Nutrition

The DASH Diet for Lowering Blood Pressure

by Eartha Haines

High blood pressure affects so many people that you probably know family or friends who deal with it or you may be dealing with it yourself. I know family members who have to take medication daily to treat their hypertension. The DASH diet is a popular diet that has been said to help lower blood [...]

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Eating Breakfast Makes a Big Difference

by Eartha Haines

I’m still going strong with my healthy eating lifestyle and one of the changes I implemented was eating breakfast every day. I was never a consistent breakfast eater. I would usually skip it and when I did eat it, it was usually oatmeal or cereal. Now I eat it every morning and it is almost [...]

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How to Eat Healthy When You Live with Someone Who Eats Like Crap

by Eartha Haines

photo credit: juan787 This is part three in my healthy eating tips series. If you want to read the others you can find them below: Healthy Eating Tips that Work Part 1 Healthy Eating Tips that Work Part 2 What can you do when you live with someone who does not eat the way you [...]

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Healthy Eating Tips Part 2 – Tracking Your Calories

by Eartha Haines

If you missed part one, you can find it here: Healthy Eating Tips That Work – Part 1 Why Logging Food Works Ok, you are probably skeptical about logging everything you eat. Trust me, I was too, and keeping track of stuff like that just isn’t something I find fun. However, tracking your meals gives [...]

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Healthy Eating Tips That Work – Part 1

by Eartha Haines

This is the first part in a series of posts where I will be discussing how I finally made the change to eating healthy for weight loss. You can read my first post which started it off: Eating Healthy for Weight Loss – I’m Finally Sticking To It Why I Say These Tips Will Work [...]

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Eating Healthy for Weight Loss – I’m Finally Sticking To It

by Eartha Haines

Now that I have started the intermediate level of Turbulence Training and combine Insanity on my off days, I knew I had to work on my diet next. I don’t consider myself a terrible eater but I could really stand to clean up my act. The working out is really fun for me and it [...]

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Anabolic Asparagus – The Importance of Vegetables in Muscle Development

by Guest Blogger

photo credit: itsjustanalias I’m sorry. I hate to be the one to have to tell you this. But you should always listen to your mother. What I’m trying to say is, make sure that you eat plenty of vegetables, especially if you want to get a better value out of your workouts. According to recent [...]

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Death of Heart Attack Grill Spokesman Blair River

by Eartha Haines

photo credit: Just Samson I was skimming through the latest health news on Google news when the news story about Blair River caught my attention. Blair was the spokesperson for the Heart Attack Grill, a fast-food restaurant in Arizona. Blair stood at 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 572 pounds. After coming down with [...]

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