This is a question that will trick a very large percentage of our population. When referring to weight loss, what’s more important: types of food consumed or amount of calories consumed? If you guessed types of food consumed, you would be wrong. Did you know you can actually get fat from eating only healthy foods if you eat too much
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Early last week, ABC News talked about a bestselling book called “The Fast Diet.” The author of the book is Dr. Michael Mosley. The main concept of this new diet is to eat absolutely anything you want for 5 days out of the week and on 2 non-consecutive days, you fast. On these fasting days, a male must eat no
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I don’t want you to get the wrong impression from the title of this article. Do I think these weight loss programs work? Yes. Can you get great results from these programs? Yes. Do these programs have plenty of testimonials to back them up? Yes. So, why am I writing this article then? Many of these programs today rely so
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From the time I was young my parents always told me that I have to wait for the food to digest before I go back out to ride my bike, go swimming, or go to bed. The idea was if you do not give food time for digestion, you will incur some form of an upset stomach or cramps that
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I’m sure you’ve seen a commercial like this many times before. You see a weight loss supplement that offers almost instant results, and it appears too good to be true. Wait a minute?? At the end of the commercial, a doctor approves it and tells you how he/she has been using it to get these rapid results? This product may
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One of the biggest myths in the fitness industry is how to get ripped abs. Television commercials, magazine articles, and internet resources will lead you to believe that doing endless ab work or trying a new piece of exercise equipment will uncover those muscles underneath the belly fat. They will even try to convince you that a magic pill will
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Working at a fitness facility I get asked a lot of questions, but there is one question in particular I get asked the most. It typically starts with an overweight individual coming over to me, grabbing their mid section, then they continue to shake it violently and ask, “what exercises can I do to get rid of this?” Aside from
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Oh boy, where to begin with this one? CNN just recently released an article called “Is eating egg yolks as bad as smoking?” In this article, it discussed how the dangers of smoking are comparable to the dangers of eating egg yolks as far as cardiovascular disease. The cholesterol in the egg yolk is what supposedly makes them so dangerous,
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What do you think of when you hear the word “cardio”? Do you think about hours of enjoyment? Maybe you think of it as a nice stress reliever after a long day of work. It’s possible you think about how much you hate the damn thing and imagine going all Office Space on its ass. If you are like me,
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