Category: Health Fitness

Low Calorie Foods: An Overview

If you are fat then it is clear that your body is burning fewer calories than your body is consuming. However, many people do not know what a calorie is. A calorie is a unit for measuring energy. It is known as the amount of heat required to raise...

How to boost your weight loss with 6 simple exercises

Before thinking about losing weight, the first thing to ask yourself is: do you need to do it? There are many basic ways to assess for yourself whether you are fat, very obese, or just plain healthy. Most of them are based on simple height and weight ratios, of...

Mr Beer Review – Good Starter Brewing Kit

So you want to brew your own beer? It’s easier than you think with a Mr. Beer brewing kit. The main requirements are clean working conditions (very important), following instructions and patience, Patience, PATIENCE!! The first two requirements are critical, but if you want a good, clean, flavorful beer...

Awe Nuts – Only the healthy ones! Part One

Healthy nuts: the best What are the best healthy nuts available in the market? The perfect answer is currently not available. According to one study, about 32% of the nuts consumed were peanuts, 16% walnuts, 29% almonds, and 23% other types. But the researchers couldn’t judge whether these nuts...

Strength Training – The Fountain of Youth

In the 16th century, the famous explorer Ponce de Leone set out to discover the fountain of youth. Intent on finding an elixir that could magically restore vitality and vigor, he sailed far and wide in search of his dream. But as we all know, the search for him...

Vertical jump training: breaking plateaus

So maybe you bought a good jump training program and gained the first 6 to 8 inches in your vertical but now progress has stopped? Or maybe after weeks of hard training you still haven’t seen that initial gain that everyone says comes pretty quickly at first? In either...

Vermilion Cliffs Sand Hills Loop, as bad as you want to be

The land on this “hike” is under the jurisdiction of the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. Do not look or collect here. I see “Tom” was at the Eastern Sand Hills Crack on New Year’s Day 1932. He left his mark on it. So it was not a National Park....

Understanding protein and its importance

The word “Protein” comes from the Greek word “Protos” which means “Of first importance”. Protein is the main component of the human body, if you were to compare your body to a building, protein would be the raw material. Like fats and carbohydrates, proteins are made up of oxygen,...

One disadvantage of using Metamucil for weight loss

Metamucil only has one real drawback when it comes to weight loss or management. As a fiber supplement, Metamucil is exceptional. It is an excellent way to add necessary fiber to the diet. One heaping tablespoon of Metamucil with real sugar provides 3 grams of dietary fiber. Recommended usage...