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Top Fitness Trends for 2019

Fitness trends often come and go, but if you’re looking for new and interesting ways to get in shape, look no further. According to top health professionals and healthline.com, these are the top fitness trends that will likely be taking over your gym, fitness studio, or even living room this year. Exercising at home Working out is no longer solely resigned to hitting the gym. Tom Holland, MS, an exercise […]

todayMarch 13, 2019

Health & Wellness

Eat Onions and Garlic to Prevent Colorectal Cancer

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, so it’s a good time to talk about some of the easy things you can do to keep from getting this life-threatening, but preventable, disease. According to a recent study published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, eating leeks, onions, and garlic reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer. For the study, the researchers matched 833 patients of colorectal cancer to 833 […]

todayMarch 12, 2019

Health & Wellness

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and there are some important, and yet simple things you can do to raise awareness and take action toward prevention. First, the bad news.  Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States and the second leading cause of death from cancers that affect both men and women.  It affects people in all racial and ethnic groups and is most common […]

todayMarch 11, 2019

Health & Wellness

Wearables Top 2019 Fitness Trends

According to the American College of Sports Medicine's 13th annual survey among fitness industry professionals, wearable technology is the top fitness trend for 2019.  This includes things like your Fitbit trackers, Apple smartwatches, heart rate monitors and GPS trackers. Second in line, for the second year in a row, was "group training," defined as including more than five participants in a group environment, and considered a separate category from small […]

todayMarch 7, 2019

Health & Wellness

Pilates for Fall Prevention in Older Adults

As many as one-third of all adults over 65 years old fall each year, with consequences that include serious injury, limited activity and significant health care costs.  That's a staggering and sobering statistic.  But researchers at California State University, Northridge, have conducted a study that shows that doing weekly Pilates training can effectively reduce these risks. Pilates is a body conditioning system that improves muscle tone, balances musculature, builds flexibility […]

todayMarch 6, 2019

Food & Drink

Get Your Probiotic Fix Right Here!

Probiotics are live microorganisms that provide a hefty amount of powerful benfits for your body and brain, including improving digestive and heart health, reducing depression, and even giving your skin a healthy glow. Here are a few sources where you can get your fill of these beneficial bacteria that are not only good for your health, but tasty, too.   Yogurt. Made from milk that’s been fermented by friendly bacteria, […]

todayMarch 5, 2019

Food & Drink

Watermelons are Seedy – and that’s a Good Thing.

When you were a kid eating watermelon on a hot summer’s day, did your parents ever tell you to spit out the seeds because a melon would grow out of your ears or stomach? In fact, the lowly watermelon seed has become so reviled that “seedless watermelons” have become the standard in most grocery stores. Well, everyone was wrong, wrong, wrong to pass along that old wive’s tale, because it […]

todayMarch 4, 2019

Food & Drink

Bone Broth: More than Meat Water

Bone broth is made from animal bones and connective tissue — typically cattle, chicken, or fish — that have been boiled into a broth and slow simmered for 10 to more than 20 hours with herbs, vegetables, and spices. So why is this seemingly simple liquid something you’d want to drink every day? Even our hunter-gatherer ancestors realized that drinking bone broth was essential for survival; as its earliest version […]

todayFebruary 28, 2019

Food & Drink

Trout, the New Super Fish Food You’ve Got to Try

Trout, the lowly fresh water fish sought after by fly fishermen over the centuries, has had a resurgence in the foodie world, thanks to it’s newly discovered “superfood” properties. A 3oz. cooked trout has just 162 calories, a whopping 22.64 grams of Protein, just 7.2 grams of Fat (and it’s that good Omega-3 fat, too), Zero Carbs (all you Ketos are salivating now), 47 mg of Calcium, 24 mg of […]

todayFebruary 27, 2019

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