Fitness

Top 10 Calcium Rich Foods (Photos)

Top 10 Calcium Rich Foods (Photos)

Your bones and your waistline will reap the benefits. Calcium helps you lose weight, studies show. “Really exciting research shows that if you get three servings of dairy daily, you’re not only preventing osteoporosis, but you’re enhancing weight loss,” says Dietitian Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD, LD. However, that research has only involved dairy projects, she adds. “It seems there is a synergistic relationship between protein and calcium. Eating other calcium-rich foods, like collards, won’t do…

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14 Home Remedies for Arthritis & Joint Pain

14 Home Remedies for Arthritis & Joint Pain

We take the freedom of movement for granted, until it becomes limited. The cause of this for many people comes in the form of arthritis, or the inflammation of one or more of your joints. There are two main kinds, osteo and rheumatoid, both of which affect the joint in different ways. Osteo arthritis is when the cartilage between bones wears down, until bone grates on bone. Rheumatoid is little less straightforward, being caused by…

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Two Easy Exercises to Lose Belly Fat

Two Easy Exercises to Lose Belly Fat

Losing belly fat is a hectic job and you would have tried several ways until now. But here are the relatively easy ways to lose belly fat. So let’s get started 1. Air Bicycle Crunches: Lie straight down on the floor in a ways that your legs touch straight to floor. Put palms of both hands under your head and lift them in a way that your right arm elbow touches your left knee and…

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5 Bodybuilding Laws That Should Not Be Broken

5 Bodybuilding Laws That Should Not Be Broken

1. Lift and Obey Working hard in the gym is a commandment that should never be broken. But there’s a clear difference between working hard in the gym, thrashing your muscles into submission with no clear strategy, and approaching training like a pro. Here are some great tips that you should add to your routine to see some dramatic results. 2. Volume Is Your Friend Training volume is something that not everyone would advocate. With…

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Fattoush Salad Recipe

Fattoush Salad Recipe

Salad Ingredients: 2 cups romaine lettuce, torn 2 tomatoes 1 green pepper 2 small cucumbers, peeled 3 green onions, minced 15 mint leaves chopped, or:1 tbsp dried mint 1/4 cup chopped parsley 2 tbsp chopped purslane or chickweed (optional) 1 to 2 cups pita bread, torn into pieces Salad Method: Cut the vegetables into bite sizes. If no dry bread is on hand split loaves of Arab bread by separating the top and bottom of…

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3 Reasons Your Workouts are Failing

3 Reasons Your Workouts are Failing

Not getting the results you want from your hard work at the gym? Here are a few primary culprits. In your endless hunt for the end-all solution to weight loss, muscle building, and fat burning, you are likely bombarded by hundreds of different methods claiming to be “The One” that will make all the difference. However, in order to find the type of workout and wellness plan that will change your body in all the…

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20 Reasons You should Drink Lemon Water in the Morning

20 Reasons You should Drink Lemon Water in the Morning

Adding lemon to water not only quenches thirst better than any other beverage, but it also nourishes our body with vitamins, minerals and trace elements which we absolutely need. Lemon with water can be considered the best natural energy booster. When we wake up in the morning, our bodily tissues are dehydrated and are in need of water to push out toxins and rejuvenate the cells. In other words, this homemade “lemonade” helps eliminate internal…

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No Equipment, No Time? How to Get in a Great Workout

No Equipment, No Time? How to Get in a Great Workout

You know you are gaining weight, the gym card is right in your wallet. But, who has the time to go to the gym when you have to prepare for your meeting, make the presentation, look after your kids or do homework? The first thing that goes off the ‘daily to-do’ list for most people is the gym visit or at least exercising somewhere, somehow. We all know that going to the gym keeps you…

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7 Hardest Ab Exercises

7 Hardest Ab Exercises

Think you have a hard core? Prove it! These 7 midsection-mangling moves are some of the most advanced on the planet. They’ll help strengthen your torso from a variety of angles and in a variety of ways so you’ll be ready for all the movements initiated by your core. 1. Dragon Flag Lie faceup on a bench and grab the bench next to your ears so that your elbows are bent and your upper arms…

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اگر آپ پر سکون نیند کے خواہشمند ہیں تو ان پانچ عادات سے فوری چھٹکارا پا لیں

اگر آپ پر سکون نیند کے خواہشمند ہیں تو ان پانچ عادات سے فوری چھٹکارا پا لیں

اگر آپ کو رات کو نیند نہیں آتی یا سوتے میں آنکھ کھل جاتی ہے تو آپ مندرجہ ذیل مشوروں پر عمل کریں تو آپ کو پرسکون نیند آئے گی۔ رات دیر سے کھانے سے پرہیز اگر آپ رات کو دیر تک کھانا کھانے کے عادی ہیں تو فوراًاس عادت سے نجات حاصل کریں۔ ماہرین صحت کا کہنا ہے کہ ہم جب رات کو دیر سے کھانا کھاتے ہیں تو معدے میں تیزابیت پیدا ہونے…

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