Massage Therapy: The Good, The Better, The Best

Massage therapy isn’t only an enjoyable way to work out kinks, cramps and stresses – it’s also therapeutically beneficial for improving circulation, enhancing muscle tone, aiding digestion, and boosting your immune system. Massage therapy is considered to be a...

Exercise to Prevent Diabetes

Diabetes can be a terrible word to hear coming out of a doctor’s mouth.  Diabetes means constant monitoring of blood sugar, painful testing many times each day, worries about your health and circulation, and even death if it is not monitored very carefully.  The good...

Looking Good and Feeling Terrible The High-Heeled Dilemma

Paul Chek Have you ever noticed that your feet, back and/or neck hurt after wearing high-heeled shoes to work, but not on the weekend while in flats? Yes it’s true, there is a connection. The body is beautifully designed with a fully functional, durable, shock...

What Causes Sore Muscles

I’m sure you have had it happen to you before – you do strenuous work or exercise and wake up the next morning with muscle soreness. Even when you didn’t hurt the night before, you may be experiencing something known as DOMS, or Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. Whatever...

How the BMI (Body Mass Index) is Wrong and Outdated

Do you remember when the body mass index charts first came out? People wanted to know if they’d be considered overweight and unhealthy so they took out their calculators to find out.  Many, especially athletes were shocked to learn they were labeled obese. Some of...

The Best foods to Eat to Build Muscle Fast…

1. Organic Beef Organic Beef contains lots of CLA (or conjugated linoleic acid) which is basically a fat that helps you burn fatbut many studies show how CLA helps you gain muscle mass – for example… According to one study a group of men who took only 5g of CLA...