HIIT It, Boomer!
In the world of fitness, HIIT means High Intensity Interval Training. HIIT is popular because it works. It shuffles aside all that blah, blah, blah information and gets down to the nitty gritty of what you want: to get fit.
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Featured Articles
Dealing with Caregiver Stress
Caregivers have a tendency to try to do everything themselves. No one, they tend to believe, will provide care as well as they do. But in fact, no one person can ever meet every need of another human being. It is just not possible.
The Hidden Hazard of Salt
Not too much of it—too little of it. In many ways, it’s this simple: without salt, you die; with it you can thrive. Controversy remains about the best level of sodium in our bodies, so don’t assume a low sodium diet is necessarily best for you.
The Perfect Nap
Naps are back in the news. Air traffic controllers, pilots, truck drivers, and your average citizen are falling asleep in droves – with sometimes fatal results. For a chronically sleep deprived population, can naps restore and rebuild? Yes.
Necessary Endings
Endings are a necessary part of life. Despite their inevitability, most of us face endings with a sense of regret, anger, and even fear. But to move forward, we sometimes have to give up relationships, businesses, and more to make room for the new.
Evaluating Home Health Care
For those who want to age at home, having a good plan for the future in place is important. This may allow the aging adult to enjoy the comforts of home for as long as possible. You may no longer need to stay in a nursing home to receive good care.
Put Down the Phone
The National Safety Council estimates that 28% of car crashes, about 1.6 million a year, are due to drivers using cell phones to talk or text. That means 10,000 deaths each year. How do you prevent this carnage? Ban cell phone use. Then enforce the laws.
Strike A Pose
If your car’s wheels are out of alignment, you’ll feel the pull. Same with your body. Once you teach it what good posture feels like, it doesn’t want to sway, sink, slouch, or slump. But It doesn’t get done to you. You have the work to do.
Waking At Night
Perhaps it’s the effect of a crashed economy, soaring gas prices, upheaval in the Middle East, blown up nuclear reactors or Charlie Sheen, but people are waking up a lot these days in the middle of the night. Frequently they can’t fall back to sleep.
How to Bounce Back
When faced with chronic illness, do you rise to the challenge or fall apart? Resilience is the ability to roll with the punches, to bounce back. It involves adapting to change and addressing life’s problems constructively—and discovering opportunities.
