Balancing a Healthy Lifestyle

Maintaining your health is certainly a hot topic these days and that means there are excessive amounts of information staying healthy. How do you know which tips to follow? This article recommends heeding the voice that lives precisely in the middle of both extremes. When programming your body for maximum results the key is to find a good balance. Eating the proper food and keeping a healthy exercise routine can significantly increase your body's well-being.

Much like the precarious line between thinking carefully about food and obsessing over it, exercise is also a highly beneficial component of a healthy lifestyle that can easily become problematic.These days, we hear almost as much about the health risks of excessive exercise as we do lack of physical activity."One end of it is avoidance of exercise, versus the other extreme extreme, which is too much exercise," says Jennifer E. Carter, Ph.D., the director of sport psychology and the Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center. "Balanced exercise finds the middle ground." Some of us need an extra push to get off the couch, or some reigning in once in a while. For others, finding the balance between too much and too little physical activity comes easily.

— A Healthy Relationship with Exercise

Award Winning Florida Golf Community - Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country Club

Florida golf community, Harbour Ridge Yacht and Country Club, is an award winning golfer's paradise. The two 18-hole championship golf courses have been designed with various tees. Our masterfully built golf courses are beautifully framed by mother nature's unique overlay, highlighting the natural outdoors with breath-taking views of the landscape. This article offers a detailed guide of our homes, marina and golf course.

The professional staff is available for expert instruction on a two-ended, state-of-the-art golf practice facility. With approximately 100 single-digit, male handicappers and many excellent women players, members of Harbour Ridge enjoy a caliber of golfing excellence that few communities can match. The River Ridge Golf Course is characterized by undulating fairways and greens, deep pot bunkers, island greens and waste bunkers. Five sets of tees are provided to accommodate all golfers, plus there's a combination course consisting of a mix of the various colored tees. The clubhouse features a stunning and well-stocked golf pro shop, formal and informal restaurants, men's and ladies' locker rooms, exercise rooms, meeting rooms, private dining rooms and staff offices. Designed by Pete & P.B. Dye, the River Ridge Golf Course is characterized by undulating fairways and greens, deep pot bunkers, island greens and waste bunkers. Five sets of tees, gold, blue, white, red, and green, are provided to accommodate all golfers and a combination course of "gold & blue tees," "blue & white tees," "white & red tees," and "red & green tees" offer yet another interesting challenge to all golfers.

— Harbour Ridge Community

Are Pesticides Ruining Your Healthy Diet?

Food is vital facet in attaining a healthy lifestyle but some of the foods we trust to help us do more harm than good.  This pesticide list published by the Dirt Dozen compiles the pesticide residue data from 48 well-trusted fruits and vegetables. Read this before making your next grocery list.

For decades, various toxic pesticides were claimed to be 'safe' -- until they weren't, and either banned or phased out because they posed risks to people," Sonya Lunder, EWG's senior analyst and author of the Shopper's Guide report said in a statement. "While regulators and scientists debate these and other controversies about pesticide safety, EWG will continue drawing attention to the fruits and vegetables with the highest pesticide loads."

— Pesticide Report

Need a Little R & R?

 Relaxation is critical to living a healthy and balanced life. Yet it can be the hardest technique to master for most people. This article breaks down practical strategies for achieving relaxation and getting the rest you need to be more productive.

Even if you sleep like a baby most nights, you’ve probably had at least the occasional bout of insomnia. Whether it’s that late-night snack that keeps the sandman away, stress or something less sinister, here are six relaxation techniques to try when sleep eludes you: 

1. Guided visualization Lie in bed and tell your body to relax from head to toe, suggests Joshua Jacobi, MD, an interventional cardiologist in Pasadena, California. “Forehead relax, eyes relax, cheeks relax,” and so forth down until your toes. “Then, I picture lying on a beach. I bring in all the sensory awareness to the setting. So I feel the sand in my toes, the warmth of the sun, a cool breeze. I see the waves slowly coming in to the shore. I see palm trees waving in the wind. I hear the sound of the waves as they come in,” says Jacobi. Picture this scene or something else that is relaxing for you.

— Relaxation Tips

King of the Sand

Justin Rose is the "King of the Sand" as far as we're concerned. His consistency in swing structure never ceases to amaze golf fans. Check out his tips for improving your swing and owning the sand. Your game will never be the same.

Justin Rose has ranked top 20 on the PGA Tour in sand saves each of the last four years. One reason is, he practices like he plays. A lot of golfers hit from perfect lies in the practice bunker, but not Justin. He throws balls down in the sand, and whatever lie he gets, that's the lie he plays.

— Justin Rose Golf Tips

J.B. Holmes is Undoubtedly a Champion

J.B. Holmes has endured some pretty tough circumstances this season and he did an amazing job at keeping up with the curb while battling the side effects of a brain injury to say the least. He was diagnosed with Chiara malformations, described by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as structural defects in the cerebellum. Read more of J.B.'s heroic story...

The strength to flatten dimples on a golf ball might be an advantage in arm wrestling, but not in grappling with the challenges J.B. Holmes faced in recent years. Suffice it to say that a clubhead speed in excess of 120 miles per hour is incompatible with balance issues. Something was wrong with Holmes, and it was more formidable than a devilish par 3. Or even Tiger Woods.

— J.B. Holmes Took a Beating

Fallon on the Green?

Jimmy Fallon has many talents and from the looks of it golf can't be added to that roster just yet. He does however take excellent pictures in golf attire. Check out these sneak peeks from Fallon's shoot for the June cover of Golf Digest.

On whether he considers himself a golfer, or a guy who plays golf: Jimmy Fallon is trying to be a golfer, but right now he's a guy who plays golf. I'm trying my hardest, and I love to play, but if I'm in front of a crowd, I just want to make them laugh.

— Jimmy Fallon Cover Shoot