Summer can be your best friend, your worst enemy or both. I tend to think it’s both. Why do I feel this way? Summer offers many enticing aspects. However, it’s the season that most reminds of the sirens from Homer’s Odyssey. You remember them, right? They were a group of beautiful looking and singing women…
I’ve written, many times, about the benefits of a meal delivery service on this blog. I mean, after all, I work for a meal delivery service so it kinda makes sense. However, I normally write about the convenience, or how it saves time and money, or the variety offered, or how delicious the meals are,…
While not considered an addictive substance in the same category as, say, crack cocaine, crystal meth, or alcohol, for obvious reasons, soda does have addictive qualities. Those addictive qualities stem from two ingredients contained within; sugar and caffeine. Both ingredients release dopamine, the “happy hormone,” within the brain and that’s what gives sugar and caffeine…
We all have them, bad daily habits that contribute to our health issues. And many of those bad habits we are unaware of, which makes them especially nefarious (from my “word of the day” calendar). As I’m sure you’ve heard before, becoming aware of the problem is the first step to eliminating it. So, let’s…
No, I don’t know why anyone would be afraid to ask questions about collagen, but it makes for a good title. Anyway, let’s get started, shall we? It turns out that collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, comprising half the protein within us. It forms long, thin fibrils that act as a…
Yes, eating healthy can be quite a chore. If that’s the case, then the opposite must also be true and that is certainly the case. Eating in an unhealthy manner is incredibly easy thanks to fast food joints on every corner and how convenient and relatively inexpensive it is to buy and prepare processed foods….
In everyone’s small world, your brain is kind of a big deal. You know, it’s responsible for your every thought, memory, emotion and action. That being the case, it behooves oneself to take care of it in any way possible and one of the ways to take care of your brain is to feed it…
29 years, that’s how long the Mature Market Research Center has been raising awareness about the importance of health and fitness among the population’s seniors with a devoted national day. 1993 was the first year this national day was observed, for those math challenged individuals out there, like myself…I had to use my fingers. Background…
So, you say you want to start a regular exercise routine, but you don’t know where or how to start? Well, there’s good news, I’m here to help. What makes me the expert? Well, I’m not. However, I’ve had a regular exercise routine since I was 14 (I’m currently 56), ran cross country and track…
George Washington cut down a cherry tree and then admitted it when questioned rather than tell a lie. Just 300 Spartans held off the entire Persian army at Thermopylae. Christopher Columbus discovered America. Marie Antoinette once said, “Let them eat cake.” when asked what the starving French peasants could eat. Ferdinand Magellan was the first…