From the monthly archives:
It’s the beginning of the New Year and it is resolution time. January is the big month. Most of us maintain our resolutions through about January and then they fall by the wayside. But a few of us persist. A few of us reach our New Years resolutions and goals. [...]
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Look around, there is plenty of advice on what to eat for the holidays and what not to eat. Eat turkey instead of ham, eat sweet potatoes instead of mashed potatoes and gravy. Don’t eat the fudge, eat just one chocolate kiss instead. The average American gains 7+ lbs. over the holidays [...]
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It’s important to read labels. It can give you so much valuable information and it can help you monitor your food and calorie intake better if you pay attention.
But labels can be tricky! Sometimes manufacturers tend to be misleading with nutritional information or at least they try to show everything in [...]
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At an age when many people slow down and resign themselves to “aging” Kelly Nelson completely changed her life and her own personal aging process. Kelly was 53 years old with no athletic background when she began weight training and soon she began competing in bodybuilding competitions with her daughter.
In this photo [...]
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Sometimes its just easier to work out at home. You can do it whenever you want to. You don’t have to drive anywhere. You can wear whatever you want to wear. Nobody will see you (except maybe your family). Maybe it would just be easier to make that committment [...]
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Even though it never seems to be quite this simple the formula for weight loss is calories out must exceed calories in. In other words you must burn more calories than you eat. To make it simple that is the formula. Move more, eat less, eat less, move more. Easy, really [...]
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Does it help or hinder your weight loss efforts to step on a scale regularly? Arguments can be made for both sides. Stepping on the scale can help to keep you on track. It can help you to know if what you are doing is working. It can let you [...]
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Sometimes it really helps to have someone to workout with. When you know somebody else is counting on you to be there it is harder to miss your workout. It also helps to have someone to diet with. Even if it is someone just to commiserate with!
Well there is an online site [...]
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Designing a fitness program does not have to be a daunting task. Even though there is so much information out there and there are books, magazines, webpages, friends, loved ones, and personal trainers all trying to give good advice, the thing to remember is that a personal fitness program can be just that-personal. [...]
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24 hour fitness clubs are popping up all over. Especially around the western and northwestern part of the United States. There are 24 hour fitness clubs in 15 states and they just keep growing.
Most of these clubs are really open 24 hours a day. It would be interesting to see [...]
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It’s that time of year again. Time when all kinds of fitness equipment goes on sale. If you are thinking of purchasing some kind of fitness equipment, right now and into January is when the best sales are on.
The manufacturers take advantage of the “New Years Resolution” phenomenon. Many of [...]
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We all know people who look much, much older than they really are. We all know people who are older and unhealthier than they should be based on their age.
What science has told us in the recent past is that we can control how we age. We can prevent and avoid [...]
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I came across an interesting website today. whfoods.org is a site devoted to the “World’s Healthiest” foods. It has some greeat information about healthy foods, eating healthy and cooking healthy.
This website is not about some crazy diet that they want to sell you. Nor does it have references to strange and exotic [...]
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Recently a study came out that said that antibacterial soaps were no more effective at preventing illnesses and that they might even be detrimental to our health by creating resistant bacterias. Please see this previous article that I wrote antibacterial-soap.
Well, I have found some great products that do not have any added antibacterial ingredients. [...]
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Christmas is a stressful time of year. There is no getting around that. Shopping, partying, decorating, planning, everything about Christmas takes its toll!
But its supposed to be “The most wonderful time of the year”. So why isn’t it?
Maybe this year we all need to slow down. Realize that if everything is [...]
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