There’s good fat for us and bad fat for us. Brown is good, and white is bad. Some new research has been done, and it seems obese people may be lacking brown fat.
Brown fat is what newborn babies have, and it helps keep us warm. Apparently, adults have it around their neck. Here’s the Article: [...]
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Quick Tips on Staying Motivated to Exercise
The cold weather is settling in. It actually snowed in Texas this morning! Cold weather just makes you want to get a cup of hot cocoa and curl up in front of a warm fireplace. Come to think of it…cold weather just makes you want to curl up period.
Despite the cold, it’s still important to [...]
Bad Things that are Good for You
The Daily Mail has given us a list of habits that we thought were bad for us, but can actually be good for us.
Here’s what makes their list:
1. Anger. Why? It raises your blood pressure.
2.Video Games. Why? It raises your heart rate and speeds up your metabolism. It’s much better for you then just watching [...]
Body Image and Self-Esteem
Most people realize that there is a strong correlation between body image and self-esteem. Having a negative body image can raise the risk of a person developing an eating disorder as well as undermine their feeling of self worth.
What is body image?
Body image is the way in which you assess your body independent from the [...]
Comparing Exercise Progams – Long duration or short duration?
Is it better to have an exercise program that focuses on long duration, low intensity (such as jogging for an hour) or short duration, high intensity (such as doing spurts of jumping jacks, recovering, and then repeating)?
First let’s take a look at the pros and cons of a long duration, low intensity exercise routine.
Long Duration, [...]
Burst Training or Aerobic Training?
Burst Training is better.
Maybe we have Jane Fonda to blame, but aerobic training is a lot more popular than it should be. It doesn’t have all the great health benefits that we have heard doctors and trainers tell us. Jogging for an hour a day is a good health practice, but eventually our results will [...]