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Expert advice, tips, and insights for your weight loss journey
Your Real Risk of Diabetes; Don’t Wait Until You Have it… Try to Prevent it.
Diabetes is becoming a nationwide epidemic with over 25 million cases in the US and quickly increasing. Diabetes is when the pancreas does not function properly and glucose (sugar) levels fall outs...
Sensible Diet Tips
Here is a running collection of diet tips from some of our regular users: Have a food diary. Write down EVERYTHING you eat and the associated calories. Even if you have a bad day, keep writing ...
The Positive Weight Loss Approach
Once you have made up your mind to lose weight, you should make that commitment and go into it with a positive attitude. We all know that losing weight can be quite a challenge. In fact, for some, ...
Behavior Modification
Habits, good or bad, are formed by repetition. Eating habits are no exception. If you are in the habit of snacking when you watch TV, you were reinforcing that habit until finally it became a part ...
Benefits of Flexibility Training
By Chad Tackett, president of GHF Flexibility is a joint’s ability to move through a full range of motion. Flexibility training (stretching) helps balance muscle groups that might be overused durin...
12 Keys To Boosting Your Metabolism For Weight Loss!
You hear it all the time – “metabolism”, but what is it? It’s the process of converting food to energy. Metabolism happens in your muscles and organs and the result of it is what we commonly refe...
Where Diets Go Wrong
When we discover that we are heavier than we want to be, we have a natural inclination to eat less food. We may skip lunch or eat only a tiny amount of our dinner in the hope that if we eat less ou...
Diets Don’t Work!
By Chad Tackett Many Americans view a healthy lifestyle as something difficult to attain–and something that’s not much fun. Traditional diets have taught us that to lose weight, we must count calor...
100 Painless Ways to Cut 100 or More Calories
Reaching your fat loss goals may be easier than you think. To lose a pound of fat a month, all you need to do is cut 100 calories a day from your diet, assuming the intake and expenditure of all ot...
Exercise In The Morning!
If I had to pick a single factor that I thought was most important in a successful exercise or weight loss program, it would be to exercise first thing in the morning… every morning! Some mornings,...
There’s No Such Thing as Cheating
By Chad Tackett, President of Global Health and Fitness There’s no right or wrong way to eat. Healthy eating is all about motivation, balance, and flexibility. There will be times when you eat a hi...
Top 18 Benefits of Weight Training
Weight training tones your muscles which looks great and raises your basal metabolism… which causes you to burn more calories 24 hours-a-day. You’ll even burn more calories while you’re sleeping. W...
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