Category: Health Fitness
The dawn phenomenon: natural ways to control it
What is the dawn phenomenon? If you check your blood sugar first thing in the morning after an overnight fast and it’s significantly higher than when you went to bed, you’re probably experiencing what’s known as the “dawn phenomenon.” This is also known as the “dawn effect” and is one of the most difficult challenges…
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Budget Tips for Eating Healthy After Weight Loss Surgery
After gastric bypass, gastric banding, or gastric sleeve weight loss surgery, we know that we must follow a healthy, high-protein diet to lose weight and maintain weight loss. In these tough economic times, it’s natural to worry about the cost of a specialized diet. Follow these helpful tips to maintain your weight loss surgery diet…
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Dos and Don’ts of Detox Diet Foods
If you’re planning a short detox diet, you’ll want to make sure you eat the foods that increase your chances of success and avoid the foods that will hurt your efforts. Here is a list of the best and worst foods to eat while dieting. The best detox diet foods Fruit: You can eat any…
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Stomps: High Endurance, High Intensity Intervals for Indoor Cycling (So Cool)
If you do cycling training and have ever done stomps, you might think I’m crazy when I say this, but I’ve always liked them. They are extremely tough, but they appeal to that twisted part of me that enjoys hard training. If you’re an outdoor cyclist or indoor cycling instructor, you probably have that part…
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Cellulose Definition: Why It’s In Food, Supplements, And What It Does
In this article I am going to talk about cellulose, why it is in dietary supplements and food products. I’m going to share what really does plus the benefits and the negatives. In the plant world, cellulose provides strength to cell walls. It is a carbohydrate and some animals can digest it, but humans cannot.…
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Regular Sessions in Cardiovascular Exercises
Regular sessions in the cardiovascular area improve the health of your heart and lungs. It also helps the heart and lungs work properly; therefore, it is called “cardio”. Cardiovascular exercise promotes the loss of body fat. It is helpful to reduce the level of appetite in many people. For people with diabetes who have well-controlled…
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Why a tummy tuck is so great
A tummy tuck is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures in the world, second only to breast augmentation and rhinoplasty. Such an operation, also known as a tummy tuck, is a procedure that drains excess fat from the abdomen, thus eliminating the annoying and unattractive “muffins”. After your liposuction procedure, the excess skin…
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Nature’s Energy Booster
Before you get to that cup of coffee or that bar of chocolate, which will probably only give you a boost of energy for a couple of minutes and you’ll probably feel worse after that as your body crashes back down and you end up back where you started again. Here is a breathing exercise…
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How many carbohydrates per day do you consume or eat with Medifast?
Before I did a lot of research on this diet, I didn’t know that it was actually designed to be low carb. It works much like the South Beach or Atkins diet by putting your body into ketosis and burning its own fat. But you don’t have to eat just eggs and meat all the…
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Micromanaging your path to weight loss
Some things are as easy as ABCD, but losing weight isn’t one of them. People have tried different ways, different weight loss plans and different exercise regimens to lose weight and there just isn’t a hard and fast rule to do it. However, I think everyone agrees that weight gain and subsequently weight loss is…
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