Posts Tagged ‘weight loss’

Swimming – A Whole Body Workout

Posted in Fitness, Swimming on July 26th, 2009 by Health & Fitness Guru – 9 Comments

Let’s deal with the weight loss issue right off, because if we don’t, you might bypass one of the best exercises around.

Swimming, tradition has it, is not a good way to lose weight – an enduring piece of misinformation that admittedly isn’t dispelled by newspaper photos of Hindenburg-size marathon swimmers stumbling from some frigid ocean.

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Cross Training

Posted in Fitness on June 14th, 2009 by Health & Fitness Guru – Be the first to comment

Easy Fitness – Cross-TrDespite its scientific pedigree, cross- training is just a spiffy word for mixing up your exercises. The best way to achieve solid weight loss and sound fitness while remaining a grip on your sanity.

If you want to gain all the benefits of exercise, and there are lots of them: strength, endurance, health, a lean look, you’ll have a much better chance of covering all the bases by doing different activities.

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Top 40 Foods

Posted in Nutrition on June 14th, 2009 by Health & Fitness Guru – 3 Comments

Easy Fitness – Top 40 Foods

Top 10 Vegetables

There are no bad vegetables, but there are some that are pretty lame. Unfortunately, the lame ones tend to be the ones we eat the most.

Your average fast-food salad entombed in its plastic casket, for example, usually consists of a wad of iceberg lettuce, a couple slices of cucumber, a bloodless tomato, and maybe a dusting of carrot shavings. They aren’t worthless, but you can do a lot better.

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Hunger Versus Appetite

Posted in Nutrition on June 10th, 2009 by Health & Fitness Guru – Be the first to comment

If people only ate when they were truly hungry.

Except for the tiny fraction of us who actually have glandular problems, we would all be as slim as whippets. Unfortunately, for us and our bellies, we eat for all sorts of reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with hunger.

We eat because we are happy, sad, angry, lonely, worried, nervous, frustrated, tired and bored.

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