Healthy Living

Your fitness doesn’t have to go downhill as you get older. In fact, technology can make it easier for seniors to live a healthy lifestyle.

Mushrooms aren’t exactly the most popular vegetable around. Actually, they’re not a vegetable at all. They’re classified as fungi and behind their acquired, earthy taste lies a host of health and wellness benefits. If mushrooms aren’t really your thing, you might want to reconsider because they’re packed with vitamins and minerals that will improve your overall health.

When was the last time you took stock of how you’ve been treating your body? Sometimes you start living on autopilot, not paying attention to the food you’re eating, your environment, or even your thoughts. And before you know it, your body can start showing signs that it’s been accumulating unwanted toxins.

As we are full force in swimsuit season, it’s hard not to notice how a lot of marketing and advertising focuses on new health foods and other tools to help make losing weight easy. Throughout history, doctors, trainers, and all sorts of other health care workers — professional and otherwise — have tried to come up with the one definitive diet that can help everyone shed pounds and sculpt their bodies into a lean and trim shape.

Dehydration is the cause of more maladies than just feeling a bit light headed in the sun, and hydration is the route to many more benefits than you had probably realized. After all, water makes up 75 percent of the human body and is found “inside cells, within blood vessels, and between cells.” Headaches, anxiety, constipation, and tiredness can all be the result of dehydration and solved by drinking more water.

The United States market is flooded with beauty products as it’s one of the biggest industries in the country (you’re probably familiar with companies like Estée Lauder, Johnson and Johnson, L’Oréal, and Procter & Gamble), but did you know there is a whole world of beauty companies with unique products to discover?

For many parents, August is just one long lead up to the beginning of school, which can be stressful if you have a new student in the family, or just a kid prone to worrying about new things. Starting school can be a fun experience — you just have to plan ahead, and know what will help your child succeed in a new grade, or even a new school.

If you’re a parent, summer can be a trying time — keeping up with little ones full-time in the hot sun and dealing with frayed tempers due to heat exhaustion and humidity can make anyone frazzled. If you’re a new parent, chances are you’ve heard a lot of different advice on how to deal with babies in the summer, and the best ways to protect their delicate skin from damaging sun exposure.

Today, more people than ever before are working from home, working part time, or working in gigantic office buildings with gorgeous yet impractical open floor plans. All of these unusual working conditions often makes it hard to get anything done. There are ways that you can maximize your productivity and focus your attention on the task at hand. All it takes is a little bit of effort in finding what works for you.

An inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s is comprised of an immune reaction regarding an individual’s intestinal tract. When it comes to the illness, the small intestine tends to be inflamed, which makes it difficult to absorb important nutrients from food, thus interfering with digestion.