exercise

“The Weight of the Nation”: Documentary Sends the Wrong Message

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This week, a new documentary about the obesity crisis premieres on HBO. It’s called “Weight of the Nation”. And it’s take-home message is wrong, wrong, wrong. You’ll be hearing a lot about this documentary, if you haven’t already. And with good reason. It’s the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the three major public-health institutions [...]

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Supplements Lousy for Fat Loss

Newsflash: there’s no magic bullet for fat loss. (But you already knew that.) That’s what Melinda Manore concluded after examining America’s $2.4 billion weight-loss supplement industry. Her results appear in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Manore, a professor of nutrition and exercise sciences at Oregon State University, began this study by [...]

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Just 4 Minutes of this Exercise Burns Fat, Builds Muscle

We know exercise makes us feel good, so why doesn’t that motivate us to do it more often? Why aren’t people getting their happy-hour fix at the gym? The number one excuse for not exercising involves time. People often complain to me they just don’t have hours to spend at crowded, overpriced gyms running on [...]

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Fish Oil Boosts Women’s Power

Guest article from Craig Weatherby, health and science reporter for Vital Choice, Inc Fish Oil Boosted Women’s Power Older women gained more strength from exercise when taking omega-3s; Results echo findings in younger people. by Craig Weatherby Bone and muscle weakness is common among older women … and to a lesser but substantial extent, men [...]

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JJ Virgin’s Top 5 New Year Tips

I’m really happy to be able to share with you these five smart ideas from my long-time friend and colleague,  acclaimed fitness guru JJ Virgin. JJ is theauthor of “Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy“, the co-star of the TLC reality series Freaky Eaters, and a contributor to the Huffington Post. – Dr. Jonny 5 [...]

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Top 10 Fitness and Nutrition Tips for…1998?

Recently I came across some of my old columns from the 90’s and decided to sample some of them to see what I was thinking back a decade or so ago. I was especially curious to see in what areas my thinking had evolved. I fully expected to slap my hand to my forehead in [...]

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Start With One Hour A Week

Chicago Tribune, 11/04/11 You’ve got to love a fitness expert whose exercise mantra is “make it short and sweet.” How short? Twenty minutes, three times a week. But even less at first. For those of us who are, shall we say, exercise averse, this is magical. Federal guidelines advise Americans age 18 to 64 to [...]

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The Amazing Benefits of Cherries: New Research

WINONA, Minn. – A scientific study conducted at Winona State University has found that tart cherry paste significantly decreased muscle tenderness and pain following strenuous exercise, and generally lowered blood pressure compared to a group ingesting a placebo. The research findings were released by the university’s Department of Health, Exercise and Rehabilitative Sciences. The purpose [...]

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Diet Boot Camp 2011 Winner!

We are happy to announce the winner of the Summer Diet Boot Camp Challenge, Sharon Johnson! Sharon had a starting weight of 160 and stated her goals this way: “To drop unhealthy weight and take control of my health by making changes for life. I want Health, Vitality, Mental Clarity & Peace of Mind and [...]

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Muscle Building Cuts Diabetes

Video Summary: Diabetes is a condition where your muscle cells no longer respond to insulin so your body shoves sugar from the blood into your fat cells instead. Exercise increases your muscle cell’s demand for energy so they start paying more attention to insulin. A recent study shows that for every 10% increase in muscle [...]

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A Better Exercise Routine for Fat Burning?

Exercise scientists have recently been turning to interval training as the protocol of choice for maximum fat burning. But many experts are now advocating a combination approach that may have even more benefits than either interval training or weight training alone. In one set of studies(1,2), a typical, standard gym routine—60 minutes of weight training [...]

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Dancing Can Help Offset Weight Gain, Dementia

(guest article from The Sacremento Bee) Want to avoid your risk of dementia holistically? Besides controlling your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugars and decreasing your intake of inflammatory foods, what else can you do? Start dancing! Dancing has been shown to have numerous health benefits in various studies. The most obvious are increased socialization [...]

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