A kilo here, another one there, and suddenly your clothes don’t fit and jokes about your fat stomach are starting to bother you. Getting older goes with gaining weight, even when you are sticking to a healthy diet. A sedentary lifestyle, social factors, hormonal imbalance, medication and genetic factors can all play a part. But […]
Alone, with your partner or in a group, there’s no excuse for not grabbing your mat and doing the sun salutation. Yoga has become extremely widespread in recent years and, whether it is just trendy or due to all the benefits it provides, we think it’s great. This sport is centered on breathing and stretching […]
We do not usually stop to think about our posture until we cannot endure any more back pain. What if we think about it before? Do we really know how to sit down, stand, walk, sunbathe…? Maintaining a bad posture is not only related to the pain that can appear in our back, but it […]
If we want to think better, the solution is to take a walk. On those days when we have problems and cannot find the answer or don’t know what to do, the best thing is to go out for a walk and get some fresh air. Walking helps clear our minds and think more clearly, […]
We bet the first thing you think of when we mention swimming pools is not exercise. However, despite the obvious summertime connotations of chilling out, vacations and relaxation, the swimming pool can be the best place to burn calories. Although many gyms offer classes like aqua fitness and aquagym, you can include it in your […]
It may seem obvious, but living in a good neighborhood makes our health improve. And we are not talking about avoiding dangerous neighborhoods. The mere fact of living in a place with pedestrian areas where neighbors greet you when they run into you on the street already makes our lives healthier. The Lancet magazine published […]
You do not need to be an expert and neither is age a factor, dancing is fashionable and it has many benefits for your health. Dancing regularly is an exercise that helps us to combine coordination and movement, and this is what makes it a balanced exercise: we train our body and mind at the […]
Or at least if you do it too, you’ll be a bit smarter. We all know the numerous benefits of exercising: it reduces stress, depression, anger and frustration levels… In fact, increasingly more people do some type of sport to forget about their day-to-day problems and their jobs or seek relief when they are fed […]
There’s no real middle ground when it comes to breakfast. You either love it and eat more than you do at lunch, or you’re good for the day with just a cup of coffee. But one thing is clear- when they say it’s the most important meal of the day, they’re right. And even if […]
It seems as though we spend the entire year gearing ourselves up so that when Christmas arrives we can eat whatever we want. And then we stuff ourselves at feasts, eat Christmas sweets, drink alcohol… And everything we had achieved, is wasted. In addition, the cold temperatures and shorter days make us become more sedentary […]