The market in beauty products has grown significantly in the last 25 years but in the last 10 years there has been an increasing interest in the ingredients contained within the lotions, creams and potions we apply so liberally to our skin – the largest organ of our human bodies.

Many main stream manufacturers still include a range of not so natural ingredients in their products:

- waste products from… Continue reading How Natural are Natural Skin Care Products

Diet fads are a dime a dozen as we all know. Every year there is one or more new ways to lose weight and sometimes it’s just an old diet being revived. The ones with the most hype usually get the most customers and people jumping on board to try them while other people jump off after trying it and getting another disappointment.

First of all, the promoters of these… Continue reading Diet Fads Versus a Sensible Diet

Herbal medicine is the oldest form of health care known to mankind, and is also called botanical medicine or herbalism. Herbal medicine began with primitive cultures using different plants for shelter, clothing, and medicine. Herbal medicine is a complementary therapy that uses plants or plant extracts to treat illness, and is an important part of keeping healthy holistically and naturally. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that as many as… Continue reading Herbal Medicine

There are so many people in today’s world that are overweight or morbidly obese and some of them are desperately trying to lose weight but there are so many solutions out there to try from, that it is difficult to find which is the right solution to this problem. Some have tried using a combination of dietary changes and exercising that could be good for a group of individuals but… Continue reading Facts about a Healthy Way of Losing Weight

Aerobic training is very important for your heart and your overall fitness. Health experts recommend you train aerobically twenty to thirty minutes a day, four to five times a week.

The activities most used are running, walking at a brisk pace, biking, and doing basic aerobics in the house to fitness tapes. Dancing and boxing to the music are the most popular of the programs. These are all very good… Continue reading Jump Start Your Aerobic Training

By Reggie Liggins –

It doesn’t matter whether you are a professional or amateur athlete, someone who is interested in getting fit, needing to lose some weight and get fitter because of some health problem, or merely a youngster with loads of excess energy that needs burning off if you are going to get involved in becoming fitter, you need to apply the proper nutrition and at the right time… Continue reading Nutrition for Athletes