I recently purchased a Polar F11 fitness monitor and it’s totally changed my workouts!  This wrist unit not only keeps track of my heart rate (which is an indication of how hard you’re pushing yourself), it estimates the number of calories I’ve burned during the session. The best part is that I can upload all of that information to a …

If you’ve been watching the evening news lately, then you know that the lead story for a couple of days has been the epidemic of swine flu that’s hit Mexico and is moving into the US. Although a case of the flu isn’t that big a deal for most healthy adults, this disease tends to hit children and the elderly …

Most people don’t recognize how much their environment can affect their physical health. Most research shows that there’s a pretty strong relationship between the two. If you spend the majority of your day in a healthy environment, you’ll usually have a healthy body. If you spend most of your day in a toxic environment, your health will surely suffer. What …