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Good news for all you lushes out there. According to a new study released in the British Journal of Sports Medicine this month, heavy drinkers who exercise may be less likely to die from alcohol-related diseases than those who don’t. Signup & Get Early Bird Access To Our Personal Training App Researchers compared the health outcomes of more than 36,000 people who self-reported their alcohol and exercise levels over the span of 12 years. The study had interesting results for individuals who were categorized as “hazardous” drinkers, a.k.a., women who drank between eight and 20 alcoholic beverages and men who drank ...
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You’re right in the middle of training or reaching your weight loss goal and—boom—your groove is interrupted by a bug that’s been going around. You might not want to completely stop your training, but when exactly should you stop pushing your body’s limits and focus on recovery?
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Practice moderation in every aspect of life. Who would’ve thought there was something such as over dosing on exercising or working out? Well here’s some news, too much exercise is actually a disorder! This disorder termed ‘exercise bulimia’ is characterized by compulsive exercising to purge or compensate for merely regular eating.
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The feeling of hunger is important; we rely on hunger pangs to tell us when and how much to eat. But we don’t only eat simply because we are physically hungry. Food can serve as a comforting distraction and a means to suppress negative emotions, which can trigger an unhealthy cycle of emotional and binge eating. Signup & Get Early Bird Access To Our Personal Training App It’s not that emotional eating is bad per se, but eating for emotional reasons rather than physical ones can pave the way to weight gain and poor food choices. But how do we know when ...
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Ladies, losing weight as we get older is tricky. Here are some tips to help you.
For many of us, bloating (also known as water retention and edema) can be a daily nuisance. Naturally, the issue of how to get rid of bloating is only exacerbated in the summer, when slipping into a swimsuit or even fitting into a hot little number for the weekend can trigger a bout of anxiety. Signup & Get Early Bird Access To Our Personal Training App Fear not: With a few little tweaks, you’ll be feeling better in no time. Many of our bloating woes occur as a result of dehydration, constipation or gas trapped in the digestive tract. Incorporate these tips for how ...
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We all know that living a sedentary lifestyle is seriously bad for us — but you may not have realized it was this bad. Signup & Get Early Bird Access To Our Personal Training App A recent series of studies, which looked at more than one million people, found that physical inactivity causes more than 5 million deaths a year. That’s almost as many as smoking, which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates kills 6 million a year. Whoa. In addition, researchers found that physical inactivity costs the global economy nearly $67.5 billion a year in healthcare and productivity losses. Meanwhile, just one our ...
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There’s nothing like summer – but with it comes the hot, dry weather than can aggravate even the most enlightened of us. Few people can survive the summer heat without some sort of central or room-to-room air conditioning. But few of us realize that air conditioning may very well have adverse health effects.