Healthy Fitness Network

This question was submitted through email from a young lady named Cassandra. What advice can you give her?

“I have been asked to lose some weight for ballet.

I weigh 130 pounds right now at 5′4″, and have been on a calorie count diet for the past three years. When I first went on the diet, I didn’t even excercise and I lost 20 pounds eating 1500 calories a day. I got down to 110 pounds.

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At 113 years of age, Walter Breuning has seen a lot (and I mean A LOT) of fad diets come and go. So what’s the dietary secret to his longevity?

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After years of “dieting” I have realized the best way to keep the weight off is not to restict yourself, but rather modify your foods into healthier options.

To do this I am now changing my favourite meals into healthier options. This weekend, I drank white wine with Perrier to limit the calories, and I choose a 1/4 mango sorbet and fruit, over ice cream and brownies.

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We have heard for a long time that the active cultures in yogurt are good for us, especially if we are having intestinal problems from disease or antibiotics.

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When I was a kid, I’d only eat the tops of the broccoli. My parents thought I was little off.

But I don’t do that anymore. I eat the whole thing. In fact, I eat broccoli 3 or 4 times a week.

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It’s London Fashion Week here in the UK, and the designer Mark Fast has caused a storm by–gasp–using normal-sized women to showcase his knitwear range.

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BMI gets a lot of flack. The gripe you hear most is it doesn’t consider muscle mass.

Let’s say you’re short and have big muscles, your BMI will call you obese. It’s happened to me for years.

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This morning I beat the alarm clock up. Something that isn’t a typical task when my alarm goes off at 4:30 am every weekday morning. 3:58 came and went and I was ready to go. So meditate, set my intention for the day, walk through important tasks to be done in my mental to-do list, then up and at them.

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Hey, for those of you that don’t know “tabula rasa” means clean slate.. and once I reach my target of 8 stone 3 Ibs, I will get this tattooed on my body for all the hotties to see

I’m 19 years old, and about to start uni in 3 days. Just over 2 weeks ago I almost reached my target, and got down to 9 stone, but piled it all back on a drunken holiday filled with dominos, kfc, mc d’s, you name it, i ate it! So now the pressure is on to drop down to my normal size. For years I was 8 stone 7 lbs, and never budged. But, I slowly have developed a few eating disorders, which means I have focused on my weight pretty much everyday since last June, and this has lead to my gaining, instead of losing weight.

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No one likes talking about their colon. It’s the butt of too many embarrassing colonoscopy jokes.

But, colon cancer gets a lot of press, and practically every box of high-fiber cereal touts its ability to ward off colon cancer and improve colon health.

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