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| Eat five to six small meals per day. Small, frequent meals (as opposed to two or three big meals) help to keep your metabolism high, literally "stoking the furnace" within your body and helping you to burn more fat. Tip Credibility: 14 |
| Don't eat sugary foods before working out. Eating sugary foods before working out will cause an insulin spike that will significantly reduce the possibility of your body tapping into its fat stores during the workout. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Spot reducing is based on the flawed notion that it's possible to "burn off" fat from a specific area of the body by selectively exercising that area. Exercising a specific area of the body will have no direct effect on fat loss in that area.
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| Salt is technically referred to as sodium chloride because it's primarily composed of the elements sodium and chloride. The human body needs some sodium to function properly, but many people are consuming far too much sodium. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| The key to creating a healthy eating plan is to make sure that it's personalized so it can meet your individual needs and goals. The more personalized your healthy eating plan is, the more likely you'll be to stick with it.
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| Never go on a starvation diet. If you drastically reduce calories, you'll lose primarily water and muscle, not body fat. You'll also most likely end up gaining back any weight you lose. Tip Credibility: 66 |
| Here are just some of the many health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids: They reduce the risk of heart disease and heart attack, they relieve joint pain and inflammation and they increase fat loss and encourage the use of stored fat as fuel. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Here are seven foods that will help keep your eyes healthy: eggs, raspberries, almonds, broccoli, salmon, spinach and yogurt. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Don't think "diet," think "nutrition plan." A diet is a temporary way of eating while a nutrition plan is a permanent way of eating. Tip Credibility: 28 |
| Probiotics are not the same thing as prebiotics. Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that make their way through the digestive system and help good bacteria grow and flourish. Tip Credibility: 15 |
| On average, the higher a person's salt intake, the higher a person's blood pressure. Keeping blood pressure in the normal range reduces the risk of stroke, heart disease, heart failure and kidney disease.
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| Weight lifting should be a part of every woman's fitness program. Weight lifting is just as important as aerobic exercise and proper nutrition when it comes to getting and staying fit and healthy. Tip Credibility: 38 |
| Jicama (pronounced hick-a-ma) is a low calorie, low fat, highly nutritious root vegetable that looks like a turnip or a large radish. Jicama is very high in fiber and contains calcium, magnesium, potassium, and vitamins A and C. Tip Credibility: 13 |
| Fish oil has many health benefits. It reduces the risk of heart disease and heart attack, it improves blood vessel functioning, it increases HDL ("good") cholesterol, it reduces blood pressure, and it relieves joint pain and inflammation. Tip Credibility: 12 |
| Fish oil contains the omega-3 fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), which are essential to human health. Fish oil is one of the few dietary sources that contains DHA and EPA. Tip Credibility: 11 |
| Over 40 fitness is not an oxymoron. Exercise science has proven that you can become fit and healthy at any age. Numerous studies have shown that older people respond very favorably to both strength training and aerobic exercise. Tip Credibility: 21 |
| Avoid diets that promise "everyone will lose weight with this diet." No single diet works for everyone. We all have different body types, metabolisms, lifestyles, likes and dislikes etc. Nutrition has to be personalized. Tip Credibility: 28 |
| Avoid diets that promise you can "lose weight while eating whatever foods you want." You can't lose weight if you're eating calorie dense foods that are loaded with sugar, saturated fat and trans fat. Tip Credibility: 28 |
| If more than one person will be using the home gym, make sure that any exercise equipment you buy can accommodate different body sizes and can be adjusted for different fitness goals and fitness levels. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Don't make any rash decisions when you buy exercise equipment. Decide what your fitness goals are and then determine what exercise equipment will best help you achieve those goals. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Studies have found that men who gained weight (particularly around the midsection) between the ages of 25 and 40 increased their risk of prostate cancer by 200% compared to men who maintained a stable weight. Tip Credibility: 13 |
| Staying well hydrated with water is a good way to prevent kidney stones. Water will keep your urine diluted so that chemicals and salts aren't able to crystallize and build up in the kidneys. Tip Credibility: 22 |
| A review of research published in The Medical Post suggests that overuse of headache medication may actually trigger the headaches they are supposed to treat. Researchers estimated medication overuse causes 30% of chronic daily headaches. Tip Credibility: 15 |
| People who are physically active are 30-40% less likely to get colon cancer than nonactive people. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| According to a Scandinavian study of more than a million blood donors, giving blood was linked with a lower risk of liver, lung, colon, stomach and throat cancers in men. The more they gave, the more their risk of disease decreased. Tip Credibility: 4 |
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