Gender Barriers Strength training is a type of exercise that involves combatting external resistance (e.g. lifting weights) to build muscles. Typically, the number of male weightlifters will significantly outnumber the number of female weightlifters at the gym. Many women hesitate…
Category: Health
A Guide to Understanding Food Labels
Consumers will often rely on food labels to navigate their local grocery stores and make informed purchasing decisions. However, product labels can be very confusing; this is due, at least in part, to oft-used and ill-defined phrases that include Organic,…
18 Ways to Destress
Stress is often seen as a negative effect on the body, but it is very essential to life. It is the “fight or flight” system that is naturally part of our survival system. Stress is bad when it overwhelmingly impacts…
Black Pepper: an Underrated Superfood
A Common Household Condiment is Actually Great for Health Black pepper is often overlooked by many people, but a few dabs over your dinner can actually pack quite the health ‘punch.’ As a native of India, black pepper is derived…
Why Proper Sleep is Essential For Health
Proper Sleep and Health Sleep has been an active area of research for the past several decades, with its mysteries and roles in human health still not fully elucidated. What is clearly know, however, is that sleep is absolutely critical…
The Health Benefits of Man’s Best Friend
Furry Friends with Benefits For thousands of years, dogs have been domesticated and bred to have qualities humans deemed suitable–a literal transformation from wild animal to man’s best friend. They are our companions, friends, family, and service dogs. That feeling…
Does Spicy Food Cause Ulcers?
Myth: Spicy food causes peptic ulcers. One of society’s most pervasive myths is that spicy food causes peptic ulcers in the gastrointestinal tract. Fact: Helicobacter pylori and painkillers causes peptic ulcers. Prior to 1982, the common belief was that bacteria…
Supplements: a Curative or Preventive Measure?
Many consumers will take vitamin, mineral, or any of the myriad other available supplements to either battle or prevent disease. According to recent surveys, more than half of Americans consider themselves regular supplement users, ballooning the burgeoning industry’s profits to…
Fat Fights Fat? How Brown Fat Battles Obesity
As it turns out, increasing certain types of fat can actually help burn fat. The body stores two types of fat, distinguished visually only by color, but biochemically by a complex ecosystem of metabolic machinery with big implications for overall…
How Does Sugar Affect the Brain?
Satisfying sweet tooth cravings are notoriously hard to ignore, but recent research offers one more motivational push to pass on those chocolate-chip cookies and Snickers bars. A new study has linked sugar to side-effects outside the realm of diabetes and…