The 25 Best Foods For Weight Loss

Regular exercise is great for building muscle and losing fat, but if you want to see real weight-loss results, what you eat matters. But dropping pounds isn't about depriving yourself — it's about choosing the right foods that satisfy without the calories. These 25 foods make the cut; check them out below!

Cinnamon:
Even just a small amount of cinnamon has been shown to help regulate blood sugar levels, curb cravings, and boost metabolism, so sprinkle some in your morning coffee or smoothie for a little boost. ReadMore

11 Really Creative Uses For Hair Conditioner

1. WASHING YOUR SILK CLOTHING AND DELICATES

Cleaning your silk clothing is always a task, but you can save yourself from a fat dry cleaning bill just by making use of hair conditioner. A tablespoon of any conditioner in a sink filled with warm water will create a solution that will help clean your silk clothing perfectly. Just let your garments stay in the solution for a few minutes. Then rinse it and hang it out to dry. You can try the same with lingerie and other delicates for equally impressive results. This is definitely one of the best uses for hair conditioner.Readmore

The 10 Best and Worst States To Make A Living

While Hawaii might be a great place to visit, a new survey shows that it's the most difficult place in the country to earn a living.

MoneyRates.com has released the results of its fourth annual study of the best and worst states to make a living, and Hawaiians: We have some bad news for you.
The ranking, which is based on average salaries and employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, cost of living as determined by the Council for Community and Economic Research, and workplace conditions as established by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, ordered all 50 states in terms of how difficult or easy it is to make a solid living.

The 10 worst states to make a living are:

1. Hawaii
2. New York
3. Mississippi
4. Rhode Island
5. Connecticut
6. Alaska Readmore

5 Exercises You Are Not Doing That Could Improve Your CrossFit

If you are an avid CrossFitter, you have heard this phrase before: “Constantly varied, functional movements at high intensities.” CrossFit athletes pride themselves on being ready for any athletic event at any time, training across multiple training modalities that include running, biking swimming, weightlifting, jumping, and gymnastics. While any well-developed CrossFit program does cover a lot of ground, there are a few exercises I feel that CF folks would benefit from that I very rarely see these in a CrossFit program.

Some may argue that since certain exercises will never be included in a CrossFit event, they are not worth taking the time to do. I beg to differ. Would you tell Kelly Starrett that his mobility WOD was worthless, just because you wouldn’t see his corrective exercise drills in a WOD at your local competition or during the CrossFit Games Open? I don’t think so.ReadMore

7 Reasons Why Your Child Should Practice Martial Arts

Reason #1: They (and You) Will Get More Active

This is the obvious reason kids should do martial arts in this day and age - to get active and moving. In case you haven’t noticed, we have an epidemic when it comes to our nation’s obesity problem. We’re also increasingly unfit in addition to being overweight. The problem is particularly alarming as itrelates to our kids. Youth sports and physical education programs are great, but not every kid is an athlete and many schools no longer offer PE. The martial arts offer many benefits, but when it comes to fitness, becoming a true martial artist means becoming a supremely fit person.Readmore

3 Simple Ways to Heal a Stiff, Sore, or Injured Neck

In the case of a cervical strain/sprain, there are a number of things that can be done to facilitate healing. As a licensed acupuncturist I have been trained in numerous treatments and protocols to help this condition, but I wanted to pick techniques that wouldn’t require any special knowledge or training to do. These three therapeutic techniques are intended to be used after the acute-phase of the injury, which is the first four days after the incident.
Remember that after a neck strain/sprain, the muscles in the neck will often become tight, guarding the affected area and limiting motion and mobility.Anything that can be done to safely alleviate muscle tension, improve range of motion, and promote blood circulation to the affected area, is going to help the healing process.ReadMore

What Women Need to Know About Growth Hormone (and How to Maximize It)

Growth Hormone, Estrogen, and Testosterone

First, we make more growth hormone than men. Weird, right? It’s a pretty darn anabolic hormone and given that men are generally so much bigger and more muscular than us ladies, it seems odd that we make more. How is it we aren’t hulking she-beasts? Well, while there aren’t a lot of studies out there discussing this, I feel we don’t get as muscular as men largely due to the fact we do not make as much testosterone as men. Yes, while we make a lot of growth hormone, without coupling that with testosterone, muscle growth is limited.Readmore

4 Things to Do and 3 Things to Stop to Naturally Increase Your Testosterone

1. Don't buy stupid stuff.

Don’t buy or take any supplement with EXTREME, XXX, or any ridiculous play on the word steroids. I know, the guy in the picture is huge and the product says that it’s actually banned in some countries. Amazing. It’s most likely filled with enough caffeine and other stimulants to make you feel great during your workout, once you get over your shaky hands and grinding teeth, but will wear you out over time and keep you awake at night. If I could get all of the money back I spent on supplements with tough sounding names in my twenties, I’d be writing this from my own private island. Save your money; buy vegetables.

Top Ten Ways to Test Your Body

After all, if you don’t know what’s going on inside your body, then how do you know you’re not one of those people who are healthy on the outside, but unhealthy on the inside? And if you struggle with anything like brain fog, constipation, bloating, low libido, poor sleep, or slow workout recovery, then you probably fall into the category of people who need to test their body.

As a matter of fact, even if you’re exercising hard and eating healthy, it turns out that what’s actually going on inside your body can be quite disturbing, and include:

• Low testosterone and high cortisol, manifesting in overtraining symptoms, low libido, lack of motivation, and loss of competitive drive.
• Low luteinizing hormone, high estrogens, and low progesterone, manifesting in brain fog, appetite cravings, and a seeming inability to shed fat despite lots of training.
• High thyroid-stimulating hormone and low thyroid hormones, resulting in a constant feeling of being cold, sluggish metabolism, and impaired digestive function, gas, and bloating.Readmore

10 things that should never go in the fridge

After spending time in the grocery store, your sole goal when you get home is to put everything away as quickly as possible. You throw thepantry stuff in the pantry and cold stuff in the fridge and call it a day. But really what you’re doing is creating a return trip to the store a lot sooner.

Believe it or not, you could be putting grocery items in your fridge incorrectly. All foods have unique molecular compositions. Some are full of starch and others gluten, and each food reacts differently to its environment. And while we see our refrigerator as a cold preservation box, it wasn’t designed to keep every food item fresh.

To help you save your food from an untimely death, we pulled together a list of grocery items that don’t belong in your fridge, no matter how cold you think they should be! Readmore

12 mental tricks to fight pain

If you're in pain, you may be able to harness your thoughts to help fight it. Skeptical? Studies suggest these pain relief tools can work.

"Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis can learn mind-body techniques to assist the body and mind in relaxing," says Janice M. Singles, Psy.D., of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. "This generally reduces the levels of stress hormones in the body, allowing the immune system to be better able to fight off illness."

Some techniques work for short term (or acute) pain, others for chronic pain. Either way, here are 12 methods to try.Readmore

12 weird pain remedies

Relief can’t happen fast enough when you’re in pain. When traditional pain relievers are unavailable, a backup plan can help. Find out how slowing down your breathing, listening to your favorite music and other out-of-the-box remedies can help ease discomfort.Readmore

The 1 Minute Winged Liner

Simply place the scotch tape along the outer part of your eye- use your lower lash line as a guideline. Take your bent liner brush or any super small makeup brush and apply the eyeliner along the tape, connecting it to your upper lash line. You want to fill it in to form a triangle shape- this is what gives the illusion of winged liner. Readmore

Sugar Crush Body Scrub

Amazing lime scent aside that smells exactly like Coca-Cola with Lime, including the fizz, this is an amazing scrub that doesn't feel harsh on the skin but gets the job done. Ideal for all over to keep skin smooth or rubbed into skin a bit more vigorously to ensure exfoliated pre-tanned skin. Readmore

Are you Bipolar? Take the Test that Doctors Use

The Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale

Today I introduce the Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS). This scale is based off of the Bipolar Clinical Scale developed by Dr. Ronald Pies, later to be refined by Dr. S. Nassir Ghaemi and colleagues. Pies developed this test to detect bipolar disorder within the treatment-resistant depression population. The BSDS is based off the most helpful questions Pies developed.

The cool thing about this scale is that it is designed to detect not just bipolar I and bipolar II, but also “softer” versions of bipolar disorder like other bipolar and related disorders (previously known as bipolar NOS).

The BSDS was scientifically validated and has a 0.85 specificity. (Yes, this means it doesn’t catch all cases of bipolar disorder. No test can be expected to.) Readmore