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The Best Time To Plant A Tree…:
So we hear a lot about the benefits of exercise & nutrition.
And though people are slowly finding that nutrition is actually the weight-loss king,
Exercise all by itself turns out to be the king of many other things.
But we never really seem to learn about When we should do it.
So for this reason, researchers got together and found out another really interesting thing about its many undiscovered benefits…
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The Struggle Is Real:
Anyone who’s ever had a little extra fat can relate to the struggle to lose it.
-Including all the different choices you have to make in both nutrition and exercise.
Because, the more factors you can stack in your favor, the better.
Well, BoredPanda’s Šarūnė Mac compiled a huge gallery of Weight-Loss Winners.
It’s worth a look, paying special attention to some of the claimed-timeframes for several of the results.
And so, we’ve picked-out a few of the more realistic examples for you…
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1) Metaphysical Exercise:
So for 2,500+ years, athletes, folk-scientists, bro-scientists, and real scientists have extolled the virtues of exercise.
Even Dr. Mike showed that 30 minutes a day helped -Everything-.
But a bizarre subculture of cardio-focused exercisers called “Runners”, have always claimed odd mental benefits along with the physical ones.
Things like Zen/Meditation, a type of Buzz, & greater Clarity of Thought afterward.
So science decided to investigate these old wives’ tales, and may have discovered evidence instead of myth…
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Weight-Loss Is Only 140 Million Miles Away:
So science usually has set ideas about the way things work. And every once in awhile, those assumptions will be proved wrong.
Most of the time it happens out of a very weird discovery or coincidence. -And this time is no different.
This diet-revelation started with the “Oh crap, we have to rescue Matt Damon again,”-level idea of actually sending people to Mars.
And on that mission, one of the strangest things the rocket-scientists had to do was manage Water…
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A Light At The End Of The Tunnel:
So for a long time now, we’ve all been told a few conflicting things.
1) Fast-carbs are bad for you and make you fat.
2) Eat whole-grains because they’re good for you.
But studies have thus-far been less than entirely-conclusive.
Especially since the whole-grainiest people also have the healthiest habits.
But that’s all changed, because a recent study went the extra methodology mile and found something very interesting about the parts we’ve been missing…
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Find Out How You Stack Up:
Back in his awesome List-Show video for Mental Floss, John Green knocked out 25 facts on fitness.
Well one of the points he forgot to talk about was BMI.
He also missed out on body-fat & lean mass composition.
But he Did bring up another measure that is very helpful.
And it’s one that’s even better than BMI…
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Pump-Up Your Chances Of Success With Fitness Knowledge!:
Prepping-up to get back in-shape after some yearly-reflection? Well you’re in luck.
Earlier, John Green put out a video on the why of High US Healthcare-Costs that is absolutely Must-See.
Now he’s back over at Mental Floss with another great list-show.
And checking out this list of facts about exercise just might give you that extra information-push to better reach your goals…
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Oh God, This Sounds Like An Infomercial.:
We’ve told you before that for fat loss or weight loss Nutrition is king.
We’ve also told you that the slow-carb diets are the ones that pay the greatest returns over time, too.
And we’ve also recruited cast-iron triathletes and anorexic movie-stars to help convince you that you cannot out-exercise bad nutrition.
Well, the Danes came up with a neat footer to the one that says you can exercise too much,
And somehow, it says you may need less exercise than you ever thought…
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