Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
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Life can be pretty stressful, so it's important to find time to relax. You could start meditating, enter a yoga class or soak in a warm bath - that is, if you're totally basic. If you're feeling more adventurous, you could try out the latest wellness trend, and pay $300…
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What with the prevalence of social media and advertising these days, it's very easy for people to become self-conscious about the way they look. We're constantly being told that we're too fat or too thin, too short or too tall, too glamorous or too plain - and, after a while,…
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Jon Lipsey, the editor-in-chief of Men's Fitness, never considered himself to be that out of shape, but by time he hit 37 he realized that he had let the stresses and responsibilities of life distract him from taking care of his own health. Now, with a child on the way,…
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Despite the trappings of fame and fortune; it could not be said that it is easy to be a movie star. Though the rewards are perhaps more extravagant and obvious than those of toiling away in an office job for years and years, it is also true that being a…
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If you asked me which fictional character's life I would like to adopt for the rest of my time on this Earth (let's not go into why you'd ask me that), I'd probably respond by saying "Homer Simpson". Why not, really? He's got a loving wife, precocious offspring, a whole litany…
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Whether you're trying to get it right by the summer or just improve your health and fitness overall, you're probably aware there are a few things you could do better to help the cause. With all the misinformation out there it can be a little difficult to decipher what's supposed…
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The rise of Instagram has brought with it the rise of the body-positivity movement. While I'm sure that you're no doubt aware of what this movement entails (the clue is in the name), it seems that some people - including companies - are still having a hard time learning to accept…
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Makeup application is a work of art. Cosplayers use makeup to turn into all your favorite characters from movies, video games and manga. Body paint artists use makeup to make almost-nude models look like they're wearing clothes in public. And regular people wear makeup every day just to look a…
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In today's age of wellness and information, you'd think we'd already have some sort of panacea figured out. Unfortunately, we're not quite there yet but the countless hours of yoga and balanced eating, avoiding heavily processed foods, eating spinach etc does help in extending your years on earth. As it turns out,…
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Although there’s a part of me that wants to do nothing but eat pizza and ice cream for the foreseeable future, there is more than a little merit in eating healthy once in a while. Celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Aniston and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson make it look easy,…
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Imagine waking up every day and not being sure whether the people you said goodnight to the evening before were the same ones you'd greet at the breakfast table that morning. Imagine tiptoeing around your own home, uncertain of who or what else could be inhabiting the rooms you thought…
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When there’s free food at the office, are you able to resist eating it? Talking from experience - for me, this is a resounding no. I could be on a health kick roll - having not eaten anything considered bad or ill-advised for breakfast, grazing on my measly celery sticks mid-morning,…
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Ecstasy is still the drug of choice among many clubbers. Yet it's still very much illegal in most parts of the world. Despite this, it doesn't have as bad a reputation as other hard drugs, such as heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine. Maybe that's because MDMA often stimulates feelings of…
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Over the years, I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not particularly good looking. I'm not playing the world's smallest violin here: I'm not especially ugly either, just distinctly average. I don't have the chiselled jaw, the straight teeth, the gleaming smile or broad shoulders. I can't sweep…
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Eminem, like many who achieve fame and fortune in the music industry, has had his fair share of battles with addiction. His particular problem was with prescription drugs, including the likes of Vicodin, Ambien and Valium. During the production of 8 Mile Eminem worked 16 hours a day, developing insomnia -…
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Wouldn't everything be so much simpler if you could simply fake your way through your online life, without actually having to go through the exhausting rigmarole of actually living it? Rather than visiting sun soaked vistas and posing for endless bikini shots, you could buy a package of photos that…
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It's no secret that people are taking more pictures than ever before. The ubiquity of smartphones means that we always have a camera at hand, to pick up and start snapping with at a moment's notice. It used to be that we only took pictures for special occasions; now we…
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When someone says the word "model," you probably picture someone so impossibly skinny that if they turn sideways they can slip through cracks in the floor like Paper Mario. However, many plus-size models have been challenging the norm, proving that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Slowly, clothing companies…
