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Sitting at a desk all day staring at a computer screen can take a huge toll on your body. It's important to give your mind, body, and eyes mini breaks throughout the day with rest periods and various stretches to help keep muscles from becoming stiff and sore. If you have an iPhone, here are some useful apps that will keep you feeling great during the workday. And if you like these, be sure to Read more
iPhones are not just for listening to workout mixes. You can enhance almost any exercise experience with a few apps for tracking your progress or teaching you new moves. Apps that use social networks are another way to up your game, since announcing to your friends how you've worked out for the day holds you accountable, keeps you motivated, and inspires your social circle. Here are eight iPhone Read more
Losing weight is a difficult struggle for most, but you don't have to go at it alone. For busy women wanting to drop pounds, being able to keep track of weight-loss goals on their phone is not only convenient, it offers the support and motivation needed to follow through. Here's a list of the best weight-loss apps — and they won't cost you a dime! Lose It!: Fill in some important info about Read more
For many who have stuck to their healthy ways all week long, the weekend is a time to loosen up the reigns a little, ignore weight-loss rules, and indulge in some high-calorie Cinco de Mayo goodness. If you're not careful though, an entire weekend of living it up could make you gain the pounds you've worked so hard to keep off all week. Here are some ways to splurge a little this weekend and not Read more
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Just call her supermama. As if having a baby and launching The Honest Company weren't enough to do in one year, Jessica Alba recently announced plans to write her first book, too. The actress and mother of two — Honor, 3, and Haven, 7 months — hopes to share some of the tips and tricks she's learned about motherhood, as well as her methods for creating an eco-friendly and toxin-free Read more
Chocolate desserts that help on your quest for a flatter belly — Prevention Beyond white bread: carbs that undermine your healthy habits — Shape Eating mindfully means more than chewing your food 32 times — Blisstree Black superfoods are the new black — Health Detox naturally with a salad of dandelion greens — Vegetarian Times The best apps for tracking food on your phone — Read more
Have you started keeping a food journal yet for this week's Get Fit For 2010 weekly challenge? We've got a cool food journal that you can print out, but if you're a tech geek like me you might be scratching your head at the idea of putting pen to paper. Try Lose It instead — a free iPhone app that helps users manage their weight by tracking their calorie intake. To start, you enter in your Read more
We are pumped to share one of our favorite stories from Health.com here on our site. A sleeker, stronger body could be just a tweet or a Facebook post away By Jamie Beckman One of the best tools for peeling off pounds is already in your bag: It's your smartphone or iPad. In fact, all that texting, tweeting, and posting — the average woman spends more than 80 minutes a day on her phone, Read more
Many of us spend all day sitting at an office desk, and we know how unhealthy that can potentially be. If you find yourself forgetting to do those important desk exercises or even getting out of your office chair altogether, you'll want to check out the Time Out download from the Mac App Store. Time Out is a free app for your Mac computer that fades out your screen after a specified interval so Read more
