The Green Pregnancy: 5 Steps to going green for your baby

[Fit Pregnancy Magazine]  5 Steps to going green for your baby. Your body is your child’s first environment. Make it a safe one. When you’re pregnant, living a green lifestyle takes on a new importance. Instead of following the trend to ease your eco-guilt, it’s about creating a safe and healthy world for your baby to [...]

You Snooze, You Win

Is there any real science behind the myth of beauty sleep? More and more experts say yes. Scientific studies haven’t looked at how sleep affects appearance directly—for example, the way the lack of it impacts skin renewal—but we do know that our bodies repair cells and tissues while we sleep. But if you can’t sleep [...]

Core Condition (pregnancy)

Core strength training is the answer to common prenatal discomforts such as back, shoulder and hip pain. During the postpartum period, a strong, stable core will also help you lift and carry your baby and lug around all that heavy baby-equipment. During pregnancy and the postpartum period, form and posture become extremely important. Core strength [...]

New Year, New You

Eight Strategies to help you get fit for the new year Looking good in your clothes is great motivation for starting a new exercise plan. But that’s not all you get from regular exercise. The right fitness plan can make you stronger, give you more energy, keep your bones healthy, strengthen your heart, lift your [...]

Brand New Moves for a Brand New You

Three suggestions for moves you can work into your exercise routine Once you begin to work out regularly, you’ll need to switch it up from time to time to keep from getting bored. You’ll also eventually want to kick your workout up a notch to make sure you’re working all your muscles. Here are three [...]

Health Book Contracts

Book contracts are difficult enough to understand. They can get even more complicated when you’re writing a health book and not only working with an agent and publisher, but you’re collaborating with someone to help you write the book. Everyone has to get their fair share. The publishing agreement can be several pages long, so [...]

8 ways to find a health book collaborator

Should you write a health book yourself, or work in collaboration? Look closely at the top selling health books in bookstores and you’ll see that many if not most are written in collaboration between a writer and a health expert. Often the expert is named first as the “author” to give the book clout, while [...]

Finding an agent for your first health book

A lot of people think they can simply write a book about their health topic or experiences and mail it off to a big commercial publisher who will be happy to receive it, publish it, promote it, and make millions for the happy author. It can happen that way, but unfortunately, this isn’t usually the [...]

Writing a book proposal

Two kinds of people want to write health books: 1) writers interested in health, and 2) health professionals interested in writing. No matter which one you are, the process begins with the book proposal. Before you write your book, before you can attract a book agent, you need to know and show what your book [...]

Should you write a health book?

Want to write a book? Join the club. Surveys say more than 80 percent of people want to write be published authors. The reasons are many and varied. You may just want to share what you know about a particular health, fitness, or nutrition topic with the world. Or you may want to promote your [...]

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