Health & Fitness

The common drug that can make you fat.

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Dr. Sears came out with another great post on the conflict between antibiotics and your waistline. Below is his message in it’s entirely. You will quickly see yet another reason to eat clean and stay healthy! When your doctor gave you your last prescription for an antibiotic, did he tell you it would make you fat?…

Is Your Tap Water Making You Fat?

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Being dehydrated can make you fat and keep you from losing fat, because when you are in this state, your kidneys aren’t working right, so your liver has to step in and help them out. One of your liver’s main jobs is to pull fat out of your tissues to be burned off and used…

7 Tricks to Sleep Better

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Did you know that getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night is a vital part of your fitness program? In fact, not getting enough sleep is downright fattening. I know of someone who put his sleeping habits aside to get through finals and gained 5 pounds in about 9 days. He didn’t change any other…

7 Great Reasons to Buy Coke

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Coke totally rocks! I buy Coke regularly and have found that it really improves my quality of life. Here are my favorite 7 ways to use Coke. I hope these tips enrich your life as much as they have mine. 1.) Toilet bowl cleaner. Pour a can into your toilet bowl and let it sit…

Is High Intensity Training the Fountain of Youth?

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Of course you’d expect me to say so, but science has uncovered some compelling evidence that backs me up: Exercise triggers mitochondrial biogenesis, a decline of which is common in aging; this reverses significant age-associated declines in mitochondrial mass, and in effect, stops aging in its tracks. Aside from impacting your skeletal muscle and fat…

Fast or Slow Exercise?

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I’ve been preaching fast (short duration, high intensity) exercise since I got tired of slow (long duration, low intensity) back in 1987, so there’s no surprise about my choice. Personally, I train less than 10 minutes a day, so by the end of the week, I have worked out for less than an hour – including cardio,…