Healthy Fitness Network

Results from a UK study show that children with low self-esteem tend to be obese as adults.

The study followed 6,500 children (from the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study), who had their height and weight measured at the age of 10, and were also asked about their emotional state.

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FizzingBanana.com

Crack open a magazine from the 1960s or 1970s and you’ll find an abundance of cigarettes ads. It’s almost startling, like a creepy trip back in time.

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Lease.ca

Nobody likes traffic. You go to work, and you drive home–anything in between is a nightmare.

But, just imagine if you live next to a crowded freeway, with the constant honking horns, and shouting drivers all day and night. That’s bad too.

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Chuck Norris has counted to infinity… twice.
Chuck Norris doesn’t worry about changing his clock twice a year for daylight savings time. The sun rises and sets when Chuck tells it to.
Chuck Norris invented water.
Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
When the boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks the closet for Chuck Norris.

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Running around on those wheels all day can’t be easy for a hamster. I bet some have heart attacks and drop dead right on the spot.

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Instinctively, this question will likely generate a resounding “no way” from most people. Shockingly though (perhaps not so much?) this question isn’t hypothetical.

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Are you a couch potato?

I used to think the only thing keeping couch potatoes from the gym was, well, themselves!

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About one third of Americans are “very or extremely” concerned about food safety, with this percentage of people holding firm since 2007.

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Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) should be eating a diet rich in soluble fiber, a new study suggests.

A small Dutch study of 275 patients, aged 18-65, and published in the British Medical Journal, has highlighted questions about the effectiveness of bran as a treatment for IBS.

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From Diet Blog Share:

My boyfriend’s problem is that he needs to gain weight. I have forced him to eat anything he can, and drink a lot of products with “weight-gain” in them.

But, he doesn’t seem to gain any weight, he may even have lost some.

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