Nutrition
Homeless teen bikes 6 hours to get to college, sleeps in tent
At just 19 years old, Fred Barley has proven he knows what he wants out of life and he’ll do anything to make it happen. Officers found the teen sleeping in a tent over the weekend outside a local college. Instead of giving him a ticket for trespassing, the officers listened to his story –…
Tens of Thousands of College Students Have Nowhere to Sleep
Last year at least 56,000 college students identified as homeless LaTia Daniels started at Kennesaw State University as a walk-on to the school’s track and field team, earning an athletic scholarship on top of her federal financial aid. When she quit the team to focus more on her studies, and that athletic scholarship disappeared, she…
Simple enough, right?
Not happy with your body? It’s hardly your fault. Have you ever stopped to notice how many times you’re bombarded by food marketing each day? Ads come at you from magazine pages, T.V. commercials, on websites and billboards, each boasting of cheap, convenient and tasty ways to cure your hunger. The question “What’s for dinner?”…
Yes, it’s happening
It happens to everyone. That moment when you realize that it’s time to do something about your weight. It may happen when you’re looking in the mirror or standing on the scale.Your first thought is to go on a ‘diet’ but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past…
Fix Hip Flexibility Problems With This Simple Exercise
The hip flexors are one of the most common areas of tightness and dysfunction in both high-performance athletes and the general fitness population. Comprised of both superficial and deep layers of musculature—including the rectus femoris quadriceps, the iliacus and the psoas—this group of muscles, responsible for primary hip flexion, often becomes functionally shortened in static…
The Stressed Out Life
More than 75 percent of doctor visits are stress-related. Could stress be to blame for your ailment? Stress is a normal part of life. Every day you face demands, pressures, and challenges you must deal with. The way your body perceives these stressors and reacts to them determines whether stress is positive or negative. Positive…
Exercising in the A.M.
Exercising in the A.M. How getting up early gives you the advantage. When the sun begins peaking over the horizon, you shouldn’t be burying your head underneath a pillow, praying it will get dark and turn into night again. Instead, you should take advantage of the early hours to get in an hour of exercise….