The 7 Best Breakfast Foods for Brain Health, According to Dietitians

25/09/2024

You already know you should be eating breakfast every day—and that doesn’t mean ordering an oat milk latte and calling it good. Hear us out: Putting actual food into your body every morning is not only about refueling your energy tank. Eating a high-quality, nutrient-filled breakfast will actually help you perform better at work (and at play)...

Control Compulsive Eating

22/09/2024

What is it about food? Serve us a plate with normal-sized portions and no other food on the table, and we'll eat it and likely be quite satisfied. But put us before an all you can eat buffet, and suddenly our hunger sensor goes on the blink and we eat until we have to loosen our belts...

Shocking Revelation About Overeating and Obesity

19/09/2024

Conventional wisdom about weight gain and obesity has long pointed to what's called the "energy balance model" as a root cause—meaning you're taking in more calories than you burn. But a new perspective published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition challenges that assumption, claiming that it's not how much you eat that leads to weight gain...

Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D for Winter? If Not Here’s How to Fix This

16/09/2024

Vitamin D is often referred to as the sunshine vitamin, and is the vitamin which helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in your body. This in turn keeps our bones, teeth and muscles in good condition, not forgetting that it is really beneficial for protecting your immune system too.

So what happens when the winter months creep in...

5 Moves That Will Work Your Core and Glutes at the Same Time

13/09/2024

Scroll through any digital fitness platform or boutique studio schedule, and you'll be hard-pressed to find one that doesn't have some sort of "Abs and Ass" class on its roster. The reason? These two muscle groups (your glutes and your core) are responsible for so many of the movements that you make in your day-to-day life, and exercises that work...

5 Best Health Benefits of Walking, Says Science

10/09/2024

Want to stress less, sleep better, and possibly live longer? Lace up your sneakers, step outside (or onto a treadmill), and go for a walk. Rinse and repeat 20 minutes daily to reap the most benefits from this super simple form of exercise.

"The mental and physical health benefits of walking are endless," says Christine Torde, CPT of Body Space Fitness in Manhattan...

Should You Be Drinking Lemon Water Before Bed?

07/09/2024

I used to be obsessed with learning the daily rituals of people I admired on the Internet, in the hopes of learning their secrets for luminous skin, workout rituals, and seemingly anxiety-free lives (spoiler alert: Instagram isn’t reality, if you haven’t already heard). In my endless scrolling, it became apparent that pretty much every health influencer cites lemon water...

Diet May Be More Important Than Exercise for Long-Term Weight Control, Evidence Suggests

03/09/2024

Contrary to decades of popular advice, exercise may not be an effective strategy for weight loss, according to Dr. Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University and the author of "Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy."

What Is a Head Cold—And Why Is it Even Called That?

31/08/2024

Ahead cold, which is sometimes called the common cold, can be rough, causing symptoms such as a stuffy nose, sneezing, and a sore throat. Head colds are also—as their alternative name suggests—incredibly common: The US population suffers one billion colds each year, according to the US National Library of Medicine (MedlinePlus)...

5 Signs Your Body Is Missing Key Nutrients

28/08/2024

The body is amazing. Millions of chemical signals are sent throughout the body each day to keep you functioning normally. The body also does a great job providing you, the host, messages about your health as well. Specifically, it tells you when you might be missing something essential from your diet...