Food is the most important single factor in connection with attainment and maintenance of health. Every drop of blood in the body is conditioned by the food we eat and it is blood that every tissue, every organ, every gland, and indeed every function of the body fundamentally depends on. The function of food is to supply the body with the materials necessary for the growth, maintenance, repair and...

The idea is that you should have in your corner, a certain minimum level of fitness for the daily requirements of life. And, if you have taken heed and acted on it, you are already - or well on the way to getting - fit.

Mental illness is not just an affliction that you are born with; mental illnesses can develop over time, whether as something that was predestined to occur or as an illness that develops over time. While some mental illnesses are certainly not generally found in young people, like Alzheimer's disease, others such as depression can strike as early as childhood and mental illnesses like ADHD, though...

As their kids head back to school, many parents pledge to take advantage of their family's new fall schedule by adding a daily workout to their routine.

The maternal instincts of a woman arise almost entirely from the female hormones within her body. These hormones are produced in a pair of almond-shaped organs, known as the ovaries. They are situated deep within the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus or womb.

Fat stored in the body can be made from any food component - carbohydrates, proteins or fats. When food is eaten, it travels to the stomach and intestines. Enzymes break down food into glucose, amino-acids and minute droplets of fats. The fats travel to the liver and are processed to form fatty acids and glycerol. From the liver, the fatty-acids enter circulation where they are broken down further...

How many times have you made the excuse that you do not have time to eat healthy, exercise, or even get control of your finances? I admit that I am guilty of doing this; especially with the things I am not crazy about in the first place. One of the biggest reasons for our “lack of time” is the TV. A recent study done by Nielson shows that the average American household now has more TVs than...

Extreme fitness can help you in a variety of ways. If you are a bodybuilder, it can help you get ripped while you gain lean mass. If you want to step up your cardio, extreme fitness can help you become aerobically superior. But there are more benefits.

Bad health and depression are the types of problems that affect almost everyone at some stage of their lives. Both can be caused by many different reasons but they can also, for the most part, be avoided by keeping our physical fitness in top shape.

How to choose weight training equipment based on space, experience and budget. Once you have made the decision to invest in weight training equipment for your home gym, the next step is to determine which kind of equipment to buy.

Warm up exercises should be fun and specific to your activity. Find out how to create your best warm up and prevent injury.

Create sport-specific warm-up and cool-down activities that accomplish physical and psychological readiness prior to instruction.

Essential for normal growth and development including bones and teeth, it protects body from disease, especially the respiratory tract. Necessary for good sight, healthy skin and body tissue repair in general

Vitamins are substances of relatively simple chemical structure, no more mysterious than an Aspirin tablet or a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate. The chemist can draw a very accurate picture of a vitamin molecule. Yet experts have great difficulty in defining vitamins as a group.

Virgin is a person who has not had sexual intercourse. The term refers mostly to a woman, but should apply to both the sexes. On the first wedding night when the husband inserts his penis in his wife’s vagina, she is supposed to bleed due to the tear of the hymen situated at the entrance of vagina. The myth is that if she does not bleed, she is not supposed to be a virgin. T