What is the Salary of a Personal Trainer?
Personal Trainer Salary Info Before you decide become a Certified Personal Trainer you may be interested to know how much money the average personal trainer can earn. There are a variety of variables that can influence this: location, level of experience, job specifications, level of education and number & variety of
Personal Trainer Jobs Up By 24%
In a recent article by CNN, there are over 251,400 certified personal trainers currently working in the United States, the industry is known as a highly competitive environment. A recent report by CNN Money states personal training will become even more competitive in the next 10 years, as the number of
Why Health Professional’s Nutrition Advice May Be Wrong
Is the nutrition advice your are getting from your health professional wrong? Posted on December 13, 2013 by Stone Hearth News Many dieters eventually end up weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) or overweight. This paradox may partly be explained by a chemical response to a disturbance in weight homeostasis, which happens when hunger
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Fatty Acids Crucial to Embryonic Development
Fatty acids are crucial to embryonic development Posted on December 12, 2013 by Stone Hearth News Baltimore, MD— One classical question in developmental biology is how different tissue types arise in the correct position of the developing embryo. While one signaling pathway that controls this process has been well described, unexpected findings
Top Fitness Trends 2014
ACSM Prediction of the Top Fitness Trends 2014 The eighth annual Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends was recently released by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as a prediction of the top 20 fitness trends for 2014. Fitness industry trends are a reflection of the current needs and expectations of
Benefits of a Mediterranean Diet
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Reduced Cognitive Decline Published in November, 2013 issue of Natural Standard’s Integrative Medicine Newsletter Shared here with permission of Natural Standards Research Collaboration ©2013 A recent study suggests that people who consistently adhere to a Mediterranean diet may have a reduced risk for
Get Kids Excited to Exercise
With so many distractions for kids not to exercise, from video games to computers and the fattening of America taking place at an ever increasing pace, kids are more unfit than any other time in our history. In major studies during the last ten years, children from the ages of six
Gluten-Free Immune Booster Soup
Immune Booster Holiday Soup (Gluten-Free) Melissa McLean Jory, MNT Here it comes — the on-rushing freight train of holiday cheer. Parties, shopping, family gatherings, cake, cookies, candies, eggnog, overeating. Stress! One thing leads to another and as the holidays approach, we eat more sweets, drink more wine, sleep less, skip yoga class, and
How Much Coffee Should You Drink?
Are you drinking too much coffee? People ask, “Should I start drinking coffee?”, “Should I stop drinking coffee?”, “How much is too much?”, and the list goes on and on. Unfortunately when it comes to recommendations, one size does not fit all. The truth is,
Minimum Recommended Daily Allowance of Antioxidants
Glucose is the primary fuel of the human body, that’s what starches are broken down into. Our body takes glucose in our diet and the oxygen we breathe in and makes energy to power our bodies, water, and carbon dioxide that we breathe out. Plants then take the water and