My kind of exercise is all about bicycling. My cycling partner and I do our usual 10 mile circuit every weekend over picturesque roads not far from her home. The return leg is where it gets to be really fun. The last couple of miles turns out to be real race to the finish. I usually like to pedal as fast to the finish line as possible and then come to a spectacular screeching stop. My friend though likes to take the exercise reading he does really seriously. And one of the most important exhortation that exercise manuals give you tends to be about the cooldown rule. Physiology books and fitness manuals will devote entire chapters to it, and computerized home gym equipment will actually include cooldown phaces in their programming. To devotees of this exercise philosophy, at the end of any serious run of exercise, you can't just go and sit down at the end; you need to allow the body to wind down with several minutes of gentler exercise. ... Read more

It seems these days that people are more stressed out than ever before. Common reasons for this include long working hours, mounting bills and family problems, but the reality is that causes of stress are everywhere, and sometimes we are not even aware of them. ... Read more

Elizabeth Hurley, 44, has recently admitted to cutting out coffee and wine from her diet to lose weight and stay trim. Sacrifice? Hardly. ... Read more

How often we heard that the best way to lose weight was the slow and steady approach. A new research by Lisa Nackers and colleagues, from the University of Florida, shows that the key to long-term weight loss and maintenance is to lose weight quickly, not slowly, in the initial stages of obesity treatment. ... Read more

Of course, you will find cabbage soup diet recipe. But can you really lose 15 pounds with new cabbage soup diet in 7 days? What to eat on this diet and what don't. How to choose cabbage? Why cabbage soup diet work. ... Read more