Fitness
Does Your Employer Provide a Wellness Program, Do You Use It? [Reader Poll]
CNN reports that a third of companies offering health insurance to employees also provide a wellness program, including fitness, weight-loss, and stop-smoking programs. The article focuses on...
The Best Foods You Aren't Eating [Health]
The New York Times Well blog asked nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden to round up the healthiest easy-to-find foods that rarely make their way into our shopping carts. The resulting 11 foods,...
Lose Weight Publicly with Twitter [Health]
Blogger Dennis Best is peer-pressuring himself into losing weight by using Twitter to broadcast his progress and setbacks. Twitter's 140 character update limit makes for an easy, low-overhead method...
Burn More Calories in Less Time with Interval Exercises [Exercise]
Yahoo Health says the secret to optimizing a short workout and burning more calories in less time lies in interval training.Study subjects who spent just 20 minutes mixing sprints with jogging lost...
Eat Better with the 125 Healthiest Supermarket Foods [Food]
We've already shown you which drinks you should stick with to stay healthier, and now Men's Health has rounded up 125 of the healthiest supermarket foods in America by category. That means we're...
Drink This, Not That to Stay Healthy [Health]
If you're the type who watches what you eat but doesn't think twice about drinking a soda, coffee, smoothie, or beer, Men's Health suggests 16 healthy drink swaps to trim the extra calories from your...
Less Junky Alternatives to Popular Junk Food [Health]
Weblog Eat Drink Better rounds up several healthier and more environmentally friendly alternatives to popular junk food, from Oreos and Doritos to Snickers and Pop Tarts. For example: Instead of...
Track Your Fitness Progress with Free Tools [Fitness]
You don't need to plunk down $90 for a Wii Fit to track your progress toward a healthier body—even if that downhill skiing game looks mighty fun. If you're trying to curb unnecessary calories...
Keep Your Muscles Healthy, Not Big [Fitness]
The New York Times' Well section has reassuring news for anyone hitting the gym and not seeing results. Many researchers agree that muscle size and definition are not as important to your long-term...
Twitter can help you Quit Smoking
You must be wondering as to how Twitter can help you quit smoking and live longer. Well, the answer is Qwitter, a free social tool that helps you quit Smoking.
Qwitter uses Twitter to keep a record of your smoking pattern and tracks the number of cigarettes you smoke during a day. It also provides a journal feature to help you get support from others in the same situations, as you strive to smoke less. It also allows you to view your progress over time and share it with others who can support you.
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Some Websites To Help You Stay Healthy and Fit
Technological advancements in the field of Medicine and Surgery have certainly helped the human race fight against a lot diseases thereby leading to longer lifespan. However, the key to health and fitness is lot dependent on the individual lifestyle. To help you enhance your fitness and enjoy the benefits the healthy living, i am sharing with you 4 websites which shall help you stay healthy and fit.
The websites mentioned below have useful tips on staying healthy. Healthy and light cooking, Benefits of Aroma Therapy, Water Exercises and cycling stand out as the focus of these websites.
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Exercise to Cure What Ails You [Health]
Exercise can protect against everything from heart attacks and cancer to depression and erectile dysfunction, but the New York Times focuses on how working out also helps with ailments you're already...
Download Free Video Workouts for Your iPod [IPod]
Men's Health magazine online offers four free workout videos that you can download, drag into iTunes, and sync directly to your iPod. The routines range in intensity from the at-home muscle...
Fix Your Achy Body by Walking Barefoot [Health]
New York Magazine online suggests that despite your innate ability to walk, years of walking in shoes has got you doing it all wrong. The result: more aches and pains in your body than you should...
Nutritional Values Are an SMS Away at Diet.com [Health]
Health web site Diet.com's Nutrition on the Go service provides nutritional values for food items on popular restaurant menus via a simple text message. To use it, just text the name of the...
