When you think about the fact that about half of those who quit smoking return to it at some point, and even those who haven't smoked for years still get the odd craving - it's not difficult to understand that staying off the weed can be harder than quitting smoking in the first place.  Nonetheless - if you're really serious about anti-aging and want to make sure your skin stays supple and toned - stay off the weed you must!

Read more

In the United States alone, more than 2,600 people die of cardiovascular disease every day. That's one death every 33 seconds and most of those can be attributed to 'the silent killer' - high blood pressure.

So what is high blood pressure and how do you control it?

Read more

Hypertension is reaching epidemic proportions and you might be part of it. The World Health Organization has predicted that there will be a 60 percent increase in the number of adults with hypertension over the next twenty years. That's a lot of people and a frightening figure.

Read more

Even hardened smokers must by now be aware of the damage smoking will do to their skin - but how many smokers realize that smoking also contributes to sagging skin where they may least want it - on breasts and bottoms?

Dr Thomas Stuttaford, medical coloumnist for The Times, London reported this week on the terrible damage smoking does to the body's connective tissue:

Read more

If you haven't tried a core exercise program yet - here's a few free exercises you can have a go at without calling in a personal trainer. 

One of the best things about a core exercise routine is that you can do it for free in the comfort of your own home. All you need for a core exercise routine is a fitness ball and somewhere soft like a carpeted floor or a mat and you're ready to go.

So core exercise can be one of the easiest forms of fitness training to fit into your schedule - however busy you are.  Even better - in conjunction with a healthy diet - core exercises really help shift those stubborn areas of abdominal flab.

Read more

Many of us now know the importance of core strength training for dealing with abdominal flab and preventing back problems. We hunt for the best core exercise program on the web without realizing that the solution may lie in a familiar activity that we haven't even considered as core exercise - swimming.

Read more

Do "stressed out" parents produce stressed out kids? According to psychiatrists there is a link. Parental stress places the child at a great risk of becoming stressed as well. 

Besides the genetic risk of becoming stressed, children of stressed parents also learn the tendency to get stressed out in reaction to life's challenges and this is copied directly from our parents.
Read more