The Importance of Rest for Muscles

The Importance of Rest for Muscles

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

Ask any professional body builder what they do when they’re not working out, and you’ll quickly find out it has nothing to do with exercise. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Fitness buffs use their downtime to relax — as in, their muscles. The reason for this is that the…

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Strategies for Eating Healthy at Parties

Strategies for Eating Healthy at Parties

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

Your employer’s having a going away party for the secretary before she goes on maternity leave, you have three birthday parties this weekend and your husband just announced that you’ve been invited to a barbeque at the neighbor’s house. Then again maybe you’re a single twenty something that just seems…

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How to Change Your Relationship with Food

How to Change Your Relationship with Food

Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body

by Sandra Petersen Food provides energy to the body, enabling it to efficiently carry out its functions. Many people abuse food, though, by having an unhealthy relationship with it. This food bondage leads to problems with obesity and serious medical conditions. What are the signs of an unhealthy relationship with…

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Secrets of Strength Training

Secrets of Strength Training

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

Most people think of strength training as a great way to build muscle and increase strength, but there are many more benefits you may be less familiar with. Strength training involves placing a heavier load on a muscle to stimulate an increase in the number of muscle fibers, making the…

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eDiets DeliciouslyYours

eDiets DeliciouslyYours

Diet Reviews / Prepared Meals

The answer is most certainly. eDiets introduces DeliciouslyYours, a meal delivery plan that Fed Ex’s breakfast, lunch and dinner right to your doorstep. The process of using DeliciouslyYours is simple. Every week members log onto the website and pick the meals that they like. With the DeliciouslyYours program, you create…

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Pritikin Diet

Pritikin Diet

Diet Reviews / High Fiber

The diet largely consists of low-fat, high-fiber carbohydrates that are 400 calories or less per pound. There is a ratio of 75 percent carbs, 15 percent protein, and 10 percent fat. When following the diet, people are told to consume even six or seven meals a day. Foods are categorized…

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Atkins

Atkins

Diet Reviews / Glycemic Index

Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution unveiled a diet that would change the way people looked at dieting forever after it was released in 1972. The diet consists of a four-phase approach — Induction, Ongoing Weight Loss, Pre-Maintenance, Maintenance — which asks for a large decrease in carbohydrates and an increase in…

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Cellulite: Just Plain Fat?

Cellulite: Just Plain Fat?

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

There are plenty of supposedly quick fixes for the nasty stuff women call “cottage cheese” or “orange peel” – aka cellulite. The biological explanation for it is the connective tissues that separate fat into compartments. These patterns tend to be horizontal or crisscrossed in men, but women’s compartments tend to…

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