Weight Problems

I’ll bet a bunch of you Fitness Diggers are trying to lose a few (or more than a few) pounds, especially having just come through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day if you’re in the USA.  And, the Super Bowl is coming too – another opportunity to eat too much of the wrong kind...
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Is it really possible to burn more fat by exercising LESS? Well, here’s an interesting study I read about done by researchers at Quebec’s Laval University. They divided the participants in the study into two groups. Group One did long-duration exercise and Group Two did repeated short-duration exercise. The long-duration group cycled for...
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The National Restaurant Association reports that the average American family buys four meals each week at a restaurant. They also estimate that 30 percent of all the children in the nation eat a meal at a fast food restaurant every day. Hmmm. I wonder if this is in some way connected to the rampant...
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OK, fitness fans, I had to do something to offset yesterday’s “exercise doesn’t increase post-workout metabolism” post. Here’s some good news about exercise. Research indicates that aerobic exercise, in addition to burning calories, also helps curb your food cravings. One study reported that people who biked or ran for 20 minutes three times per...
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It is just possible that many of our weight-loss assumptions are inaccurate. For example, I love nuts. No, I’m not talking about strange people or fitness nuts, although I like them too. I’m talking about cashews, peanuts, almonds, and the like. Now we all “know” that nuts are high in fat and...
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