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What You Need to Know About Healthy Bones

Paul Rogers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:22:55 +0000

Worrying about their bones is not something that teenage girls give high priority to – not in relation to how strong they are going to be in 20 years anyway. Nevertheless, building strong bones in adolescent and teenage years is crucial to having strong bones throughout life and into old age. Some older men and [...]

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What You Need to Know About Healthy Bones

How Physical Activity Prevents Lifestyle Disease

Paul Rogers — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:50:32 +0000

Compared to how humans lived prior to civilization, and even how people lived up until the present century – and some still do – we in the developed nations move very much less. It may be obvious, it may be overstated and it may seem trivial in the scheme of healthy living, but it is [...]

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How Physical Activity Prevents Lifestyle Disease

Why You Can’t Substitute Fat and Protein for Carbohydrate in Athletic Endeavour

Paul Rogers — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:58:59 +0000

Low-carb dieting still has many followers after many years. Some people find it works for weight loss — if they can stick to it for any length of time. Yet the proponents and supporters of low-carbohydrate dieting are always looking for one more angle to boost the somewhat low credibility of low-carb eating among most [...]

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Why You Can’t Substitute Fat and Protein for Carbohydrate in Athletic Endeavour

Is Your Heart Bullet-Proof?

Paul Rogers — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:38:36 +0000

I credit Rad over at Eons for alerting me to the specifics of this heart rate recovery test, although I was aware that heart rate recovery research in relation to cardiovascular health had been around for some time, using various medical and fitness treadmill stress tests like the Bruce or Balke protocols. According to the researchers working in this [...]

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Is Your Heart Bullet-Proof?

What You Need to Know About Burning Fat

Paul Rogers — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:45:41 +0000

The idea of “fat burning” has become something of a cliché these days. I’m not surprised. It sounds logical that if you want to lose weight you should burn up that body fat that makes you fat . . . right? In a way that’s correct, but what has been grossly misunderstood — even [...]

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What You Need to Know About Burning Fat

Don’t Go Belly Up – Control That Waistline

Paul Rogers — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:56:29 +0000

A big belly is potentially a health warning — for men and women. True, there may be metabolic types that defy the general health implications of a substantial girth. Some men and women might actually be metabolically normal with a large waistline — especially if they are physically active – but I wouldn’t count on it. [...]

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Don’t Go Belly Up – Control That Waistline

Exercise Won’t Make You Fat – And Pigs Still Can’t Fly

Paul Rogers — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:14:47 +0000

The poor guy. His name is John Cloud and he recently wrote an article called Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin for TIME magazine. He, and the article, have taken a real battering from fitness industry stalwarts, including me over at my About.com gig: Exercise Won’t Help You Lose Weight – Wrong! But you would [...]

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Exercise Won’t Make You Fat – And Pigs Still Can’t Fly

Survival of the Fittest

Paul Rogers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:27:47 +0000

We all know that exercise and physical activity is good for us: authorities have been belting out the message for decades. Even so, it all gets a little confusing trying to decide how much, what type of exercise, and how to know if you’re doing enough by any measurable parameter. Now it seems we have [...]

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Survival of the Fittest

Prevention and Management of Diabetes with Lifestyle Change

Paul Rogers — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:55:11 +0000

Diabetes comes in a few different medical configurations. Type 1 Diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) was once called juvenile diabetes because it appears mostly in childhood or early teens. Insulin, the hormone responsible for storing glucose (blood sugar) and fats, fails completely and has to be replaced by injected insulin. Without insulin, glucose and fat and derivative products [...]

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Prevention and Management of Diabetes with Lifestyle Change

Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

Paul Rogers — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:30:50 +0000

Weight Loss and Exercise Guidelines from ACSM The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has released a new Position Stand, Appropriate Intervention Strategies for Weight Loss and Prevention of Weight Regain for Adults, which addresses obesity and overweight in adults. Specific dietary and exercise recommendations are included. The paper also explores resistance exercise and pharmacotherapy [...]

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Losing Weight and Keeping It Off