Archive for November, 2009

New Study: Need To Snack? Go For High Protein Over High Carbs

Posted on November 27, 2009 by admin

Go for high-protein, not high-carb
Another group of French researchers found that high-protein snacks help people feel full longer and eat less at their next meal. Study participants ate 200 calories of protein or carbs or nothing at all. Those who ate high-carbohydrate snacks were hungry again just as quickly as those who ate no snacks.

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Mike’s Pick: Healthy Protein Powders That Don’t Taste Like Glue

Posted on November 27, 2009 by admin

EAS Myoplex – with an expanded flavor selection that includes chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate mint, chocolate peanut butter, dark chocolate, chocolate mocha, pina colada, orange jubilee, peaches and cream and banana crè­am pie, EAS Myoplex combines great taste with high quality protein per serving, and low sugar and carbs. It also helps the Myoplex is [...]

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6 Holiday Healthy Eating Survival Tips

Posted on November 26, 2009 by admin

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New Study: Exercise Can Repair Most Of The Conditions Of Aging

Posted on November 24, 2009 by admin

Ever wished you could undo 20 years of bad habits? Well now you can. Scientists have finally discovered a way to turn back time and the good news is it’s cheap, it’s easy and everyone can do it.
It turns out that the key to eternal youth isn’t a beauty serum or botox — it’s exercise. [...]

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Fitness Self Sabotage: Are You An Exercise Perfectionist (take a quiz)

Posted on November 21, 2009 by admin

About.com has a good item about perfectionism and how it can sabotage your ongoing fitness efforts.
An all-or-nothing approach can really hold you back from seeing long-term fitness improvements that turn into a lifestyle of good health and good-looking fitness.
I’ve listed this quiz below and if you want to actually score yourself, you can jump to [...]

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Women’s Knees: Why Female Workouts Risk More Here Than Men

Posted on November 21, 2009 by admin

Knee injuries are more prominent in women, with factors such as wider hips and hormonal fluctuations contributing to the fact that they suffer nearly twice the number of problems as men. Fortunately, weak knees aren’t every woman’s destiny. According to Brian Halpern, M.D., associate clinical instructor of sports medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center in [...]

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Children’s Obesity Rolling Back Gains in Heart Health

Posted on November 17, 2009 by admin

Surging obesity rates, especially among children, may be putting the brakes on progress made in the past few decades against heart disease, researchers report.
And it doesn’t help that many obese or overweight Americans still consider their weight “normal,” as one study found.
One of several studies on the subject of obesity presented Tuesday at the American [...]

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Food Labels That Lie (or don’t tell the whole truth!)

Posted on November 16, 2009 by admin

AOL Health has an interesting article on why Kraft Macaroni and Cheese may not have too much cheese. Okay, so this is not the typical food choice to discuss on a health & fitness-related blog like this but the principle applies to health foods too: Read the lables!!
With the FDA poised to go after food [...]

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Control Weekend Weight Gain

Posted on November 13, 2009 by admin

On weekends an average person consumes 50% more than normal, according to a Pennsylvania State University study. Researchers suspect that it’s not the food but a tendency to lengthen the meal to keep the good times going. Part of this increase is the tendency of people to eat with others on the weekend days off [...]

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FDA Sounds The Alarm Over Red Bull

Posted on November 13, 2009 by admin

Okay, this whole Red Bull craze has passed me by but that doesn’t mean it’s not going stronger than ever. The younger generation of college age adults has really adopted Taurine-style drinks like Red Bull and its competitors- if you’ve ever pulled all-nighters in a college dorm to finish a term paper than you can [...]

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