Diet and nutrition are two key elements in maintaining a healthy lifestyle at any age. What you’re putting into your body can have a huge impact on your overall health. Stay informed on the latest news, trends and studies, so you can live a healthier life every day.
We all tell ourselves that in the coming year we’re going to completely stop eating junk food, workout 4-days a week at the gym, and walk to work everyday even when it’s 8-miles away. However, making health vows that are too big may be the very thing that ruins your efforts. Experts note that around […]
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Although protein-rich diets are essential for satisfying our appetites, for building muscles, and for maintaining a healthy metabolism, eating too much (for example, if you opt for a super high, protein-focused diet that excludes other food groups) you could develop these negative health issues.
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Ah, the stocking. Some people rip into it as soon as they come down the stairs on Christmas morning, while others wait until they’ve opened their other gifts—so it’s kind of like a dessert. Speaking of which, many times you find items in your stocking that are sweet, like chocolate bars. However, it’s pretty tempting […]
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“Grow Food,” is not only my new favorite new song EVER, but also an inspiring project from Appetite for Change’s summer youth program in collaboration with the Beats and Rhymes program, at the Northside Minneapolis YMCA. It’s a fantastic song (I seriously can’t stop “whippin in the kitchen, whippin in the kitchen”) with an inspiring […]
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Tis’ that time of year again! Every year since it’s inception, the crack team at ActiveBeat.com has gotten together as the end of the year draws near to discuss the big, and often strange and surprising, health food trends expected in the new year. To be clear, we haven’t tested many of these ourselves, and the verdict […]
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