Generally people take conscious efforts to improve their health, weight and nutrition when they reach the age of 40. Hence, it is very helpful to read the article “Risks: Obesity Is Found to Take Toll After Age 40” in New York Times written by Roni Caryn Rabin.

As you know, there are many health risks involved for being an obese person particularly when your age is 40 and above. So before you complicate and escalate these health risks, it is advisable to take care of your health as early as you can.

To help you motivate improving your health and fitness level, read the full article here.

It is inevitable to despise exercise though there are few who like to sweat and to workout a lot. The idea of exercising seems to be an obligation and a task which we oftentimes try to resist.

We continue to cultivate this notion in our mind. Perhaps one of the reason to blame is we are doing exercises which make us unhappy. Hence, exercising becomes a daunting task to perform.

If you are starting your journey towards fitness, it is recommended to read the article in BBC Health entitled “Finding the right exercise”. Find exercise activities that make you happy because this will help you to continue exercising with gusto.

Check the list of activities and sports mentioned in the article, to find exciting and encouraging workout activities.

Generally we exercise to stay fit and to lose weight, right? Drinking slushie on the other hand means gaining back the calories we lost from exercising. However, in the article “To Beat the Heat, Drink a Slushie First” written by Gina Kolata in New York Times, it features that pre-cooling effect which you get from drinking slushie before exercising can delay exhaustion.

If you are hitting the park for rigorous outdoor sports or exercise during a hot day, then take time first to read the article “To Beat the Heat, Drink a Slushie First”. Although you may wonder how you can put in vain the burned calories by sipping ice slurry, it is worth to find out and understand that sipping slushie can be beneficial to you too.

Read the full article ‘ To Beat the Heat, Drink a Slushie First ‘ from NYTimes.com Fitness and Nutrition.

It is a common knowledge that laugh can get rid few years of your age but in the article “Can laughing give you a workout?” written by Madison Park in CNN Health, there is more on that.

We have many gestures when we laugh. We clap our hands. We slap our hand against our lap. Laughing always comes with other body movements. Hence, according to the study, laughing can be beneficial as exercise.

Of course, this idea can trigger skepticism, right? However, just consider the benefits of laughing. It keeps you younger and the exercise benefits that come with it are a bonus.

So, stay young and keep laughing!  Read the full article  “Can laughing give you a workout?” from CNN.com.

Are you guilty of binge eating? Perhaps at some point in our struggle to lose weight, we binge out on our favorite high calorie and rich fat foods. The issue kicks in when it becomes a recurring problem. The article of Madison Park in CNN Health entitled “Self-help treatment effective for binge eating, researchers say” indicates that it can be effectively resolved with the help of a self-guide book and sessions with health therapist or coach.

It is indeed an interesting approach to stop binge eating behavior. It is effective though not commonly apply because such treatment requires a specialized field of therapy.

If you are keen to read more about the “Self-help treatment effective for binge eating, researchers say”, click it here.

There are occasions in which you feel that you are no longer losing any weight despite of rigid workouts and strict diet. Perhaps you already reach the stage of diet plateau. It means your body doesn’t effectively respond to your diet or exercise routines.

Tina Haupert in Health.com has some recommendations on how to break this not-so encouraging stage. In her article “How Weight-Lifting Classes Help Beat a Diet Plateau”, she narrates how the strength training helped her break the plateau phase of her diet.

She also mentioned four reasons as why strength training is beneficial to you. So before you lose hope for not losing any weight, maybe you want to read first the “How Weight-Lifting Classes Help Beat a Diet Plateau”.

There is an interesting feature in Health.com entitled “How to Grocery Shop on a Diet”. It is oftentimes a struggle to choose the right healthy food to stuff your fridge especially when one is on a diet. Fortunately this issue has been addressed in the article while it gives recommendations on how to shop smartly to keep on track with your diet.

It tackles the basic items you shop at the grocery store such as meat, dairy products, vegetables and fruits and grains. If you are on a diet, this information is really essential because these are the basic ingredients you use to prepare your meals. Read more…

The article in BBC Health entitled “How to lose weight” by Dr Toni Steer and Dr Susan Jebb sums up the fundamentals of weight loss. It tackles what every person must know when it comes to shedding extra weight.

It is a straight forward guide to help you achieve your goal. The authors highlight the importance of portion control and keeping a healthy diet on your journey to weigh loss.

However, the most striking point is their support to avoid fad diets. It is always alluring to succumb to this kind of diets as the result is fast but for long term result, the only solution is diet and exercise.

Read the full article ‘How to lose weight’ from BBC.co.uk Health.

Do you always crave for sweets during the day? Do you always indulge in burgers and fries? Well, all of us are guilty of this one way or another, right? However, reading the article of Rachel Grumman entitled “The Real Reasons We Eat Too Much” is an eye-opener.

Grumman featured three factors which can be the causes as why we are eating too much. It is striking to know that lack of sleep can be one of these factors. Apparently when we are lack of sleep, some of our hormones that are responsible for our appetite get affected.

The other factors are stress and the fatty foods on the brain. Read more…

There is a recent article entitled “An hour of daily exercise ‘needed to stay slim’” featured in BBC news in which it stresses to exercise at least an hour to stay slim. It is a common knowledge that exercising at least half an hour a day will do wonder to your body and health.

However, if you have an inclination to gain weight then it is worth to consider increasing your workout duration. If you are still young like in your early twenties, maybe exercising for half an hour is fine but if you are in mid thirties or approaching already the forties, you can prevent increasing your weight by exercising longer at least an hour. Read more…