Well Being Articles

You can’t go at 100% all the time – doing so can lead to injury, fatigue and plateaus in performance. The key to maintaining progress year-round is to regulate your training intensity, know when to take it easy and when to go all out.

To build muscle you need to lift weights, train hard, eat and rest. Those are the basics, but to step things up to the next level you need to look at the minor details, such as your set and rep schemes.

People who love to eat beef or pork often face a dilemma. While people from the meat industry promote lean red meat as a heart friendly diet, studies show that consuming it is associated with heart diseases and cancers. So what exactly is the truth?

In preparing for this article, I was given full access to a well-known nutritionist's fridge (who for privacy reasons will not be identified here). I looked for nutritional no-no's, but all I found was healthy food.

Don’t fall victim to concentration killers! They're just waiting to distract you from what you really should be doing. Learning to recognize the top ten concentration killers can help you take evasive action and stop them sabotaging your work now.

Carbs are a double edged sword in the nutrition world. Too many of them cause fat gain, but too few and you’ll lack energy and crash your metabolism. The issue over carb consumption gets even trickier when you throw in the issue of carbs at night.

As if we all did not have enough to worry about, increasing volcanic activity around the world poses a serious danger to lung health. You don't have to live in the shadow of a volcano to experience health risk, especially if the explosion is in Iceland.

Allergies and allergy-like complaints such as asthma and eczema have been on the rise since the wide-spread introduction of agricultural pesticides. Changing your water source may be an important intervention to keep your family allergy-free.

If you are celebrating Chanukah this year, you are probably frying your latkes already. But how can you enjoy a healthier, less oily Chanukah?

You might think that men and women need completely different pre and post workout nutrition strategies. Makes sense right? But you could well be wrong.