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Ken Bendor - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
My name is Ken Bendor and I'm double majoring in Dietetics and Exercise Science at Florida State University. I'll be graduating in April 2008 (knock on wood).
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- Quick Weight Loss - Why It's Unhealthy
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everyone is always looking for the quickest and easiest solution to just about everything, weight loss included. Losing weight isn't a quick or easy process. If you want a time frame, think about how long it took you to gain the weight you're now trying to lose.
- 6 Steps to a Successful New Year's Resolution
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The New Year can bring hope to those seeking a positive change in their lives. January acts as a starting point for improvement, however all too often, resolutions end up in failure and the positive benefits that could have been realized are never seen. This doesn't happen due to a lack of desire, rather poor planning is to blame.
- Why a New Year's Resolution Fails
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] It seems as if we go through this every year. Come January 1st, people start thinking about what parts of their lives they can improve and hours later they begin an ambitious plan to make themselves better. This is a good thing right?
- The Real Way to Faster Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The amount of time it takes to lose weight is controlled by both internal and external factors. Internal factors are those that you have direct influence over such as food choices and physical activity while external factors are a lot harder if not impossible to change.
- The Real Best Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you feel confused by all the dieting options out there? Don't worry, most people have a hard time picking a diet that actually works. With all the books, web sites and infomercials, it's hard to separate what works from what doesn't.
- Staying Healthy During a Recession
[Health-and-Fitness] Whether you think we're in a recession or going through a rough patch, you understand now more than ever the need to save money. Gas prices are at an all time high, food is following closely behind and health insurance is too expensive to buy if you don't get it from your employer. When times are tough, some luxuries such as gym memberships and healthy food seem unnecessary. There are plenty of ways you can stay in shape and healthy without spending money you don't have.
- Making Your Workout More Effective
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercising is about meeting an end goal. Whether you want to look better, lose weight or gain muscle, physical activity can help get you there. Unfortunately, some people think that reaching their goal is as easy as showing up to the gym and going home.
- Truth About Abs
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Getting a six pack seems like the ultimate way to show everyone you're healthy and in shape. Having a nice set of abs lets the outside world know that you workout, care about your weight and eat healthy. To help you achieve this milestone, there are plenty of diets, books and contraptions out on the market. Unfortunately, most of these products don't work and the ones that do force you to pay for the same basic idea: eat less and exercise more.
- Biggest Loser Diet and Exercise Plan
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you've ever watched The Biggest Loser on NBC, you probably noticed that they lose a lot more weight than the recommended 1-2 pounds per week. You might also be curious as to how they achieved such a fast paced weight loss so that you can create your own Biggest Loser diet and exercise plan.
- No Matter What I Do, I Can't Gain Any Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There are some people that find it impossible to lose any weight and then there's you. It seems no matter how much you eat and how little you move, you can't put any weight or muscle onto your body.
- How to Lose Weight If You're at Work All Day
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Having a job that forces you to sit in a cubicle or office all day presents some interesting challenges if you're trying to lose or even maintain your weight. The same basic rules that apply to everyone else will help you lose weight. You need to eat less calories than you burn and if you're sitting down all day, you'll have to be even more careful about what foods your diet is made up of.
- Starvation Mode
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When you're trying to lose weight, your main goal is to create a calorie deficit (burn more calories than you take in). The bigger your calorie deficit, the faster you'll lose weight. Some may ask, "Why not try to eat as little as possible?"
- A Well Rounded Workout Routine
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercise means different activities for different people. Some think it's about running as far as you can while others think it's about how well you can make a basket. Maybe you're into lifting weights or doing yoga. Whatever your favorite form of exercise is, you need to incorporate a wide range of activities.
- Full Body Vs Split Routine
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When you're starting a strength training routine, you can take one of two paths. You can do a full body workout or a split routine. Both options have some very positive health effects so either one is a lot better than doing nothing at all. Depending on what your goals are, these two routines can have different effects.
- Strength Training and Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When most people think about exercise and losing weight, they automatically picture running, biking or swimming - a high intensity workout that burns a large amount of calories. They focus all their effort on cardio and completely ignore any of the benefits a strength training routine has to offer.
- Getting Into Shape For Beginners
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] So you have a sedentary lifestyle but want to become more active in order to look better, feel great and be healthy. Unfortunately, becoming fit isn't an easy task to complete after being inactive for a number of years. Soon after starting you'll get sore, tired and may even want to quit.
- How the Environment and Your Health Are Related
[Health-and-Fitness] It wasn't long ago that no one really cared about health or the environment. With gas prices looking as if they won't go on sale anytime soon, and obesity rates heading in the same direction, people are starting to be mindful about what they put into the air as well as their own bodies. While these two issues seem very far apart, our own well being is directly associated to that of our planet.
- The "Secret" to Weight Loss is Finally Revealed
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The secret to weight loss is like the fountain of youth: everyone wants to find it but in reality there is no such thing. Weight loss is dependent on a solid exercise routine as well as a proper diet. If you're doing both, you will lose weight.
- Supplement Safety
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] In our society of quick fixes, we have supplements that solve every imaginable problem ranging from too much belly fat to improving memory and even stopping hair loss. Unfortunately, most claims made by supplements have no real science to back them up which is why you might be wasting your money and putting your health in danger by taking them.
- The Best Way to Lose Weight - Slowly
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all want to lose weight for different reasons: a wedding, party, beach trip or just to be healthy. Whatever our motivation, trying to lose weight quickly is always tempting. Why only lose a healthy 1-2 pounds per week when you can work harder and lose double or even triple that? The answer is because if you try and lose weight at a very rapid pace, you will increase your risk of adverse health effects and make it more likely that you will gain the weight back and have to go through another diet at a later date.
- Why Crash Diets Don't Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Going to a wedding, prom, party or the beach? Need to lose weight quickly? Does this sound like an advertisement for a diet that doesn't work yet? If you've ever read a diet that promised quick results in time for a big occasion, it probably doesn't work and here's why.
- What Are the Absolute Worst, Most Ridiculous, and Ineffective Diets?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] There are so many diets that it's hard to separate which work and which don't. You can choose to go low carb, low fat, only fruits, only lemonade, detox and the list goes on for a long time. If you're looking for diets that DON'T work, here is how to find them.
- Foods to Eat For a Perfect Summer Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] When you're trying to get a perfect summer body, the most important step to take with your diet is cutting calories. Apart from the amount of calories you take in, the types of food you eat can also help you lose some weight and get toned.
- Summer Beach Body Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As the months progress and the weather improves, the water temperature goes up and the sun starts to shine. All these events point to only one thing: summer. With the new season comes the need to lose your winter weight so you can look good at the beach or even the pool.
- Overtraining - How to Know If You're Working Out Too Much
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Becoming active is a positive step that will improve your health and the way you look. Even exercising as little as two days per week will yield results. If working out two days per week is good, then going six or seven days should be even better. Unfortunately it doesn't work this way.
- Summer Beach Body Exercise Plan
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] With bathing suit season coming up quickly, you need to get your body into shape so you can show off your washboard abs, killer legs and toned arms. To do this, you will need to combine cardiovascular exercise to burn the fat with a strength training routine to build some muscle and give you a toned, chiseled look.
- Motivation to Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Motivation is the drive that pushes us to interact and participate with the world. Whether it is material or abstract, motivation gives us a reason to do everything. Before you even think about starting an exercise routine, you need to ask yourself why.
- Exercise For Turning Fat Into Muscle
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] This is the stuff that late night infomercials are made of. You take a pill or use some sort of ab contraption and miraculously your fat turns into muscle in only a few days! Unfortunately turning fat into muscle is a myth and doesn't actually work like that in real life.
- My Diet Isn't Working
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] So you cut your calories and started eating healthy foods but when you weigh yourself, you keep getting the same number. There are plenty of reasons why you are not losing weight, so it is important that you try and fix your mistakes rather than get frustrated and quit your diet all together.
- Nutrition to Gain Weight and Build Muscle the Healthy Way
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] You have heard it over and over again, "If you want to gain weight, eat everything you see." This advice will undoubtedly lead to weight gain but there are better ways to do it.
- Diet For Getting Rid of Love Handles
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Love handles are located above the hips in people that have a high body fat percentage. They cover the oblique muscles and make the midsection look bigger. A lot of people think that doing crunches, sit ups or twists will help get rid of them but unfortunately these exercises will do little to burn the layer of fat covering the obliques.
- Exercise for Getting Rid of Love Handles
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Love handles form when your body stores energy as fat above your hips. To get rid of them you will need to burn this fat by doing exercise that uses a lot of calories.
- Shopping for Healthy Groceries
[Food-and-Drink] If diet and nutrition have a sizeable impact on your health, then the grocery store is an opportunity where if you improve your habits, your health will follow. Supermarkets have a wide selection of foods. Healthy, unhealthy and in between are all there.
- Diet For Turning Fat Into Muscle
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Turning fat into muscle isn't as easy as using the latest fad diet or buying the most popular detox drink. It requires going on a calorie restricted diet to burn the fat and also giving your body the proper nutrients it needs to build muscle in its place.
- Last Minute Spring Break Diet to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Spring break is right around the corner and along with the nice weather, sunny beaches and warm water is the pressure to have an attractive body. Since it's almost here, you won't be able to drastically change the way you look, but you will be able to make a difference big enough for you and your friends to notice. With a proper calorie restricted diet you can change your image. The next few weeks will require dedication and hard work but they will pay off.
- How Do Celebrities Get Perfect Bodies So Quickly?
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] You've seen it on the news and on the web, celebrities changing their bodies from fat to muscle in what seems like weeks and months. How can they change so quickly while it takes the rest of us years to get a perfect six pack?
- Types of Calories to Eat When Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] When you're trying to gain the right kind of weight (muscle as opposed to fat) you want to eat healthy foods and a lot of them. You need all three types of calories: carbohydrates, protein and yes, even fat.
- Staying Healthy on a Cruise
[Travel-and-Leisure:Cruising] One of the most popular activities during spring break is taking a cruise. For one price you get accommodations, fun, a tan and unlimited food. Now that spring break is here, you can finally show off that body you've worked so hard to perfect over the last few weeks. All you can eat buffets, drinking all night long and lack of exercise might leave that body begging you to stop. There are some ways you can be healthy and have fun all at the same time.
- Healthy Meats - Types and Preparation
[Food-and-Drink] Meat has been the centerpiece of our diets for as long as we've been on this planet. From our ancestors to our own generation, meat has always been a staple. With an increased focus on healthy eating, picking the right kinds of meat can give a boost to the overall nutrition of your food.
- Last Minute Exercise Plan for Getting a Spring Break Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Spring break is rapidly approaching and gyms all over the country are starting to get packed with people hoping to get a few last minute workouts in. If you're one of those, you need to realize that you can't completely change your body in one or two months. You can however make a difference that is big enough for people to notice. If you're serious about changing the way you look, you'll need to work hard from now until spring break.
- My Gym Sucks
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] So your gym sucks? A lot of people have this same exact problem and its a tough one. Most places require you sign a contract to join or pay a higher monthly fee if you choose not to. If you signed a contract and you're having second thoughts, your options are limited.
- The Best Exercise Routine
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The Best Exercise Routine is made up of several elements. You have to enjoy it, it has to work, and it needs to evolve to meet your changing needs. Making a routine that combines all of these is sometimes difficult. Something you enjoy might not necessarily work too good, and if it works too good, you might not enjoy it.
- How to Make a New Year's Resolution Contract
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] A New Year's Resolution Contract is an agreement you sign with yourself. You're promising yourself that you'll do everything in your power not to quit and achieve your goal.
- Why Do New Year's Resolutions Fail?
[Self-Improvement] Almost everyone makes a New Year's Resolution but few actually follow through with them. There are some easy steps you can take to make sure yours succeeds this year.
- Nutrition for Cutting to Get Lean
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Cutting, or getting lean is a balancing act. You want to burn the extra fat you've gained while at the same time minimizing the amount of muscle you lose.
- Snacks for Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Gaining weight (on the nutrition side) is mainly about eating more calories than you burn. Unfortunately it's sometimes hard to get all those calories into your daily meals. Eating the right kinds of snacks will make it easier for you to reach your daily calorie goal.
- Making Healthier Thanksgiving, Christmas and Holiday Desserts
[Food-and-Drink] They say there's always room for dessert and unfortunately this is very true. Even if you've eaten more turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing than you can handle, once you see that chocolate cake coming to the table, it seems like your stomach opens up an extra slot to make more room.
- Making Healthy Thanksgiving, Christmas and Holiday Side Dishes
[Food-and-Drink] Thanksgiving (or Christmas and other Holidays) dinner isn't only about the turkey. If you focus only on making the centerpiece healthy, you'll be skipping over the part of the meal that has the most potential for improvement.
- The Elements of a Good, Complete and Healthy Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are a few principles to understand when creating a diet that is complete, healthy and enjoyable. The amount, variety and moderation of the foods you eat can determine whether or not your diet will benefit or harm your health. The amount of food you eat is the most important determinant of weight management.
- Making a Healthy Thanksgiving Turkey
[Food-and-Drink] With Thanksgiving comes family, friends and unfortunately some unhealthy, food. There are some easy steps you can take to make healthy and at the same time, tasty food.
- How to Pick a Good and Healthy Snack
[Food-and-Drink] Snacks are very important in our overall diet. They fill us up between meals, add variety to the foods we eat and if we pick the healthy ones, can go a long way in improving our health.
- Healthy Eating to Avoid the Freshman 15
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] It's back to school time and if you're an incoming freshman then you might be at risk for gaining those dreaded 15 pounds during your first year away. The biggest contributing factor for this problem the abundance of food available to students. If you live on campus, chances are that you or your parents are paying for a meal plan.
- Exercising in the Cold
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Winter exercise is a totally different experience than exercising in the warmer, summer months. As temperatures drop and the amount of daylight decreases, you become less and less motivated to be active while at the same time eating more warm, comfort foods.
- Exercising During the Holidays
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The holidays, particularly Christmas and Thanksgiving are associated in part, to an abundance of food. Typically people gain a few pounds during the holidays and the only ways of stopping this is to eat less (which is hard with all that food staring at you) or to burn it off through exercise.
- Exercise and the Freshman 15
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Trying to make room for exercise each day in your busy college life might seem impossible. Hard, maybe, but impossible, far from it. There are some easy ways you can get exercise into your day to prevent weight gain.
- Diet for Losing Weight With a Slow Metabolism
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everyone's body works in a different way. For some it is easy to lose a few pounds and for others it can be close to impossible. Differences such as these can be attributed to our genes. Since we can't control the genes we have there is no sense in turning them into an excuse.
- Nutrition for Gaining Weight With a Fast Metabolism
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] For some people gaining weight is close to impossible. You wake up and eat, go to work and eat, come home and eat and you keep weighing the same. The simple solution is that you need to eat more.
- Abs, Diet, Food and Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Most people think that doing thousands of sit ups and crunches will give them a perfect midsection. Unfortunately for most people, this won't work. To get a nice set of abs you have to work hard in the gym as well as in your own kitchen.
- Lunch for Losing Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Lunch can be tricky if you're trying to lose weight. You need a meal that is low in calories and can be quick and easy to prepare at work or school. Its very tempting to go and eat out everyday but the calories in most of those foods will quickly derail your weight loss efforts.
- Abs and Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Your abdominal muscles are the same as any other muscles in your body. They work similarly to your biceps, triceps and hamstrings, so why is it that we treat them so differently?
- Diets That Don't Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everyone is looking for the easy way out for all sorts of things. Losing weight is no exception. You can find plenty of diets to follow by going to a bookstore or even searing on the net. Just because they're out there doesn't mean they're effective.
- Breakfast for Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Your goal when trying to gain weight should be to eat many meals throughout the day. Sleeping overnight isn't very conducive to this since you'll be fasting for 6-8 hours which means no food.
- Breakfast for Losing Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Breakfast is the first meal of the day and because of this it is also the most important. When you wake up, your body has been fasting for 6-8 hours and needs all sorts of nutrients to get moving.
- Overview of Fiber
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Fiber is found in fruits, vegetables and grains. Its benefits include lower blood pressure, reduced cholesterol and a feeling of satiety. Fiber is a carbohydrate that can't be digested by the human body. We lack an the enzyme required to use fiber as energy.
- Exercise Plateaus
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When you first start an exercise routine, you'll find that you improve rather quickly. Your mile time decreases and you start lifting more weights. Sooner or later this levels off and you reach a plateau.
- Cheat Days
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] For most people the definition of a diet is to reduce calories in order to lose weight. Most of the calories that are cut come from the foods that many of us find delicious such as chips, sweets and fast food. Its a bad idea to eat these on a daily basis even if you're not on a diet.
- Diet Plateaus
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When you first start a diet, the weight will probably come off pretty quick. Before long, weight loss will slow down and can even stop completely.
- Reduce Body Fat Through Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercise and nutrition both play a very important role in the amount of fat stored in your body. Not all exercising will reduce your body fat equally. The type, duration and intensity of your routine will determine how effectively you lower your body fat percentage.
- Speed Up Your Metabolism
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Dieters have long been looking for ways to speed up their metabolisms since at the end of the day, burning more calories means losing more weight. You can speed up your metabolism but you'll have to do more than sitting in the living room and watching TV.
- Reduce Body Fat Through Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Nutrition and exercise both play a very important role in the amount of fat stored in your body. The type, amount and timing of the food you eat greatly influences your body fat percentage. Through proper nutrition you can lower your body fat, which will ultimately make you healthier and help you look your best.
- Foods for Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Gaining weight is all about eating more calories than you burn and doing it over a long period of time. When you first start changing your diet, it'll be hard to find the foods that will add enough calories to allow you to gain weight. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in between meals have to filled with calories in order to gain weight.
- Basics of Weight Balance
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Some are looking to lose weight and others are looking to gain weight but maintaining weight is usually not talked about a lot. Staying at your target weight is always the end goal. Whether you're trying to gain weight or lose weight, eventually you'll need to stop.
- Your First Day at the Gym
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The first time you step foot in a gym can be intimidating. You've never ran a mile on a treadmill and someone is sweating puddles running 10.
- Considerations of a Beginning Exerciser
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The hardest part to starting an exercise routine is actually committing yourself to doing so. Once you're sure that you want to add exercise into your daily life, you have to ask yourself a few questions. How are you going to exercise? When are you going to exercise? Where are you going to exercise?
- A Diet Isn't Forever
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] Ending a diet the proper way will ensure that you keep all the weight off, stay healthy and never go back to your old and unhealthy ways again.
- Gym Etiquette
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Going to a gym is an important step in getting fit. For some, walking inside a gym for the first time can be intimidating. Marathon runners on the treadmills, triathlon competitors on the bikes and Olympic weight lifters doing squats can be a bit scary. While you can't control who works out at your gym, you can follow some rules that will make everyone's gym experience more enjoyable.
- Personal Trainers: Are They for You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There are plenty of reasons why you should and shouldn't get personal trainers. Being a beginner at the gym can be very confusing. All the machines probably look the same and you don't know what to workout out today, tomorrow and the day after that.
- Picking a Gym
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Signing up for a gym membership is a big investment. Not only do you have monthly dues, but there are also joiner fees, contracts and hefty cancellation fees if you decide to leave early. By picking the right gym, you can avoid some of these costs and minimize the chances of trying to get out of a contract early.
- Exercise Basics of Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] An important part of gaining weight is eating enough food, but to gain the right kind of weight you need to exercise. Putting on muscle is more complicated than taking in a lot of calories. You have to stress (workout) your muscles to a point where they become damaged. When they heal, they'll become bigger and stronger.
- Eating Basics of Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] To some, gaining weight can be very difficult. As with losing weight, gaining weight can be achieved by adhering to a simple equation: to gain weight you need to eat more calories than you burn. While you have to get your calories up, this shouldn't be thought of as a prescription to eat anything you see.
- Fat Doesn't Make You Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] We need fat to survive. Without it, our bodies can't function correctly. Eating it doesn't necessarily make you fat. What can make you fat is if you eat too much of it.
- Fast and Healthy
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Walking around a food court will prove that there are many choices when it comes to fast food. Almost all customers will have something appeal to them. You can eat American or Italian, Chinese or Greek. Maybe even more important is the ability to pick between the healthy and unhealthy.
- Guidelines for Flexibility Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Flexibility is not the most important part of a workout for most people. Cardio and weights are the first two things that come to your mind when thinking of fitness but flexibility should also be in there.
- Misleading Food Labels
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Learning the benefits of eating health foods may convince you to start eating them. But what if the foods you start eating aren't any healthier than the ones you gave up? Misleading statements on food labels can lead to that.
- Make Your Own Menu
[Food-and-Drink] Cooking shouldn't have to be a chore. To many, cooking is a job, career and even a way of life. To some it is an art and to you it should be fun.
- The Low Carb Craze is Crazy
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] Even with the popularity of low carb diets on the decline, many people continue to use them. These diets may initially shed some pounds but they are unhealthy, severely limit your food selection and take away your body's main source of energy.
- How to Succeed With Your Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Typically, when thinking of the word diet, we think temporary. Spring breaks, weddings and even weekend beach trips will get us to lose some weight. Unfortunately, these short term diets don't work.
- Overview of Proteins
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Proteins are very important to our bodies. They aren't just for bodybuilders who use them to gain muscle mass.
- Overview of Fats
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] With the low carbohydrate craze, many people have turned their attention to fats. They eat more of it and think its fine.
- Calories: The Good and Bad
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Making a commitment to have healthier eating habits is a tough one. Knowing how to implement that commitment may be even harder.
- Basics of Losing Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Failed diets and out of control obesity may lead you to believe that losing weight is difficult but it is quite easy, at least on paper.
- Overview of Carbohydrates
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Recently, some diets have recommended stripping out all carbohydrates from what you eat. Limiting bad carbohydrates such as sugar from your diet is a positive step but going further and refusing to eat fruits and whole grains can potentially deprive you of cancer fighting foods.
- A Walk to Your Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You can reap some benefits of exercise without joining a gym or running for miles a day. Not to say that doing so is a bad idea but altering your lifestyle to include more activity with your daily tasks offers you convenience and can help you reach the recommended amount of physical activity each day.
- Importance of Cardiovascular Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] In recent years many studies have been released telling us of the benefits we see from a lifestyle rich in physical activity. Running, biking, swimming, sports and even walking can add to these benefits.
- Guidelines for Resistance Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many people are afraid to start training with weights. Some think they'll injure themselves and others don't know where to start.
- Three Parts to a Successful Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There is more to exercise than jumping on a treadmill, lifting weights or playing basketball. To avoid injury and maximize gains, a warm up, stimulus (or conditioning) and cool down must be included in your routine.
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