Tag: "health"
Is Exercise the Ultimate Antioxidant?
According to the latest research, strength training is one of your best defenses against oxidative stress. In fact, after a mere 6 weeks of of workouts, test subjects saw significant improvement in two key markers of oxidative stress And when you consider that oxidative stress is directly responsible for atherosclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction, Alzheimer’s disease, fragile X [...]
Health Habits Workout -Week 35/Day 2 – The Deadpool Workouts
It’s Week 3 – Day 2 of this nasty Deadpool Workout enjoy. WORKOUT WARM-UP Same warm-up as always…with the goal being to warm up the muscles & lubricate the joints. Feel free to substitute exercises as long as they get your joints all warmed up. Circles – Starting with the ankles and moving all the way [...]
Is Obesity a Side Effect of PAIN?
According to Dr. Peggy Mason (chair of Neurobiology – U of Chicago), eating is a natural form of pain relief. During the course of her research, Dr. Mason found that rats will not react to moderate amounts of pain while they are eating or even if they are being given a squirt of water directly [...]
Grapefruit and Weight Loss: New Research
Way back in the olden days (the 1970s), housewives around the United States tried to burn off body fat by following some version of the Grapefruit Diet. (also known as the Hollywood Diet & the Mayo Clinic Diet) Dismissed as a fad, the theory behind the Grapefruit Diet was that if you ate half a grapefruit [...]
Health Habits Workout -Week 35/Day 1 – The Deadpool Workouts
Alright people…get ready to sweat. It’s the third and final week of this Deadpool Workout. So – push yourself a little harder than last week. WORKOUT WARM-UP Same warm-up as always…with the goal being to warm up the muscles & lubricate the joints. Feel free to substitute exercises as long as they get your joints all [...]
Chilled Avocado Soup & Sandwich
This is a play on the classic soup & sandwich lunch special. The problem I find with most packaged deli meats is that they’re full of sodium and fillers so I decided to use a real turkey breast. Turkey breast is pretty easy to cook and really fast (around 3-5 minutes fast, I kid you [...]
Caffeine Gum Supercharges Your Workout
Want to get more out of your workouts? Caffeine Gum may be the answer. According to this study, chewing caffeinated gum during an interval sprint workout (4 sets of 5 sprints x 30 seconds per sprint) resulted in…. a 5.4% improvement in performance (mean power output), increased testosterone production, reduced cortisol production and reduced levels [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 34/Day 3 – The Deadpool Workouts
. Week 2 – Day 3…last workout of the week . Get ready to sweat…this one is a real Mother-Trucker. . WORKOUT WARM-UP . Same warm-up as always…with the goal being to warm up the muscles & lubricate the joints. . Feel free to substitute exercises as long as they get your joints all warmed [...]
Belly Fat = Type 2 Diabetes = Too Much Carbs
Most days, I enjoy sifting through the latest research into weight loss, health, fitness, etc… But not today. Today I read a study that dooms Mr. Balloon Belly here to a lifetime of popping diet pills and undergoing gastric bypass surgery. The Research In this study, researchers used an MRI machine to determine each participant’s [...]
Health Habits Workout -Week 34/Day 2 – The Deadpool Workouts
It’s Week 2 – Day 2 of this nasty Deadpool Workout enjoy. WORKOUT WARM-UP Same warm-up as always…with the goal being to warm up the muscles & lubricate the joints. Feel free to substitute exercises as long as they get your joints all warmed up. Circles – Starting with the ankles and moving all the way up [...]
Factory Farming + Chicken Eggs + Salmonella = A Whole Bunch of Sick People
It wasn’t so long ago that America was fed by an army of family farmers. Local food produced by local farmers. And every once in a while, something would go wrong and somebody would get sick from eating contaminated food. And sometimes, maybe more than one somebody would get sick. But, today…when a couple of [...]
Health Habits Workout -Week 34/Day 1 – The Deadpool Workouts
Alright people…get ready to sweat. It’s the second week of this Deadpool Workout. So – push yourself a little harder than last week. WORKOUT WARM-UP Same warm-up as always…with the goal being to warm up the muscles & lubricate the joints. Feel free to substitute exercises as long as they get your joints all warmed [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 33/Day 3 – The Deadpool Workouts
. All right…it’s Day 3…last workout of the week . Get ready to sweat…this one is a real Mother-Trucker. . WORKOUT WARM-UP . Same warm-up as always…with the goal being to warm up the muscles & lubricate the joints. . Feel free to substitute exercises as long as they get your joints all warmed up. [...]
U.S. Government Subsidizes Healthy Food
Every year, the U.S. federal government subsidizes America’s junk food habit with bazillions of dollars in tax breaks & subsidies. But today, in a shocking turn of events, the USDA has announced the creation of a new “healthy eating” program. Or, in other words… The U.S. government is subsidizing healthy food. The $20 million program is [...]
Paleo Cookbook Preview
19 days ago, I reached out to the Paleo-verse to see if any of my favorite Paleo Foodie bloggers would be interested in submitting recipes to help me create a free Paleo Cookbook. As of this morning, 42 bloggers have joined the project. And the recipes have begun to pour into my inbox. My plan [...]
