joe, Author at Health Habits

5 Educational Health Games for Students

It is important to engage students in health and wellness education through dynamic methods. A review game is an excellent tool for reinforcing knowledge and making learning enjoyable. By turning health concepts into interactive and competitive activities, students can absorb information more effectively and develop a practical understanding of how to apply these concepts in their daily lives. Below, we explore five educational health games for various age groups. Each game is designed to review students’ …

Weight Loss

Interesting Diet Trends to Take Note Of

Whether you’re looking into dieting for health reasons, weight loss, or just for a general lifestyle change, there’s no question that dieters today are faced with more diet choices and trends compared to decades ago. However, studies suggest that as many as 95% of dieters eventually regain weight. Research also found that even with a similar amount of weight loss, dieters who lost weight gradually as opposed to rapidly reported greater reductions in body fat …

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Exercise Tips for the Next Normal

You may have heard that exercise saves lives, and well, that is true — literally! Exercise is crucial in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but it is even more important in the midst of the pandemic, as it can prevent severe symptoms should infection occur. In fact, a recently published study by the British Journal of Sports Medicine revealed worrying, but not surprising, news: COVID-19 patients who were inactive for the two years before their diagnosis were more likely to be …

Fitness

Simple Fitness How-To’s

Want to start pumping that iron, but you’re not sure where to start? Ready to try out yoga but don’t know what the hell the tree pose is? Don’t worry; we’re here for you. Check out our list of some easy exercises using your home roman chair and how you can do them so that you can get started on that weight loss and fitness journey:
Bicep Curls
Set your feet under your hips and grab the weights with your palms facing forward. Lift the weights toward your shoulders while bending your arms. Lower the weights …

Weight Loss

A Brief Food Prep Guide

Dietary success does not come from willpower or meal plans. Instead, it comes about with a proper habit and mindset. The most important foundational habit is to keep the right food around you and always make it readily available. Setting up the kitchen counter with recommended appliances from the experts will help immensely. This is what’s known as food prep. Here’s how you can go about it:
Step One: Planning
Before you go shopping, make a list of what you need. The key to this is to determine the foods you enjoy, foods that fit your health plan, and foods that you can …

Weight Loss

Losing Weight Through Calorie Restrictions

Calorie restrictions are kind of controversial. With social media influencing a large part of most people’s daily lives, tight bodies will still be there, but eating disorders and mental health issues are still genuine concerns. Just saying the word “restriction” invokes visceral stress responses in many folks who have been battling and struggling with weight fluctuations and diets over the years. But that trend quickly stopped when experts stepped in.
Strategic caloric restrictions can be good for both …

Weight Loss

Frozen Veggies Are Just as Good

You were probably encouraged to eat your veggies when you were a child, right? Despite this early emphasis on the importance of eating vegetables, most kids and grownups alike fail to ingest the daily recommendations of nutrients your body needs.
Are Frozen Vegetables Less Nutritious Than Fresh Ones?
There’s really no concrete evidence out there that can fully support such claims. A lot of the “fresh” veggies available to you have most likely spent a couple of days in transit. They lose more nutrients the longer they stay in transit. Chemicals are sprayed on these …

Fitness

Boosting Your Metabolism Using Exercise

Your body’s metabolism is all the stuff it does to transform food into energy so that it can keep going. Some folks have faster metabolism rates than others. A couple of things that can either make your metabolism sluggish or speedy include things that are out of your control, such as your genes, sex, and age.
That said, muscle cells often require plenty of energy. This translates to them burning quite a lot of calories as well. Challenging your muscles will help you boost your metabolism, and this can be done in two ways:
Increasing Your Exercise Routines
All …

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Weight Loss and Exercise

If you want to lose weight, you need to burn more calories, drink, and eat less. You really need to cut down on calories if you’re looking to shed off excess weight effectively. In fact, it just might be by far one of the most important things as far as shedding off those excess pounds is concerned.
In the long run, exercise always pays off by keeping that extra weight at bay. Studies have shown that regular exercise can help increase one’s chances…