Healthy Fitness Network

this is my bookI guess it’s an oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp” or “yeah-no.” But to make America’s obesity problems even worse, our own fitness ads have turned against us!

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The New York Times has published an article about children’s food worries – and the dangers of pushing kids into being obsessively worried about eating healthily. If you check food labels, insist on organic produce and ban candy and soda… could you be doing your child more harm than good?

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Researchers have found that taking up exercising during middle age (in your 50s) can prolong your life as much as quitting smoking does.

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A Newsweek piece hit recently explaining how men and women use different strategies to diet and that some tactics that work for guys don’t work for gals and vice versa. Here are some of the salient points;

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Street FighterWe all know the United States is fat, but we’re not the only ones. So is the rest of the world! The World Health Organization estimates 1.6 billion adults are overweight worldwide. (more…)

Cancer experts have found that healthier living could cut out a third of instances of the most common cancers in the developed world, and a quarter in the developing world.

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I distinctly remember speaking with an unknown elderly couple many years ago while seated next to them at a restaurant. I don’t recall what started the conversation, but I do know that it had something to do with food. At any rate, the husband and wife — both of whom looked rather healthy, despite the fact that they were in their late 80s — proudly stated that the key to their longevity was not eating. “Huh?,” I muttered through a mouthful of pasta primavera, only to be told once again by these fine people — who dined only on small bowls of soup — that they attributed their long lives to eating very, very little food.

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As alarmist as the title may sound, start reading this book and you’ll get an understanding of a very disheartening (pun intended) reality of the deep-rooted flaws of cardiac intervention. Dr. Michael Ozner takes us a on a journey of why things are the way they are, why the system is so flawed and what we can do about it. Here are some highlights from The Great American Heart Hoax.

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If you’ve been on the healthy eating, fitness or dieting wagon for a while, you’ll probably know how much of a difference support makes. Research backs you up: for example, people who receive regular phone calls are much more likely to stick to their goals and successfully lose weight.

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