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Bill Brown
Apr 11, 2019

5 Foods You Should Be Eating for Your Best Body—Inside and Out

No food can make you look younger and feel healthier overnight. But over time, getting the right nutrients can make a difference. Here’s the scoop on five superfoods that can help you lose weight, boost your heart health and give your skin a healthy glow. You’ve heard the old saying: Real beauty comes from the

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Bill Brown
Apr 10, 2019

7 Shocking Facts About Sleep

Here are the most interesting health facts that warn against burning the candle at both ends. Pace yourself, people! Flu-Z’s If you’re sleep-deprived before getting your flu shot, it can take 3-4 weeks for the vaccine to kick in. Those who don’t get appropriate rest have a weaker immune system, which hinders the vaccination’s effectiveness.

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Bill Brown
Apr 09, 2019

Neuroscience Reveals 50-Year-Olds Can Have the Brains of 25-Year-Olds If They Do This 1 Thing

Want to be forever young? Neuroscientist Sara Lazar, of Mass General and Harvard Medical School, started studying meditation by accident. She sustained running injuries training for the Boston Marathon, and her physical therapist told her to stretch. So Lazar took up yoga. “The yoga teacher made all sorts of claims, that yoga would increase your compassion and open your heart,”

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Bill Brown

7 Reasons You’re Not Building Muscle Even Though You’re Lifting Weights

How to gain muscle, you ask? It’s simple: Stop making these easy-to-fix mistakes. You’ve been spending tons of time in the gym trying to get Michelle Obama arms, but you don’t seem to be building any muscle. What gives? Several things could explain why your arms are as noodly as ever (or why your butt

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Bill Brown
Apr 08, 2019

10 Words to Know So You’re Not So Confused in Yoga Class

  Starting a yoga practice is daunting enough without being befuddled by the yoga lingo coming out of your teacher’s mouth. Many teachers use terms derived from the classical language of yoga called Sanskrit; they may or may not follow these with the English translation, so it’s helpful to learn the most common yoga words you’re

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Bill Brown
Apr 03, 2019

Benefits of Aerobic Exercise for Brain Health

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that exercise is good for you. Regular aerobic exercise lowers your risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. And in the short-term, a good workout clears the mental cobwebs, helps you think clearly and makes you more productive. Mounting evidence shows that those cerebral effects aren’t just short

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Bill Brown
Apr 02, 2019

You Need To Start Adding Heart Rate Training To Your Workouts

Here’s how to use heart rate training to lose fat, improve performance and get the most out of every workout. You may not know it, but you have easy access to an extremely sophisticated, individualized training tool that can help you fine tune your workouts to lose fat, get stronger, faster and fitter. Nope, we’re

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Bill Brown
Apr 01, 2019

5 Long-Term Health Risks of Going Keto

There’s a lot health experts still don’t know about the long-term effects of the keto diet. Some warn it could be dangerous. The keto diet hype shows no signs of slowing: The low-carb regimen is still massively popular, with celebs like Al Roker and Jenna Jameson crediting the diet for serious weight loss in recent months. It’s easy to see why

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Bill Brown
Mar 20, 2019

7 Kettlebell Mistakes You’re Probably Making

Training with kettlebells is a crazy-easy way to increase strength and power—as long as you’re using them right. Check out the most common mistakes trainers spot all the time, then clean up your kettlebell act to up your calorie burn and reduce your risk of injury. 1. Your Weight Is Too Heavy If you’re making the jump from dumbbells, it’s

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Bill Brown
Mar 19, 2019

How to Get Started With Yoga

  It wasn’t too long ago that yoga was a relatively unknown activity practiced mainly by New Agers and people with hippie parents. But times have changed, and now it seems like everyone’s doing yoga: your sister, your nephew, your grandma — even football players and prison inmates. And there are good reasons for that.

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