Posts Tagged ‘ Calories ’

Your Friends Made You Fat!

March 6, 2011

If you read this blog regularly, you probably know that I believe in personal accountability, so that headline is a bit tongue-in-cheek. Despite wishing it were otherwise, if you’re overweight, it IS your fault, unless someone is forcing your to eat more calories than you require. That being said, here’s an interesting bit of...
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Burn 9 Times More Fat By Exercising Less!

By I Dig Fitness

January 18, 2010

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 45...
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Exercise and Your Mouth

By I Dig Fitness

January 6, 2010

Back when I was running with the triathloning crowd, I had buddies who thought that all the training (running, cycling and swimming) they did gave them a free pass to the local buffet. They believed that they could, after their workouts, eat with immunity and with total disregard for their caloric intake. At the...
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Thanksgiving Bloat

By I Dig Fitness

November 27, 2009

Yep, right about now we are all (at least in the US) feeling a little bloated and a few pounds heavier, thanks to those wonderful Thanksgiving meals. Most of us are also scheming ways to shed that extra pound or two we just put on. If you want a different perspective than the usual...
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Fast Food Restaurants

By I Dig Fitness

July 27, 2009

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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