Wanting to live longer?

Proper diet, regular exercise, healthy lifestyle – these are some things that you need to watch out for in order for you to attain longevity.

But who has all the time in this world to meticulously keep an eye on all these health habits? I, for one, don’t have the time to keep up with all these healthiness. I don’t even like exercising – not because I’m lazy, but because I hate the feeling of sweating.

Now, for all those people like me, hear me. Hear this good news:

A new study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, which took place between 1986 and 2006, almost 4,400…

“Health” is a very big word. It is vague and there are a lot of words that may define this single yet equivocal vigour term.

At the time of the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1948, Health was defined as being “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

Achieving health and remaining healthy is an ongoing process.  Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one’s health include the following elements:

1. Social Activity

2. Hygiene

3. Stress management

4. Health care

If you think of ways to stay healthy, and there are plentiful ways, you may only get more stressed than ever figuring…

First things first, what do we know about Constipation? Do we know enough to treat it right? Now, to give you a quick start, let me give you the meaning of constipation, a Registered Nurse’s way.

Constipation, costiveness, or irregularity is a condition of the digestive system in which a person (or animal) experiences hard feces that are difficult to expel. This usually happens because the colon absorbs too much water from the food. If the food moves through the gastro-intestinal tract too slowly, the colon may absorb too much water, resulting in feces that are dry and hard.

With this definition, let’s unravel treatments that are not only safe but are…

Have you ever heard of the word Orthorexia? As far as I can remember I have only heard of two eating disorders – Anorexia and Bulimia. And it’s so intriguing to know that there is another term that adds to this famous eating disorders list – Orthorexia. It is not yet an official medical diagnosis, and it is not yet listed in the DSM-IV.

Orthorexia or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined in 1997 by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, to denote an eating disorder characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. In rare cases, this focus may turn into a fixation or obsession so extreme that it can lead…

Kidney stones are usually caused by accumulated salts in one’s system.  The underlying cause of this could be your frequent snacking on Lay’s or infrequent drinking of water or both.  When you don’t get enough fluids in a day, your body cannot flush out your waste products inside.  There is a certain level of every electrolyte in our blood that must be maintained.  With adequate hydration, the excesses are passed to maintain balance.

Too much or too less is not good for our bodies.  However, to avoid kidney stones, there is another effective way aside from increased oral fluid intake:  Get into the DASH diet–short for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.

So,…

Wouldn’t it be nice if you grow old together with your spouse and still know each other’s names by the time you hit the age of 60 or more?  Sometimes, that could be the sweetest thing, considering the fact that you become more at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease at around that age.  So to keep your love story going on, take measures to keep Alzheimer’s at bay.  If you have not taken on a healthy lifestyle yet, here’s another reason to start a healthy diet and a regular exercise program.

A study of 1,800 people in their seventies, undertaken by Columbia University, found that diet and exercise are both factors in…

It is imperative that you stay awake at work lest you get fired.  With the many expenses of every family nowadays, no one can survive without a paycheck unless she’s an heir of some million-dollar company.  But the rich are few; many are on the average-earning ground if not below average.  So for most of us who cannot afford to lose our jobs, let us invest in our health by taking healthy measures to stay awake while on duty.

Ditch the coffee habit or anything else that’s super high in sugar.  Their effects are short-term and the risk of developing substance dependency is high with these types of wake-uppers.  Not only…