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Category: Health

Does your job make it harder to lose weight?

How Your Job Makes It Harder to Lose Weight

Most people spend eight hours a day working, and some jobs are more active than others. Have you ever wondered how your occupation affects your body weight? Find out why some jobs can be an occupational health hazard and how to stay more active regardless of your occupation.

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glycemic index

Why It Isn’t Important to Know a Food’s Glycemic Index

Low-glycemic diets like the South Beach diet have been popular for a while now, but how important is it to follow a low-glycemic diet? Find out more the shortcomings of depending on glycemic index for making food choices, why glycemic load is a better measure and why knowing either value isn’t as important as you think.

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Can you relieve stress through exercise?

Can 30 Seconds of Exercise Relieve Stress?

Exercise does more than just shape your body. It has mental health benefits as well. When you feel stress levels rising, you can break the cycle of stress and anxiety by doing a short burst of high-intensity exercise. Find out why this works.

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red vegetables

Want to Stay Healthy? Don’t Eat Green, Eat Red!

We all heard our mothers telling us that if we want to be healthy, we must eat our greens. Then we get a plateful of beans, broccoli, cabbage, and lettuce. These foods are healthy; there’s no doubt about that. But greens aren’t the only healthy foods out there. There is another color that we need to put into our plates: red!

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prebiotics

Prebiotics: Keeping Your Intestinal Flora Healthy

We’ve all heard of probiotics – the beneficial bacteria that reside in our intestines and on our skin. But have you ever wondered what they eat? Probiotics protect us in many ways, but to have healthy populations, you need to feed them. This article explains what prebiotics are and where to get them.

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natural sources of probiotics

6 Natural Sources of Probiotics

Are you getting enough probiotics in your diet? If not, here are six natural sources of probiotics you can buy at your local supermarket or health food store. It’s better than swallowing a supplement.

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