Are you a breakfast skipper?

August 25th, 2010

We all have heard the breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Not being a breakfast person, I was hoping there was no truth to that. However, the statement is not your mom’s way of getting you to eat a healthy breakfast or making you get up earlier to get ready for school, it is pure truth. Eating breakfast helps maintain a healthy body weight and increases your metabolic rate. If you eat a healthy breakfast it will keep you from mindlessly snacking throughout the day. There’s no two ways about it what you eat for breakfast is just as important as eating breakfast.

So you are not a breakfast eater?

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Exercise Doesn’t Erase Your Bad Diet

August 25th, 2010

How many times have you been to dinner at a restaurant, trying to decide between having the healthy salad you know you should have, and the nachos that are screaming your name? In an effort to justify the unhealthy choice, you say to yourself: “I’ll burn it off in the gym tomorrow.” Look! A weight loss loophole!

Everyone needs to exercise. Whether you want to lose weight, gain muscle, fight aging, or haven’t given your health a single thought, you need to exercise. In addi

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Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yogurt, Canned Tomatoes, and More

August 25th, 2010

Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve.

Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Adding to the confusion are overrated foods like salads that are perceived to be good for you but can be health horrors.

Here are six foods not typically thought of as nutritional powerhouses that can definitely upgrade your diet. Get

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Breakfast: The Critical Meal

August 24th, 2010

Since the late 1990′s Dr. John Berardi has published 8 scientific abstracts; 15 scientific papers and textbook chapters; presented at nearly 50 scientific, exercise, and nutrition related conferences; and published countless articles online.

His first articles at Testosterone Magazine so many years ago, provided me with the basis for everything I know about nutrition today. Now I will turn some of that knowledge over to you in the form of Nutrition Tips written by Dr. Berardi himself.

I can’t tell you how many people I talk to, who want to either lose fat or gain muscle, that when it comes down to the most important dietary question of all, they let me down. But

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