There are lots of things that can affect blood pressure, with diet and exercise often dominating the conversation. If you’re a smoker, you’ll probably be told to give it up to avoid an unhealthy blood pressure increase. What’s less talked about is the role hydration can play. Even when hydration is mentioned in the context […]
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Eating a healthy diet is a constant balancing act of figuring out what you should include and what you should leave out. Then there’s the question of whether you need to supplement your diet with additional nutrients, maybe as capsules or powders. Where exactly does organic food fit into all of this? Well, in terms
There are lots of things people do to try to make their exercise more effective. Vitamin supplements (along with minerals and other nutrients) are just one of them. It’s meant to enhance your performance to make you stronger, faster and better. The logic is obvious. Every part of the body needs vitamins to function. Skin,
One of the worst things for any fitness regimen is injury. You’ve just gotten into a good regular routine, you’re starting to see noticeable improvements in your strength, endurance and flexibility, and then it all comes to a crashing halt. You wait, you heal and things start to get better again, but you can’t just
Energy is what gives us the power to keep moving, and it mostly depends on what we eat, how much rest we get, and factors like that. So how do you explain those occasions when you’re suddenly stronger and faster than you’ve ever been before, just for long enough to get you out of an
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Being a top athlete comes with all kinds of physical advantages. You’re stronger, more flexible and can last longer. One thing that may not be talked about as much (unless you already have hypertension) is how it impacts your blood pressure. Hypertension is high blood pressure, which comes with its own health worries, and something
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There are lots of things that can cause problems with mobility. It can be tempting to wave it off as just a natural consequence of aging, but if you make the effort to figure out exactly what causes your stiffness and pain, it’s going to be a lot easier to also figure out the best
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There are lots of things a doctor can analyze when he gives you a blood test, as he often will do when you have something wrong with you, or even when you are getting a regular checkup. One thing you’ll probably dread hearing is that your cholesterol is too high because that means you are
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Concerns about body image often start in childhood and adolescence. Teenagers look at the celebrities they see in magazines or on TV, they listen to the comments on social media, and then when they view themselves, they see only the ways they don’t measure up. This sort of experience can have a powerfully negative effect
Modern society is full of pressure to conform to certain (sometimes unrealistic) beauty standards, and the only thing that the millions of different skincare products available have in common is that they all imply that taking care of your skin in a very specific way is essential. That can cause a lot of anxiety if
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