Tag: habits
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How to Use Your Baby as Exercise Equipment Art of Manliness isn’t just for men, and these tips aren’t just for dads! If you have children at home, you can get some strength training and play with your kids at the same time. Kids get a kick out of practicing what their parents are doing,…
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36 Health and Fitness Lessons You Should Never Forget Here is a nice list of short observations to help form perspective around health and fitness goals. Armi Legge wrote these for “the fitness obsessed” as a way to help others avoid being miserable, the way he once was, but they’re helpful thoughts for anyone who…
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What If 2015 Is the Year You Keep Your Resolutions? New Year’s resolutions are more like famous last words, and it’s easy to get swamped by the scope of a goal like “lose 50 pounds,” or “get back in shape.” What can you do to make it stick this time around? The best changes you…
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What’s Your Overeating Personality? Walgreens offers this nice article by Diana Kelly about different ways to approach temptations to overeat, depending on how you tend to approach food: — The Mindless Muncher: who needs a little more awareness and can benefit from choosing smaller plates — The Disciplinarian: who has very rigid beliefs about food…
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Useful Measures If you are just starting out with exercise and weight-loss goals, it seems obvious how to measure: step on the scale — but body weight is the least interesting part of the story. It doesn’t tell you how much of that is “extra” — fat you can afford to lose — or how…
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Tips for Smart Snacking — and More Thanksgiving day is over, and the leftovers have been stacked in the refrigerator or sent home with guests. We’re facing the holiday season in earnest: busy schedules, lots of indulgent foods on every surface, and chilly weather all conspiring to make it hard to eat mindfully. Eat Smart,…
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What Is an Empty Calorie? Empty calories are found in simple foods with little to no nutritional value, like chips, candy, or sugary sodas. Empty calories contain energy but are “empty” of nutrients that support our bodies — you may also hear this referred to as “low nutrient density.” Fluffy — like a marshmallow! Many…
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Nudge Yourself into a Sound Grocery Strategy Feeding America worked with Cornell University to develop a nudge-based way of presenting food in food banks and pantries — putting produce and recipe ideas right up front so that it was easy for people to make the right choices. Your local grocery store has its own priorities…
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Getting Ready for Thanksgiving If you are making a new commitment to healthful eating, Thanksgiving might be the biggest challenge of the year. Halloween candy can be tough to resist, but the prospect of tables groaning with comfort food — and cooking plans that seem to be designed to guarantee a week of leftovers —…