The trick to turning your feline into your fitness buddy is to tap into her prey drive. By Esther Crain It’s easy for dog owners to get regular exercise with their pooches; Still, cat guardians don’t have to be permanently sidelined to the couch — tap into her prey drive and she’ll think all the moving around the two of you are doing is about hunting, not burning calories and stretching muscles,
By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) – More than 40 percent of China’s arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world’s biggest population. The rich black soil in northern Heilongjiang province, which forms part of China’s bread basket, is thinning, while farmland in China’s south is suffering from acidification, the report said, citing agriculture ministry statistics. …
By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK (Reuters) – Terry Walters, clean-food chef, educator and author of the new cookbook “Eat Clean Live Well,” says her cooking career started as a necessity and became a passion. The more than 175 recipes in her third book continue in the vegan, gluten-free vein that yielded best sellers “Clean Food” and “Clean Start.” It all started, Walters said, when she was diagnosed with high cholesterol
(NaturalNews) Regardless of the outcome of today’s U.S. mid-term elections, there are some things that won’t change one iota. While most of America has finally come to realize what a disaster Obama’s presidency has really been in real-world terms, there are at least five other disasters…
(NaturalNews) For anyone who still believes that the Obama Administration — the president in particular — is not still playing politics with the Affordable Care Act, this story ought to dismiss those doubts once and for all.According to reports by USA Today, The Wall Street…
(NaturalNews) Overcoming adversity by piercing through the corporate fabric in which the world’s corporations are banded together, PandaLeaks – The Dark Side of the WWF exposes the ugly underbelly of the planet’s largest conservation group.Written by award-winning German journalist…
(NaturalNews) You don’t have to spend another dime buying chemicals to put on your face. Everything you need to create a healthy, beneficial, facial mask can be found in your kitchen.Honey is an antibacterial that has been used throughout the ages to dress wounds. It is an excellent…
With everyone from from HBO comedian John Oliver to Yahoo’s Global New Anchor Katie Couric bashing sugar’s vice-like grip on the modern diet, more and more people are deciding to ditch it. Enter JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and of JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, out today. Protein also balances blood sugar, which decreases the risk of a low-blood-sugar-induced binge. If you’re vegetarian or vegan,
The effects on brain function can be reversed, the team wrote in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, but this may take at least five years. Yet, little has been known about its potential impact on brain function. Researchers tested more than 3,000 current or retired workers in a variety of sectors in southern France in 1996, 2001 and 2006 for long- and short-term memory, processing speed and overall cognitive
Photographed By Ben Ritter By Bari Lieberman for Refinery29 Hunching over your laptop, rounding over to see your phone… we probably don’t need to remind you, but the shoulders are a common hot spot of pain. Related: Tired Of Dumbbells?