Women's Health & Fitness

Body Goals You Need 5 to Break Up With, Stat A trainer lets you in on the ones you should be working toward instead. As a personal trainer and strength coach who’s worked with hundreds of women over the past seven years, I get it: Getting fit can initially (and after the fourth or fifth attempt) seem really, really hard. You end up joining a gym with the best intentions to really “stick with it this time,” but inevitably your motivation fizzles and your goal of hitting the gym every day whittles down to three days a week, then once a week, and eventually you’re lucky if you get there once a month. Or year.  Like I said, I get it. In every initial consultation, I’ll hear various reasons why a woman decided to walk...

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Quick spring soup with dumplings

Healthy Soup Ingredients: 2 cups water 1/2 clove garlic, sliced 1/2cm piece fresh ginger, peeled, sliced 100g chicken breast, raw, sliced 4 frozen dumplings (about 70g) 75g (1 packet) egg noodles 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil 1 cup bok choy or baby spinach 1/4 fresh red chilli, thinly sliced (optional) Instructions: Step 1 Place water, garlic and ginger in a large saucepan and bring to the boil. Add chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes. Step 2 Add dumplings. Cook for about 5 minutes until dumplings rise to the surface. Add noodles and return to the boil. Cook for 2 minutes. Step 3 Remove from heat and add sesame oil and bok choy. Transfer to a bowl and top with chilli (if using)...

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10 Biggest Face-Washing Mistakes You're Making

Washing your face seems like the least complicated part of your beauty routine, right? Turns out that some common lathering habits can cause a whole list of skin woes, including dryness, irritation, oiliness, and breakouts. Read on to learn the 10 biggest face-washing mistakes—and how fixing them can alleviate nagging skin problems. 1. Picking the wrong product The right cleanser should completely remove dirt, makeup, and grime, but not strip away too much of your skin's natural oils or healthy cells. Find one that does the job and is neither too gentle (you have to wash twice or scrub hard to cleanse thoroughly), nor too harsh (it makes your skin red and irritated or tight after drying). 2. Overdoing it For the most part, washing once...

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The One Yogurt You Should Skip

Superfood? Not so fast Yogurt’s moment as the ultimate health food is still going strong. Case in point: A recent study of more than 6,500 men and women, published in Nutrition Research, found that people who ate more than two servings of yogurt a week had better overall diets, consuming more potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and vitamins B2 and B12. They were also healthier overall, with lower levels of triglycerides and lower systolic blood pressure than those who ate yogurt less often. Yogurt eaters also have more nutritious eating habits: The study found that they tend to consume fewer calories from processed meat, refined grains, and beer, and more produce, nuts, fish, and whole grains than yogurt-skippers. “But even after accounting...

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MUSCLE FOODS FOR MEN

It has been said from the ancient times that a man should like a man and he should be muscular enough to be feel like a man and not boy. For this Men’s muscle foods are required along with Men’s fitness tips. Men’s muscle foods are important because there can be no growth without it. Men’s fitness tips, on the other hand, would make us able to utilize those Men’s muscle foods in order to make our bodies more healthy, stunning and muscular. Although there are number of muscular developments pills available in the market, but there can be no alternative to natural food which is actually Men’s muscle foods. Five of the major Men’s muscle foods are recommended below with their importance. EGG: Egg is the pure and most highly regarded as protein...

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Protein Smoothie Recipe That Keep You Full All Day

Mango Carrot Smoothie "Mangoes are a superfruit loaded with antioxidants and more than 20 different vitamins and minerals," says Blatner. The protein in her recipe below comes from whole foods like almond butter, rather than a scoop of protein powder. Serves: 1 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk 1.5 tablespoons almond butter 1/2 cup grated carrot 3/4 cup fresh mango 5 ice cubes Place all ingredients in blender and puree until smooth. 290 calories, 9g prote...

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5 COMMON BEAUTY MISTAKES WOMEN MAKE

You've heard a thousand times that you have to take off the majority of your make-up before going to bed, yet I wager that you've slipped here and there and go to bed wearing a full face. Am I right? Shrewd! Not just does resting in your make-up give your skin a restricted ticket to Breakout Town on the grounds that your pores are hindered with earth, oil, make-up and contamination, it can likewise have dependable consequences for your skin. Think untimely maturing, the on-set of skin break out, and a dull appearance. Much the same as cleaning your teeth before bed, make it a need to burn through two minutes washing your face with a chemical that will evacuate your make-up. Does seeing an awful looking whitehead on your button have your...

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