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		<title>Drink Soda and Die!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Menace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, that&#8217;s a little dramatic, but sodas are definitely a health menace. Via: Term Life Insurance]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a News Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Andrew Weil sometimes recommends what he calls a news fast.  Simply put, that means avoiding new reports, especially television, for a period of time. A number of studies have shown that images and reports of violence, death and disaster can cause undesirable changes in one&#8217;s mood.  Further, such images can aggravate pre-existing anxiety, sadness and depression.  Obviously, none of these outcomes is optimal for those concerned about their health. Even is all t he graphic news of disasters, economic collapse, and violence in the world just contribute to increased worrying, that alone can reduce your immunity, resulting in more illnesses. So, maybe Drl Weil has a point.  Taking a break from news, at least the graphic variety shown on television, might be a good, and healthy, idea.]]></description>
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		<title>3 &#8220;Healthy&#8221; Foods You Should Stop Eating</title>
		<link>http://www.idigfitness.com/683/3-healthy-foods-stop-eating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constant Craving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friend Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Havoc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition Specialist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This really surprised me! My friend Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, wrote an article about the over-consumption of 3 types of food which are prevalent in the Western diet, and how they can wreak havoc on your health and weight loss goals.  Here&#8217;s the link to Mike&#8217;s article.]]></description>
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		<title>History of Corn Flakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting bit of &#8220;food history&#8221; that I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t know.  Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) and his brother, Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951), better known as W.K. Kellogg, were both vegetarians. Dr. Kellogg ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan and felt that the consumption of meat was both bad for one&#8217;s health and morally wrong. Therefore, he placed the patients on a strict diet consisting of numerous vegetable and nut products that he developed. One of the most famous was a flaked wheat cereal called Granose.  Granose was never very popular, primarily because it was, more or less, tasteless. Through continued experimenting with his recipes, Dr. Kellogg finally invented a cereal based on flakes of corn in 1902, which became what is known as Corn Flakes today. Dr. Kellogg&#8217;s brother, W. K. Kellogg, actually became the most famous of the two Kellogg brothers, since it was he who began the Kellogg Company in 1906. Ironically, even though the development of Corn Flakes was motivated by the beliefs of the vegetarian Kellogg brothers that meat and other animal products were unhealthy for consumption, most health experts today agree that cereal in its present form is also not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Cow, Batman!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[28 Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Journal Of Clinical Nutrition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[processed meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Questionnaires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Of Public Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe that cow isn&#8217;t so holy after all, Batman.  A recent study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported the results of a study in which researchers examined the results of 442,000 questionnaires from other studies spanning over 28 years. Based on the review, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health suggested that eating as little as 1.8 ounces of processed red meat (such as hot dogs or bacon) per day could result in as much as a 51% increase in one&#8217;s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.  Holy Cow indeed, and Holy Pig too! 51% is a fairly significant number.  Maybe I&#8217;ll skip the bacon this morning]]></description>
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		<title>Talk About Exercise Being Fun!</title>
		<link>http://www.idigfitness.com/455/talk-about-exercise-being-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Journal Of Cardiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Philosophies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dread]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sorry Ladies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know if you&#8217;re a regular reader of the IDigFitness Blog, one of our core philosophies is, &#8220;if you dig it, you&#8217;ll do it.&#8221;  Translated, that means if your workouts are something you dread, you&#8217;re not going to do them, but if they&#8217;re something you enjoy, then they&#8217;ll get done. Well, I don&#8217;t know if this technically falls in the workout area or not, but it&#8217;s definitely health related, has to do with a form of exercise, and most people do find it to be, well, fun! A 16 year study recently reported in the American Journal of Cardiology of over 1,000 men ages 40 to 70 found that men who have sex twice a week may reduce their risk of heart attack by roughly 50% compared to men who have sex once a month or less. Sorry, ladies.  I don&#8217;t think the research has yet been done for you. A 50% reduction in risk of heart attack is no small thing.  One interesting question that I have is whether the risk reduction is specifically related just to sex, or would other activities requiring the same amount of exertion have a similar benefit? For now and until further research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting Is Bad For Our Health?</title>
		<link>http://www.idigfitness.com/445/sitting-is-bad-for-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Day Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desk Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prolonged Periods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This falls in the &#8220;can&#8217;t win&#8221; category for a guy like me whose day job is a desk job. It seems that sitting for prolonged periods of time shortens your life. Darn. How am I going to get around that? I welcome suggestions. Read the full story here.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Play&#8221; &#8211; It&#8217;s Not Just for Kids Anymore!</title>
		<link>http://www.idigfitness.com/192/play-its-not-just-for-kids-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I Dig Fitness</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few thoughts about &#8220;play.&#8221; You know, our motto is &#8220;if you dig it, you&#8217;ll do it.&#8221; So which do you think you&#8217;re more likely to do eagerly, &#8220;work&#8221; or &#8220;play?&#8221;  I&#8217;ll bet that play is not even a small part of your daily activities as an adult. Remember when you were a kid? Play was a big part of your life. Then you &#8220;grew up&#8221; and got all serious and mature. Ughhh. Maybe you should think about having a second (or third) childhood. So, what are some of the benefits of play? Play involves exercise, so it&#8217;s good for you health. Play is a way to relax, de-stress, and reduce worry, so it&#8217;s good for your brain and psyche. Play is fun &#8211; that&#8217;s why we did it incessantly as kids. How long&#8217;s it been since you engaged in some serious play (oxymoron)? I&#8217;m talking about the kind where you&#8217;re being completely free-form &#8211; running around like a banshee giggling and just absolutely relishing the moment &#8211; the kind where you&#8217;re having so much fun enjoying the moment that you are oblivious to your surroundings and what other people may be thinking about your behavior. [Think pillow [...]]]></description>
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