Carbohydrates: Do They Improve Athletic Performance?
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Carbohydrates: Do They Improve Athletic Performance?

Over the years, carbohydrates have been vilified and held accountable for unwanted weight gain. But carbohydrates are essential for the human body to function optimally. Carbohydrates provide fuel for your muscles and brain during exercise and may help improve your athletic performance.  Like many aspects of nutrition, there are some individual factors at play with […]

18 December, 2022

Eating More Fiber: Natural vs. Added Sources
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Eating More Fiber: Natural vs. Added Sources

At one time or another, you’ve undoubtedly heard that you should eat more fiber. And it’s true. Fiber is an important part of a healthy diet—so important that dietary fiber is considered to be a nutrient of public health concern in the U.S. Most of us simply aren’t getting enough fiber on a daily basis.  […]

16 December, 2022

The 80/20 Rule of Healthy Eating
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The 80/20 Rule of Healthy Eating

Food is one of the foundations of good health. Along with good genes, physical activity, sleep, and other healthy habits, it can be the difference between healthy and unhealthy. But you don’t have to stick to a diet made up solely of lettuce, especially if you consider implementing the 80/20 rule in one way or another. […]

14 December, 2022

How to Exercise on Holiday or While Traveling
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How to Exercise on Holiday or While Traveling

Integrating health and fitness into your lifestyle motivates you to maintain these good habits daily. Traveling and vacations can place obstacles in the middle of your fitness road. With some flexibility and adaptation, you needn’t sacrifice the fitness you have already built, or train so hard you don’t enjoy your time away. There are several […]

14 December, 2022

What You Need to Know About Water Weight 
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What You Need to Know About Water Weight 

Weight gain and weight loss are influenced by several factors. If you are tracking your weight, you might notice that it goes up or down over a few days, even when you haven’t changed your habits much. Slight changes in your weight are totally normal. And one of the things that could cause those changes […]

13 December, 2022

The Importance of Vitamins and Minerals in the Diet
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The Importance of Vitamins and Minerals in the Diet

Vitamins and minerals are micronutrients your body absolutely needs to be healthy. Without vitamins and minerals, your body wouldn’t be able to function and you’d suffer from a large range of deficiency diseases. No food contains all vitamins and minerals in rich quantities, so the best way to get them all is to choose a […]

12 December, 2022

How Many Steps Should You be Doing Per Day? 
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How Many Steps Should You be Doing Per Day? 

The science is unanimous; we can walk our way to better health! But the question in everyone’s mind is about how far we need to walk to make a difference in our lives. How many steps a day do we need to do to reap the benefits of walking? We can credit walking for improving […]

10 December, 2022