How Germy Is Your Cell Phone?

Your iPad may have smudges, but at least it’s light on germs. Phones with buttons and keys are more contaminated than touchscreens and tablets, finds a new study from University College London.

Researchers examined the phones of health care workers for microorganisms and potentially hazardous pathogens. While 24 percent of the push-button phones tested positive for bacteria capable of causing skin rashes, respiratory disease, or food poisoning, the contamination rate dropped to just 3 percent among the touchscreen devices, the study finds. Read the rest of this entry »

Movie Stars’ 7 Smartest Power Food Picks

Kimchi

Star Status: Oscar nominee and Les Miserables and Wolverine star Hugh Jackman is so enthusiastic about this traditional Korean staple that he cohosted an episode of the Kimchi Chronicles cooking show!

Power-Food Perks: Nearly every Korean meal features this spicy fermented dish that almost always features cabbage and sometimes other veggies like cucumber and radishes. It’s loaded with immune-boosting properties that promote better digestive health. And get this: In 2005, Seoul National University researchers found that a majority of chickens fed kimchi extract in their study recovered faster from bird flu!

Miso Soup

Star Status: Mother Nature Network reports that Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway traded in pizza and other junk food for the a vegan diet plan that included the likes of miso soup and other plant-based picks to comfortably squeeze into the skin-tight Catwoman costume in Dark Knight Rising. Read the rest of this entry »

Tone Up on the Treadmill

Save time at the gym with this 10-minute cardio/sculpt session: Hop on a treadmill holding a three- to five-pound dumbbell in each hand, and set the speed to a brisk walk. Do a one-minute set each of shoulder presses, biceps curls, triceps extensions, Read the rest of this entry »

The 7 Best Stress-Fighting Foods

Your dietary dilemma: Instantly gratifying your anxiety-induced urge to eat won’t help you keep your cool, but neither will skipping meals altogether. The solution? “On a stressful day, you don’t have to be a nutritional star,” says Heidi Skolnik, nutritionist for the New York Giants. “You just don’t want to make an already bad day worse.” Here’s how to make it better, and keep stress whipped into submission all day long.

7. When You’re in Gridlock : Gridlock adds half an hour to your commute.

Stress antidote: A Starbucks skim-milk chai latte and half a bagel with cream cheese. The carbohydrates in the bagel provide energy, and they’re balanced by protein from the milk in the latte, which makes you feel alert. And both items are portable.

6. When You Have a Big Presentation: The IT guy never reserved the PowerPoint projector for your departmental presentation.

Stress antidote: Milk, hold the coffee and sugar. Stress may lower your levels of serotonin, one of the body’s critical stay-calm chemicals. But milk contains whey protein, which Dutch researchers found can help boost tryptophan, one of the building blocks of serotonin, by 43 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

Father’s Day Gift Solutions-Health

This Father’s Day, June 16, is the perfect opportunity to show all the dads in your life just how much they mean to you.

Over the years, the Father’s Day gift has become synonymous with the impersonal and the uninspiring — the tie, the socks, the bottle of cheap aftershave to add to the unopened collection maturing beneath the bathroom sink. So come June, every American with a father who wants to do something different traipses through the mall and struggles to come up with a new answer to the annual question: What can I get my dad for Father’s Day that is not a tie, nor socks, nor aftershave? Well, why not give him a healthy Father’s Day gift this year? What about something that might make him feel better, either physically or mentally? What about giving him unique gift from LaimisEnergy — Personal Training Package to help him stay active every day? When you give a dad the gift of fitness, you are helping him open a door to better health (both physically and mentally). I can’t think of a more thoughtful gift that shows the recipient how much you care about his well being. By giving the gift of fitness you are providing him with unlimited health benefits. And, it’s a gift that you can truly feel proud to give. Of course, we all know that exercise can help people stay slim and fit. But, do you also know about all the other great benefits of exercising? Daily physical activity reduces stress and can help you sleep better. Fitness has been linked to reducing the risk of some diseases and to warding off depression. Researchers also believe that strength training can help prevent osteoporosis. Not to mention that exercise also improves self-esteem, increases stamina and ultimately helps you be able to do continuous work for longer. Do you agree with me????? …Then Take A Moment and call me, Laimis, Tough Love Personal Trainer.

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