Choosing a Treadmill
You have just decided a good electric treadmill is exactly what you need to maintain your commitment to regular aerobic exercise. But you find there are dozens of different treadmills, ranging in price from $399 to over $3,000. What accounts for the huge difference in price? What do you look for when buying?...
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Sugar – Can You Give It Up?
Twenty years ago, fat and/or dairy products were touted as the great enemies of the waistline. An entire industry grew up around selling ‘low-fat’ and ‘dairy-free’ products, while diets designed to exclude these food groups made millions for their inventors. Sugar got off more or less scot-free – enemy only of the dental industry. Fast forward two decades, and there’s been a sea change...
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100 Painless Ways to cut 100 or More Calories
Reaching your fat loss goals may be easier than you think. To lose a pound of fat a month, all you need to do is cut 100 calories a day from your diet, assuming the intake and expenditure of all other calories remains the same. That’s because a pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3,500 calories. So if you cut 100 calories a day for 31 days, you’re cutting 3,100 calories – or about a pound.......
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Where Diets Go Wrong
When we discover that we are heavier than we want to be, we have a natural inclination to eat less food. We may skip lunch or eat only a tiny amount of our dinner in the hope that if we eat less our body will burn off some of its fat. But that is not necessarily true. Eating less actually makes it more difficult to lose weight...
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