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BOSU & Medicine Ball Workout with Fitz

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Food is fuel — fill your tank with premium

The other day I told you how key it is to feed your body after exercise and suggested you eat these three post-workout ability foods. As good timing would have it, just after sharing my note, I received an e-mail from my local fitness center. The topic? The importance of post-workout fuel.

It…

Man gets 9-foot tapeworm, blames salmon

We keep telling you here on That’s Fit to eat salmon. Full of the the right kind of fat, salmon is good for your heart and blood pressure. It can reduce your risk of stroke, prostate cancer, even macular degeneration. It keeps the brain sharp, inflammation down, and can ward off Alzheimer’s. Yep…

Restaurant insight vs. reality

If you have a diet soda instead of a regular one, do you think that means you have more “room” for a big piece of cake? It sounds kind of crazy, doesn’t it? Odds are the piece of cake would be more calories than the soda, and what does one thing have to do with the other besides?

According to…

Fiber … for your lungs

Did you know that fiber can help you breathe easier? A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that fiber increased lung capacity.

Specifically, folks who took in at least 27 grams daily had a larger lung capacity than did those who consumed fewer than 10 grams. Additionally, the…

Health Sign #7: not good Breath

Do-It-Yourself diagnosis is normally a pretty not good view; that is, unless you just so happen to have the letters M.D. that seem at the end of your signature. But for those of us without years of medical school under our belts, assuming that a specific pain, dysfunction, or even blotchy patch …

Is it safe to eat moldy food whether you cut off the naughty parts?

When is the final date you pulled something out of the cabinet like a loaf of bread and noticed there was a little moldy spot on one corner? What did you do, throw it out? Or just cut off the mold and eat the rest? I think more of us are guilty of option 2 than would like to confess it, but (sho…

A super, safe appetite suppressant

I’m not one to buy into claims that a pill can suppress my appetite or a chocolate shake can keep me full from wee hours until dinnertime. I prefer natural remedies for feeling full — like eating healthful foods.

There’s another natural way to suppress appetite, says RealAge. It plus happens…

Go nuts for that non-addictive food

Need a healthy snack you won’t find addicting? thereupon peanuts should be your pick. Why? considering they don’t cause a direct release of the delight neurotransmitter dopamine, like some foods do — foods like sugary cereals, which release dopamine, produce you feel great, and next cause you t…

Goody bag free


For the first day ever my son’s birthday party — a Star Wars bash in honor of his seventh birthday — did not come total with a goody bag. My husband and I have always been annoyed by the mountain of crappy trinkets and sugary candies that end up clogging the hoover cleaner and our children’s tee…

Tips for safe grilling

Studies reveal that boiling or grilling meats by too much heat invents chemicals, known as HCAs, that may be carcinogenic. I think it’s a fair assumption that nobody wants their summer barbecue to be cancer-causing, so follow these safe cooking tips to reduce that risk:

Marinate your meats …

The Active Health Network launched nowadays!

The Active Health Network has just launched and you can find it at SportsHealthExercise.Org. I’m very excited to announce that to you, considering I’m one of the several health and fitness experts contributing to the site. Unlike other health and fitness sites, SHE is owned by a fitness expert, …

Slow and steady

Doctors propose limiting workouts to around an hour per day, in addition to stressing adequate rest in amoung workouts. Getting ample sleep at night is crucial to total body health, as it is during times of rest when the body repairs itself. All too often, humans will throw themselves into a workout…

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