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Is Stress Making You Fat?

If you’re living a stressful life and wondering why those pounds keep creeping on, there is scientific evidence that has proven that stress can actually make you fat. The good news is that there are many ways you can combat stress and start getting healthy. But first, let’s look at why stress can cause you [...]

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How to Stay Healthy When You Are Dieting

So many of us get caught up in the push to lose weight that we let our health slide. There are a few ways that you can make sure that you are staying healthy when you’re loosing weight, and they’re not hard to do at all. You will need to see a doctor or a [...]

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Sleep Creep: Is Exercise the Reason for Your Midday Crash?

Exercise is often touted as the antidote to everything from depression to insomnia. “Take a brisk 10-minute walk on your lunch break and power through that glass ceiling!” magazines often advise (note to mags: What does one do about the sweat on one’s…

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Weekend Reading Roundup

Weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network:

Working out with the Misses, I love her by Fat Man Unleashed is an excellent post to remind us that working out with partners (spouses, friends, family members) is a great [...]

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Why 8 Hours Of Sleep Matters

I’ve always heard that eight hours of sleep is the optimal amount of sleep every person needs, but I honestly get around 6-7 hours each night. After about that long, I start waking up and my brain starts thinking… and then I can’t get it to stop. After a while, it’s really just me lying [...]

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2nd Annual Maine Coach & Athlete Cross Country Clinic (Part V: The Athlete’s Panel)

The 2nd annual Maine Coach and Athlete Cross Country Clinic was on August 18th, 2008 at the University of Southern Maine. This is the third part of my reporting on the clinic; the first part was about injury prevention and treatment, the second part was about nutrition basics and fueling, and the third part was [...]

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Personal entry: It’s amazing what a little sleep will do

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5 Reasons to do Early Bird Exercising

If you can barely pull yourself out of bed in the morning, let alone exercise, it can be difficult to put together a workout plan. There are many benefits to getting in your day’s exercise in the wee hours, even if it is a little difficult at first. Let’s look at just a few reasons [...]

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Get some sleep!

Hi, Everyone –
There is an interesting article on msn.com today. It talks about what a lack of sleep can do to your body and weight-loss efforts. According to the article, women who sleep six hours per night were 12 percent more likely to gain a significant amount of weight. Those who slept only five hours [...]

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Diet vs. Exercise

There has been a constant debate in the world of health sciences. Which is better… diet or exercise? Both are very crucial to a healthy lifestyle, but which yields best results?
When I am dieting, I focus on the limiting the unnecessary calories that cross my lips. Sometimes I wonder what is and [...]

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Diet vs. Exercise

There has been a constant debate in the world of health sciences. Which is better… diet or exercise? Both are very crucial to a healthy lifestyle, but which yields best results?
When I am dieting, I focus on the limiting the unnecessary calories that cross my lips. Sometimes I wonder what is and [...]

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Exercising Is More Than Losing Weight

While there has always been a big push to get people to exercise, obesity rates have continued to rise. Just because people have been told to exercise does not necessarily mean they will. While doctors and governments are always trying to push the benefits of exercising to people, they always go with one major sticking [...]

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Stress, me, and a blog make three

“Look, Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.” [2001: A Space Odyssey] - Sir Arthur C. Clarke [photo courtesy of FilmReference.com]

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Adequate Sleep May Be Another Key to Losing Weight

When you think about losing weight, you think about being active and exercising. At least, that’s the first thing I think about. Recent research is suggesting that lack of sleep is an under-estimated factor in obesity.
Two key hormones produced at night which help regulate appetite were at play, she said.
Grehlin makes people hungry, [...]

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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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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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What If We Didn’t Need to Sleep?

Everyone wants to add a little more time to their day. What if you could add another eight hours every now and again? Wouldn’t that change your life? Of course it would.
It may sound like I’m dreaming. There’s no possible way we could function without proper sleep, right? It wasn’t [...]

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Benifits of daily physical activity…

There are many benefits of daily physical activity…too many to mention. For times sake and simply because I don’t want to write that much, I’ve listed a few of, what I think, are the most important. Take time to read ant think about each one and how …

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Small things to help…

To Improve Nutrition:1. Buy whole foods — whether canned, frozen, or fresh from the farm — and use them in place of processed foods whenever possible.2. Reject foods and drinks made with corn syrup, a calorie-dense, nutritionally empty sweetener that…

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Sleep and The Three Bears

Everyone knows the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks stumbles upon the home of the three bears and riffles through their things (what are teaching our children anyway?!?!) sampling them all. The Papa Bear’s stuff is too hot or too hard while the Mama Bear’s stuff is just as unsatisfactory to [...]

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“Get up off your couch and walk!”

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. That’s what Loralee from the “Fat March” said to motivate the rest of us.
“It’s about how much you eat.”
“You can do anything you set your mind to”
“believe in yourself”
There’s no magic to it. These participants went from not even being able to walk 1 mile to walking [...]

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Lunesta

Four years ago I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I had to go through an all-night sleep study. Basically, I went to my doctor’s office which has four “bedrooms” and I spent the night, hooked up to all manner of tubes, wires, and monitors. If I sleep without my “mask” (CPAP machine), [...]

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This Week Last Year: The Clam Festival, Sleep and Ice

This week last year was pretty busy, with the Clam Festival and some site news. I spent a lot of time talking about health, both from the taking care of yourself and the treating injuries perspective.

I continued my series on icing with a description of how to ice w/an ice bag. On [...]

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An Hour of Sleep vs. An Hour of Gym?

I had an interesting comment on my post about stepping up my fitness plan. Guinness416 suggested, “Get up an hour or so earlier and work out then.” I’ve done morning workouts in the past, but have sense focused a more time into my blogs such as this one and Lazy Man and Money. [...]

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