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The basics of a healthy lifestyle -

The basics of a healthy lifestyle are in essence quite simple, but in the treadmill of daily life they are easily forgotten. The three areas that need to be addressed in order to improve your life the healthy way are:

Diet & Nutrition
Exercise
Relaxation

Diet & Nutrition
You are what you eat is often said. And it is as […]

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Burn fat, exercise your back -

Training your back can help your loose fat. Your fat burning capabilities are higher when you train a lot of muscle fibers. And there are no bigger muscles than the big back muscles (latissimus dorsi), also know as the lats. So train your back by doing pull ups to enlarge your lats and increase your […]

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Try semi skimmed milk for rehydration -

The best sportsdrink comes from the cow according to a recent British research. In this research 11 men drank either semi skimmed milk, the sportsdrink Powerade or water after an intensive workout session. The test subjects who drank the milk excreted less urine than the other test subjects. According to the researchers milk can replenish […]

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Fight or prevent depression with exercise -

Every year millions of people get prescribed anti depressives, but the first option to get rid of depression should be exercise. Because even a little exercise increases the amount of a stimulating compound called phenethylamine in the brain. Depressed people have very little of this substance which gives you a feeling of euphoria. This substance […]

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Coffee as sunscreen -

A study done at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, shows that caffeine in combination with exercise gives protection agains UVB. This is the radiation in sun light that can cause skin cancer. The Americans gave hairless mice (which are very sensitive to skin cancer) water with caffeine, or a wheel to run in or […]

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Athletes sensitive to vitamin B shortage -

Athletes, who use a lot of vitamin B, are very sensitive to a shortage of these vitamins. This is the result of a large literature study into the subject published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. A shortage of vitamin B has an immediate negative impact on athletic performance, recovery capacity and the immune […]

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Interval train for fat loss -

Running intervals, or sprints with intermittent rest periods, burns three times as much fat as running at slow, consistent speeds, according to new research from the University of New South Wales, in Australia.
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Build muscle in two days a week -

Men can build significant muscle with only two workouts a week, according to Canadian researchers. The scientists, who studied beginners doing the same total body-weight workout either 2 or 3 days a week, discovered that two sessions are as effective as three. “They’re also more manageable for people with busy schedules”, says study author Darren […]

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Quercetin increases endurance -

Quercetin, a flavonoid found in capers, lovers, apples and tea among others, increases endurance in athletes. Pepperdine University researchers found that elite cyclists taking 600 milligrams of the antioxidant daily for 6 weeks improved their 30k time trials by almost 5%. The best news: The athletes were particularly fast at the last 5 kilometers, when […]

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Short intense exercise better than longer less intense -

An Australian study has shown that people who exercised for 20 minutes with high-intensity interval training for 3 days a week dropped 10% of their body fat, while those who exercised longer but on a lower intensity didn’t lose any. Ignite your weight loss by performing the study’s exercise bike routine: Sprint for 8 seconds, […]

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