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Health and Wellness Benefits of Yoga

Yoga books tell us that Yoga, as we all know, is aimed to unite the mind, the body, and the spirit. Yogis view that the mind and the body are one, and that if it is given the right tools and taken to the right environment, it can find harmony and heal itself. Yoga therefore is considered…

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SUGAR CAN CAUSE WRINKLES

Many experts believe that a lifetime of overeating sugar can make skin dull and wrinkled. At blame is a natural process that’s known as glycation, in which the sugar in your bloodstream attaches to proteins to form harmful new molecules called advanced glycation end products (or, appropriately,…

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Fresh Raw Foods - The Fountain of Youth

Why is Raw Food So Good For You? “Because from thirty to eighty-five percent of the nutrition in foods is destroyed in cooking. That is an average fifty percent loss! Fresh, raw foods contain the highest level of enzymes. Enzymes are the catalyst for the hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions…

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Breathe Deep for Your Health and Wellness

Hopefully it’s a nice spring day where ever you…

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The Power of Walking and Movement as Opposed to a Sedentary Lifestyle

Assess how far you walk a day.  On the same day, record how long you sit in a day.  Some of us can’t help how little we walk!  The workplace has become so modernized that we rarely need to leave the hub that it our desk. Figure out one day how much walking you actually do. You can…

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Fitness and Exercise, Health and Wellness

So let’s assess how in or out of shape we are. If you are not in shape, don’t worry you are not alone, 86% of Americans are out of shape.  Certain individuals may not have the capacity to do exercise at more intense levels, but most people do.  For the most part, you are in acceptable…

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Healing Effects of Laughter

How many times a day do you laugh? Do you know we laugh about 100 times more as a child? Research has shown health benefits of laughter ranging from strengthening the immune system to reducing food cravings to increasing one’s threshold for pain. There’s even an emerging therapeutic field known as…

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Out of Your Comfort Zone

I’ve realized that exercise will increase my weight loss and help get my body get into better condition. I finally decided that it was time to step out of my comfort zone
If I was going to be true to this experience, I had to go to the gym.
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The Smell of Spring Time!

 The nose and it vital functions 
The nose is no joke. 
The nose has 3 functions to moisten air and filter it as we breathe, and to facilitate smell.  
The truth is smell doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Our sense of smell allows us to enjoy the scent of fresh flowers,…

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CFLs and Mercury

The other day, Rob pointed me to an article on a topic which has been in the news quite a bit lately - the concern over the mercury contained in compact fluorescent (CFL) lamps. The original piece is here.
That article - and many others - gives the rea…

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Spring is Coming! Stress and Smells

       Winter slowly disappears, the weather gradually gets warmer and we know that spring is finally here. Spring is a time to both take command of your stresses and to take time to smell the roses. I will outline several steps to bring your stress level down and…



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Monitoring Your Energy Usage

Having access to any sort of information - in real time - can help make almost anything more effective. A car’s speedometer, a wristwatch; that thin red line you see on televised swimming finals.
When it comes to energy use around the house, this…

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Is Snacking Good for You?

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. A friend of yours may tell you that you shouldn’t snack between meals; someone else may tell you that you should. Who’s right?
Do you know the difference between snacking and having a snack? In my definition:

Snacking is continuously eating or picking at food throughout the [...]

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Drinking Water - Truths and Myths

Water is booming these days! It’s big business. First - most of the advice you get about drinking water is dangerously wrong. We talked about the benfits of drinking water here before.
No one really knows for sure exactly how much water you should drink, and the blanket advice we get is pure…



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Weight Loss Expectations

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Watching The Biggest Loser each week, I notice that contestants lose between 0-15 pounds a week (and even these numbers vary). For the average person trying to lose weight, are these numbers realistic? And, do you, the viewer of The Biggest Loser, get discouraged when [...]

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Balance is Key to Weight Management

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. March is National Nutrition Month® and Building Nutrition will be posting daily on various nutrition topics. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS Feed or our email newsletters to stay up-to-date.
As you may remember, the nutrition theme for this month is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact“. [...]

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Winter Home Fitness Tips

I know that in the Wintertime, sometimes you just don’t feel like getting out to go to the gym. But there are lots of things you can do indoors. Winter and bad weather are no excuse to not work out!Buy a yoga  or stretching mat to use in front of the TV or your bedroom. You can pick up some…



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Low-cost eating! You can eat cheap and healthy!

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. One of my colleagues asked me the other day how she can feed her family healthy food on a tight budget. She was looking for recipes and a meal plan. Luckily, I didn’t have to “recreate the wheel”.
I just sent her to an awesome website from [...]

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Great Nutrition and Physical Activity Gifts for Kids–Part One

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Every year, I think about getting my nieces and cousins something “nutrition-related” for their birthdays or Christmas. This year, I decided to let you in on my searches and give you a list of what I’ve found. Part One is about physical activity, part Two will [...]

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Good Diet vs “Fad” Diet

Fad Diet: The diet that promotes a restricted eating-plan or certain liquid foods lacking sufficient food value is termed as Fad Diet. The fad diets are very low in calories so they cause quite fast weight loss. However, quick weight loss may not be he…

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Weight Training Twenty Minutes a Day

If you like working out but don’t have much time, here is a suggestion.In your weight training routine, you don’t have to work all your target areas at once. Instead, work one area a day for about 20 minutes. For example, your program might look like t…

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Things that are healthy for the body…

Your body needs a daily supply of protein, complex carbohydrates, and healthy fats to get the fuel it needs for energy and optimum health. Protein is a primary component of our muscles, hair, nails, skin, eyes, and internal organs, especially the heart…

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Reason why calorie-restrictive diets are unhealthy…

Here are some reasons why you should stay away from traditional calorie restrictive diets: 1. Calories restrictive diets make you lose muscle. Since your body is in starvation mode, it will draw it’s energy from other sources such as muscle. 2. Calor…

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Marathons and Weight

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Mike, aka CleverDude, published a post the other day about how money and marathons are related. With his permission, I will post part of his advice, as I think it pertains to building nutrition and increasing physical activity in general.
“While training last year, I knew [...]

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Should you eat less when you are injured?

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Having injured my knee a few weeks ago on our 8 mile night run, I decided to rest for a few days, and then take it easier on my next run. The question came to mind whether I should reduce how much I’ve been eating because [...]

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