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Entries for January, 2012

Supplementation and Your Meal Plan

Fitness Tip: Supplementation and Your Meal Plan – There are billions of dollars spent each year on meal and dietary supplements, from vitamins to protein bars and even those magic weight loss pills sold over the counter. The most important thing you need to understand is how is what you are taking really benefiting or [...]

The Right Carbs for Weight Loss

Fitness Tip: The Right Carbs for Weight Loss – Eat complex carbohydrates instead of simple sugars for a leaner body. Your body is in constant need of carbohydrates to be converted into glucose and used as fuel. When your body has extra glucose, it will be stored as fat for later use. Complex carbohydrates, such [...]

Pace Yourself for Weight Loss

Fitness Tip: Pace yourself for Weight Loss – Eat a small meal and wait 20 minutes before deciding if you need more food. This will give your stomach and brain time to communicate. If have eaten enough food, your brain will alert your body, and you will find that you don’t desire anything more. If [...]

Reduce The Pressure

Fitness Tip: Reduce the Pressure – Stress can be an incredibly powerful drag on your fitness and health. Study after study has found that when a person is stressed the body reacts. Results of stress can lead to high blood pressure, tension headaches, upset stomachs, and many other ailments. Exercise is probably the most effective [...]

Eat Slowly

Fitness Tip: Eat Slowly – If you read about the French Paradox, it discusses why the French eat a lot of fatty foods but are a leaner society than that of the United States. They take their meals very seriously, and it is one of the most important times of the day. You will get [...]

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