"We" Couples More Likely To Agree

Tired of arguing with your spouse? Maybe it’s a language problem. Researchers at UC Berkeley have found that spouses who use "we-ness" language are better able to resolve conflicts than those who don’t. A university press release reports that researchers…
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Split Squat Technique

Today I want to cover proper and improper exercise technique for the split squat.  I’ll go ahead and note up front that everything I’m going to discuss would apply to the myriad lunging variations as well.  The only difference is the added component of movement (forwards, backwards, alternating or whatever).
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Day 26: Personal Goal Setting

Hey kids! Almost done! This is the end of week 4…Tuesday marks the official “last day” of the 30-day Challenge. We’ve been having a lot of fun with this and now it’s time to turn you loose. Of course, we’ll still be around with our regular posts, so you won’t have [...]

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Tylenol Improves Performance of Cyclists

Tylenol, the over-the-counter drug that Johnson & Johnson loves so much it can’t stop recalling it, is good for something other than making people sick: it can improve athletic performance of cyclists– a little. Researchers at the University of Exeter…
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How to Deal With Water Retention: Part Two

In part one of this article series I covered the basics of water retention. This time I’ll list a few effective tricks that will help you deal with it when and if it occurs. Don’t worry, you won’t be sweating it out in a sauna and sucking on ice cubes. These are all simple and [...]

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Harvard Study Backs Running Barefoot

It may be important to consider that one source of funding behind a new study suggesting that running barefoot produces a lesser impact on leg bones and joints than running with running shoes is Vibram, the maker of the Five…
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Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

This month I did a video on for NBC Mobile on “Keeping New Year’s Resolutions”. 
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Low-Carb Diet Beats Meds for Lowering Blood Pressure

In a duel of newly diminished waist-sizes, researchers at Duke University Medical Center put a low-fat diet up against the widely-used weight-loss drug orlistat, the active ingredient in GlaxoSmithKline’s Alli, and in Roche’s Xenical. What did they find? No difference…
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Day 24: Reduce Stress and Simplify Your Life

Your lifestyle, and how you react to it, is of vital importance for your health (and even weight loss). I think it is safe to say that most of us already recognize the danger of excess and ongoing stress daily.
So today we are going to talk about how you can reduce stress and simplify your [...]

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A Primer on Dietary Carbohydrates – Part 2

In a Primer on Dietary Carbohydrates – Part 1, I took a brief look at what carbohydrates are and listed the three primary categories of dietary carbohydrates which are monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.  As well, I looked in some detail at the monosaccharides (simple sugars) which are glucose (dextrose), fructose …
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