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Posted: 02/29/2012
● Reduces the risk of heart disease by improving blood circulation throughout the body ● Keeps weight under control ● Improves blood cholesterol levels ● Prevents and manages high blood pressure ● Prevents bone loss ● ...
Posted: 02/18/2012
You’ve heard it before: oatmeal protects the heart. And rest assured, the man on the Quaker oatmeal box isn’t lying — oatmeal is a whole grain, a type of plant food and complex carbohydrate that makes up the backbone of the heart-healthiest Mediterranean style of eating. Choosing whole grains as your main form of carbohydrate nourishment has been scientifically...
Posted: 02/16/2012
Convinced you “can’t” run a marathon, or sprint at level 10 on that treadmill? … Are you sure about that? Even if you have a physical challenge or condition that limits you in some way, most of us also create false boundaries for ourselves — “no-can-do’s” that are only in our heads. And more and more studies are showing...
Posted: 02/15/2012
Let’s face it: Stretching feels good. It is relaxing, and getting all the kinks out of scrunched-up muscles can be liberating. Unfortunately, improving flexibility through a stretching class is simply not enough, either as a therapeutic approach, or to protect your body from future damage. Strength training is a necessary companion to your stretching class.As we age, the...
Posted: 02/09/2012
Ode to CHOCOLATE, "food of the gods!" It is well known that Giacomo Casanova was the most insatiable womanizer of all time. It is said that he called chocolate his “elixir of love,” drank it religiously before every love making tryst and used it in his seductions—the first love pro to tap into the timeless attraction...
