Getting fit during winter is hard, since holiday traditions, bad weather, and festive celebrations lend themselves towards gaining weight than losing it. Britain has been unflatteringly labelled as “the fat…
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Natural Ways to Lose Weight Losing weight doesn’t have to mean hiring an expensive personal trainer or popping diet pills every hour. There are natural ways to lose weight through changing your…
Breaking the junk food habit — you can train your brain to prefer healthy foods over unhealthy, high-calorie foods! The Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University…
Any serious health improvement plan needs to address these four components of a fitness program: 1) NUTRITION Nutrition is the foundation of health. We can’t make our own food like…
‘Twas the month after Christmas, and all though the house No clothing would fit, on me or my spouse. The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog so yummy These holiday goodies…
If you gain only 2 pounds every year during the holidays, in 20 years you’ll be 40 pounds heavier — even if you don’t overeat at any other time of…
by Nashville personal trainer Dan DeFigio This has been one of the most common questions of the year. It is my interpretation of the research that the following groups of…
by Dan DeFigio This article was originally published in M.D. News, and is reprinted here. By now, physicians realize that preventing osteoporosis takes more than calcium supplements. A good calcium/magnesium/vitamin…
by Nashville personal trainer Dan DeFigio DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is a hormone made in the human body which serves as precursor to other hormones. It is actually the most abundant hormone…