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Healthy Meals for Late at Night

Late-night munchies can wreak havoc on your diet. During the nighttime your body does not expend much energy and eating unnecessary calories can therefore trigger weight gain. Many diets suggest you...

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What Are the Dangers of Rice Cakes?

Rice cakes can be eaten plain or combined with a number of different foods for a quick, healthy snack. The cakes are a popular choice for people on a gluten-free diet and for low-residue dieters. The...

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How to Make Your Midsection Thin

Obtaining a strong and flat stomach is not always as difficult as it looks. While there are endless products on the market promising six-pack abs, you do not have to spend tons of money to achieve the...

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Can You Firm Up Your Body With Exercise After Age 50?

The stereotypical image of a 50-year-old is far from a well-trained individual with a toned, healthy shape, but like most stereotypes, this one fails to hold up in every case. You can be such a case,...

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Can You Eat What You Want if You Work Out?

Don't make the mistake of assuming you can eat whatever you want if you exercise on a regular basis. While it's true that you need calories to fuel your workout, overeating negates your calorie burn...

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Does Exercise Keep You Alive Longer?

After a long day at work, it's easy to skip exercising in favor of living life in the moment. But skipping exercise could shave years off your life. There's no guarantee that any single life choice...

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What Five Goals Should You Set for Any Comprehensive Fitness Program?

The broad picture of overall physical fitness can be overwhelming to beginners and experts alike. So many factors play a role in an effective program, but breaking your ultimate goal down into several...

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Things You Can Do at Work to Lose Weight

Sitting at a desk all day can make it hard to lose weight. In fact, studies now show that sitting for long periods of time, particularly for women, can be pretty harmful to your health. So what can you...

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Home Exercises After Dinner to Reduce Your Abdomen

Working out at home is ideal if you have a busy schedule or don't like exercising at the gym. Regular exercise is a healthy way to control your weight and drop excess weight all over your body,...

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How to Get Rid of Underarm Fat With a Kettlebell

No one likes having excess weight on their underarms; it's embarrassing to wear short-sleeved shirts and it doesn't look healthy. While you can't spot reduce your underarms with cardio, kettlebells...

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How to Eat to Gain Weight Before Training & Working Out

In a society full of dieters obsessed with weight loss, there's another, smaller group of people trying to gain weight. For people on a weight-loss quest, the challenge of gaining weight may seem more...

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How to Lose Weight & Dissolve Fat

Obesity impacts more than one-third of U.S. adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The biggest problem of obesity isn't about aesthetics, but instead about health. Obesity...

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The Best Natural Way to Burn Calories

Year after year, consumers purchase products and synthetic concoctions that claim to facilitate burning calories. You may have even found yourself spending money on commodities that include chemicals,...

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Why Does Rebound Weight Gain Happen After Weight Loss?

Obesity and weight management have become a national obsession as Americans pack on the pounds. In fact, obesity has been officially declared a disease by the American Medical Association. Losing...

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Consequences of Weight Gain After Having a Tummy Tuck

If you have sagging abdominal muscles or rolls of loose skin on your stomach, you might consider getting a tummy tuck, also known as abdominoplasty. This procedure tightens up muscles that have become...

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How to Cut Fat & Use Anaerobic Exercise to Burn Fat

Although aerobic exercises such as walking or jogging burn fat more efficiently than anaerobic exercises such as weightlifting or strength training, anaerobic exercise and a low-fat diet play an...

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Can Eating a Lot of Olive Oil Prevent Weight Loss?

Olive oil is one of the healthiest vegetable oils available, both for its taste and its nutritional benefits. However, like all vegetable oils, olive oil is very high in calories and fat. This can lead...

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"The Fast Diet" by Michael Mosley

Based around scheduled, intermittent fasting, the Fast Diet claims to stimulate weight loss, improve your health and lengthen your life. MayoClinic.com cardiologist Martha Grogan says there is some...

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Do Steam Rooms Replace Cardio Workouts?

Sitting in a sauna is an ideal way to feel great while sneaking in a bit of relaxation. Because you sweat a lot in the sauna, you might temporarily be down a pound or two after you leave, but it's...

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Exercises to Keep Women Slim in the 1950s

The classic pictures of the 1950s show elegant women with slender waste lines and demur features. Yet a quick internet search yields very few results that explain how women over half a century ago...

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How Bad Is a BMI of 30?

More than one third of the adults in the United States are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2008, obesity-related medical costs were estimated at $147 billion,...

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A Healthy Rate to Lose Body Fat in Inches

While most medical professionals agree that a healthy rate of weight loss is about one to two pounds each week, there are no widely accepted guidelines for a healthy rate of body fat loss as measured...

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Does Soda Get You Fat?

The obesity epidemic is a major health problem. In fact, two-thirds of American adults and one-third of American children are currently overweight or obese and the numbers seem to be rising, according...

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How to Make Your Body Fill Out

Most of the focus in the media these days is on shedding pounds due to the health risks posed by obesity. But a study published in March 2014 in "Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health" reveals...

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How to Get Thick Thighs With a High Metabolism

Similar to spot reduction, spot weight gain is impossible; you cannot tell your body where to store fat. The only way to thicken your thighs is by gaining weight all over. Eventually the size of your...

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What Can Cause the Body to Hold Onto Fat?

A certain amount of body fat is necessary to provide energy, insulation, organ protection and maintenance of body functions. The problems begin when people take in more calories than they can use and...

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How to Stop My Appetite

If you have an active appetite you may end up overeating and consuming more calories than your body needs. Not to be confused with hunger, which is your body's way of making sure you eat enough,...

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How to Wrap Your Stomach After the Birth of a Baby

The desire to get the body back to its pre-pregnancy form is prevalent in many new mothers. As the name implies, belly wraps are used to wrap around the lower torso to give the body a more slim...

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Underweight: How to Gain Weight Fast

There are many reasons that a person may be underweight, including health problems, poor nutrition or simply genetics. While some people prefer looking this way, there are many others who strive to...

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How Can You Break a Sweat Walking?

Walking is a reliable exercise. Not only does it get the blood pumping and increase cardiovascular health, but it can also be a highly effective weight-loss aid. Moderate intensity exercise -- around...

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List of Things to Eat to Gain Weight

A person who wants to gain weight for health or fitness reasons must begin by consuming more calories than he burns. While there are calories in all food, not all foods are appropriate or healthy for...

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The Best Fruits for Gaining Weight

For those who need to gain weight, adding high-calorie fruit is a healthy way to go, as it also provides much-needed vitamins and minerals. Fruit can also be combined with other ingredients into...

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How to Get Rid of Cellulite & Sagging Skin

Cellulite and sagging skin are common problems among women of any age, but they often appear after pregnancy or weight loss. Sagging skin results when the skin cannot conform to the new shape....

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How to Get Skinny Hands

There are many reasons why you might want to get thinner hands and fingers---perhaps you enjoy playing guitar and your sausage-like fingers don't allow you the dexterity you need, or maybe you feel...

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Food Intolerance Symptoms and Weight Gain

Food intolerance is a digestive system response to food that irritates the system or that the system cannot process. Lactose intolerance is the most common, but almost any food can cause symptoms in a...

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How to Calculate How Much You Are Supposed to Weigh

Obesity has become a national problem in the U.S., and as a result weight loss has become a popular goal for many people. However, the process is difficult and the results are fleeting for a lot of...

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How to Calculate Your Point Allowance for WW

The Weight Watchers is a program designed to help a dieter find a balanced way to control calories. Rather than eliminating certain foods from the diet, Weight Watchers instead requires dieters to...

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How to Burn-Off Carbs

Carbohydrates are your body's main source of energy. Unfortunately, excess carbohydrates, when taken in with excess calories, are readily stored as fat, contributing significantly to weight gain....

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How to Gain Weight While You Sleep

During sleep, the body slows its metabolism, meaning that many bodily functions, like the breakdown of food and use of calories, are not working as efficiently as they do while you are awake. Thus, it...

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How to Tell the Height of Your Hip Line

Finding out how tall you are at your hip line is a good way to determine your specific body type, which is helpful when you are trying to dress yourself properly. Some people have tall hip lines, which...

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How to Use an Acai Berry 14-Day Cleanse

Acai berry cleansing products claim to use the berry to help cleanse the body of unwanted and unnecessary waste while also speeding up the metabolism in an all-natural way. The berries are not only...

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How to Overcome Being Underweight

Underweight people find weight control just as frustrating as those who are overweight. Genetics, food allergies, food intolerance, medical issues and simply not eating enough are factors that can...

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What Are the Dangers of Nutella?

The European Parliament approved a draft measure requiring foods high in fat, sugar or salt to be labelled with a red warning. These foods include Nutella. For a public that’s used to warning labels...

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How to Gain Weight in One Night

Gaining weight quickly is a necessity for some people who need to bulk up for a boxing match or simply want to get bigger in a hurry. There are several ways of gaining weight quickly, including...

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Tips on Gaining Weight for 13-Year-Olds

Thirteen-year old teens often suffer from body image related issues. Smaller teenagers feel different from their peers and might wish to gain weight. This issue affects both boys and girls as they work...

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How to Calculate & See if You Are Overweight

Excess weight increases your risk for many diseases including stroke, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. Finding out if you are overweight can be done with the help of the body...

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How to Measure My Waist, Chest & Hips With No Measuring Tape

A study in The Lancet found in 2005 that waist-to-hip ratio was more predictive of heart attacks than body mass index (BMI). For those who watch their weight, body measurements help track weight loss....

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How to Figure Out the Percentage of Weight Lost on "The Biggest Loser"

The weight loss show "The Biggest Loser" follows the stories of a group of obese individuals assisted by professional trainers to lose large amounts of weight. Each contestant competes for the title...

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How to Get Rid of Late Night Hunger

The easiest way to ruin a good weight-loss plan is by eating late-night snacks. The body's metabolism slows down during sleep, burning fewer calories; taking in extra calories before going to bed...

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How to Get Rid of Bloating & Water Retention

Bloating is the build up of air or gas in the stomach and intestines caused by diet, stress or medical conditions. Water retention occurs when fluids build up in the body instead of being released by...

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