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Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry
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Almonds & Exercise. Ease The Pain Of New Habits With A Biochem Hack:
Part of everyone’s New Year’s Resolutions usually turn out to be Lose Weight & Get Into Shape.

But as the spectre of that strange space between Christmas & New Year’s Eve still hangs around, let’s get a little weird.

There seem to be a few main problems with New Year’s Resolutions about the basics of health.

Like the one where people refuse to lose weight by counting calories (even though it works), because it’s hard.

The other problem with “New Year’s Health” is that discipline is hard and exercise seems even harder.

But a weird little bit of biochemistry might make it a bit easier…

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Cardio Vs. Weights: Cardio Exercise Helps You Live Longer. But Adding Weight-Training Works Even Better!

Filed Under: Aging

Cardio Vs. Weights: Cardio Exercise Helps You Live Longer. But Adding Weight-Training Works Even Better!
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Cardio Exercise Increases Lifespan. Adding Weights Helps Even More:
Most of us at HT have a few things in common. We’re fairly-sexy for nerds, and we also want to live better and longer lives.

So studies and research like the work that went around the world to find the longest-living people should be right at home here.

Although those people had some great environmental habits, they also had some x-factors.

But the Great American Response of, “Can’t I just take a pill for that?” didn’t really work for that amazing set of studies.

And until “exercise in a pill” is available, this NCI work is going to make you want to get your aerobics gear and running shoes back on, too.

-At least you could soften the blow by listening to Electric Callboy…

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What Animal Do You Even Lift? As Part Of Your Fitness Resolutions, Answer This Important Question

Filed Under: Exercise

What Animal Do You Even Lift? As Part Of Your Fitness Resolutions, Answer This Important Question
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What Animal Do You Even Lift? -If You Lift…:
We all try to make ambitious New Year’s Resolutions,

Because a great deal of us are self-improvers, especially the visitors to this site.

And after you have found the answers to the important questions you ask yourself every New Year,

Like, “Do You Even Lift?”,

The next one should definitely be, “Which Animal?”…

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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
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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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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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Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!
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Not All Substitutes Are Equal:
All cheekiness aside, we just did a post on the sexy people over at Eater’s test of the newest vegetable-only burger, by Impossible Foods.

But one of the ideas we raised at the end was: Maybe it tastes close now, maybe even identical in the future,

-But does it give you the same-or-better Nutrition when you take everything into consideration?

Well, one of Red Meat’s components is a salt called Creatine. And sciency-researchers are finding out some very interesting brain-stuff about its new best friend…

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Video: Check Out People Are Awesome’s Fitness Superheroes

Filed Under: Exercise, Video

Video: Check Out People Are Awesome’s Fitness Superheroes


There Goes My Hero, Watch Him As He Goes…:
Well now that Copa America Centenario and Euro Cup 2016 are over, thus depriving us of the genius of Messi and Antoine Greizmann.

And your fix of superhumanism at the Rio Olympics is still a few weeks away,

Why not get your fitness motivation on and check out these more ordinary people still doing amazing stuff!…

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Body Fat Study Further Reduces Importance of BMI, Low-Carb Tape-Measure Sales Skyrocket

Filed Under: Disease, Exercise, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Body Fat Study Further Reduces Importance of BMI, Low-Carb Tape-Measure Sales Skyrocket
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An Interesting Measurement -Of The Wrong Thing:
For quite awhile, BMI has been used as an indicator of obesity.

And for most of that time it’s been considered as good as any measure out there.

But a recent study by 2 universities in Canada is trying to put the final punctuation-mark on many people’s recent critiques of its shortcomings.

And they just might have succeeded…

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