Archive for January, 2010

  • Quitting Smoking: Finally Kicking the Habit? Quitting Smoking: Finally Kicking the Habit?

    If one of your goals this year is to quit smoking you couldn't do anything better for your health. As you probably already know quitting is far from easy. Tobacco is the most addictive drug in the world, and nicotine is one of the strongest stimulants known. Several of the most successful methods...

  • Pesticide Guide: The Dirty Dozen and The Clean Fifteen Pesticide Guide: The Dirty Dozen and The Clean Fifteen

    Are you interested in lowering pesticide exposure in your diet but you aren’t sure where to start? The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health has produced a guide that can help you get started. Based on the analy...

  • Fitting in Health & Fitness When Your Life is Jam-Packed: Part 1 Fitting in Health & Fitness When Your Life is Jam-Packed: Part 1

    Another evening of mottled sleep leaves you wandering around like a strained zombie? Deadlines at work are looming, yet more keeps piling on your plate? When these are your primary experiences, it’s a challenge to make time for exercise and healthy eating. Does your work life stretch you thin a...

  • Ripped to the Core Workout Ripped to the Core Workout

    A six-pack may turn heads, but unless you have a strong group of deep-core muscles you'll never develop a complete midsection. With Fitness Goop's Ripped to the Core program you will get a workout that will strengthen your transverse abdominals and the deep muscles of the core, plus some favorite mo...

  • Featured Recipe: High Energy Oatmeal Featured Recipe: High Energy Oatmeal

    Here is a healthy and simple way to make a hearty breakfast before going to the gym or a 10k run. You can prepare this in a slow cooker in the evening and wake up to a bowl of tasty, hot oatmeal. Make sure to use steel-cut oats; if you use the old-fashioned type the consistency of the oatmeal will b...

  • New Year New You? New Year New You?

    Nothing like a new year to make us dust off our dreams of long-desired transformation! If this is the year you decide to turn those dreams into a plan, there are a couple of researchers you may want to meet. Their names are Prochaska and DiClemente, and together they have spent more than 30 years st...

  • Motivating Yourself Out of the Holiday Fog Motivating Yourself Out of the Holiday Fog

    New years’ resolutions can be exciting and powerful, but sometimes they’re just lip service. Lip service to ourselves that we promise to get back on track once the holidays are over and life returns to normal. Sometimes words aren’t enough. Stating goals and writing them down are an important ...

  • Job Loss and Emotional Distress Job Loss and Emotional Distress

    One way to visualize emotional equilibrium – that much sought-after sense of “balance” – is as a literal scale or balance.  The weight on one side is made up of two factors: your individual vulnerability to distress, and the stressors presently in your life. The counterbalance is made up o...

  • Is Gluten Sabotaging Your Health? Is Gluten Sabotaging Your Health?

    According to new research from the Mayo Clinic, Celiac Disease affects approximately 1 in 100 people. When individuals with Celiac Disease consume gluten, which is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley, the absorptive surface of the small intestine is damaged. This greatly decreases the body’s...

  • Which Female Celebrity was the Fittest in 2009? Which Female Celebrity was the Fittest in 2009?

    January 2010 has arrived and we at Fitness Goop wanted to let you decide who was the fittest female celebrity of 2009. We have selected a group of females that we feel reflects what it means to be fit and healthy through proper nutrition and working out regularly. Which female celebrity do you f...

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