Is yoga a good alternative for cardiovascular exercise if your goal is to burn calories and shed fat?
Absolutely! Although, be aware there are various types of yoga, from slow, graceful meditative yoga to vigorous, fast paced yoga, and even yoga performed in desert like temperatures. So which form is the …

The Gastrointestinal tract has historically been considered only to be the organ responsible for digestion, absorption and excretion of foods/nutrients. But it becomes more and more clear that is has importance in many other aspects of health and well-being so it for example plays a role in several aspects …

If you’re new to exercise, working out can be intimidating. The trick is to begin with exercises you can build on. Start with the legs. After all, they help support our bodies in the most basic of activities — standing and walking! Try wall squats, the building block of …

Q:  My arms are a flabby mess. Do you have a simple exercise to tone them up? Absolutely! I’ve got just the thing. When you have sculpted triceps you free yourself from having to wear those loose, long-sleeved shirts. Go ahead and fill your closet with short-sleeved shirts. Better yet — …

Is yoga a good alternative for cardiovascular exercise if your goal is to burn calories and shed fat? Absolutely! Although, be aware there are various types of yoga, from slow, graceful meditative yoga to vigorous, fast paced yoga, and even yoga performed in desert like temperatures. So which form is …

Recently the media created a buzz highlighting the healthiness of organic foods. The Food Standards Agency released findings of a large study aimed at investigating if organic foods really make a difference to overall health. This survey looked at 162 different studies which examined the nutrient content of organic foods but not the contaminant (or toxin) content of such foods.

Sweeteners are sugar alcohols which do not fully or absorbs into the body at a much slower place, hence the calories taken up with these sweeteners are less than what your energy consumes with glucose.

We’d love to know hear your reviews, do you enjoy, is it a cop-out, a waste of plastic or just good old fashioned fun? …