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What you eat is as important as how much. Even if you’re eating well and working out, you may still not be seeing improvements. A diet high in refined carbohydrates and deficient in vitamins and minerals may lead to inflammation and be the culprit for your weight loss struggle. Dr. Bruce Ames...

Bret_ContrerasElite Coach First, I apologize if I left out one of your favorite exercises. Don’t take it personally. I performed these experiments in my garage, and while I have one of the baddest garage gyms in Arizona, I don’t have a lot of machines. Furthermore, there are probably 200...

Most people tend to view exercise through the lens of the ‘additive’ energy model: More exercise = more calories burned. But back in 2016, Herman Pontzer and colleagues published a study that put forth the ‘constrained’ energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with added activity, but...

By Aadam | Last Updated: September 17th, 2023 In a world filled with fitness trackers and step-counting apps, the magic number of 10,000 steps per day is firmly lodged in all our psyches. But you probably don’t need to dedicate your life to walking to live a longer, healthier life. I’ve...

Despite what you see in your social media feeds of dramatic fat loss results, training and eating for fat loss is hard. Like really hard. Ronnie Coleman said that everyone wants to get big, but no one wants to lift heavy weights. Something similar could be said for fat loss. Everybody wants to...

By Adam Bisek Let’s Calculate your Metabolism! Well, actually what we are about to calculate is your “maintenance calories,” that is the number of calories you would need to consume to maintain weight. There will be 2 steps in this process: 1) calculating BMR, and 2) calculating activity...

Physical activity as a longevity drug | More is better The best longevity drug we know is exercise, websites like ours have been telling you for years. This comparison is not entirely correct. After all, a drug has an optimal dosage. If you take more than this optimal amount, the positive...

Many of us are looking to maximize our daily activity and caloric output. However, there’s only so much exercise one can realistically and healthfully fit into a day. But there are other ways to keep our metabolism humming like non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). COMPONENTS OF...

There are many great reasons to follow a regular fitness routine. After all, cardio and resistance training offer a host of health-related benefits, from lowering blood pressure and bad cholesterol, to boosting mood and reducing anxiety. Then, there’s the role exercise can play in helping you...

People with office based, sedentary lifestyles will likely be aware that being active in our leisure time is essential for maintaining good health, but those with more physical occupations may feel that a hard day of manual labor is all the exercise they need. Not so, according to a new study...

Whether you’re new to walking or just looking for an easy way to reach your weight-loss goals, you’ve likely heard the advice you should aim for 10,000 steps a day. For most people, this translates to roughly 5 miles (depending on things like height and walking gait). It’s a nice, round number...

It should no longer come as breaking news when a new study supports what we’ve already known: Staying active promotes better longer-term health and reduces disease. The latest proof of the benefits of exercise comes from a recent study in the UK that discovered that not only those who engage in...

If you have a goal that you’re looking to achieve, especially one that requires lifestyle changes, it stands to reason that having your significant other or spouse on board would make it easier. And that’s exactly what researchers found when they looked at the success rates of heart attack...

Cell Science at a Glance mTOR signaling at a glance Mathieu Laplante, David M. Sabatini Journal of Cell Science 2009 122: 3589-3594; doi: 10.1242/jcs.051011 ArticleFigures & tablesInfo & metrics PDF The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway integrates both intracellular and...

Theater Chains Are Refusing to Screen Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension Jared Jones | 16 October 2015 https://youtu.be/Y9Jy2T0uQ9Y No, this is not the latest marketing scheme by the Paranormal Activity folks to get asses in seats -- at least, not overtly. Although it might not have come...

I just had the lady at WU say I would not be able to send more than $299.99 with no receiver ID. Holy Shit. I sent an email to my vendor and I hope that $15.01 short will be ok till I order a small batch of pcts and I can make up the difference. Has anyone else had this problem?