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Posted 4 Ways to Hurdle that Plateau to Diet Blog
Training plateaus can be a tricky thing. You're moving along at a good clip in terms of your progress, and then all of a sudden -- you're stuck. How do you break through and achieve new gains (or losses)? Easy -- change your workout. Failing to do so every so often ultimately leads to the cessation of new results,...
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Posted Creatine May Help Cognition to Diet Blog
Creatine has long been a favorite supplement of weightlifters and professional athletes. Unlike dozens of other so-called performance enhancers, which have never actually produced data to substantiate their sometimes outlandish claims (gain 15 pounds of muscle in a half an hour!!), creatine has stood up time and time again during clinical testing....
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Posted The Health Risks of "Manning Up" to Diet Blog
Women are expected out outlive men by about two or three years. Why is that? While there may not be one single answer to that question, one of the many may have to do with the fact that men visit the doctor far less than women....
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Posted Tips on What to Eat for Your Post Workout Meal to Diet Blog
Someone new to resistance training recently asked me what they should eat after a workout. I was actually quite impressed that the question was even asked, for it showed that this person at least had a basic understanding of the significant role food plays in the 20 to 30 minutes right after you've lifted your last weight....
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Posted Dumbbells vs Barbells to Diet Blog
When it comes to weight training, there really is only one question you need to answer: Dumbbells or Barbells? Yes, resistance can come in the form of many different things -- kettlebells, bands, body weight, etc. -- but not every gym has kettlebells and resistance bands, nor does every gym offer a variety of body weight workout stations (e.g....
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Posted Beginning Exercise? Use a Journal to Diet Blog
Failing to plan is planning to fail; at least, that's how I think the saying goes. Regardless, the point is still quite clear: you have to put in the time required to properly set your goals if you every wish to achieve them. This is certainly the case when it comes to an exercise program....
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Posted Is Calorie Restriction the Key to a Longer Life? to Diet Blog
I distinctly remember speaking with an unknown elderly couple many years ago while seated next to them at a restaurant. I don't recall what started the conversation, but I do know that it had something to do with food. At any rate, the husband and wife -- both of whom looked rather healthy, despite the fact that they were...
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Posted Tips for a Safer Weight Loss Journey to Diet Blog
Being extremely overweight can present some obstacles when it comes to working out, but it shouldn't take you out of the race completely. Starting with low-impact activities -- such as light resistance training using weights or exercise bands ... or even soup cans -- is just one way to start burning calories without any significant risk of injury....
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Posted Build a Recession-Proof Body to Diet Blog
In these tough economic times, many people are tightening their belts and cutting back on spending. However, if part of that financial belt tightening includes canceling your gym membership, the resulting paunch around your waist may cause your belt to fight back a bit. Thankfully, it's entirely possible to get a good workout without a stitch of fitness equipment,...
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Posted Forget Superfruits: Eat a Plum to Diet Blog
"Super-Fruits" are all the rage these days, promising the added health benefit of free-radical-destroying antioxidants. Blueberries, pomegranate, acai berries, blackberries -- all have been shown in studies to reduce the risk of certain physical maladies. However, what these uber-fruits also have in common -- apart from their high phytonutrient and antioxidant concentration -- is a hefty price tag....
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Posted How to Spot a Fad Diet to Diet Blog
What's different about the information contained in peer-reviewed medical journals and late-night infomercials? Oh, not much; that is, if you don't consider facts to be all that relevant. This is just one of the reasons why self-proclaimed fitness gurus have no qualms selling you their latest and greatest (read: worthless and potentially dangerous) fad diet system, while degreed and...
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Posted Does Stretching Accomplish Anything? to Diet Blog
Stretching is usually done in one of three ways: 1 - In a Yoga session, where it is performed with precision and purpose; 2 - Before and/or after a workout, when it is done as more of an afterthought; or 3 - Not at all. Save for the first way mentioned, stretching is something most people kind of do...
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Posted Getting Back on the Fitness Wagon to Diet Blog
If you're a former exerciser who's sorta fallen off the wagon for quite a while, you need not worry; getting back on board isn't as hard as you may think. One of the keys to making your transition back into fitness go smoothly is to start off at a reasonable pace....
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Posted Acid or Alkaline: Can pH Affect Your Health? to Diet Blog
Do you remember pH strips from your grade school science class? How the little strip changed colors after you dipped it in various solutions? Apart from the small bit of fun this experiment offered, it also had a great deal of purpose, one that many experts believe plays an important role in our health....
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Posted ONQI: A New Way to Find Healthy Food to Diet Blog
We've all heard the expression, "It's like comparing apples and oranges," suggesting that because these two foods are so dissimilar, a fair comparison simply cannot be made. Evidently, the folks at the Griffin Prevention Research Center/NuVal found this to be unacceptable, and this may partly explain why they created the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI)....
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Posted Turn Up Your Cardio With Tabata Intervals to Diet Blog
Make a short list of things you want less of. Now make a short list of things you wish you could have more of. Chances are, if we were to cross-check all of your answers, Fat and Time, respectively, would be very common responses. The good news is that they both also happen to be be very attainable, thanks...
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Posted Diet and Fitness Myths Put to the Test to Diet Blog
We've all heard our fair share of truths, half-truths, and flat-out lies at the gym. Whether it's a new way to burn a few extra calories, or a method for adding a few inches to the ol' guns, it seems everyone has something to say. But, the question remains, How accurate is this information?...
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Posted Gym-Free Calorie Burning to Diet Blog
If you're more of a gym person than an outdoor workout type, your only real exposure to the elements fortunately only lasts for the forty-three seconds it takes to walk from your car to the gym entrance. But, there will soon be days when the roads are not plowed, the gym is closed, and taking your routine outside is...
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Posted Diet Coke Plus Faces FDA Warning to Diet Blog
The Coca-Cola Company has recently come under fire by the Food and Drug Administration for its reluctance to disclose exactly what the "Plus" in Diet Coke Plus really means....
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Posted The Eating Late at Night Myth: We're Not Gremlins to Diet Blog
With the holiday season in full swing, a reference to the classic '80s film "Gremlins" seems most apropos. If you'll recall, owning a gremlin (well, in Gizmo form, that is) required following some very specific rules, chief among them being that you cannot, under any circumstances, feed them after midnight. OK, no problem. They don't get to eat after...
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Posted Don't Be Fooled by Food Fraud to Diet Blog
Oh, how easy it is to believe everything that we read. I mean, who believed that two guys actually discovered the body of Bigfoot, just because it said so on the Yahoo! homepage? Guilty as charged (of course, it turned out to be nothing more than a hoax and I, consequently, resigned myself to the fact that I'm nothing...
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Posted Does Caffeine Help Exercise? to Diet Blog
Many people enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning to start their day with a little extra "pep." The same is often true of many exercisers, who throw back a cup of Starbucks or a diet Red Bull before hitting the gym. There's little debate that doing so will provide some extra vitality, but new research shows that...
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Posted Do Egg Yolks Get Bad Press? to Diet Blog
If you spend an extra five minutes in the kitchen each morning, doing your best to separate your yolks from your egg whites, you may be wasting your time. No, this is not where I throw in an advertisement for an egg white product (although, if there's a company out there that would like to pay me for mentioning...
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Posted Try These Veggie Food-Flips to Diet Blog
While the jury's still out on whether or not nutritional supplements are truly worth their rather hefty price tags, there's little question as to whether vegetables can do a body good. However, not everyone enjoys the taste of vegetables (ask any 12-year-old kid what he thinks of Brussels sprouts and you'll see what I mean). Does this mean these...
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Posted Can Water-Rich Foods Help Maintain Weight? to Diet Blog
Drinking cold water, some researchers say, can help you burn a few extra calories. The science behind it is fairly straightforward; because the temperature of the water is far colder than that of your body, you burn a few calories warming it up. As you can tell, I'm not all that impressed....
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Posted Treatment at Work May Affect Heart Attack Risk to Diet Blog
Feeling slighted these days? Like your boss just doesn't notice or appreciate your hard work? Well, our only suggestion is to either find a new job (which isn't exactly easy to do in our current economic climate), or do your best to grin and bear it. Or else....
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Posted Getting Through the Day with a Thyroid Condition to Diet Blog
Jose Canseco's name is almost synonymous with 'roids; steroids, that is. The same can arguably be said about Barry Bonds, Marion Jones, and the Governator himself. But, a different and more pervasive type of 'roid problem exists in this country, and it is not relegated to overreaching athletes or bodybuilders....
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Posted All Calories are Not Created Equal to Diet Blog
Calorie counting. Just reading those two words probably made your face wrinkle up a bit with discontent. Who the heck has time in their day to calculate how many calories are in each meal they consume, let alone their total caloric intake for a day, week, month, etc.? Besides, calories aren't the real problem anyway, right? Um...not exactly....
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Posted Girth of a Nation: The Top 10 Healthiest Cities to Diet Blog
An estimated one in three adults living in the U.S. are overweight or obese. How did this come to be? It's probably due to the cumulative effect of many factors (eg. poor diet, inactivity, lack of sleep, stress), rather than one, isolated problem. So which states are helping or hurting our efforts to reduce the girth of our nation?...
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Posted Calories on Fast Food Menus: Should it Become Law? to Diet Blog
As a growing number of states adopt the practice of making fast-food restaurants list calories on their menus, Congress continues in its struggle to implement this obesity-combating tactic nationwide, reports Reuters Health....
