From the monthly archives:
If you are trying to lose weight, don’t skimp on your sleep. Not because you can “lose weight while you sleep” as many snake oil diet products may have you believe but because a lack of sleep can interfere with the concentrations of hormones that control appetite, causing you to eat more and disrupt [...]
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Check out the infomercials on TV this weekend and you will see a dozen or so pieces of equipment, DVD’s, diet plans, funky belts that you wear, balls, slides, gadgets, contraptions, you name it, all devoted to one body part-ABS.
Apparently the whole world wants sleek, firm, sculpted,6 pack abs-Awesome Abs. No other [...]
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The popularity of Yoga and Pilates has exploded in the past few years. Yoga and Pilates are both great for conditioning your body and improving flexibility and strength. Both Yoga and Pilates are performed with bare feet. But there are some big differences between the two.
Pilates was developed in [...]
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Tomorrow is April Fools Day. A perfect day to test your body fat. No really, I mean because it is the first day of month. If you are on any kind of weight loss, exercise, lose fat, gain muscle actually just any kind of fitness program it would do you well [...]
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You may have read or heard on the news this week that some researchers have developed what they are calling “healthy pork” by cloning. They mixed the DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and the DNA from pigs to produce pork with significant amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids, the healthy kind that is believed [...]
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The dreaded bathroom scale and weighing in can be one of the hardest parts of a weight-loss/fitness routine. No other piece of equipment can take you to the highest highs and the lowest lows all in the space of a few days or even a few hours. On Tuesday of this week, [...]
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Recently I have been reading a diet book. (Yeah, I admit, I read about fad diets just like the rest of America!) Its quite interesting but it should be should be classified with all of the other “Fad Diets” that are out there. I may be exaggerating some but the main things you [...]
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It seems that the “low-fat” diet trend is over. Rarely do we ever see a new fad diet these days that stresses low-fat. The reason why is we got fatter and fatter and we discovered it didn’t work. Remember the early 90’s when Susan Powter was ranting on TV about how “fat [...]
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Exercise and nutrition advice comes to me everyday in my e-mail. Does it come to you too? But the crazy thing is all of the conflicting information I receive. What really is the truth?
Do cardio to lose fat. Lift weights to become lean. Too much cardio will cause you to lose [...]
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There’s a new diet plan out there. It is called “The Cheater’s Diet”. Sounds good, huh? Sounds really good, if you don’t want to diet or eat well but just want to lose weight with no pain. Lose weight by cheating!
But all jokes aside, the plan is actually based on eating [...]
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“Buzzwords” abound in diet information. One of the more recent “buzzwords” you may have heard is the Glycemic Index.
The Glycemic Index is a measurement of a food’s ability to elevate blood sugar. The quicker a food elevates your blood sugar, the quicker energy and subsequent decline of energy is caused from [...]
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A new study has shown that lifting weights just 2 times per week can decrease bodyfat and keep your heart healthy.
The study included 164 obese and overweight women, from age 24 to 44. The group was divided into 2. The first group took part in a 16-week program of supervised strength [...]
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With the recent confirmed case of Mad Cow disease in Alabama again the debate over eating meat or not comes to mind.
I don’t know the answer to this debate. The Vegans have the answer. Don’t eat meat, dairy, eggs or even honey, nothing from an animal. The hard-core meat-eaters and [...]
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I read today that 1 in 4 American Adults has high blood pressure. That makes high blood pressure much more common than I ever realized.
High blood pressure can cause a host of physical and medical problems such as heart failure, stroke, kidney disease, vision loss, and dementia. In pregnant women [...]
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I’ve always been a fan of Jack LaLanne. Really. When I was a little kid I would watch Jack on TV and do all the exercises right with him. I thought it was great! He was the only one exercising on TV in the 60’s. It seems that back then [...]
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A friend of mine from college died when we were in our early 20’s. She died. Her young life was cut short. She missed out on families, careers, husbands, accomplishments, joys in life. And Why? Why?
Because my friend had an obsession, an obsession to be thinner, to not eat, to [...]
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Momma (and others) always said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well that is true. Think about it. Break Fast- that’s what breakfast is all about, you are breaking your fast and starting to eat again. After going without food for so many hours your blood sugar [...]
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And the bad news this week is that the number of overweight children worldwide is expected to increase significantly by the end of the decade.
The news says that nearly half of all of the children living in North and South America will be overweight by 2010, and in Europe it is expected [...]
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This morning at the gym all of the TV news stations were reporting on the passing of Dana Reeve from lung cancer. The first question that always seems to arise after hearing of a lung cancer death is–Was she a smoker?
The answer is NO, Dana Reeve was not a smoker. Even though [...]
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We all know how important Cardiovascular exercise is for us. It helps our heart and lungs, it helps us burn more fat for weight loss and there are many other benefits.
But you may have heard that you need to keep your heart rate up for 20 minutes or more to get benefits. [...]
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When you are trying to lose weight it is often recommended that you use a food diary to record what and how much you eat. Often by doing this you can pinpoint times and foods that may be derailing your weight loss efforts.
But if you try to do this on paper, you [...]
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