Hamstring Muscles Hamstrings are the big muscles located at the back of your thigh. Actually, the hamstrings are a group of 4 muscles. Each hamstring crosses 2 joints – the hip and the knee. This means when they contract they can either take your lower extremity back behind you (called hip extension) or bend […]
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Why You May Need More Calories
Are you eating less calories to lose weight and gain muscle? Have you considered restricting calories is the reason you are not seeing results? Before you cringe too hard at this high possibility, let’s define what calories are and what they do for our body. Calories Provide Energy for Optimal Fitness. Stephen Simpson Photolibrary/Getty Images […]
9 Things You Should Never Buy Again
Commercialism is all around us. We’re pressured to buy, encouraged to think we need to, and often the products we buy are designed with obsolesce and dependency in mind. It can be a never ending cycle of wastefulness if we let it. These are a few items that we think you can skip! Air […]
How Your Skin Ages
How is it that some older people seem to have very youthful, radiant skin, while others have wrinkles, discolourations, and uneven skin texture? Skin aging is the result of two different processes: intrinsic, or chronological aging, which is beyond your control, and photoaging from sun exposure, which can be prevented. The rate at which […]
How To Cope With Dry, Cracked Hands
If the words you associate with the winter months are “red,” “cracked” and “peeling,” you probably suffer from seriously dry skin on your hands. Cracks on your fingers can make even the simplest tasks — like typing, turning a page, or doing up a button — very painful. For advice on how to cope […]