There is a right time for everything. If you want to know if you should eat before, during or after exercising read this ABC page. You'll find a few good pieces of advice!

I should add that there is only one time when it is OK to eat refined sugar (the worst kind) it is in the second half of a marathon. Within minutes it is absorbed and transformed into glucose in your blood stream and from there quickly used by your muscles.

What if you're not? How to change it? You might find an answer in this article of the India-time.

It's all about your spiritual gifts and the way you express them or not. Yes, there is more to life then just money and career. Already the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan considers its Gross National Happiness as important as its Gross National Product!

"I never eat too much and I am always happy". This is one, but you will find many others in this short survey of Canada.com

Attitude is what seems to make the major difference between a long healthy life and a short lived one. Sex is also part of longevity and staying lean and trim helps a lot for men in particular.

68 Percent of Americans Believe Prevention is the Solution to America's Health-care Challenges. This Press Release is interesting. It emphasize however not health nurturing but illness prevention.

Ever thought that "Stress, like exercise, can make us stronger if we take it in regular, increasing doses"? This and other ideas can be found in this article.

Like: "The key to a successful relationship lies in communication. Anger
destroys relationships, leads to violence against others and ourselves,
makes us depressed, and generates chemicals that eat away at us at the
cellular level".

Do we really become smarter when we add years to our life? Or do we get more stupid? The answer is both, depending on how we use our brains. As we age we had more neuron connections, but our brain's processing speed slows down. That is if we don't constantly exercise it and get lazy.

I find more and more information on health and wellness. Is it because there is more of it available now or simply because that's what I am mainly interested in? Probably more of the latter. And still the level of awareness of the general population is slowly increasing.

Do most people apply this new knowledge that is freely available? It does not seem so when you look at a crowd with so many obese people. For some useful advise on health read this article.

I knew there were a lot of common sense habits we could acquire to live longer and healthier, but I did not know all the 140 things Dr. Roizen recommends in his book Real Age. He even has a web site where you can check your real age compared to your chronological one, the one that started the day you were born.

If you are a teenager when you read this, you might not be very excited by such a title. And yet the younger you are the most interested you should be in longevity. That's because you have more chances to improve it than older people. To me the most important aspect of longevity is not the quantity but the quality of the years we can all add to our lives, specially towards the end.

I like this idea that chronic stress is of a different nature than occasional ones. Our body is made to fight or flight in case of instant serious danger like a tiger attack. But how does it react to the constant relentless small aggressions of modern life?