to Boston Medical Center. No matter which way you lose weight, dropping the pounds for good comes down to developing a healthy relationship with food and adopting positive habits. That said, we know that losing weight isn't easy. In fact, not losing...

Eat These Foods to Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally

11/11/2025

When we think about trying to lower high blood pressure, we usually think of limiting salt and processed foods. But a heart healthy diet is more than just lowering your sodium intake. The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which is specifically designed to help manage blood pressure, emphasizes eating many fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy, and other fiber-rich foods...

Why BMI Isn’t an Accurate Measure of Health

08/11/2025

Chances are at some point in your life, you and your doctor have discussed your body mass index (BMI) in relation to your health. Unfortunately, for many people (maybe you, too) these talks can be distressing, considering all the weight that those three little letters carry...

What Happens to Your Body When You Start Eating Meat Again?

05/11/2025

I've waffled back and forth between vegetarianism, veganism and an omnivore diet for almost my entire life, but I've definitely spent the majority of my adult life eating a plant-based diet. Whether this decision was influenced by my yoga habit, a lean grocery budget while I lived in New York City, environmental reasons or animal welfare consciousness...

8 Everyday Ways to Boost Endorphins Naturally—and Why It's So Good for You

02/11/2025

Endorphins make us feel good. These chemicals naturally produced by the nervous system help us manage pain and stress while quite literally creating positive feelings. But did you know that there are little things you can do in your daily life to naturally boost, or release, endorphins on your own?

These chemicals, which have sedating and calming effects...

Women Are Better at Burning Fat During Exercise Than Men, Research Suggests

30/10/2025

Women may have an edge when it comes to burning fat, according to new research.

A pair of studies published this month found that women tend to burn more fat than men during exercise, and athletes with better cardio endurance of all genders burn more fat than their less fit peers...

We’re Always Learning More—These Are the Takeaways We’ve Learned from COVID-19 This Year

27/10/2025

If we can agree on one thing, it’s that the emergence of COVID-19 last year took the world by surprise and changed everything. While we are still in the midst of the pandemic, it looks quite different than it did in early 2020. Tragically, more than 5 million people are dead worldwide, and the omicron variant is spreading quickly. But before you head down a doom...

5 Smart Habits for Strong, Healthy Lungs

24/10/2025

The past year and a half has been full of many lessons, perhaps none more important than being keenly aware about the air we breathe and how we take care of our body. We spend a lot of time talking about air quality in our homes, ways to boost our immunity, or the best ways to sanitize and kill germs. We don't often look inward to our lungs...