Health & Fitness

10 Tips To Combat Eating Disorders

Be In Love With Yourself

Women are constantly bombarded (in the press, advertisement, films and television) with images of the perfect body. The enormous pressure built up on them leads many women to go on diets to help them lose weight. Some women have developed a very unsettled relationship with food, followed by complains of chronic constipation, lack of energy or food intolerance. One thing common to all eating disorders is the love-hate relationship with food. Try working out through following exercise to understand how your body works with food, so as to turn eating into a positive experience.

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Fitness For Pregnant Women

Fitness for Pregnant Women

Obstetricians usually encourage and recommend that pregnant women should exercise regularly during their pregnancy. If you already engage in a regular fitness program before becoming pregnant, it is likely exercise during pregnancy won’t be a problem for you. However, a high percentage of women express an interest in starting an exercise program for the first time just after becoming pregnant. If you fall into this category, there are several steps you can take to ensure you get the most out of your fitness routine while exercising safely.

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Exercise of the week - The Bicycle

Exercise of the week – The Bicycle

With the festive feasting season over many of us will now be looking for the most effective way to undo the damage we may have caused to our waist lines...

Abdominal Exercise

When it comes to stomach exercises, they are the most convenient and cash-friendly, you can do them almost anywhere and you don’t need any equipment.

The common thought about stomach exercises is that if you do a lot of them, your stomach will become flat – this is not the case. When combined with diet and aerobic exercise, abdominal exercises can help to tone the area. However, when you are just trying to get the number of your repetitions up, you’re probably sacrificing form and just wasting your workout time.

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Energy Levels

Do you have an energy slump during the day?

Here are seven ways to lift your energy levels:

In 2006, the Mirror reported a study, commissioned by Typhoo Tea, to ascertain what time of the day we experience an energy slump. The results showed that 2.16pm was a popular time and maybe you’ll agree with this.

So, whether this is your time to curl up under a desk or in a corner, read more to learn my seven recommended energy boosters to lift your daily energy levels from the minute you wake up to the minute you close your eyes.

Let the light in

Those who study our internal body clocks, Chronobiologists, suggest that waking up when it starts to get naturally light is the best time to rise for an energy boost. This is because the body’s natural energising hormones, cortisol, serotonin and adrenaline are stimulated by the natural light. Melatonin, the sleep-inducing hormones are inhibited and by allowing light in through the curtains/blind first thing, the effects can happen immediately.

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Why Keep Fit?

The Excuses

The pressures of home and family life can also mean it feels as if there's little timeleft to fit in exercise. It's certainly tough to get started.

So, it's worth thinking about what you gain from regular exercise and making even a partial improvement to your fitness.

Physical inactivity is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease - in other words, if you don't exercise you dramatically increase your risk of dying from a heart attack
Conversely, exercise means a healthier heart because it reduces several cardiovascular risks, including high blood pressure.

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Ten Health Benefits Of Sex

Ten Health Benefits Of Sex

A good sex life is one way to stay happy, healthy and fit. When you're in the mood, it's a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight. However, you’ll be surprised of the many benefits of good sex, here are just ten of them.

1. Sex Relieves Stress

A big health benefit of sex is lower blood pressure and overall stress reduction.

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Importance of Exercise

The Importance of Exercise

Many of us have some extra unwanted inches that we are not proud of, so what are we to do? Yes, I know the usual, go on a diet, join a gym and do some exercise. But is that the only answer?

As most of us know, as soon as we go on a diet and strike off all the foods that although we love, are obviously not helping our waist line, we seem to have more of a yearning for them. Or we join the gym and become regulars for approximately two months then stop going, even though we are still making the monthly payments.

Now, we have all read many articles telling and showing us how good we could look if we stick to an eating plan and exercise regime for a certain number of weeks, so why is this feature so different?

Well, truthfully there is nothing new to tell you, but I will endeavour to make you see health and exercise from a different perspective that is achievable and maintainable.

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Losing Abdominal Fat – Why is it so hard?

Losing Abdominal Fat – Why is it so hard?

Abdominal weight loss - we all want it! A toned midsection is something that both men and women long for, but with all of the diet pills and other weight loss products out there, is there really a secret to abdominal fat loss?

Your stomach is usually the first place that fat shows up and the last place it disappears from. This can be extremely frustrating, especially if you do not have a good weight loss plan in place. All in all it takes hard work and perseverance to lose abdominal fat.

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