Majority of Americans are unaware of the Department of Health national exercise recommendations. Despite 14 years of educational campaigns, only one-third of Americans know about recommendations for a minimum of 30 minutes of physical activity a day, while fewer than half follow the guideline. Full story

Intense workouts burn fat faster than aerobic exercises, according to Canadian and Brazilian scientists.  Canadian scientists found that despite widespread belief that fats burn down only when the intensity of a workout is 65 percent of the maximum because above that level carbohydrates begin to be consumed, it is as equally healthy to do intense workouts. Full story

The salubrious effects of beetroot juice include its ability to bring down blood pressure, clean the liver and the spleen. Some scientists believe that it has some anti-carcinogenic properties. Full story

The sexiest celebrity on the planet, according to the FHM magazine, Cheryl Cole, 25, the leading singer in the Girls Aloud music band, has a perfect body. However, she decided to follow the Hollywood trend and get steel biceps like Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and Sienna Miller did. Full story

Basically, you can lose weight without going to a plastic surgeon or confining yourself to one of those grueling mainstream diets out there. And how do celebrities make it? The key is doing "outstanding" sports, or to put it more specific, workout commitment. So what kind of sports do celebrities do? Full story

Nowadays, fitness industry can offer a good choice of programs. Fitball is one of them. A big ball used when doing this sort of fitness has the same name. Fitball does not overwork your spine and joints. Exercises can be performed at any age and anyplace, in a well-equipped gym or at home. Learn more about fitball below. Full story

Doing a few simple arm exercises within your fitness routine will help make your hands look fit and graceful. Full story

Many people believe that getting rid of footwear with heels will save feet from problems and pain. But orthopedists couldn’t disagree more on this. They say we need heels for proper function of our feet. The question is how high this heel is supposed to be. So what should be considered when choosing a pair of everyday shoes? Full story

Scientists from the University of San Diego, US, have determined the best physical exercise. They say we have to walk for half an hour every day making 100 steps per minute. Doing this kind of walking every day will provide moderate intensity physical activity, BBC News reports. Full story

Scientists from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh have found promising and simple ways for seniors to stimulate their brain structures, thus improving different types of memory. Full story

Our back doesn't like when we spend a lot of time sitting, standing or walking in upright position. How to keep the back straight without starting to crawl on all fours? We all remember how teachers at school were saying about sitting upright. As we grew older, our colleges advise us to go to a back specialist. Many of us do not take the advice. Later, we wonder at unbalanced shoulders, ribs sticking out abnormally and sharp pains in the back. What can we do about it? Full story

What training is it that burns 500 calories in half an hour, combining aerobics and cardio exercises and working all muscle groups simultaneously? Dancing! In case you don’t know, dancing pumps endorphin into your brain, a hormone that makes us feel happy. Just find what kind of dance appeals to you and enjoy yourself. Full story

Taking care of one’s health becomes a minor issue when financial crisis arrives. Without even noticing it, many of us keep on getting sicker and sicker those days. No matter how sad it may sound, material well-being is often a key factor which determines our lifestyle. Thus, while the saying advises us not to be cheap when dealing with health, economic crisis has noticeably reduced this part of our expenses. In return, this reflected on our quality of life. So, how exactly is crisis affecting our health? Full story

Alarm clock is buzzing. You are trying to open your eyes but your body is crying out for another 5 minutes of sleep. Is that how your morning begins? Feel wake-up throes through the working week? Well, imagine you were a Tibetan monk and try to wake up the way wise hermits do it. Tibetan in-bed exercises energize the whole body, provide a proper energy circulation and get you ready for new achievements at your job. The most exiting thing about this kind of waking up is that it’s simple, healthy and you don’t even have to open your eyes. Full story

Uma Thurman surprised her fellow passengers by doing a yoga routine on a recent flight. The Hollywood celebrity was traveling from New York to Salt Lake City when she began bending and stretching in the aisles. How would you react to someone performing such a thing during the flight? Full story

How come office workers are prone to be overweight? It turns out, that the reason for this is more complicated that mere lack of movements. Glucose is the energy source for our brain cells. Blood glucose levels drop more significantly under heavy brainwork than under physical work. We feel hunger when we are short in glucose, as this way the organism tries to replenish glucose levels. Thus, when we spend a lot of time in front of our computer we tend to spend less calories, but eat more food, therefore we consume more than we spend. This is the main reason why mental work results in excess weight. Full story

Pilates is a well-known and popular around the world exercise system. It was developed by Joseph Pilates more than a century ago and was revived today as one of the fitness trend "Body and Mind". One of the best things about the Pilates is that it works so well for a wide range of people regardless of their age, sex and fitness level. The risk of injury here is very low. Full story

We all want to look beautiful and fit, gain a bit more muscles instead of that fat on side abs and hips. We all want to be healthier and sexier than others. This is why we spend so much time in the gym. But pretty often our efforts don’t end in immediate weight loss and quick fat burn. Why? What do we do wrong? Today we are going to discuss the most common mistakes in the gym that not only hinder your achievements but also can damage your health. Below you will find four most important fitness tips. Full story

Being more physically active means protecting your brain and improve your memory, according to scientists at Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. In their opinion, physical activity stimulates the formation of special agents in the brain which, in their turn, encourage quicker maturation of stem calls into neurons. During the experiment the scientists used running wheel for a group of mice. The mice from the control group were only eating and sleeping. Full story

Your baby grew noticeably bigger, weighing twice as much as at the childbirth. Now that the digestion is working well, your baby is a calm sleeper and the most drastic change – the baby becomes inquisitive about the world. As for moms, they their psyche becomes increasingly vulnerable during the second postpartum trimester. Statistics shows, the second trimester is linked to an increased risk of postpartum depression. Half a year after the childbirth, many women start pondering on their looks and slimming diet opportunities. Full story