Has anyone ever told you it’s tough getting older? Well, it is. There’s this thing called joint pain that many of us suffer from, it comes in many forms and can be annoying at best and debilitating at worst. It might start early or late, but it will eventually come. It may sneak up on you, it may manifest because you moved wrong, but pain, stiffness and soreness happen, to everyone. Whether it’s a nagging knee pain, a neck pain or a lower back, joint pain is common and affect

Fat. It’s just there, always on your mind, always tampering with an outfit that you want to wear. You check how you look in the mirror, and you don’t like what you see. Magazines and online searches tell you to take one supplement after another to get rid of it, you fail again, disappointing. You try dieting. This diet and that diet, nothing seems to work for you, even exercise. Let’s face it, fat sucks. And it’s unhealthy to have too much of it. So what do you do? How do y

Ernestine Shepherd is 78 years old and in 2010 was declared the World’s Oldest Performing Body Builder. Today Shepherd can be seen sporting a flat stomach, toned arms, and exceptional health. Unfortunately, it wasn’t always this way. Many, many years ago Shepherd and her sister, Mildred, were trying on swimsuits at a store. Not liking what they saw, they both decided to get in shape together. This idea never came to fruition until Shepherd was 56 years old, when her sister Mi

Imagine that we are walking along a hiking path, enjoying nature, thinking good thoughts, and suddenly, we hear a rustle in the bushes. Our body thinks, bear (or in Paleo times saber toothed tiger-Oh my). Either way, the hike is ruined along with your underwear and you are now faced with a decision. Is it Bambi or is it a bear? Do I need to run or not. What you are experiencing is called a stressor. At the same time we are hearing the rustle in the bushes a complex hormonal c

When choosing to diet you are often left with more questions than answers. How do I lose weight, how do I choose the right things to do, and what is the best thing to do? The problem is that hundreds of diets, books, supplements, drinks and other methods exist but relatively few have been carefully studied. They include very low-fat diets such as the Ornish and Pritikin diets; low-carbohydrate diets, such as Atkins, Paleo, South Beach; and the Mediterranean diet, which has th

Ever wonder where fat goes when it gets burned? I mean, if you want to lose fat, shouldn’t you understand how it is burned in your body? Many people think you only burn fat during aerobic or cardiovascular exercise. Some people believe that fat is only used as a fuel for energy, especially when you lower your caloric intake to force the body into using those fat stores as fuel to replace the energy no longer eaten. Some believe it’s excreted through the urine or feces, while

If you care about your health and are truly working to keep your weight down, then you need to know the truth about calories as well as the substances that distort how calories work in your body. Let’s face it, diet myths are abound in the health industry, especially the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry. Perhaps the biggest myths of all is the idea that you need to balance your calories in versus your calories out, otherwise called the energy balance theory. But are