myTakes: Health & Fitness

1. I hate my mom and my mommy issues. 2. I hate how I'm too tall. 3. I hate how I was bullied. 4. I hate that I used to cut myself. 5. I hate how I always end up hating the people I like. 6. I hate myself for finding...

I have been in two different psychiatric hospitals for attempts of suicide brought on by(mainly) loneliness and rejection from girls. I had been told I was handsome and tall, but with all the rejection, I knew better, so...

So, I'm still trying to keep a visual record of my battle to regain my health after finishing chemo. I don't have a particularly good support structure in place, I come from a city where even the women are expected to be...

Yoga (or at least some types of yoga) puts an emphasis on non-attachment (vairagya) which would include non-attachment to yoga too. However, another emphasis of yoga is constant practice (abhyasa) which is what I’ve been...

Individuality is a fading concept. The ceaseless, countless cries of "just be yourself!" seem laced with hypocrisy. Despite this omnipresent message, the majority are still desperate to conform. Ironically, conformation...

My buddy suggested I document my journey back from cancer. https://www.youtube.com/embed/3iJPHw3PyMw

I'm aware that some people will say You're just lazy and you don't want to look good. But being jacked doesn't equalize looking good, and it will never happen. It only happens among the mindsets of the big ones....

I used a performance - enhancing drug and won. (Sort of) In 1996 French cyclist Jérôme Chiotti stormed to victory in the world mountain-bike championships in Cairns Australia. He dominated the race from start to finish....

Science shows that ' evolutionary fitness ' makes slimmer females more appealing. Because slim bodies are instinctively associated with youth, fertility, and health. Our natural animal instinct find thinner women...

Why I Run! How running makes you feel, what it does to me! Most important reason to run ;-) Things to keep in mind! Final advice But at the end .....

Tonight I had a horrible experience. It's hard to hide under a mask and deny the problem. But the truth is I have anxiety issues. I had an anxiety attack tonight at work after the manager called me down about a...

1. Workout abs everyday Your abs take time to recover after a workout like your back muscles ( lats, traps, erector spinae) would. It takes on average 48 hours for the abs to recover. Exercise breaks down bone as well as...

Emotional pain is the cause of self harm. Here is why it shouldn't be: 1. It won't solve the root cause of your emotional pain. 2. It can leave permanent scars for temporary emotions. 3. You could end up in the hospital...

My fellow G@gers, I want to make this very short and sweet. Many of you want to lose fat, and many of you want to lose fat *in a certain spot*. I am here to tell you, officially, that you *CANNOT* choose where the fat...

What do you think of when you hear the words: blood sugar, obesity, .and insulin? You think of diabetes right? Well they all are included in a diabetics vocabulary,but these words do not necessarily mean every diabetic...

With all of the Vegan myTakes and questions on here I decided to do a rebuttal of my own on why meat should be.consumed and the health benefits of it. I know there is a lot of controversy about how the animal is raised on...

The days are getting longer and warmer, and you're staring at yourself in the mirror, dreading the meaning behind the weather shift: "Damn, I'll have to wear less clothing, and for a longer period of time every day. And I...

Before we get started with this story I have to warn you that some of the stuff that will be shared is graphic. This story involves a rather disturbing automobile accident involving death. If you do not think you can read...

I know I write a lot of myTakes about food and nonsensical things. But tonight I want to share a myTake about a silent but common killer that is prevalent in our society today. That killer is called Pulmonary Embolism or...

Azrial's Anatomy is a series of apprehensible lessons in human anatomy. These lessons will cover the anatomy of organs, briefly describe functions and some diseases. Italic text in parentheses are medical term. This...