I have always envied people with shapely, thin legs – that is because I was born with heavy and big ones and I have never learned to appreciate them, not until I came to know this fact: Thin thighs might actually kill you. Or at least put a strain on your heart.

People with skinny thighs are more likely to develop, and die from, heart disease.

That’s the word from Danish researchers who studied more than 2,800 middle-aged people for up to a dozen years, only to find that those with the slimmest thighs had the highest chance of heart disease and premature death. There was up to twice the risk there…

Battling out the bad habit of taking in nicotine? Struggling for ways to remove the convention of smoking?

I have witnessed a lot of events where my peers would say they would stop smoking and guess what?! They never did. At first, they were all too excited with the products they assumed would help them in removing this habit from their system, but in the long run, they just ended up relapsing, and what’s worse? The habit became worse.

There have been a ton of methods and products out in the market that promise to keep you from burning another stick of nicotine-containing manufactured goods – nicotine patches, nicotine supplements, herbal cigarettes,…

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…