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By The Mayo Clinic   You know exercise is good for you, but do you know how good? From boosting your mood to improving your sex life, find out how exercise can improve your life. Want to feel better, have more energy and perhaps even live longer? Look no further than exercise. The health benefits of regular exercise and physical activity are hard to ignore. And the benefits of exercise are yours for the taking, regardless of your age, sex or physical ability. Need more convincing to exercise? Check out these seven ways exercise can improve your life. No. 1: Exercise controls … [Read more...] about Exercise: 7 Benefits of regular physical activity

  By Mayo Clinic staff November is National Lung Cancer Screening Month and thepurpose of this article is to provide a knowledge base on Lung Cancer and its risk factors. Definition: Lung cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the lungs. Your lungs take in oxygen when you inhale and release carbon dioxide when you exhale. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, among both men and women. Lung cancer claims more lives each year than do colon, prostate, ovarian and breast cancers combined. People who smoke have the greatest risk of lung cancer. The risk of … [Read more...] about Lowdown on Lung Cancer

Find out how much sodium you really need, what high-sodium foods to avoid, and ways to prepare and serve foods without adding salt or sodium. By Mayo Clinic staff You've been trying to eat less sodium — just a pinch of table salt on your baked potato and a dash on your scrambled eggs. But a pinch here and a dash there can quickly add up to unhealthy levels of sodium. Consider that just one teaspoon of table salt has 2,325 milligrams (mg) of sodium. And it's not just table salt you have to worry about. Many processed and prepared foods already contain lots of sodium — and it's these foods … [Read more...] about Sodium: How to tame your salt habit now

  Now the minute I put Menopause in the headline most men mentally checked out from this article, however we should be reading this so that we are aware of changes in our significant other and ways to help. Menopause is defined as the transition period in a women's life where her ovaries stop producing eggs, her body produces less estrogen and progesterone, and menstration becomes less frequent, eventually stopping altogether.  This natural event typically takes place between the ages of 45 and 55. Symptoms are caused by the change in estrogen and progesterone levels and can vary from … [Read more...] about Menopause: The Game Changer

  The roots of yoga date back to about 3,000 B.C., where archaeologists found stone seals that depict figures of  yoga poses on them. Some scholars however believe that yoga dates back much farther in history to which they believe its beginnings started in the Stone Age Shamanism. The effort to improve human condition exists in both Shamanism and Yoga alike. The practioners of both also act as religious mediators and aim to heal community members. Although today most people view yoga as focusing more on the self it started out as more community oriented.  There are about four different … [Read more...] about Yoga the past, present, and the future

  Diabetes mellitus Type II (non-insulin dependent diabetes) is a long-term metabolic disorder that is characterized by insulin resistance, relative insulin deficiency, and hyperglycemia. The diet most frequently recommended for individuals with this type of diabetes is one consisting of high fiber especially soluble and low in fat and sugar. Patients are usually encouraged to reduce the amount of high glycemic index food that they consume. However in the case of hyperglycemia, patients are encouraged to have food or beverages that raise blood glucose quickly. Then they should consume a … [Read more...] about Got Diabetes??

  Do you have difficulty falling asleep at night? Once you get to sleep, do you wake up frequently? Do you feel lethargic in the morning? Are you drowsy by midafternoon and unable to stay alert as you go about your day? If you answered yes to one of these questions, you may be one of the millions of people who are chronically sleep deprived and not even aware of it! To get better sleep, try these insights from Susan B. Sterling, EdD, vice president and director of education and certification at the Cooper Institute in Dallas. Downsides to Sleep Deprivation Most people are unaware of … [Read more...] about Be Sleep Smart

  A popular myth is that there is a specific range of heart rates in which you must exercise to burn fat. Even many cardio machines display a “fat-burning zone” on their panels, encouraging people to exercise in a specific heart rate range. Have you ever wondered if you really have to exercise in a specific heart rate zone to lose fat? And what happens if you venture out of that zone? Jason R. Karp, PhD, a nationally recognized speaker, writer and exercise physiologist who coaches recreational runners to Olympic hopefuls through his company, RunCoachJason.com, sheds light on this … [Read more...] about Myths and Facts of burning Fat