Healthy Fitness Network

We have a fight on our hands.

A fight to reclaim a physical culture, that I fear has become lost on this current generation. A task of this magnitude requires a basic understanding of the needs of children from an inspirational, developmental and physical perspective.

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Oh boy, PETA is growling about something stupid again. The anti-meat, anti-fur, anti-animal testing crusaders are mad. And, this time they’re ticked on a Presidential level, actually, a Vice Presidential level.

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I guess any food you buy outside comes with inherent risks. It’s outside after all.

Eat at any barbecue and you’ll spend half the time swatting flies away from the sun-baked, mayonnaise-based potato salad.

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All the traps and pitfalls in life, self esteem is the deadliest and hardest to overcome. For it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase: It is no use, I cannot do it ~ Maxwell Maltz

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But I Shut the Bitch Up with a Cookie….. Is a funny book about the week in the life of a yo-yo dieter.

The world of dieting and fitness can often be very serious so it’s refreshing to see how the book’s author, Arleen Mavorah, has found the lighter side of how ridiculous the quest to find the perfect diet can be.

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Fast food chains are facing ever increasing scrutiny when it comes to the Calorie and nutrient content of the food they entice us with.

Recently governments have cracked down on restaurants requiring them to be more transparent regarding nutrition information. Burgerville, a fast food chain in the Pacific Northwest, has taken this one step further by actually printing nutrition information of the customer’s receipt.

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Since I was 15 I can remember being self conscious about my weight. I was an athlete and played water polo and swam year round; being in a bathing suit most of the year made me very aware of my body. Being an athlete I felt as though there was no way for me to change the way my body was because I constantly needed to eat to keep my energy levels up. We would have ‘carb-loading’ before swim meets and I was always famished after late practices which would lead to my eating late at night. It was a vicious cycle.

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It’s been a bad couple of weeks for celebrities whose diets almost killed them.

Lady Gaga’s former tour manager David Ciemny claims that she was hospitalized 6 times in 2009 – proposing that extreme dieting was the culprit.

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I’m extremely shy, and have a low self-esteem problem. I can’t stand working out in a gym, when its filled up. I feel so judged and pathetic because most of the time its active people working out. Because of this I make an excuse not to go to the gym. I don’t like the feeling of people judging me because of my appearance.

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