Tag: exercise
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10 Ways to Raise Healthier Kids US News & World Report has a Health feature called “Eat + Run” that gives fitness and diet advice. Last year they published this nice list from dietitian Mitzi Dulan of 10 Ways to Raise Healthier Kids. The best way to ensure that kids eat well and exercise regularly…
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Now THIS is an active commute!
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Loosen Up While You Fill Up Here is a fun piece Union 76 placed at the pump a few years ago. Did you see one of these? (They also had a kids’ guide to windshield-splattered bugs!) From .Zannah.’s mlkshk stream
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Active Commuting Has Many Benefits This stencil by Peter Drew, an Australia-based street artist, pulls no punches. An active commute does make it easier to manage your weight. It can also improve your quality of life in general — and, independently, a car commute can reduce your happiness. When drivers decided to switch to walking…
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How Do I Get Abs? The short version: If you want people to see your abs, you need to get low (possibly super low) body fat. If you want people to have something to see when you’re that lean, you need to do resistance exercise that targets the ab muscles, to develop them. Many consider…
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Keeping in Touch With Fun When people tell me they hate exercise, I often find myself asking them, “Well, what’s fun? It’s OK to focus your activity on something fun.” When I was a kid, we had Little League and ballet class and soccer and so on, but we also did a lot of play,…
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Where Do I Begin? If regular exercise or mindful eating are brand new for you, it can be overwhelming just to contemplate how to start. Ask a bunch of people who manage their weight successfully what their number-one suggestion is, and you get some highly specific answers: — "Figure out your TDEE using online calculators, and…
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Fat and Fit Sarah at Single, Fat, and Happy offers these tips for how to treat a fat person in a fitness class. 1. Don’t assume fat people are necessarily beginners. 2. If I wanted a personal cheerleader, I would have brought one to class. 3. I don’t need modifications for everything. 4. Don’t assume…
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Remarkable Journey Thelma Popp and Doris Roy had just finished college in 1944. After a busy time of schooling combined with helping the war effort, they decided to grab an opportunity for a great adventure before focusing on their post-college lives in earnest. By bicycling from Buffalo NY to New Orleans LA and back. Oh…