nutrition

Diet Tips for Weight Loss Success

October 14, 2010

Sometimes just a few simple diet tips can be the difference between success and failure. The best tips are ones that help you to make smart food choices because sometimes it’s tough just to figure out what to eat. (Picture yourself standing in front of the fridge and staring at the same things.) It all [...]

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ORAC – Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity – What Does It Really Mean?

August 28, 2010

The term anti-oxidant is heard in a lot of nutritional circles and you can find lots of foods and supplements that are labeled “high in anti-oxidants” but that description is totally subjective. It’s like describing someone as tall. If you are 5’ 10” you are tall in Japan perhaps, but not in the United States, [...]

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Beans, Beans, Good For Your Heart, Your Digestion and Your Health

April 25, 2010

Yeah, that rhyme doesn’t sound the same as it used to in my childhood, but the lesson actually is totally true. Beans are an extremely healthy food, no matter what kind of beans you are talking about. Now, I’m just talking about beans, not loading them with sugar and bacon and all that other stuff, [...]

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Body Building Equals Fat Busting – Push Pull Lifting

April 23, 2010

Body building means taking your body and making your vision of what you want it to be. For most people that means being strong and lean and being physically able to do the things you want to do without restriction. The bonus to that is that muscle is a great calorie burner, much more efficient [...]

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Source Of Information

January 24, 2009

Today we got a ‘magazine’ in the mail from a vitamin retailer. It was quite lovely and presented in an esthetically pleasing way. There were plenty of informative articles and opinion-type columns in it. And why, you may be wondering, did I bring this up? Advertising and information have been getting blended and mixed for [...]

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Diets, losing weight, nutrition – my experiences

January 11, 2009

I have had a long-time quest for the perfect diet. It had to be nutritious, filling,, and tasty. Along the way I have sampled a few diets that didn’t fill any of those requirements. Some of them helped me to lose weight, others helped to build muscles. What is the ideal diet for you? I [...]

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fitness routine & supplement use

December 21, 2008

I did a video on my routine and I wanted to clarify exactly the steps I am taking to reach my goal weight of 180 pounds. First, I have been going to the gym seven days a week for 23 days now, and am down 10 pounds. Currently I weight 190.5 pounds. In my life [...]

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Aerobic Exercise and Heart Health

December 7, 2008

I have talked before about burning calories is accomplished through the movement of mass over a given distance, and that means that running or walking two miles gives you the same caloric burn. That is just physics talking, and research has shown it to be true. However that does not take into account the benefits [...]

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