Lifestyle, food and health articles
(The above title, folks, is as poetic as I get. I apologize for beginning with a parenthetic reference, but I thought you might like to know, or not). Food and our moods are inexorably linked. We know, for example, that when we’re feeling stressed or …
Let me come clean here, I’m having a heck of a time wrapping my mind around the existence of telomeres and their role in our health and the anti-aging process. I just read a medical study on telomeres and how they can be used as …
Along the same lines as the title of this post are: “How to sing like Adele,” How to make love like you were 20 again,” and “How to have more free time and be your own boss.” I jest, of course. Obviously, you can only …
Quite a few things come with age…wisdom, hair in new and unwanted places, and crow’s feet being among them. And I almost forgot, weight gain, usually in the form of that muffin top escaping from the top of your jeans just as a real muffin …
We tend to follow trends and, with regard to diets, this very much holds true. Currently, the new trendy trend among diets is what’s known as the ketogenic, or keto, diet. Look on magazine covers while standing in the grocery checkout lines, diet and/or food …
It’s the most common refrain heard by those seeking to lose weight, “eat less and exercise.” And there’s a very good reason for that. It works. Burn more calories, per day, than you take in and you’ll lose weight. Is it really that simple? Yes …
“She had her drink in her hand. She had her toes in the sand…” (Van Halen, Beautiful Girls). Yes, the beach beckons and you’re answering the call this summer. However, unlike those care-free boys (Beautiful Girls was released in 1979) from Van Halen, you’re older …
OK, you might not currently be classified as a thin person, but that should, in no way, preclude you from thinking like one. In fact, research has shown that it will assist you in becoming one with a little patience and re-configuring how you think …
Or, The Mediterranean Diet: if you don’t know, you better ask someone. For those of you that need to ask, the Mediterranean Diet has been around since the 1960s and stemmed from some research into why people from that region had lower instances of cardiovascular …
Come on, you’ve got a spare 30 minutes (5 minutes to get ready, 20-minute workout and another 5 to cool down) in your day for exercise. Don’t lie to me, and, more importantly, don’t lie to yourself. No one is so busy that they don’t …