by Women's Health | Jan 5, 2016 | Food & Nutrition, Health
Registered dietician Joanna Wilson gives us the lowdown on why oats are so awesome… 1. They’re good for your heart In 1997, after reviewing 33 clinical studies performed over the previous decades, the FDA approved of a claim that taking in at least 3g of...
by Women's Health | Dec 21, 2015 | Weight Loss
by Rodale Inc. Forget kilojoules for a minute – let’s talk about blood sugar. It’s the glucose found in your blood, and insulin is the stuff that brings glucose to your cells for energy. You may already know that blood sugar ebbs and flows throughout the day depending...
by Women's Health | Dec 9, 2015 | Health
By Laura Beil Turns out, there’s a lot more to yoga than we thought… 1/ It makes you smarter What seems like a slow start – breathing deeply, in and out – fires up your prefrontal cortex, the brain’s centre for higher thought. You just got smarter: In one...
by Women's Health | Dec 9, 2015 | Food & Nutrition, Health
By K. Aleisha Fetters; Photography by Unsplash The low-carb craze is going strong. Bread is out. Pasta is overrated. And dieters are experimenting with how low their carb intake can go. But grains are anything but all the same. So whether you are cutting out refined...
by Women's Health | Dec 7, 2015 | FitMama, Health
If you’ve ever given birth, you know just how much effort you have to exert physically to pop a baby out (and how much damage it can do to your lady parts). But new research has found that childbirth—and injuries that can come with it—are similar to what intense...
