Health Poll: Do you measure being healthy by your weight?

Do you measure being healthy by your weight

In North American pop culture, we associate shame and lack of self control with extra flesh. Yet, quite simply that’s all that extra weight is. More flesh. The fact is that a body will respond to factors in life regardless of self-control. If you have an injury and can no longer maintain physical activity, weight… [Read Full Story]

Ask The Expert: Healthy and Fit Travelling Tips

Ask The Expert Healthy and Fit Travelling Tips

Ask The Expert is a health & fitness advice column. If you have a question for one of our Fitness Goop experts, please email info@fitnessgoop.com. This question was asked by Jennifer from Vancouver B.C, Canada. My work requires that I travel and spend time away from home. I am finding it very difficult staying healthy… [Read Full Story]

Personal Health: How Healthy Do You Think You Are?

Personal Health

More than 45 million Americans now belong to a health club, and $19 billion a year is spent on gym memberships. Unfortunately, some people will join a gym, but never make it through the front door. Still, as one major study – the Minnesota Heart Survey – found, more of us at least say we… [Read Full Story]

Don’t Worry, Be Healthy

Don’t Worry, Be Healthy

Have you ever been so busy or stressed that you simply forgot to eat? How is it possible that our bodies are capable of ‘forgetting’ something as vitally important as sending us a signal to nourish ourselves? The answer is elaborately simple. Our autonomic nervous system, which controls our bodies internal environment consists of two… [Read Full Story]