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I know that there are three rules to winning – preparation, preparation and preparation. And I have journeyed the road of over training to the point of chronic fatigue and paradoxical personal bests. So I’m not going to tell you the secrets to being able to train more – I’d like to share with you the secrets to training smarter!..

What goes on inside your brain when you exercise? That question has preoccupied a growing number of scientists in recent years, as well as many of us who exercise. In the late 1990s, Dr Fred Gage and his colleagues at the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute in San Diego elegantly proved that human and animal brains produce new brain cells (a process called neurogenesis) and that exercise increases neurogenesis. The brains of mice and rats that were allowed to run on wheels pulsed with vigorous, newly born neurons, and those animals then breezed through mazes and other tests of rodent I.Q., showing that neurogenesis improves thinking...

Think exercise is all about toned abs and weight loss? It also makes you happier and smarter

Maybe you exercise to tone your thighs, build your biceps, or flatten your belly. Or maybe you work out to ward off the big killers like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. But how about sweating to improve your mind? Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning...

A recent report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, adds to the growing evidence that fish oil supplements may play a role in preventing chronic disease...

What will you learn at this Free Workshop?

1. Dietary guidelines for detoxing and three stages of cleansing
2. How exercise, diet, attitude and chiropractic can benefit the brain
3. What recovery methods will help you gain optimal health
4. The fastest way to improve your fitness

Gardening activities, Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics...

The key question when contemplating the clinical usefulness of Auriculotherapy is does it change internal physiology and chemistry? The model of Auriculotherapy is of a microsystem – that reflex points on the ear correspond with anatomical or functional parts of the body, and that stimulating particular points will result in predictable internal changes...

The stimulatory effects of caffeine may be nothing more than an illusion, according to research that shows there is no real benefit to be gained from the habitual morning cup of coffee.

Tests on 379 individuals who abstained from caffeine for 16 hours before being given either caffeine or a placebo and then tested for a range of responses showed little variance in levels of alertness...

More than 7,000 runners who raced in a half-marathon in London in October 2008 were under the influence of a scientifically derived and powerful performance-enhancing stimulant – pop music.

The dance-able, upbeat music at London's "Run to the Beat" race was selected on the basis of the research and consultation of sport psychologist Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University in England. He has learned how to devise soundtracks that are just as powerful, if not more so, as some of the not-so-legal substances that athletes commonly take to excel.

Women often wear high heels in pursuit of longer, sleeker and sexier looking legs. There has always been conjecture as to just how much damage high heels do but this has now been quantified.

Women will usually heave a sigh of relief when they are able to take the heels off at the end of the day and since high heeled shoes lift the wearers heels up, it has been thought they may cause problems for the calf muscles.

To test this some researchers compared a group of women aged between 20 and 50 who had regularly worn five centimetre heels for two years or more, to a group of women who never wore high heels...

New research suggests that drinking lots of artificially sweetened beverages may be linked with an increased risk of premature births.

Women who had at least one serving of artificially sweetened soda a day while they were pregnant were 38% more likely to deliver preterm than women who drank no diet soda at all, the researchers report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Women who had at least four diet sodas a day were nearly 80% more likely to deliver preterm. The association was the same for normal-weight and overweight women.

Chiropractic has a role to play in the health care of mums-to-be and their newborns...

Read all the research showing the benefits of chiropractic care for improving infantile colic...

Take a look at the research connecting chiropractic care to improvements in fertility...

Babies are less likely to develop a respiratory or gastrointestinal infection if they are exclusively breastfed for at least 6 months, according to a Dutch study.

These findings, reported in the journal Pediatrics, support the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation that infants be breastfed exclusively for 6 months and support "current health-policy strategies that promote exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months in industrialized countries," the researchers conclude.

Health data on roughly 4,100 infants born in Rotterdam between 2002 and 2006 was analyzed...

What if you could use a fitness tool that is compact, light, portable and requires little storage space? What if the fitness tool also allowed you to do hundreds of movements and exercises that are the same as you can do in the gym? And the end result of those exercises is giving that toned look all done in the comfort of your lounge room! Well that’s what you can get from training with a Gymstick. The total body resistance you can achieve using a Gymstick will...

When medical experts in Canada began investigating a school outbreak of "swine flu" (AKA H1N1) they came to an unexpected conclusion: Most of the people who suffered from the illness –characterized by fever and coughing had been previously vaccinated against influenza...

Chiropractors help millions of aging individuals regain control of their lives every year. Chiropractic care for this segment of the population is designed to eliminate acute and chronic pain, increase flexibility, improve mobility and function, restore postural alignment, enhance balance, de-stress and tune the nervous system, improve general health and wellbeing, and increase the overall quality of one's life.

Why Is Chiropractic Care So Important For The Maturing Adult?

Chiropractic care is extremely important for the maturing and elderly adult because of the dramatic changes that occur in the spine with increasing age. As we age, spinal discs, joints, ligaments, muscles and other spinal tissues become weaker, less hydrated, more fibrous, and less able to withstand normal strain. As a result, spinal pain from spinal degeneration (arthritis) becomes more prominent, tissue injury from relatively benign events occurs, and the time to heal from injuries increases.

Modern chiropractic procedures take into consideration the nature of the aging spine and the many abnormalities present to provide an effective, safe and non-invasive treatment plan. Through the use of 21st century gentle adjusting techniques, physical therapies, and incorporation of stretching and exercise programs spinal pain is reduced, spinal stresses are decreased, flexibility and mobility are improved, and degeneration is minimized.

What Benefits Does Chiropractic Care Provide For The Maturing Adult?

Elbert Hubbard (Born June 19, 1856 – Died May 7, 1915 aboard the Lusitania) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He is responsible for some of my favourite quotes – check some out…

A new research study involving two Australian Rules football clubs has found that chiropractic can significantly reduce the risk of players succumbing to hamstring injuries and lower limb muscle strain.

This research showed that hamstring and lower limb muscle strain injuries can be dramatically reduced through the inclusion of a sports chiropractor in the traditional injury management programs adopted by clubs, which generally involve a mix of physiotherapy, massage and strength and conditioning management...