Leptin: The Hormone Behind Hunger and Weight Regulation
A recent survey showed that many people believe they are living a healthy lifestyle even though two thirds of us are overweight and one third of those obese. Most people believed it was a lack of exercise that contributed the…
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Strength Training Exercise For Body and Brain Health
It is a sad fact that 8 out of 10 adults do not do enough proper exercise. This means their muscles do not get worked anywhere near enough to keep vital “growth and repair” hormones stimulated and flowing. The growth…
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A Sedentary Lifestyle Promotes Accelerated Aging
You only need to take a look around you to see that most everyone in so-called civilized nations are actually pursuing an “accelerated aging program”; one that leaves us feeling old and exhausted long before our time.
Consuming a diet…
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Snacking Does Not Have to be Unhealthy…
Intermittent fasting is a recent health trend. It helps many people to lose and sustain weight loss, improves metabolic health and some claim it adds years to our lives.
And it is easier than most think because our sleeping hours…
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Your Muscles Are Your Bodies Armor and Defense
Because we cannot really see our muscles we tend to forget about their importance and most of us have no idea of how much they can affect our health and well-being especially as we get older. Not only do our…
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5 Proven Strategies For Keeping the Weight Off For Good
Many people mistakenly believe that weight loss is just a process that begins when you make changes to your eating or activity levels and ends when you have lost the weight.
But this is not the best way to view…
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Need A Metabolism Makeover?
For the most part, when we think about our metabolism it is in relation to our body weight and it is an easy way to assess the health and condition of your body’s engine and your fuel burning capacity is…
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How Sitting Can Damage Your Body and How You Can Counteract It
It’s true; sitting on one’s rear end for extended periods is a serious threat to health. Recent scientific findings suggest prolonged bouts of immobility such as when sitting is being linked to serious diseases that has become epidemic in our…
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Do You Have A Ticking Health Bomb Inside You? – Out Of Control Blood Sugar Levels
As we grow older some critical changes are happening inside our body. We often blame these changes on the aging process but really this just means that we have been around longer so the changes have had longer to manifest…
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