How to Increase the Intensity of Your Workou
How to Increase the Intensity of Your Workou
If you’re looking to increase the level, speed or intensity of your workout, try adding a friend. Talk to your girlfriends or someone you may know form your local gym and make a plan to workout together. Working out in pairs will push you to try harder, go faster and maybe even add some healthy competition! According to a study done at Michigan State University, women who worked out with an exercise partner who was more experienced, tended to last twice as long as opposed to working out alone. Meaning, if you are running 2 miles on your own and you add a running partner who is more advanced than you, you will be averaging 4 miles each workout. Working out together is also a great time to catch up or become better friends with someone. Making a plan to train for something, like a 5k, 10k or even a marathon can be a wonderful bonding experience as well as an amazing way to get into the best shape of your life!
Popcorn is a Healthy Snack with Antioxidants
Popcorn isn’t only for the movies!
Great Northern Popcorn, 8-Ounce Portion Packs (Pack of 24)
Next time you have a craving for popcorn, don’t feel guilty-grab some! Popcorn is a healthy option snack and the corn has antioxidants and fiber in it! Self Magazine has a yummy October recipe for popcorn sticky balls. Microwave some honey and pour it over popcorn, semi-sweet chocolate chips and peanuts, roll into balls and then let chill on wax paper until firm. This is a great healthy treat for kids and adults! Eat Smart Age Smart Insider tips: try making smaller balls and putting them into little cellophane colored baggies for Halloween trick or treaters!
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Blue Bonnet’s Liquid Super Earth Multi Nutrient Formula Prevents Bone Density Loss
Liquid Super Earth Multinutrient Formula Tropical Fruit – 32 oz – Liquid
Prevent Bone Density Loss with Vitamin D
Over 40 Concern – Women over 40 need to start thinking about and preventing bone density loss. A daily dose of Vitamin D is what they need! Insiders at Eat Smart Age Smart have discovered Blue Bonnet’s Liquid Super Earth Multinutrient Formula Tropical Fruit – 32 oz – Liquid
A delicious liquid that offers Vitamin D, pomegranate and 25 Vitamins and antioxidants! So much easier than taking 25 vitamins a day!
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9 reasons why you should eat plantains to keep your body healthy as you age!
Do you remember my post on how my ethnic background predisposed me to eating hot peppers as frequently as I eat jam?
You can still read it here: Why I will never gain weight!
Well, plantains are another one of those staples food I ate as a child and I still eat today with much enjoyment.
I don’t eat my plantains fried the way my grandmother used to make them … she not only fried them … she fried them twice in saturated vegetable oil (aka twice-fried plantains) that had been used over and over again. I love my grandmother, but even she would no longer cook this way today with the knowledge that’s available on nutrition.
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Can your extra weight affect your brain?
Here’s a really interesting connection for you from Dr. Jonny Bowden.
Back in June I wrote about studies by Arthur Kramer, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of Illinois, who found that exercise increases brain volume. One way it may accomplish this is by boosting a protein in the brain called BDNF.
This study was widely reported largely because of the promise it showed for helping people improve memory, cognition and brain function. In fact, Kramer wrote at the time that their analysis showed in “unequivocal” terms that aerobic exercise improves cognition in older people.
That alone would be reason enough to want to boost brain levels of BDNF.
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