Healthy Living Tips

  • Tips for Dealing with Holiday Treats

    Halloween is just the kickoff to a season of sweet indulgences. Following are some tips to help keep you and your family on a healthy track. If you don’t buy it, you won’t eat it! Buy Halloween candy or treats that do not usually appeal to you. If you prefer chocolate, buy gummy or sugar based treats;

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  • Exercise May Lower Breast Cancer Risks

    Ladies, when you make an effort to come into to Healthy Fit for Women, whether it’s to run, Spin, or take a Pilates class, you’re making your health a priority AND reducing your risk for breast cancer. A new study published CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, found that women can reduce

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  • Exercise May Help You Conquer New Skills

    You know that old saying, “It’s like riding a bike?” Well, it may be more than just saying according to a new study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen who recently discovered that exercise may help you improve motor memory and motor skill learning. To test how exercise effects brain function, the researchers divided

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  • Study: Exercise Helps Reduce Anxiety

    Here at Healthy Fit, we’re constantly promoting all of the great effects that exercise can have on your brain and body — and now we have another one to add to the list! A new study shows exercise may protect against future emotional stress and anxiety.

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  • Lose the Scale. Gain Some Confidence.

    You’re up 2 pounds, you’re down 1 pound, you’re down 3 pounds, you’re up 1 pound. Does this sound familiar to you at all? OK, perhaps it’s time you take a break from the scale. Yes, the scale, can at times, be a tangible way to mark your progress, which can be reassuring when you’re

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  • Yoga: The Basics and Benefits

    You’re stressed out, your back hurts, your shoulders are stiff, you can’t concentrate, and you just need some time to relax! However, there’s just not enough time, because you know you have to get that workout in today. Don’t worry, you can do both with Yoga at Healthy Fit, The Health Club for Women! You’ve

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  • Burn More Fat With a Metabolic Workout

    If you want to increase your metabolic rate (calories and fat burned to supply your body with energy) both during and after your workout, you should consider trying a Metabolic Workout. (Don’t forget to check out our Healthy Fit Metabolic Workout below!) So what exactly is Metabolic Training? To put it plainly, Metabolic Training is

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  • Eating Healthy on a Budget

    You’ve heard it before, eating healthy is expensive. FALSE! Don’t worry, if you’re on a budget, you don’t need to turn to the Dollar Meal at the nearest fast food joint. In steps the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which recently partnered with the anti-hunger group Share Our Strength to create “Good Food on a Tight

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  • Good Diet and Exercise Can Promote Good Memory

    We all know that eating right can help you ward off those pesky pounds, but did you know that a good diet may also effect our memory and ward off dementia when we’re older? A study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that women who ate the most saturated fats from foods such

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  • Exercise May Help Depression

    Studies about the benefits of exercising just keep getting better and better! Now there’s evidence that it can actually help treat depression. According to the study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, depression is common in patients with cardiac disease, especially in patients with heart failure. So they decided to find out

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