Author: Jillita Horton
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Fat Loss in Teen Girl Study Flawed: Resistance Beats Cardio
SoJung Lee of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recently led a research team to find out which burns more fat: aerobics or strength training.
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Oreo Cookie Addiction Study Has a Few Flaws
The latest news about high-fat, high-sugar food (Oreo cookies in this case) comes from Connecticut College professor Joseph Schroeder and his students. They claim that Oreo cookies may be as addictive to rats as are cocaine and morphine, and deduce from this that the obesity epidemic is in part caused by a drug-like addiction to…
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Best Diet for Extending Life in Older Adults
If you’re an older adult concerned about reducing your mortality risk and living a longer life, there are certain foods you should make a habit of eating.
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Don’t Blame Price of Healthy Foods on Your Junk Food Diet
It’s generally true that healthy foods cost more, but there are ways to jump through this hoop and eat a healthy diet even on a tight budget. The high price of healthy foods is often cited as the reason obesity is more prevalent in people on limited budgets. Let’s take note of what the Harvard…
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Moms Preaching Fitness: The New Breed of Bullies
Point out the dangers of smoking, excessive drinking or inadequate sleep, and nobody will blast you for being a “hater” or “bully,” but heaven forbid if you point out the dangers of being fat—as Maria Kang, the “Fitness Mom,” has done.
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Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?
Older people, like younger, are excellent candidates for interval training. Interval training has been shown, via studies, to be not only safe for older individuals, but quite beneficial in multiple ways.
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Normal Weight in Teens Trumps Fit & Fat for Heart Attack Risk
A common mantra these days is “you can be fat and fit,” but does “fat and fit” translate to a lower risk and lower incidence of heart attack years later?
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Fast Food vs. Grocery Store for Childhood Obesity
Whenever there’s an article that involves an obese child, either a particular one or childhood obesity in general, many comments to the article say things like, “Lay off the fast food,” or, “The fast food chains are to blame.”
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Mediterranean Diet Lowers Disease Risk; but Do You Really Understand this Diet?
Don’t make the mistake of many people by only thinking you’re on the Mediterranean diet, when in fact, you’re nothing but. A new study associates the Mediterranean diet with a lower risk of peripheral artery disease, a painful condition that affects the legs
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Pregnancy Weight Gain: What’s Healthy and What’s Not
Here are straightforward guidelines for how much weight a woman should gain during her pregnancy. Just how many pounds equate to healthy pregnancy weight gain? Let’s first put to bed—permanently—the myth that “eating for two” means eating for two adults.
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How to Increase Metabolism: 5 Easy Steps
No matter how “slow” you think your metabolism is, there are scientifically proven ways to speed it up. There are five approaches that you should adopt if you want to know how to increase metabolism safely.
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Want Fit Kids? Moms Should Move More.
If you want your children to “go outside and play,” maybe you should join them, suggests a new study. For this study, 554 women, and their four-year-olds, were fitted with an Actiheart monitor (combo accelerometer and heart rate monitor), which measures with a high degree of accuracy one’s physical movement.
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Dark Chocolate Heart Health: Include Hostess Cupcakes?
We all know that dark chocolate is heart healthy, and we now know why, too, but where does one draw the line as to which dark colored cocoa products to eat?
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Exercise the Right Way: The Leg Extension
Here are instructions on how to perform the leg extension. One of the most easiest exercises is the leg extension, which is also known as the knee extension or “leg lift machine.” It’s an isolation exercise that targets the quadriceps and strengthens the knee joint. You simply sit on a chair that has a back…