Alabama’s Largest Yoga Class
(HUNTSVILLE, Al) On Saturday morning, April 28 from 8:00 – 9:30 a.m., Huntsville Botanical Garden will host Alabama’s Largest Yoga Class led by Katherine Orton as part of the Healthy Huntsville initiative in partnership with Sterling Health. Best of all, the class is absolutely FREE! Enjoy one of Huntsville’s most beautiful locations as you...
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TEDMED
How would you create the future of health? One approach is to gather 1,500 of the brightest game changers in one location for an epic four day event known as TEDMED. This extraordinary conference is like stepping into an alternate reality. Mingle in the social space among chief innovation officers of giants such as Philips,...
Motivational Attire
A bit of motivation for the next time you’re thinking about skipping a workout: Tweet
These are your legs on exercise.
“It’s what’s on the inside that counts” Good news for all of us who hope to live long, healthy lives: a new study illustrates a striking revelation on long-term muscle integrity. Turns out your muscles do not necessarily atrophy with age as long as they are regularly strenuously exercised. “This study contradicts the common observation that muscle mass...
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Healthy Huntsville 2012
Being healthy is not easy. It takes work. Eating well, exercising, managing stress and remaining curious are learned habits that are easier when you have a community encouraging you. With this in mind, we are proud to introduce Healthy Huntsville, the gamified, crowd-sourced, community health initiative brought you as a collaboration between HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and Sterling...
Body 101: muscles and joints
Your body is amazing. Over 650 skeletal muscles working together yield your bilaterally symmetrical biological frame, composed functionally of 325 working pairs of muscles and over 187 joints. How many can you feel? I’m at about 150, up from just 100 a couple months ago. Yoga and other exercise activities that simultaneously strengthen and stretch...
7 Minute Superworkout
Supercharged workouts a la Cross Fit have taken the health scene by storm. The number one request we hear during wellness consultations is for condensed workouts (and recipes) that save time and bust adipose. I recommend circuit training because it actually trains your body to be more effective at moderating metabolism. These incremental training sessions...
Clean, Green, Healthy Eating
Rebecca Sterling rocked GreenU on Saturday, delivering a TEDesque presentation on clean, green, healthy eating. While the video footage is making rounds in the editing cave, check out some of the visual health enlightenment we shared with the crowd: Put this into perspective: a pound of wheat takes 155 gallons of water...
Ten Tenets of Whole Living
Whole Living is regularly updated with recipes, fitness and motivation and topped off with a delightful scoop of innovation.
All-day activities boost metabolism more than exercise
By combining little activities such as standing up during a phone call, you can burn an additional 1200 to 2400 calories every day!





