Healthy Fitness Network

Unfrogged

In a city with hotdog carts on every street corner, cutting salt is going to be a lot of work. Good thing New York City never sleeps.

Earlier this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced an initiative to cut salt intake to help lower the city’s high blood pressure.

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i am 13 years old and way off the weight balance for my age. im in the 8th grade and just want to get in shape for my 9th grade year. if u have any advice please help me

I tried to lose weight two or three times over the past years without success. I realized I wanted to lose weight, but I wanted that microwave chicken patty a lot more. Inspiration came at a strange time; I was sitting on the toilet. I literally had an epiphany and decided to do something about my fitness. I changed everything about my lifestyle, became a vegetarian and consumed a fraction of what I had eaten before.

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[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. Jon is the author of the Seven Minute Muscle Workout]

It was the weirdest thing …

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sxc.hu: ppreacher

It would be pretty hard to deny the massive increase in our portions over the past few decades.

It seems everything from muffins to coffee have grown considerably. And unfortunately, so too have our waistlines.

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One of Britain’s leading heart surgeons, Shyam Kolvekar, has suggested that in order to save lives, butter should be banned.

Butter contains a large amount of saturated fat (54g per 100g), and saturated fat is considered responsible for a third of Britain’s annual 200,000 premature deaths from heart disease.

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If you’re a secret chocoholic, this news will have you salivating: a ten-metre long replica of the Great Wall of China has been build – out of chocolate.

Chinese engineers constructed the wall from dark chocolate bricks, and used white chocolate to stick them together.

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I’m always on the looking for new (or at least a new perspective on old) tips for fat loss, and I am thankful for the insights of all sorts of people, as evidenced by a recent Diet Blog entry.

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Larry Fire

I was at PetSmart a week ago – browsing the ferrets, kittens, and tree frogs – and up front by the registers were potato chips, candy, and soda.

Now, I’ve never tried feeding my leopard gecko a Kit Kat, instead of meal worms and crickets, but she’s pretty ditsy, so she might eat it.

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1440 Wall Street

“You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog” Elvis, was super cool. Big fat, sweaty, jumpsuit wearing, pseudo karate kicking Elvis, is just embarrassing.

However, The King’s diet was the biggest travesty of them all. I see this sort of food in my nightmares–bacon, sausage, and mayonnaise, oh my!

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