From the monthly archives:
I think we all agree that if we are having fun doing something we want to do more of it. Its just human nature–If something is fun and pleasurable we want to do it more if something is drudgery we want to avoid it.
That is a problem that many people have with [...]
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You may have heard that two of lifes simple pleasures, wine and chocolate, are good for your heart.
In fact a recent study found that healthy women can cut their risk of heart disease by as much as 53 percent by enjoying the pair.
But, there is a caveat. Not just any wine but it is [...]
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Dieting without Salad-sounds like a misnomer. But really, just because we all think diet and salads does that mean we have to eat salad to lose weight?
Absolutely not, that is ridiculous! Salad is not the “only” food you can eat and still lose weight! There are many low and lower calorie [...]
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Does sleep really affect health? You bet it does. During sleep, your body is resting and recovering from all the work is has done throughout the day. Your serotonin levels are brought back in line, your muscles relax, and mind is allowed to clear itself in preparation for the next day. [...]
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This one little tip has helped me so much that I can’t stress it enough!
You have probably heard this before. Stress is a key contributor to poor health. Study after study has found that when a person is stressed, the body reacts. The result of stress could be high-blood pressure, tension headaches, [...]
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Roasted Green Pepper Salad Serves 4
4 medium size peppers
1 clove garlic
4 teaspoons vinegar
salt and pepper to taste
4 tablespoons oil
Preheat broiler. Broil peppers under medium flame on aluminum covered broiler pan until the skin has blackened on all sides (turning them frequently with tongs) and until they are just tender. Place them in a [...]
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There is no getting around it- If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I don’t know how those really skinny people who eat and eat burn so many calories (there really are people like that, aren’t there-or are they just a myth? claiming they eat when they really [...]
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There are 2 main causes of high blood cholesterol levels- diet and genetics. Genetics is pretty much set at birth. You really can’t decide to exchange your parents for a different set with lower cholesterol! But you can control your diet. A diet high in saturated fat is the main cause [...]
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Go to any health food store (or almost any store for that matter!) and you will see shelves upon shelves of “dieting” aids– Fat burners, diet pills and more. But do these products really help you lose weight? And how do they affect your health?
Most of us remember the Phen-fen fiasco. [...]
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Traditionally, pilates has not been considered an effective way to lose weight. It has always been considered a great toning exercise but the pace in traditional pilates was not fast enough to elevate your heart rate and the effect on the muscles was limited to toning and not building.
However, Winsor pilates claims [...]
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Ever eaten something that made you break into rashes? How about itchiness of the throat, around the eyes, your ears, and even your hands and feet? These are actually symptoms of food allergies.
Food allergies are a condition where the body’s immune system becomes hypersensitized. As a result of this hypersensitized state, it mistakenly believes that [...]
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By: Dianne Villano, CPFI
Considering the Bulging Waist Lines of 66% of The Population it is obvious that sticking to a healthy eating plan is a challenge for many people . If your are having problems sticking with that resolution that you set in January, here are some simple tips to help you start to create [...]
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By: Adrian Bryant
1. Start Exercising first thing in the morning.
As soon as you wake up in the morning workout for at least 30min to an hour. Studies show that working out in the morning has been shown to burn up to 3x as more fat as opposed to working out at any other time [...]
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Only a migraine sufferer understands the pain. Regardless of how the migraine starts the end result is the same – excrutiating pain that renders you helpless. Walking hurts, breathing hurts. Even thinking hurts.
People often discount migraines without any true understanding of the suffering a migraine can inflict. They treat migraine sufferers like hypochondriacs or [...]
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All of us will like to see ourselves well groomed and fit enough to look great and flaunt those athletic physiques among friends and relatives. Unfortunately, it is not always possible for the most obvious reasons; we simply can not maintain our body weight. For some people the dilemma of being overweight starts first in [...]
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In the matter of should we approach a low carb diet or not the opinions are divided. One claim in favor of low carb diets is that humans did not evolve to eat modern food based on grains, starches, or refined sugar. This type of alimentation determine the body to produce excess amounts of the [...]
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Health food can have many different meanings depending on the individual you speak with. Health food can be strictly fruits and vegetables without meat in a diet, the absence of any complex carbohydrates from a diet to eliminating all sugars from a diet. Health food isn’t really all that complicated to define in reality. Health [...]
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The process of oxidation is where it all begins. The minute your body starts to process oxygen in order to produce energy is the first step to potentially developing a disease or starting the slow process of aging.
It’s normal and it is a part of life. Certainly, it can’t be completely dispelled. It can however [...]
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I admit it, my favorite clothes in the world are workout clothes. I live in workout clothes. I have a busy life. I workout early in the morning. I don’t have to dress for work because I am extremely lucky to work at home so workout clothes are what I [...]
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There is a question about adding weights to your cardio workout and how or if it is more effective. Well it depends upon the specifics of the exercise.
If you are adding weights to a treadmill workout or a walking workout the benefits will not be that much greater and you are also [...]
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If your training program is in a slump and you are not making the gains that you are wanting, it may be useful for you to look into putting periodization into your weight training program.
Periodization is basically organizing your training into blocks or time units that focus on a specific skill. You will [...]
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ATTENTION all dieters in the “I’LL TRY ANYTHING CATEGORY” Vinegar and Honey water for dieting may be your answer!
And it just may. Every diet, even the most insane of them has worked for someone at some time and at some point. Otherwise you wouldn’t hear about it now would [...]
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Great Abs, don’t we all admire them, idolize them, covet them? No other body part commands so much of our fitness attention whether we are male or female. And just how many different gadgets for ab workouts do they sell on informercials? And of course, every one claims to be the [...]
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There are a ton of “Free workout routines” that you can find on the Internet. If you are not wanting to take the time to design your own program or if you really don’t have a clue on how to design a workout routine. Many of them have a hitch though-Join this, buy [...]
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