The stereotype for pregnancy is a woman eating pint after pint of ice cream while kicking her feet up on a pillow. While that carton of Chubby Hubby might hit the spot, it’s not doing much for your health or you baby’s health during your pregnancy – and neither is kicking up your feet and taking it easy. While you do need more rest and need to take more care during pregnancy, … [Read more...]
Snapping Hip Syndrome: A Case Of Weak Stabilizers
Female from all walks of life can be seen heading to the gym with meager knowledge on how to perform their workout consisting of exercises that focus on strengthening the quadriceps, glutes, and hamstring muscles. What many fail to recognize is the importance of building strength in the hip stabilizers to prevent injury and improve balance. Our bodies have two types of muscle: … [Read more...]
Erica Young: The Woman Behind The Super-Sexy Lingerie Brand Erica M.
Today we have with us the fantastic Lingerie Designer Erica Young, whose edgy and attractive designs have impressed everyone, including the one and only Beyoncé! Erica Young is the creative director and founder of Erica M. Erica M. is a conceptual lingerie brand anchored on luxury, discrete erotic artistic sensibilities and style. Launched in Autumn/Winter 2012 Erica M. … [Read more...]
Get Ready To Spice Up Your Walking Program
More and more women opt for walking as a form of cardiovascular exercise to burn calories and melt away the unwanted fat. Walking for fitness is certainly much more than going out for a stroll. It incorporates the muscles of the upper and lower body making it a GREAT aerobic activity. Regular fitness walking strengthens and tones muscles; increases stamina, metabolism and … [Read more...]
High-Intensity Interval Training: Multi-Beneficial Exercise Regime
High-intensity interval training (HIIT), also called High-Intensity Intermittent Exercise (HIIE) or sprint interval training (SIT), is an enhanced form of interval training, an exercise strategy alternating periods of short intense anaerobic exercise with less-intense recovery periods. HIIT is a form of cardiovascular exercise. Usual HIIT sessions may vary from 4–30 minutes. … [Read more...]
Walking The “Superfood” Of Fitness
Katy Bowman, a biomechanist based in Ventura, Calif., insists that walking is the new "superfood," and adding one hour of intense exercise at the gym isn't enough to offset the consequences of sitting for 10 hours. Compared with conventional aerobics and low-intensity exercise such as walking, high-intensity interval training releases the human growth hormone, or the … [Read more...]
Jacky O’Shaughnessy: American Apparel 62 Years Old Model Reveals Her Fitness Secrets
Jacky O'Shaughnessy, American Apparel's newest model. In her latest ad for the brand she wears lace lingerie and holds one leg up extended over her head. It sounds like more of the same, only O'Shaughnessy is 62. American Apparel, the retailer, known for courting controversy with their provocative ads, surprised everyone by casting an "advanced" model, Jacky O'Shaughnessy, as … [Read more...]
Joan Benedict Steiger: Exceptionally Talented & Accomplished American Actress Reveals her Success Mantra
Joan Benedict Steiger is an American actress of film, television and stage, best known for her role as Edith Fairchild on General Hospital. Benedict Steiger was born in Brooklyn, New York and first performed at the age of seven at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She continued her training at Rome Opera Ballet School before studying with legendary acting coaches Robert Lewis and … [Read more...]
Jelena Abbou: Figure Competitor, Model And Personal Trainer Reveals Her Workout, Diet And Beauty Secrets
Jelena Abbou, née Jelena Đorđević is a figure competitor, model and personal trainer, now living in the United States. Jelena grew up in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. Her parents, Milica and Velibor, her brother and she lived there. She started working out in a little town in Serbia when was about 16. She was one of the first girls in her town who started lifting. When she was 20 … [Read more...]
Easy Ways To Boost Your Activity Level
An active lifestyle is more than simply visiting the gym for an hour or jumping around in the living room to an aerobics tape. Be creative and find ways to incorporate movement into almost everything you do. Here are some suggestions from WF team to get you started and help you boost your activity level. Believe me, if you make a conscious effort to integrate more activity into … [Read more...]
High-Carb, Vegan Diet Causes Major Weight Loss
A low-fat, plant-based diet is more effective at helping women lose weight and improving insulin sensitivity than an omnivorous diet, shows a new study appearing in the September issue of The American Journal of Medicine. Scientific studies show that obesity and overweight are far less prevalent in populations following a plant-based diet. In a recent study of more … [Read more...]
Iodine: A Critical Mineral For Weight Loss
If adjusting your diet and exercising more hasn't helped you reach a healthy body weight, you may have hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid gland. Fortunately, you can help normalize an underactive thyroid gland by increasing your intake of the mineral iodine. Iodine may just be the most overlooked mineral, yet its importance to overall health and well being cannot be … [Read more...]
Fast Weight Loss
There are a number of products and supplements on the market that promise weight-loss. Some have fantastic results, some unbelievable results, some work and some don't. Some products work for one group of people and not the other. So what is the best way to lose extra weight in the form of fat? Fitness and subsequently fat-loss is a three-edged sword, weight training, … [Read more...]
Diet And Weight Loss
People tackle weight loss in ways that suit their lifestyles. But the safest and best way to shift excess pounds is to combine regular exercise with a balanced calorie-controlled diet. What you eat when you are trying to take off weight should not be that different from a normal eating plan-except for the amount you consume. Your basic weight loss ethos is less sugar and … [Read more...]
Chromium Picolinate: Supplement For Weightloss
Chromium picolinate is a nutritional supplement that works to increase the efficiency of insulin to optimal levels. This popular nutritional supplement is a combination of the element chromium and picolinic acid. Chromium is a naturally-occurring mineral, trace amounts of which are found in everyday foods like meat, poultry, fish, and whole-grain breads. FDA recommends a … [Read more...]
Grapefruit And Weightloss
Eating half a grapefruit (or drink 8 ounces of grapefruit juice) may block enzymes involved in fat and carbohydrate storage, and speed up the way our bodies burn fat, resulting in weight loss. The Grapefruit Diet usually lasts about 12 days, but if you want to continue, you must take at least two days off before doing so. Providing no more than 800 calories a day, the … [Read more...]
Protein vs. Carbohydrates: A Weight-Loss Choice?
With 64 percent of Americans overweight or obese, the experts are debating what kinds of foods put on the pounds. A balanced diet is the best way to prevent cancer and heart disease while managing your weight. What's making americans over- weight - the fat or the carbohydrates? People all across the country are debating this issue. Do you lose weight by eliminating most of … [Read more...]
Birth Control Pill & Weight Gain
Birth control Pills are basically oral contraceptives, used by women to avoid unwanted pregnancy. These contraceptive pills mainly contain two hormones estrogen and progesterone, which are synthetic versions of the natural female hormones. They primarily function by preventing ovulation. The pill also works by thickening the mucus around the cervix, which makes it difficult for … [Read more...]
Maternal Diet Vs Fetal Growth
Nutrition during pregnancy is serious business. Research has shown that when mothers-to-be eat poor diets, there is an increase in risk of low-birth-weight infants, particularly in women with poor health and nutrition status before pregnancy. The risk is compounded by lifestyle choices, such as smoking, that may affect pregnancy outcome. The March of Dimes suggests the … [Read more...]
Too Much Weight During Pregnancy Vs. Kid’s Obesity
Eating healthily during those all-important nine months can stop your child becoming obese, and avoid mental-health and social issues. Researches have confirmed that an in-utero diet high in fat or sugar can lead to the child growing up obese. “A mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity,” reported BBC … [Read more...]
Vicky Pattison: Sexiest Reality TV Star 2015 Reveals Her Workout, Diet & Beauty Secrets
Vicky Pattison is the "Geordie girl with the VIP edge" who shot to fame on MTV’s hit series MTV's Geordie Shore. She has won the title of Sexiest Reality TV Star 2015. She is also featured in the MTV reality television series Ex On The Beach. She studied for her GCSEs and A-levels at Burnside Business and Enterprise College and then Drama at Liverpool John Moores … [Read more...]
Kate Partridge: Beautiful Sports Journalist Reveals her Workout, Diet and Beauty Secrets
Kate is a freelance journalist and sports broadcaster who spent four-and-a-half years at English-speaking news channel RT in Moscow, where she presented, edited and reported on the weekly SpoRT Show. She started out by working on the sports desk at the Daily Mail in London before moving to Granada Television. She was an assistant producer for ITV during the 2002 World Cup and … [Read more...]
Camille Clarke: IFBB Figure Pro & Fitness Expert Reveals Her Workout, Diet & Beauty Secrets
Camille Clarke, owner of Camille's Fitness, brings a lifetime of experience and training to the personal fitness field as an accomplished athlete who played high-school basketball, volleyball and football. She also played one year of Division I Basketball. Throughout Camille's life she had to battle different health and fitness concerns, which gives her the experience and the … [Read more...]
Eye Care
Eyes are the most highly developed of all the sense organs. They need proper care and attention particularly as they are constantly exposed to dirt, dust, pollution, smoky atmosphere. Abusing your eyes by letting them become over-tired can result in headaches. By following certain tips you can keep your eyes looking and feeling their best. These are:- Get into the habit … [Read more...]
Winter Eye Care
Many times, we don’t realize that some of the changes that accompany winter pose hazards to our eyes. Most people think that it is only necessary to protect their eyes from the sun during the summer. But the Sun’s influence does not diminish during the rest of the year so the eyes need to be protected during the winter too. Exposure to UV rays during winter can temporarily harm … [Read more...]
Rainbow #Underlights: Instagram’s Latest Hair Obsession
The latest Rainbow Hair Trend has been all over Instagram and other social medias. Where some have taken up the task to get their hair dyed into a hidden rainbow to symbolize their compassion for the lives that were lost in the recent Orlando incident and as a tribute to the LGBTQ Community, there are others who are just following this new hair craze. Rainbows are all about … [Read more...]
Improving Memory And Concentration With Yoga
Memory is critical to our daily lives. Memory is the capacity to retain information about past events, and helps us plan future events. We should be aware of how our memories work, what changes occur in memory over time, and how we can improve our memories as we get older. Fortunately, most changes in memory are normal changes of the aging process, or may be caused by temporary … [Read more...]
Yoga Asanas To Control Mindless Munching
Why do many of us simply tend to eat and eat and eat. The answer to this uncontrolled munching lies in the fact that most of us are eating while distracted -- when watching TV, talking with family or friends, or eating in the car. Another external factor influencing how much we eat is serving size: If a larger serving is in front of us, we tend to eat more no matter … [Read more...]
Staying Hydrated During A Yoga Session
Water helps our bodies to function properly day in and day out. To keep your body well hydrated, you should drink about 64 ounces of water per day. Without doubt, you may need more if you're doing an activity like yoga. During a typical yoga class, you can lose anywhere from three to five pounds of water weight due to all of the stretching that goes on in yoga. Make sure you … [Read more...]
Yoga Therapy For Eating Disorder
A study published in the latest issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly reports that mind-body exercise, such as yoga, is associated with greater body satisfaction and fewer symptoms of eating disorders than traditional aerobic exercise like jogging or using cardio machines. Yoga practitioners reported less self-objectification, greater satisfaction with physical appearance, and … [Read more...]
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