Losing weight is hard. It involves spending time at the gym, stopping yourself from eating your favorite foods, and saying “no” to things that make you happy in general and “yes” to things that don’t. If you’re like most people, you want to see results that justify your hard work. And that result, more often than not, has to do with seeing that number on the scale go steadily down. So you weigh yourself. Even though you know you shouldn’t, you weigh yourself every day because you need a...

Juice cleanses, heated fitness classes and fasting have made detoxing mainstream. And in our modern world that’s filled with man-made environmental elements in our air, water and food supply, it’s necessary. These elements accumulate in our body and make it harder for us to meet our health and fitness goals. You might already have taken your first detox step with better dietary choices or more physical activity, but these ten steps will help you easily detox daily. 1. Avoid chemical cleaners ...

Antioxidants are the body’s “knight in shining armor”. They provide the body with tools to neutralize harmful free radical activity that is constantly going on in the body. Our body can usually fight off these destructive compounds by itself; but with the harmful UV-radiation, pollutants, alcohol, pesticides, ect., that we come in contact with our environment, it renders our bodies' ability to fight its own battles almost defenseless. Antioxidants, by their very nature, are capable of...