Sleep is so elusive to some of us, yet so essential to a productive, healthy day. Experts recommend getting 7-8 hours of sleep a night — and for good reason!
Sleep can strengthen your heart. Lack of Zzz’s can cause your body to release the stress hormone cortisol, which triggers your heart to work 10 times harder.
Sleep can also boost your immune system because while your head is on that…
Growing up, Lindsay Raynne relied on food for emotional support. “I came from a broken family, and eating was my constant,” she says. “Stability in caloric intake, you could say. I could always count on the joys of taste.” Low income living meant poor food quality…
Growing up, Ellie Marie Manacchio realized that she didn’t look like her peers.
“I was always the heavy kid in a room of super-thin friends,” she remembers. “My dad told me I was ‘big boned’ and that it was just our family’s genetics.” Manacchio came from a…
If you’re a regular Oxygen reader, you know we love to highlight inspirational women from our badass community of fitness fanatics. Here are five women who take fitness to the next level.
Charlene Farnsworth
Grassie, Ontario, Canada
Stats: 51 • 140 lb • 5’9”
Gig: Housecleaner and model
Medical Scare. In 2011, Charlene Farnsworth found a lump on her throat. Thankfully, it wasn’t…
A study conducted on more than 30,000 older adult heart patients found that becoming active later in life can be nearly as beneficial to quality of life as continued activity earlier in youth.
The European Society of Cardiology suggests that it is possible for someone to…
They say that running a marathon is like childbirth. So doesn’t it stand to reason that you should go to a physical therapist for childbirth, just like you would after a race? Even more, why do you see a PT leading up to your race but not leading up to your…
We chose a location on a random stretch of beach just off the Honoapi‘ilani Highway on Maui — a place where we could pull Claire P. Thomas’ converted Sprinter van through the kiawe trees and onto the sand. The only other people around were a few environmental volunteers taking water samples down the way.
We were shooting Thomas “making breakfast,” and she stood just inside the van…
Molly Kujawski has a family history of mental illness. In college she became depressed and took medication to fight the blues. At the same time, in an effort to counteract her genetics, she started working out regularly and eating better — and everything changed, including…
How many times have you planned to attend a holiday party where you knew you’d eat and drink a few too many festive treats, but still vowed to wake up early the next day and sweat off your transgressions with a killer workout?
Except after the fact, all you want to do is…
Fast-forward a few weeks — it’s January 1, and you’re lying on the couch, surrounded by empty wine bottles and cookie tins, feeling bloated, defeated and angry with yourself for completely ditching your health and fitness priorities for a holiday-induced bender that destroyed all the hard work you did in the gym and in the kitchen the last few months.
Oh yes, your day of reckoning is fast…