Healthy Tips To Change Your
Life
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Eating For Your Health - Drink
Your Milk
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Think you're getting a
nutritional boost from your morning cereal? Up to 40 percent of the vitamins in
fortified cereals dissolve in the milk. If you don't drink the leftover cow
juice, you're not getting the fancy-pants nutrients!
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Eating For Your Health - Ice
It, Ace It
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Drink a few glasses of
ice-cold water before and during exercise. Studies show that the cold stuff can
improve endurance by about 23 percent. And ice water forces your body to expend
calories warming it up, boosting your metabolism as well.
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Eating For Your Health - Lift,
Damn It!
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Verbally expressing emotion
while lifting increases muscle strength by up to 25 percent. (Of course, it
also increases your risk of being tossed out of the gym by the same
percentage…) Or get someone to scream at you: You'll be able to lift 5 to 8
percent more weight if you get verbal encouragement from a trainer or workout
partner.
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Eating For Your Health - Bribe
Yourself Fit
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Bet a colleague (like
the one who's not so secretly gunning for your job) 50 bucks that you can stick
to your workout program for 6 months. Studies show that those who do achieve an
average 97 percent success rate. Alternate plan? Schedule your workouts, then
put a few bucks in a jar for each one you make. Pledge the money toward
something sweet, like a new bike or a trip to Vegas.
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Eating For Your Health - Pick
The Red One
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Red cabbage has 15 times
as much wrinkle-fighting beta-carotene as green cabbage. Red bell peppers have
up to nine times as much vitamin C as green ones.
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Eating For Your Health - Spear
a Hangover
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To reduce the severity
of a hangover, order a side of asparagus. When South Korean researchers exposed
a group of human liver cells to asparagus extract, the extract suppressed free
radicals and more than doubled the effects of two enzymes responsible for
metabolizing alcohol.
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Eating For Your Health - Listen
To Your Feet
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If you can hear yourself
running, you're setting yourself up for injury. Pounding the pavement comes
from bad form. Keep your feet close to the ground and use a quick, shuffling
stride.
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Eating For Your Health - Don't Buy Wheat Bread
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Huh? Isn't it good for me?
Actually, "wheat bread" is often just white bread dyed with molasses
to make it look dark. Look instead for "100 percent whole wheat" or
"whole grain." Even better: rye bread. Swedish researchers found that
8 hours after people ate rye, they felt less hungry than those who noshed wheat
bread, thanks to rye's high fiber content.
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Eating For Your Health - Cheat With Your Weights
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Lift a weight as many times
as you can. Then, when you can't complete one more repetition, use your free
hand (or a workout buddy) to help push your weighted hand through another rep.
Once you're at the top of the move, remove your free hand and slowly lower the
weight. Studies show that negative resistance exercises like this are more
effective at muscle building than standard exercises.
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Eating For Your Health - Dry Off Head To Toe
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After a shower, you'll
prevent a chill by drying your head and neck first. You'll also reduce the risk
of anything nasty from the shower floor making its way up your body.
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