Healthy Fitness Network

The Llama Butchers

“I’ve had it with these bleep-bleep’n peanuts, on this bleep-bleep’n plane!”

Yeah, “Peanuts on a Plane” isn’t as cool as Samuel L. Jackson going all Pulp Fiction on Snakes on a Plane, but today nuts are just about as evil as snakes.

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AquaBounty

What do you get when you take an Atlantic salmon, splice in a gene from a Chinook salmon, plus a gene from an ocean pout?

You get a farm raised salmon that grows twice as fast and can be in your sushi in 16 months instead of the normal 3 years!

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VGmoz

No real shocker here. Kids like watching cartoons. Kids like junk food and snacks. Put the two together and WHAM you’re a marketing genius!

And its not just little kids. Cap’n Crunch has a stranglehold on older kids too. I knew a guy in college who used to eat Crunch Berries and hotdogs for dinner. His name was Stu Pidd.

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Flickr: little blue hen

Trying to kick your french fry habit? Here’s a delicious, but also nutritious, alternative: baked sweet potato french fries. — That’s Fit Canada

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It’s been a couple of years now since I felt the need to vent about the stupidity of Gwyneth Paltrow’s fad diets.

Well, it looks like her dieting practices may have caught up to her as she was recently been diagnosed with oseopenia – a precursor to osteoporosis — at the age of 37.

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I have been through 5 years of diets, weight and food obsesssion which have led me to low self esteem, insecurity in the romatic area and Body Dysmorphic disorder. I have tried everything in order to loose weight: from cabbage soup to apple vinegar pills and from meal relacements to eating nothing. I always went back on binge eating after a diet.

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Hello! I’m a 21 year old female, about 5′9″ looking to go from 186(ish) down to about 145(ish).

Plan?
I’m still in my early stages of planning. I want to get the GoWear Fit (numbers really motivate me) and start keeping track of what I eat (considering vegetarian/raw diet). Several times I have began running, but never kept it up long term. Possibly going to follow the couch potato to 5k plan (simple) to start.

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Obesity has always been touted as one of the biggest controllable risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. While that’s still true, researchers are discovering that a small portion of obese people manage to avoid the associated risks.

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Exercise: It’s good for you. You know it’s good for you.

You know it prevents a myriad of chronic diseases and you probably also know of its positive benefits on mental health. What we don’t know, however, is how exercise specifically benefits us at the molecular level – until now, that is.

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Hi,
My name is jarina i’m 15 years old and i am overweight. I weigh over 240 pounds and i dont know what to do. i tried diets and eating small, nothing seems to work. My dad died in october of 2009 and i just cant stop eating. I’m very depressed. im not just depressed because of my dad but of children in my school. i have been called fiona from shrek and it hurts. I have been through alot. People at school dont know what i go through at home. Qutting is not an option!

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