Nutrition Corner

This diet will help you fight chronic fatigue and give you energy all day: While there is no cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a well-balanced diet can play a significant role in helping manage symptoms and boost energy levels

6 Best 'Anxiety Superfoods' To Eat When You're Feeling Stressed: Dr. Uma Naidoo, a Harvard-trained nutritional psychiatrist, shares the best anxiety superfoods to reduce stress.

Recipe for The Day

This Peanut Butter and Sweet Potato Brownie Recipe Is Healthy and Delicious: A nutrient-rich version of a classic treat you can add to your list of healthy dessert recipes to try.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

3 Expert Ways to Fight -Depression Fatigue

• Exercise Most Days of the Week (Even Just a Little Bit Counts): Exercise might be the last thing you feel like doing if you’re encumbered by fatigue. But regular exercise actually boosts your energy and helps you feel less exhausted over time.

• Stick to the Same Bedtime Routine Every Night: When it comes to lessening fatigue, improving the quality of sleep is essential, and typically done via sleep hygiene.

• Do Your Best to De-stress: Although stress is an everyday fact of most people’s lives, there are ways to lessen its effects and better manage any trying moments that pop up unexpectedly.

5 Heart Healthy Foods To Lower Cholesterol, Prevent Heart Disease

• Nuts and seeds: A handful of nuts each day may lower risk of heart disease, studies have found. Nuts are high in healthy fat, fiber, minerals, vitamins and several other bioactive compounds, such as antioxidants, which may in part explain their beneficial effects on cardiovascular health.

• Deeply colored fruits and vegetables: Diets rich in fruits and vegetables — whether fresh, frozen, canned or dried, but “with the exception for white potatoes” — are associated with a reduced risk of heart disease.

• Beans: Beans and legumes are high in minerals and fiber, which has been shown to help protect against heart disease.

• Whole grains: Eating more whole grains like whole-wheat flour, oatmeal and brown rice, instead of white flour, white bread and white rice, improves cardiovascular risk factors.

• Fatty fish: Cold-water fatty fish, including salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring and sardines, contain high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids.

The 3 Benefits of HIIT to Inspire You to Go Hard

• Increased Mental Toughness and Confidence: You might be confident as a strength athlete, but it takes a unique kind of mental toughness to push through the rigors of HIIT training. You’ll need to break through all kinds of mental barriers when your lungs and muscles are burning and there’s no end to your workout in sight.

• Builds Muscle: No, it likely won’t be your first go-to for gaining muscle mass — that would be a strength training program well-acquainted with the principles of progressive overload. Nonetheless, HIIT can be used to develop muscle mass as well.

• Quicker Strength Training: A basic HIIT regimen could substitute for hour-long cardiovascular training in elite cyclists on some days.

Upper Glute Workout: the 4 Best Exercises to Target Those Butt Muscles

• Clam shell: Start on your right side with your knees bent, leaning your head on your right arm to support your neck. Keep your heels together—they should be touching each other the entire time. Place your left hand on your pelvis throughout the exercise. Without allowing your back to arch, lift your left knee apart from your right knee and lower. Do 2 sets of 25 reps, then switch sides.

• Curtsy squat: Start standing with your shoulders back and core engaged, feet hip-width apart. Drop your right foot diagonally behind your left foot, keeping your front foot pointed straight ahead. Make sure your knee is dropping down far enough so your front thigh is parallel to the floor and your knees are forming 90-degree angles. Return to standing and repeat for 3 sets of 15 reps on each side.

• Sumo squat: Start standing with your feet slightly wider than your shoulders and a slight turn out in your toes. Sit down like you would in a regular squat. Let your knees track diagonally out toward the direction of your toes as you lower. Return back to stand. Do 3 sets of 12-15 reps.

• Lateral lunge: Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Take a big step to the side with your left leg, bending the left knee over the toes, slight hinge in the spine. Press off the left foot to move back to center where you started. Do 12 to 15 reps, then repeat on the right side—or go back and forth between sides.

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