Use Google Earth for Exercise Distance Google Earth is an application that combines satellite imagery, maps and Google Search. It lets you search for parks, restaurants, hotels in your neighborhood and get driving directions. Now you can measure the distance you ran in feet, yards, miles, or meters. Follow the directions in the Measure window under Tools [...]

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Olive Oil is the Natural The olive oil will alleviate muscle pains. You can warm the olive oil slightly and rub it on the pain. It is also a treatment for hemorrhoids, leprosy, pleurisy, skin diseases, dandruff, eczema, psoriasis, alopecia and fungal infections including ringworm, and it increases sexual desire. Olive oil is great for the complexion as [...]

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Choose Tea over Coffee Tea has a higher content of antioxidants and helps fight cancer, heart diseases and other illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis. Moreover, there studies show that tea helps relax blood vessels, reduces cholesterol levels, and inhibits blood clots from forming. With all these benefits mentioned, tea might be the healthier alternative, combating many [...]

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Find Your Best Workouts If you are easily bored, look for cross training options such as cycling, swimming, and running. Change your main activity every six to eight weeks. Alternatively, you can mix up each workout. Rather than getting on the elliptical for 45 minutes, do just 15 minutes, then do 15 on the treadmill, then 15 [...]

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Reduce, Do not Eliminate Certain Foods Most people eat for pleasure as well as nutrition. If your favorite foods are high in fat, salt or sugar, the key is moderating how much of these foods you eat and how often you eat them. Identify major sources of these ingredients in your diet and make changes, if necessary. [...]

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Stay Loose “When you’re continually tight and not functioning at one hundred percent in one area, other looser parts get overworked in order to compensate,” said Lynn Millar, professor of physical therapy at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich. “The eventual results are pain and possible injury.” Common tights spots are shoulders, hamstrings, lower back and hip [...]

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Omega-3s Guard Against Type 1 Diabetes Youngsters at high risk for developing type 1 diabetes might be able to prevent the disease by eating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, a new study suggests. Reporting in the Sept. 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from the University of Colorado found that high-risk [...]

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Sleep We hear it time and again, yet most of us don’t get the 7 to 8 hours of solid sleep per night that our bodies require. Almost as importantly, we should try to go to bed and get up at approximately the same time every day. Having an established sleep pattern leaves us better rested, and [...]

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Choose Sweet Potatoes Although sweet potatoes may be part of the Thanksgiving tradition, be sure to add these wonderful naturally sweet vegetables to your meals throughout the year; they are some of the most nutritious vegetables around. Sweet potatoes can be found in your local markets year-round, however they are in season in November and December. As [...]

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eXtend Your Life Want to add years to your life? Make regular, moderate exercise part of your healthy lifestyle routine. Physical activity is good for the body, mind and spirit, helps maintain and improve the health of your heart, reduces the risk of diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s, promotes energy, quality rest and a healthy [...]

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