Many people are treated today with medication for high blood pressure otherwise known as Hypertension.  But what exactly is blood pressure and how does high blood pressure affect the body?
To begin with, blood pressure is the force in the vessels that carry blood throughout the body when the heart beats and relaxes.

How much fat should we get daily?  To begin with, fat is an essential nutrient.  That means the human body requires it in order to function.  Fat serves us by being a large energy source.  It insulates and protects our body’s organs and is the transport system of certain vitamins.  However, it is not as easy to [...]

Lifting weights to lose weight?  This might not make sense to a lot of people, but it is true.  Losing weight is a combination of eating right (improving the quality of your food choices) and exercise.  More specifically in regards to the exercise, it is more than doing cardiovascular or aerobic workouts to burn the [...]

This recently hit home two weeks ago.  I caught the flu bug for the first time in many years.  So I began to think to myself, should I stay home and rest or go to the gym and sweat it out?  Needless to say, I had trouble just getting out of the house let alone [...]

Our feet take a pounding each and every day.  Yet they are often overlooked in regards to our health.  The foot is an amazing part of our body with 26 bones and over 100 ligaments in each one.  Thus there is a lot there that can be injured.  On average, we take over a million [...]

With the warm weather upon us, many move to the outdoors for exercise.  Staying adequately hydrated is an important factor whether jogging a few miles or playing a pick-up game of basketball.  Any activity that is done in hot weather puts a demand on the body.  To begin, most people are naturally dehydrated.