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food & fitness: March 2009
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. This may take you ten to fifteen minutes once you have found a quiet calm place and have no distractions. Ultimately, you will be able to notice the difference between tense and relaxed without doing this exercise. The following is a way to help find tight and tense muscles throughout your body. The technique uses breathing, muscle contraction, body awareness and self talk(mantra) starting from your head and working down to your toes. Trapezius-Inhalation-shru...
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food & fitness: January 2009
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. FAT part 3 : How to Burn it! Fat is one of the three Macronutrients our bodies can use as energy (the other two macronutrients are carbohydrates and protein) . You can actually train your body to use fat as the primary energy source. Fat is what accumulates around our waist, hips or thighs. If we can utilize this same fat as energy, we will have much less of it. Become good at burning fat! Practice burning calories and. Get a good aerobic base. Fitness Models ...
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food & fitness: November 2008
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. Thanksgiving : How S T U F F E D can we get? On average most studies find people gain a half pound on Thanksgiving Day. But most of us can probably use a good meal full of different colors and flavors. So, remember, it's still important to enjoy yourself this holiday! All of the vitamins and minerals from the various nutrient-rich foods (especially colorful veggies) will energize you for the following week. However much you decide to indulge, here are. In Sant...
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food & fitness: February 2009
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. Take Your Life into Your Hands! The quality of life is deteriorating for many Americans. Why? We lack the balance between mind, spirit and body. Lazier than ever,. This causes us to have an increased risk of obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, impotence, back pain, joint pain, asthma, allergies and many other diseases. When are we going to take our life into our hands? People to lead h...
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food & fitness: December 2008
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. What is overtraining and when should I push my body? What is overtraining and when should I push my body? It is easy to confuse overtraining with being out of shape. If you are working out at more than 70% of your maximum heart rate or weight training more than 3 times per week, this may be something to consider. But if you are. Rarely getting to the gym, not really breaking a sweat. Something you should think you are doing. Can cause overuse injuries, sicknes...
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food & fitness: Muscle Relaxation
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. This may take you ten to fifteen minutes once you have found a quiet calm place and have no distractions. Ultimately, you will be able to notice the difference between tense and relaxed without doing this exercise. The following is a way to help find tight and tense muscles throughout your body. The technique uses breathing, muscle contraction, body awareness and self talk(mantra) starting from your head and working down to your toes. Trapezius-Inhalation-shru...
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Individualized Fitness: April 2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Stress- -Human Beings are like Tea Bags! You don't know you're strength until your put in hot water. Inner resources are those abstract qualities and characteristics that. Become a tangible bridge over the chasm of chaos. These include, among. Others, intuition, creativity, willpower, faith, humor, love, courage,. Here are some ways to work on your inner character from the book Managing Stress 3rd Edition:. 1- Make time for yourself. 2- Understand your emotions. Bryan from the Sh...
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food & fitness: Iodine and Thyroid
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. Are you having trouble losing weight? Has your doctor said you have an enlarged thyroid? Is your metabolism slowing or are you losing your hair? Maybe you have a lack of iodine in your diet. Low levels of iodine can cause goiter(lump on the neck), sluggishness, weight gain, and can have low IQ's for the fetus in pregnant women. Taken from Whitney and Rolfes, Understanding Nutrition (p445), 2002. Sunday, March 15, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thank...
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food & fitness: September 2008
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Balance : nutrition and activity : wellness. A C T I V I T I E S for F A L L. Time to reconfigure our activity plan. With the cooler air and early darkening of days, it's important to. As you do throughout the Summer. Incorporate these ideas into your new routine:. Gets you reaching and hauling: just don't stop to picnic for long! Puts your strength to the test: see how many you can lift in five minutes! Will satiate your senses: keep your feet moving and don't drink every varietal! Posted by { kr ryan }.