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Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat
boredpanda smiley girl before and after exercise program


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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Video: Mental Floss’s John Green Busts Out 25 Reps Of Fitness Facts! + BONUS 10!

Filed Under: Exercise, Video, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Video: Mental Floss’s John Green Busts Out 25 Reps Of Fitness Facts! + BONUS 10!


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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The Power Of Naps: The Queen Of Sleep On Why You Need Them To Rescue Productivity & Creativity

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

The Power Of Naps: The Queen Of Sleep On Why You Need Them To Rescue Productivity & Creativity


Accidentally-Awesome Sleep Research That Will Change Your Life:
So, Dr. Sara Mednick had been struggling for a research topic when she found an interesting opportunity.

Her mentor had only studied what you’d call “normal” sleep that you have at night, but not at other times.

And that’s where she found Gold! As she describes in this video, everything on Earth goes through cycles in time, and we’d be smart to remember that.

-Which is where her scientific study comes in, because largely: We Don’t. And there are real downsides to that…

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Video: A Few Of The Odd Things Winter Does To Your Body

Filed Under: Disease, Video, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Video: A Few Of The Odd Things Winter Does To Your Body


DNews Talks Sunny-D!:
So in addition being just plain cold, we’ve probably all felt a little different in-general in the wintertime.

Well Discovery’s DNews dives into some of the possible causes & complications in this here video.

In general, most everything is written-down to the Lack of Sunlight.

That in-turn creates a lowering of Vitamin D and an increase of Melatonin in your body…

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19 Of Buzzfeed’s Tweets About Exercise Should Prep You For All Your New Year’s Workout Resolutions

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured, Stupid Health Tricks

19 Of Buzzfeed’s Tweets About Exercise Should Prep You For All Your New Year’s Workout Resolutions
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With the New Year approaching soon and marathons over recently, I agree with BuzzFeed that a few pick-me-ups of sadly-accurate exercise humor is just what the doctor ordered to psych you up for all your Get-in-shape resolutions & new gym memberships!

And your trainer (or WebMD’s Fit-O-Meter) should Absolutely be able to tell you how many calories you’ve burned sliding down that wall crying.

Now check out the other 18!…

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Fast Carbs Reviewed Again. Results? -Mustang Sally Better Just Slow Her Damn Glucose Down!

Filed Under: Favorites, Featured, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Fast Carbs Reviewed Again. Results? -Mustang Sally Better Just Slow Her Damn Glucose Down!
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SnackWell Ninjas+Glucose Grenades+Corn-spiracies==NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

Mad King Dr. David Ludwig and his team of Insulin-Warriors published a study on diet results for macronutrient types in the JAMA that challenges a few inaccuracies and throws a +/-surprise or two.

They took a group of 21 obese individuals, brought them down about 30 pounds,…

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All-Nighters Lower Your Metabolism. So: Chronic Sleep Debt Probably Makes You Fat

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Stupid Health Tricks, Thinking Out Loud, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

All-Nighters Lower Your Metabolism. So: Chronic Sleep Debt Probably Makes You Fat
sleepy ferret orange blanket yawn

You would think that staying in a more wakeful state longer would mean you burn more calories.

And it does.

-But only for awhile.

Then you go downhill.

In an experiment conducted by Ken Wright and the Department of ChronoBiology at UC-Boulder, they found that metabolism was up by about 7% above normal while people were kept up.

BUT: It was down…

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Want to Boost Your Metabolism And Lose More Weight? -Drink Water.

Filed Under: Nutrition

Want to Boost Your Metabolism And Lose More Weight? -Drink Water.
orange splash girl blue water

Looking to boost your metabolism?

Well, in addition to improving all kinds of functions like:

Cell Metabolism, Toxin-Flushing and Mental Acuity,

Regular consumption of water has been proven to aid in yet another area.

Weight Loss.

Dr. Jens Jordan and his 8 colleagues have proven the long-posited “Thermic Effect of Water”.
And drinking it increases metabolism because the body has to heat it up to 98.6.

In addition to every fad diet…

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