Category: Fitness and Health
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Foods That Rot in Your Colon
The truth is meat gets completely digested and absorbed before it ever gets to the colon! Meat generally leaves the stomach in 2-3 hours and can be fully digested in 4-6 hours. This is because our stomachs are incredibly well designed to digest meat and utilize the wide range of nutrients it contains.
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Fibre: What is it Good for? Absolutely Nothing.
Do we need fiber? Before I answer that question, lets discuss what fibre is. Dietary fibre can mainly be found in wholegrain cereals, fruits, and vegetables. It is made up of the indigestible compounds of plants that pass mostly unchanged through our stomach and intestines. Fibre is mainly a carbohydrate. Although we have heard time and…
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The Best Vegetables for the Keto Diet
A lot of people think that the ketogenic diet is just about eating bacon, butter, and ribeye steaks, but it is about much more than that. On a keto diet, the goal is to get more calories from protein and fat and less from carbohydrates. You want to keep your carb intake under 50 grams…
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The Surprising Truth about High Blood Pressure
If your blood pressure is checked while you are sitting with your legs crossed rather than with your feet flat on the ground, it will give you a false reading. Having coffee in the morning or exercising thirty minutes before the test will increase your blood pressure. And the list goes on. If the waiting…
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Addressing 5 Common Causes of Leg and Muscle Cramps
Leg Cramps, we’ve all experienced them. It could be a minor discomfort or pain so bad that it takes your right off your feet. They can happen late at night while you are sleeping, or after you have had a long run or walk, after not doing any activity at all. You can get these…
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How Bad Do You Want It?
Before I go too far, you must understand that my brother and I had never seen nor heard of anything to do with the game of hockey. The only ice we knew of was ice cream, ice cubes, and block of ice the ice man would bring each day to place in the ice box.…
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The RICE Method: How This Popular Method Of Treating Injuries Actually Slows Recovery
So why – in the face of expert advice against the practice – do people still turn to ice to treat an injury or swelling? Usually, the goal when using ice is to numb the immediate pain, but this method will only relieve the pain for a moment and will not treat or take away…
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The Effects of Vaping on the Body
We now understand that vaping can be just as addictive as cigarettes, but many users still believe that the habit is far less harmful than smoking, but is this true? Is bringing in that vapor to the human body a bad thing? While the medical community has not reached a consensus that vaping is as…
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Fact vs. Fiction: A Deep Dive into Type 2 Diabetes
If you separate the fact from fiction surrounding your condition, there is hope. You can hope to have a normal hemoglobin A1C, not be dependent on medications, and not be worried about losing a leg or a foot, your vision or having bad kidney function.
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Honest Health and Fitness Advice in the Age of “Get-Fit-Quick” Schemes
Here is a pill that some may find hard to swallow: exercise is not supposed to be fun. It’s not supposed to be easy or comfortable. Real results don’t happen overnight. If you put in the work and go down the right path, you will sweat. On occasion, you might puke. You will drop a…
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Bodysmith International Online Fitness Programs: No “One Sized Fits All”
These programs are not just another set of home workout videos, instead, they are a collection of expertly crafted programs encompassing workouts, fitness advice, health and nutrition tips and much more to keep you motivated and on track with your goals.