Key Takeaways To support your immune system, live a healthy lifestyle, which can be defined using the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, restorative sleep and positive social connections. The associations between a healthy lifestyle and immune system function are clearly established and supported by science, so…
Many families are fortunate to enjoy a less structured schedule during the summer. But, as those carefree days of summer give way to the controlled routines of the school year, health and exercise professionals have an opportunity to guide their clients in establishing a family fitness routine and developing healthy habits for kids. While it…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released their 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior. Globally, many adults and adolescents do not meet recommendations for physical activity and there is an urgent need for countries to prioritize and invest in services that get people moving. These updates were made as part of a WHO…
Key Takeaways Knowing how to exercise safely when air quality is bad is important for your overall health, as the physiological responses and health risks associated with air pollution include increases in resting and exercise heart rate and blood pressure, ischemia, and asthma, as well as decreases in lung function and oxygen-carrying capacity. Make informed…
As a health and exercise professional, you may experience an increased amount of stress due to your interactions with your clients. If you are particularly empathetic, you may find that you take on the issues of your clients and may even feel as if you are taking on their unique stressors. As you can imagine,…
Butter yellow has been applied to a wide spread of items lately: cocktail dresses, jeans, jackets, hair clips, handbags and stand mixers. It has been slathered onto the walls of restaurants and home kitchens, and has oozed onto red carpets and the stages of major pop-music tours. Like the dairy product the color is named…
Paris is a place for revolutions: the sci-fi fantasies of Cardin and Courrèges, Jean Paul Gaultier’s skirts pour homme and the inflated gothic rituals of Rick Owens. All wild, memorable and museum-worthy. But it may be Agnès TroublĂ© who has changed what we wear today, more so than any fierce iconoclast. When she introduced Agnès…
Wardrobe changes are old hat in Hollywood, but on Oscar night, when opining on a celebrity’s choice of attire is sport, changing outfits becomes big news. Last year, after winning her second Oscar for her role in “Poor Things,” Emma Stone arrived in a floaty Louis Vuitton dress, changing from the strapless number by the…
It was men’s fashion week in Paris, and the Archivist Store was as busy as Gare du Nord. That is, if the train depot were frequented solely by people who could tell a mere North Face jacket from a North Face Purple Label one. Inside, a boutique owner from New York stood at the counter…