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How important is counting calories?
31 Mar 2014 Energy balance plays a central role in health because it alone determines body weight. Energy balance is described as the relationship between how many calories you consume and how many you...
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Top 5 Sources of Good Carbohydrates
07 Apr 2014 Carbohydrates are the body's main source of energy. In recent years, carbs have gotten a bad reputation as the macronutrient that causes weight gain. The slightest hint of eating carbs...
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Beach Body
05 May 2014 A beach body is best described as toned, muscular and in shape. Though the beach season is a special time of year, the same rules you use to get in shape during non-beach months apply...
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Is it bad to eat the same thing every day?
16 June 2014 There's a vast and almost endless supply of food available to us Westerners, both in terms of quantity and variety. With so much to choose from, why are many of us stuck eating the exact...
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Top 5 Ways to Increase Nutrient Intake
22 June 2014 Nutrients are substances the body uses to regulate life essential functions such as: hormone production, the immune system, vision and energy metabolism. Without adequate levels of...
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How to Start a Morning Workout Routine
07 July 2014 For many, waking up at 4am for a morning workout sounds like pure evil. For others, starting the day off with a morning sweat session is the only way to go. Though not ideal for all,...
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Calorie Calculator
08 July 2014 Calories are a measure of energy used to quantify how much food we consume and how hard we exert ourselves during physical activity. This simple relationship between the amount of calories...
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Is calorie intake the same as healthy eating?
09 July 2014 There seems to be some confusion on the difference between calorie intake and healthy eating. While closely related, the two concepts are not always the same. Many people wrongly assume...
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Blog: Secrets of Diet/Exercise - Secret #5: There's no Such Thing as the...
21 July 2014 Best is defined as, the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality and when it comes to working out, everyone thinks their approach is the most excellent or effective. With an...
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Do I have to eat less to burn fat?
09 July 2014 There's a common misconception of what the phrases, losing weight, burning fat and increasing muscle tone mean. While many treat these three phrases as separate goals, the truth is that...
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Complete Healthy Holiday Guide
14 November 2014 The Holidays are finally here and along with the final months of the year, comes unhealthy (but delicious) food choices and less than sufficieny physical activity levels. Luckily,...
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How to Thaw a Turkey
18 November 2014 Making a healthy Thanksgiving Turkey is more complicated than adding salt and setting the oven. You can't simply set it and forget it. The holiday season brings about an increased risk...
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Top 5 Ways to Reduce Calories During the Holidays
19 November 2014 If there's one thing the Holidays are known for, it's amazing food. Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, pies and eggnog are just some of the irresistible delicacies. As always, it seems the...
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Top 5 Healthy Holiday Foods
20 November 2014 The Holiday Season is known for family, friends, cold weather and delicious though sometimes unhealthy food. Luckily, delicious doesn't have to mean unhealthy. Keeping healthy habits...
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Healthy Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
21 November 2014 There's no rule saying Thanksgiving has to be unhealthy, it simply has to be delicious. The centerpiece of most Thanksgiving Meals starts with the Turkey. Though the turkey on its own...
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Turkey Thaw Time Calculator
24 November 2014 Holiday food safety starts with properly thawing a frozen turkey. Simply enter the weight of the turkey in pounds and click calculate. A turkey requires approximately 24 hours (1 day)...
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How to Cook a Turkey
25 November 2014 A tasty turkey is the centerpiece of most Holiday meals, which is why it's especially important for you to learn how to properly cook one. Perfecting turkey cooking technique turns you...
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Top 5 Ways to Exercise During Thanksgiving
26 November 2014 Thanksgiving is a time to spend with friends and family while eating some delicious food. Unfortunately, physical activity and healthy eating are placed pretty far down the list of...
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Complete Guide: New Year's Resolutions
22 January 2015 Though resolutions are known more for their failure than success rates, the New Year offers a fresh start to erase bad habits and instill healthy new ones. Whether you'd like to quit...
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Top 5 Reasons to Eat Healthy
30 March 2015 A diet built on a foundation of healthy food choices has plenty of benefits including weight loss, increased energy and disease prevention. A healthy diet allows you to eat unhealthy...
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Difference Between Added Sugar and Natural Sugar
27 April 2015 Preface: sugar is all the same. Whether it was adding in during processing or already present, the word sugar refers to a carbohydrate in its most basic form. There really is no [as far...
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Things That Annoy Me - #5: People Who Don't Follow Basic Gym Etiquette
11 May 2015 The gym brings together people with different backgrounds, perspectives and goals. While we don't need to agree on what the best workout routine is (because there is no such thing), or...
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Top 5 Ways to Burn Fat
17 August 2015 Body fat is excess energy. When you consume more energy than you burn over a long period of time, you gain weight. This calorie surplus, when combined with physical inactivity, leads to...
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Blog: Weight Gainers are a Waste of Money
08 September 2015 Before I started working out and eating (relatively) healthy, I was a skinny 18 year old weighing [almost] 120 pounds. Once I started lifting weights, I got obsessed with ditching my...
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All Things Vegetarian
09 March 2016 I had my last piece of meat in November 2013; it was a Fillet-O-Fish from McDonald's. It probably wasn't the best "last meal" but it was still pretty good either way. Since then, I've...
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How to Become a Vegetarian (or at least how I did it)
09 March 2016 I had my last piece of meat in November 2013 and haven't looked back since. I'm not going to pretend the transition was easy; the November 2013 transition was actually my second and more...
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Fiber: Soluble vs Insoluble
14 March 2016 Fiber is a special type of carbohydrate which the body lacks the ability to digest. Though we do not absorb any calories from fiber, it is an important nutrient which aids in many bodily...
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Top 5 Benefits of Fiber
20 March 2016 To say fiber is important is an understatement. This under-eaten nutrient prevents and treats digestive problems, lowers disease risk, increases satiety and even aids weight loss....
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Sodium - Effects, Sources, Recommendations & Lowering Strategies
23 March 2016 What we commonly refer to as table salt is made up of two elements (sodium and chlorine) and known as sodium chloride. Though a high sodium intake is associated with adverse health...
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Benefits of Strength Training
28 March 2016 Strength training, commonly known as picking heavy things up and putting heavy things down has always been thought of as an activity relegated to the bodybuilders, power lifters and...
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Exercise and the Elderly - Benefits and Recommendations
30 March 2016 Everyone benefits from physical activity: young, old, fat, skinny, healthy and sick. While younger individuals tend to ignore health benefits in favor of the aesthetic nature of exercise,...
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Overview of Sugar Part 1 - Definition & Sources
06 April 2016 Sugar is addictive, bad for you in large quantities and makes everything it touches delicious. Sugar is a type of carbohydrate found naturally in some foods such as fruits and vegetables,...
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Overview of Sugar Part 2 - Effects, Recommendations & Lowering Strategies
07 April 2016 Americans' intake of sugar is way too high and it has no real value in the diet. We use sugar for energy which is the extent of what it's good for. Too much sugar leads to very serious...
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Relevant or Outdated? The 3,500 Calorie Weight Loss Rule
12 April 2016 In 1958, a now infamous study concluded one pound of body fat was equal to 3,500 calories. It's been conventional diet wisdom for over half a century: a 3,500 calorie increase or...
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Holiday Weight Gain
17 December 2017 The Holiday Season isn't known for the healthy environment it creates. Three plates of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, plus dessert has to go somewhere. Surely these calorie...
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New Year's Resolutioners Gym Etiquette Guide
03 January 2018 It's been referred to as the gympocalypse; the beginning of the year when resolutioners join the gym en masse. Having a solid resolution and being serious about change is commendable,...
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Weight Loss Without Exercise, Diet Alone
12 February 2018 Weight loss is supposedly simple math; if you expend more energy than you consume, you'll lose weight. The equation doesn't care much if you burn more, consume less, or combine both...
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