HEALTH & FITNESS

As part of a healthy diet, whole foods play a significant role in helping our bodies function at their best. There are hundreds of extremely nutritious whole foods, but the dozen on this list do more than contribute healthy nutrients -- they help you heal. In fact, every food on this list boasts multiple healing effects, from fighting cancer to reducing cholesterol, guarding against heart disease, and more. Eat these super-healing picks and start feeling pretty super yourself. Kiwifruit  This tiny, nutrient-dense fruit packs an amazing amount of vitamin C (double the amount found in oranges), has more fiber than apples, and beats bananas as a high-potassium food. The unique blend of phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals found in kiwifruit helps protect against heart disease, stroke, cancer, and respiratory disease. Kiwifruit's natural blood-thinning properties work without the side effects of aspirin and support vascular health by reducing the formation of sp...

Why many of us don't join a gym despite knowing its obvious advantages? Or, why some of us shudder at the mere mention of a fitness centre in a way as if it were a prison? Well, to start with, gyms can be quite an expensive affair, which keeps many people away from it. Most of them charge a hefty membership fee, get a complex contract signed and try to spin money in cases where there is none due. Then next, gyms get overcrowded after 5 P. M. in the evening making it doubly difficult for you to be there. Being an office-goer, you don't have time to visit a gym either in the morning or any time prior to the peak hours of 5 to 8 in the evening. By the time the office shut and you reached the gym, it would be teeming with so many people that you just can't feel good. One more reason of our not joining gym could be the lack of quality fitness equipment and lack of proper management there. These are some of reasons which keep us away from gyms. But then, bene...

The consumption of honey for health reasons is one of the many reasons individuals use it as a sweetener, as opposed to sugar (brown or white) or artificial sweeteners. But, there are a number of health benefits tied to the consumption of honey most people aren't aware of.

The abdominal area is often one of the hardest parts of the body to tighten and tone. Most strength building activities that target this area are difficult and not very fun to do. Unfortunately, not only is a flabby waistline less than attractive, but it also puts you at far greater risk of heart disease and serious back issues. Following are a few, simple strategies for creating a smooth, flat and muscular belly.

Good health is the most important thing to every human in this universe.Research has shown that the following food can help in enhancing good health.

If we told you that one small vegetable could prevent over a million deaths a year in the US alone, you’d likely think we were off our rockers. The truth is, though, that this little red root has the power to drop blood pressure by almost 10 points (systolic) within the first 15 minutes of drinking its fresh juice. Study after study have extolled its virtues, and a new one out of Melbourne, Australia, have once again proven its effectiveness. Scientists at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne have proven once again that beet juice is one powerful weapon in the war on high blood pressure. They looked at men and women who either added 12 ounces of beet juice (mixed with 4 ounces of apple juice) or drank a placebo. They found what dozens of other researchers have already shown…that the beet juice group had significantly lower blood pressure after the 3-week study. Beet juice is packed with antioxidants- more so than many other fruits, vegetables, or...

Massage is a very good relaxation technique and a useful therapy for various problems. It can be used to help you reach goals; it can be used to bring you peace of mind. It can help repair broken down muscles and it can prevent injury. Massage therapy has plenty of benefits and in this piece we're going to look at massage and headaches. Common place problem We've all had headaches and some us get them more often than not. They're an extremely common problem with more than 10 million people in the UK suffering with them regularly. There are different severities from a mild niggling issue to a serious problem that leaves you in agony. Before we look at how massage therapy can help with headaches it would be a good idea to look at what causes them. What causes headaches? There is no simple answer to this as there is a great variety of factors that can cause a headache. Headaches are caused by complex chemical changes in the brain. They can be caused...