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In the Blink of an Eye

When thinking about keeping your muscles toned, you don’t usually think about your eyes, but the eye is the most active and fastest working muscle in your entire body. And they’re extremely tough muscles at that. While you need to warm up your body’s muscles to get them prepped, your eyes are ready to rumble 24/7.   While we’re not telling you to try to strap on mini weights to your […]

todayDecember 20, 2018

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Think Before You Drink

It's looking like the reported health benefits of drinking alcohol might have been just too good to be true.  A wide international investigation had researchers studying data from over 500,000 current drinkers in 19 countries, and the results are in.  The study found that the safe upper limit for alcohol consumption is only about 100 grams of alcohol per week.  In real-life hooch terms, that's just five pints of beer […]

todayDecember 19, 2018

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Being Happy With Less

The supersizing phenomenon and ballooning portion sizes are considered a major player in the startling rise of obesity rates in the last few decades.  But before you get discouraged, there's new research that suggests we can turn this around. A study in the April edition of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that exposure to smaller food portions can actually recalibrate people' perception of how much is enough.  In […]

todayDecember 18, 2018

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Fatty Fish Helps Asthmatics Breathe Easier

An international study from La Trobe University has found that children with asthma who followed a healthy Mediterranean diet enriched with fatty fish showed improved lung function after just six months. The clinical trial involved 64 children from Athens in Greece, ranging in age from 5  to 12 who had mild asthma. Researchers from Australia and Greece divided the children into two groups and instructed around half to eat two […]

todayDecember 13, 2018

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Get Kids Cooking to Make Healthier Adults

If you want your kids to grow up into health-eating adults, encourage them to get cooking.  Data was studied from the Project Eating and Activity in Teens and Young Adults in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and published by the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior earlier this year.   During the study, the participants ranging in age from 30 to 35 showed a direct correlation to their current healthy eating […]

todayDecember 12, 2018

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Lick the Salt Habit

We should all know by now that foods like deli meats, pizza and potato chips have tons of sodium, but did you know that high salt levels also lurk in foods you might not suspect, like…bread?   A 2018 survey by World Action of Salt and Health in London took a long, hard look at over 2,000 bread products from over 30 countries, including the United States, and found that […]

todayDecember 11, 2018

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Is Your Diet a Killer?

Need more proof that diet plays a big role in keeping today’s biggest killers at bay?  According to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2017, nearly HALF of all US deaths from heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes in 2012 were attributed to substandard eating habits.  The study was funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and […]

todayDecember 10, 2018

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Spice Up Your Life

Adding a variety of spices to your diet may help you eat healthier and enjoy it more. According to studies published in the Journal of Food Science, researchers found that herbs and spices like coriander and dill helped people eat their veggies, while a dash of cinnamon made raw fruits take on a whole new zing on the palate.   Another study done on a half a million Chinese people […]

todayDecember 6, 2018

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All Workouts are NOT Created Equal

A new research study done by Les Mills International has revealed that some workouts, even if done for the same amount of time and have burned the same amount of calories, do not give you the same long-term metabolic benefit.   In the study, twelve healthy, fit female subjects completed both an indoor cycling and a resistance workout on different days. The researchers took a blood sample from each woman […]

todayDecember 5, 2018

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