Is Diabetes in your Future? Take Steps Today to Improve Your Health

A disease involving how your body uses insulin and glucose, diabetes is on the rise—and you don’t want to be next! Insulin is a hormone produced by your pancreas to help break down and use the glucose (sugars) found in the food you eat. Glucose is what gives your body energy to function. The body […]

Drink Up, Slim Down? The Pros and Cons of a Liquid Diet

One of the many weight loss tricks these days is a liquid diet. The goal is to lower your daily caloric intake by consuming nothing but liquids for one or all of your meals. Over-the-counter weight loss drinks are available for anyone to buy or you can work with your doctor using a medically supervised […]

Risky Business – Stretches and Exercises to Avoid

Many exercises once considered safe are now known to cause injury. That’s right—what you learned in P.E. class years ago might actually be dangerous to your body. Chances are, you may still doing one or more of these stretches or exercises and don’t know the dangers they pose. So what kind of exercise is risky? […]

Fat Facts – They’re Not All Bad For You

For many years, the diet community taught that fat is your worst enemy in the quest to lose weight. Rather than counting calories, you were told to count grams of fat. Fat does play a major role in obesity, because there are so many calories in fat, but all fat isn’t bad for you. Actually, […]

Top 10 Benefits of Group Fitness

Guest Post by Dave Olesczuk – NASM-CPT, FMS – Owner Fit Body Boot Camp Las Vegas Working out in a group is a lot of fun, but more importantly- it gets results. Recent studies have shown that working out in a group environment helps people reach their health and fitness goals a lot faster than […]