Women Who Ride Bikes Are Slimmer Than Women Who Don’t

First, the conclusion: "Bicycling, similar to brisk walking, is associated with less weight gain and an inverse dose-response relationship exists, especially among overweight and obese women." This unsurprising news comes from researchers at the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, which follows…
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Training for General Health and Wellness – Q&A

Question: Obviously folks wanting to change body composition (lose fat or gain muscle) or maximize strength gains have to put in a proportionally larger amount of training to reach their goals but my question is this: what if my goals are simply basic overall health and wellness?  What type of …
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The Secrets of Intermittent fasting

New interview at Wannabebig. Why You Should Be Skipping Breakfast: The Secrets of Intermittent Fasting.
Would appreciate readers dropping by and sharing experiences with my protocol in the discussion thread dedicated to the article.
See other interviews here.
Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

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Why You Should be Skipping Breakfast

New interview at Wannabebig. Why You Should Be Skipping Breakfast: The Secrets of Intermittent Fasting.
Would appreciate readers dropping by and sharing experiences with my protocol in the discussion thread dedicated to the article.
See other interviews here.
Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

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Big Things are Coming!

Hey everyone, hope you are enjoying your summer so far!
We just wanted to give you a heads up on what is going on around Fitness Spotlight, as we have been very busy with some planning for a while now.
We know the holidays are coming up, so we will actually be taking a short break from [...]

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Dark Chocolate Lowers Blood Pressure, But Only For Those Who Need It

The obvious question is: How does the chocolate know if your blood pressure is too high? That’s Geezer’s response to a report in BMC Medicine claiming that eating dark chocolate can significantly lower one’s blood pressure, but only if the…
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Next Up: Longevity Travel

Travel trends just keep coming. We’ve seen adventure travel and sex toursim; now comes longevity travel. The Boston Globe reports that Ecuador’s Valle de Longevidad — Valley of Longevity, which has historically had an extraordinarily high percentage of people living…
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Getting Back to Normal

"Normal's just a setting on the washing machine" - Whoopie Goldberg
Haven't blogged in a long, long while.  For anyone who's wondered why or been annoyed to not find a recent posting, I do apologize.  I'm sure everyone can relate to life getting a little bit out from under you.
My life's been crazy busy with lots of [...]

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Glucosamine and Chondroitin: Now You Can Drink Them

Setting aside the question of whether glucosamine and chondroitin actually relieve the pain of arthritis, a boomer-focused company called Elations is offering the supplements in the form of a bottled eight-ounce juice drink or powder mix. And somebody is drinking…
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The Real Problem With the Female Libido Pill: Everything

What’s wrong with flibanserin, the purported libido booster for women who "suffer" from abnormally low sexual desire? Leonard Glantz, a professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights at the Boston University School of Public Health and of sociomedical sciences…
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