So-Called Healthy Foods To Avoid This Winter
December 7th, 2013Can You Be Fat and Fit?
July 27th, 2012
While we often associate fat with anything that is bad in our body, there are people who look bigger than usual yet live an active lifestyle. There are football players, shot putters, hunters, and other people who do not let their large size deter their performance.
So it begs to question: is it possible to be fat and stay fit? Health magazine asked two experts and their opinions are clashing to say the least.
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Best Snacks After Exercise
July 26th, 2012
Not only does exercising make you sweat, it also burns calories, which in return drains off your body’s fuel. You can gain back calories by eating, but consuming a lot of food would cancel out the efforts you have made in the gym. Indiana University researcher Joel Stager, PhD, shared his knowledge about nutrition with Prevention magazine, which are sorted out according to the level of physical activity.
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Ways Of Losing Weight At Less The Cost
October 7th, 2010
Losing weight not only becomes quite a challenge for many people, it can also become considerably costly. Different weight loss programs have become quite a profitable industry because of the many people who wish to lose those excess pounds in the quickest ways possible. Knowing how to, as what most weight loss programs offer, can now cost money.
Despite the high costs now associated with the more popular popular
Benefits of Maintaining an Ideal Body Size
May 18th, 2010
Having an ideal body size and maintaining it brings along a number of benefits that may not just be limited to one’s health. There are also other benefits people can enjoy because of having an ideal body size. Here are just some of them.
Better Self-Confidence
Having an ideal body size is a good way to develop self-confidence. People who are overweight may easily feel insecure about themselves because they mi
Choosing an Ideal Body Size
May 18th, 2010
Ideal body size may be different from one person to another. But it is usually being determined according to one’s weight relative to height , gender and age. It may also be based on the one’s Body Mass Index or BMI. Having the right body size and maintaining it may help determine one’s health. An ideal body size should be patterned somewhere along the a person’s category considered as the h
Massaging Cellulite to Lose Weight
May 17th, 2010
If there is one thing that fat people hate, it is the accumulation of cellulite, which is usually found in specific areas of the body. Note that cellulite, also known as white fat, is different from body fat.
Cellulite, unlike body fat, serves no useful function, does not insulate or cushion the body, and-sadly-does not go away through dieting and exercising. The only options to get rid of cellulite is either throu
Fit Students Score Higher in Academic Tests
May 17th, 2010
A recent study has shown that physically-fit students tend to score higher on standardized academic tests compared to their less fit peers. It also shows that test scores dropped more than one point for each extra minute it took the subjects, consisting of middle and high school students, to complete a one-mile run.
The subjects consisted of 749 fifth-graders, 761 seventh-graders, and 479 ninth-graders who attended
Pushing Your Body to the Limit
May 17th, 2010
Athletes and their trainers have had this long-held belief that if they exercise too hard, the body develops high amounts of lactic acid that halts the work out and causes muscle pains the next day. Recent study, however, show that lactate has nothing to do with "the burn," but can actually be tapped to turbocharge one’s training.
"When athletes are training to push up their lactate threshold (
Trimming Down the Right Way
May 17th, 2010
Deprivation is a bad thing for dieters, according to Dietician Cynthia Sass (co-author of Your Diet Is Driving Me Crazy), as trimming more than 500 calories a day can slow down one’s metabolism and could even trigger more intense food cravings. This is why diet experts recommend to trim your food intake wisely.
Women’s Health magazine compiled a list of to-do’s in trimming down, depending on how f