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Lead Stories: Monday, October 6, 2008

HIIT: The Ultimate Workout

Posted November 27th, 2007 at 5:45 PM by Shannon Clark

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise

If you aren’t a stranger to the gym, you’ve likely already heard of something called high intensity interval training (HIIT). Whether it was between two trainers discussing their training techniques or someone complaining about the brutality of the workout, it may be something you’ve avoided up until now.

There is no doubt that high intensity interval training (HIIT) is something that will give you a run for your money. It definitely is not - by any means - easy, but it will get you results.

Not only is it more conducive to retaining your current muscle mass then longer cardio sessions, but it is also far better (in most cases) in terms of promoting fat loss and increasing the metabolism. The thing about HIIT is that it does not expend an extremely large amount of calories while you are performing it.

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Fainting dieters a top cause of NYC subway delays

Posted January 9th, 2007 at 12:00 PM by Gina Pellrine

Section: News & Results, Health & Fitness, Weight Loss

According to New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), fainting passengers, dizzy from dieting, are one of the top reasons for delays on the NYC subway lines.

AM New York recently reported that the MTA found that between October 2005 and 2006, an average of 395 subway delays per month were caused by sick riders. Although the MTA does not keep official records of the sick riders’ specific ailments, transit emergency medical technicians, such as Asim Nelson, confirmed that a very high percentage of those who fainted did so because they had missed meals and/or not eaten enough.
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This New Year’s Resolution:
A Healthy Heart

Posted January 1st, 2007 at 11:00 AM by Megan Hueter

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

Eat too much this holiday season? You’re most likely not alone. However, eating too much on a daily basis takes a toll on your body, especially your heart. Make this New Year’s resolution a healthy one for you and your family.

You can start by checking out some different online opportunities, including the Discovery Health Channel’s National Body Challenge, and the American Heart Association’s Choose to Move program.

Programs such as these have been established due to chronic public health problems in the United States associated with poor diet and lack of physical activity. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death for all people in the United States, currently affecting nearly 12 million people.
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Is my New Year’s resolution to get in shape worth the effort?

Posted December 29th, 2006 at 12:00 PM by Martha Jones

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

Being out-of-shape is almost as strong a risk factor for a heart attack as smoking. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (December 21, 2005) shows that being out-of-shape markedly increases your risk for being fat, storing most of your fat in your belly, having a high bad LDL cholesterol and high blood pressure, and having low levels of the good HDL cholesterol.

We live in a society in which 91 percent of the population develops high blood pressure, 78 percent will have high cholesterol, and 35 percent are diabetic. More than 50 percent of us die of heart attacks and strokes from these risk factors. Doctors no longer think of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes as just being due to our genes. We now consider these diseases to be caused by our behavior.
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Calorie restriction without exercise may lead to bone loss

Posted December 25th, 2006 at 7:00 AM by Jennifer Lipman

Section: Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise, Weight Loss

Cut the calories, check the scale, and a couple of weeks later you weigh less. However, a new study suggests that this decrease in weight is due to bone loss caused by lack of exercise when you just cut calories for a diet.

Dennis T. Villareal, MD, and his research team at Washington University in St. Louis, conducted an experiment featuring 30 women and 18 men over the age of 57. Nineteen of the adults were put on a calorie-restricted diet, lowering the intake of energy by 16 percent for the first three months. For the following 9 months, it was upped to 20 percent.
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Tips on how to succeed with this New Year’s Resolution

Posted December 22nd, 2006 at 4:00 PM by Adam Weiss

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

It’s that time of year again. No, I am not talking about decorating your home with Christmas lights. Nor am I talking about joining the masses in line at the mall for the newest television, video game or toy that hits the market in time for the holidays.

So what am I talking about? Making that NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!

You are probably thinking that you will make the same resolution that you have made for the past five years, but this time you are really serious about sticking to it.
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Type 2 Diabetes: How diet and exercise could save your life (PART 4)

Posted December 20th, 2006 at 2:05 PM by Megan Hueter

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

This is the final installment of a four part series. Part 4 is entitled: “Type 2 Diabetes and the Benefits of Resistance Training”.

Attention type 2 diabetics: studies show that adding resistance training to your exercise program can enhance its benefits and improve insulin control. With a total change in lifestyle (through education about type 2 diabetes, adherence to a strict diet, aerobic exercise and resistance training) you can restore you body’s sugar to a non-diabetic level.

The treatment goal for type 2 diabetic individuals is to achieve and maintain near to normal blood sugar levels and optimal fat levels in the body. With exercise the body becomes less resistant to insulin. Aerobic exercise is commonly prescribed.
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Type 2 Diabetes: How diet and exercise could save your life (PART 3)

Posted December 13th, 2006 at 7:00 AM by Megan Hueter

Section: Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

This is the third installment of a four part series. Part 3 is entitled: “Type 2 Diabetes: How Aerobic Exercise Can Save Your Life “.

Attention Type 2 diabetics: studies show that a change in lifestyle can restore the body’s sugar levels to a non-diabetic level. Understanding how this happens could save your life.

The treatment goal for type 2 diabetic individuals is to achieve and maintain near to normal blood sugar levels and optimal fat levels in the body. With exercise the body becomes less resistant to insulin. Therefore, aerobic exercise is a very effective treatment modality and is commonly prescribed.
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Is food combining important for weight loss?

Posted December 2nd, 2006 at 7:00 AM by Martin Kennedy

Section: Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Health & Fitness, Weight Loss

Books and programs on food combining have been on and off the best-seller lists for years. They should be in the fiction section. The authors claim that eating protein and carbohydrates, or fat and carbohydrates together causes problems because they require different enzymes for digestion, and either acid or alkaline conditions.

They give you elaborate lists of foods that you can or cannot eat at the same meal. If any of this were true, the human race would be extinct. Few foods are “pure” protein, carbohydrate or fat. Your digestive system has evolved to deal with mixed foods, and the enzymes secreted by your pancreas can digest them all in any combination. Read the rest of this entry »

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Spot reduction doesn’t work

Posted November 20th, 2006 at 12:00 PM by Martha Jones

Section: Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Health & Fitness, Exercise

You’ll see lots of different machines on television that are advertised to get rid of fat from your belly. While they can strengthen your belly muscles, there is no such thing as spot reduction.

When you take in more calories than your body burns, you store them as fat . Some people store fat primarily in their hips and are at low risk for heart attacks and diabetes, while others who store their fat primarily in their bellies are at increased risk for heart attacks and diabetes. You store more that half the fat in your body underneath your skin and over your muscles. Exercising a muscle does not get rid of fat over the specific muscles that are exercised. If it did, tennis players would have less fat in their tennis arms, but they don’t. Read the rest of this entry »

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