HEALTHY LIVING

Christmas time is a wonderful opportunity to let the important people in your life know that you are about their health and well being. Here is a look at some popular Christmas gifts for women, which include Christmas gifts and gadget options for your girlfriend, wife, friend, sister and even your mother.

Majority of Australians will have as their New Year's resolution to keep fit. Expected to cash in from this personal promise are gyms, fitness centres and personal trainers.

It's tempting to just indulge this Christmas season. After all it only happens once a year and what's the harm in taking part in the celebration? Unfortunately with all the parties and dinners taking place around the holidays it's easy to fall of your diet. With so many sumptuous feasts laid out this holiday season, how can you resist another slice of pie or a piece of roast? Here are some traditional foods you need to avoid this Christmas season.

For many people, 600 international units (IUs) of vitamin D or more each day will maintain bone health, but those aged 71 and older may need as much as 800 IUs daily, the Institute Of Medicine experts say. Viewing the role played by the sunlight vitamin, we leave you to analyze the need.

There is a general association in people with diabetes between weight reduction and a reduction in blood pressure, but there is great variability in the response. Reduction in blood pressure can occur with a modest amount of weight loss.

Most women don't feel very keen on sex for at least a few weeks after childbirth and the main reason for this is simply exhaustion. If the delivery was long or difficult, the woman may also feel anxious about getting pregnant again.

Identify the risk factors associated with injury, and modifying them where possible, it should also be possible to decrease an individual's total injury risk, by increasing dynamic stability and the joint's ability to withstand untoward force.

Recently, researchers have developed a new way to measure the body fat (Sun Mar 6, 2011). The new obesity scale is offered due to the flaws of the BMI. For example, BMI calculation cannot be generalized across men and women, athletes and different ethnic groups.

People who fear the unknown or view uncertainty as especially negative or threatening are more likely to report symptoms of eating disorders, according to new ANU research.

It's one of the top concerns of people everywhere -- how do we grow our own food for superior nutrition and food sovereignty? How do we store an emergency food supply that can get us through a crisis when conventional food deliveries to grocery stores may be cut off?

One of the most nutritious foods on the traditional Thanksgiving menu is the sweet potato.

Volunteer work to some of the teens sounds unappealing because it takes time away from their own lives. But those who spend time lending a hand to others will find another reason for volunteering aside from the joy of giving.

United States has been battling obesity ever since meals got super sized and beverage cups went up as far as 1.5 liters. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one-third of U.S. adults are obese.

Children as young as 8 years old are being admitted to hospitals for anorexia, ABC reported. Dr. Sloane Madden of Westmead Children's Hospital in NSW have told the ABC that the children being admitted are conscious of their body shape and rejecting food to avoid gaining weight.

"Chew your food properly!" is what mothers would tell their children if they were eating too fast. That same motherly advice just so happen to have some science behind it. As it turns out, chewing food and taking it slow has some benefits.

People say that boys have a lot to learn, and that when they become men, they become wiser. Who would say that when men become fathers, they would be healthier?

Babies who have baby fat are adored for being just too cute; being pinched and kissed all the time because they look so cuddly. But what if the infant's baby fat was a sign of him or her growing up to be obese, would that still be cute?

Medically speaking, African-Americans are more prone to being affected by diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association, 3.7 million, or 14.7% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 unless things change.

Cancer can certainly hurt people's loved ones - physically and spiritually. But after cancer, people would often say "get back up in the saddle," however, things are not as easy as they seem. Depression post-cancer is another battle that women must face on the road to recovery.

Kim Kardashian and New Jersey Nets Kris Humphries were happily married a few weeks before Kardishian decided to file for a divorce. Here are a few things you can learn from divorced celebrity couples!

Researchers linked 2,200 deaths from impotence drugs in the last decade.

Like other western nations, Australia is engaged in a battle of the bulge as obesity rates soar.

Pratyahara is the stage at which an adept learns how to control the "tentacles" of consciousness that are called "indriyas" in Sanskrit.

The global drive to reduce smoking rates appears to be working. A survey by Yahoo of over 1,000 Yahoo users found that campaign appears to be effective particularly among young people.

Jennifer Aniston shares a blissful relationship with Justin Theroux as they are being rumored of tying knot or expecting to have a baby.

A study has found that teenagers are more likely to be aggressive and violent if they consume more than five cans of soda a week.

Despite Australians delaying having a baby because of concerns over financial future, a record 297,900 babies were born in 2010.

An often neglected practice in healthy living is the failure by some consumers to scrutinize and understand nutrition labels in process of buying food products from supermarkets and grocery stores.

Halloween is just a week away. To help children protect their teeth from decay caused by excessive candy consumption, Ohio dentist Craig Callen devised an incentive system which kids may find sweeter than their Halloween loot.