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Eating Super Foods Can Help You Lose Weight
Looking to drop an extra tent pounds? Believe it or not, it is possible to eat your way to thinner you, if you work scientifically proven super foods into your diet. According to Self’s new book, “The Drop Ten Diet”, eating these super foods can help you loose weight. Foods like wild salmon, with the [...]
Biking nutrition tips
Today is Bike to Work Day in many cities and towns across the Ocean State, and even the country. Officials are encouraging and supporting bicycling for local, short distance travel, in hopes of making our communities more bicycle friendly. Bonnie Frechette, Marketing Team Leader at Whole Foods, University Heights, joined Mary Larsen in downtown Providence to share [...]
Tips to eating healthy while dining out
In a world constantly on the move eating healthy can sometimes be thrown to the wayside for convenience and cost. At least, that’s what a few new studies with alarming statistics are suggesting. Earlier this month the United States Department of Agriculture released that as many as half of all American adults are eating at [...]
Tips for gluten-free eating
One out of 133 Americans has celiac disease, according to the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, and as many as 41 percent of adults and 60 percent of children who have it are without symptoms. Celiac is an inherited auto-immune disorder that affects the lining of the small intestine. When a person with celiac disease [...]
Five Exercises You Can Do On The Treadmill To Stay In Shape
1. Fitness Walking Fitness walking is a healthy energetic walking pace. If you don’t like running, but you want to enjoy the benefits of aerobic activities, this is a very good replacement. While you do the fitness walk, you activate most of the upper body muscles, such as the upper back, shoulders and the abs, [...]
Heidi Klum’s Bikini Body Workout Tips
Heidi Klum is one of those women who just seems to look better with age; it’s easy to forget the supermodel is 38 years old, not to mention has had four children! So, who better than the ‘The Body’ to turn to for tips on getting in shape for bikini season!? The star revealed how [...]
Workout Tips for Senior Citizens
• Don’t be so pushy: “How many times do you see people leaning on a grocery cart at Publix? God forbid, it gets away from them, and they take a bad fall head-first on the floor.” It’s the same as people getting on a treadmill, jacking up the speed and then grabbing onto the headboard for balance. [...]
Top 3 Fitness Facts
1. Exercise Boosts Brainpower Not only does exercise improve your body, it helps your mental function, says certified trainer David Atkinson. “Exercise increases energy levels and increases serotonin in the brain, which leads to improved mental clarity,” says Atkinson, director of program development for Cooper Ventures, a division of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas. [...]
Diabetes Nutrition Tips, 6 foods that could save your life
1. Fish One of the best choices for diabetics is fish. This food choice contains plenty of protein without the high fat content found in meat and poultry. Furthermore, fish contain a significant amount of omega 3 fatty acids, which are excellent for keeping triglyceride levels low and your heart healthy. Individuals with diabetes should try to eat fish [...]
VIDEO : ETX trainer offers women workout tips for weight loss
As it turns out, one of the hardest parts about working out for just about everyone is finding the motivation to go do it. I spent a little time with a personal trainer yesterday, and she tells every client she sees the same thing when they first start working out and working on their weight. [...]
