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In our weekly Monday Health Club chat, join the discussion with registered dietitian Dena Ferretti with Revive Wellness and Journal Health Club reporter, Chris Zdeb, as they field your questions about about food and nutrition online from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Monday, March 14.
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Lifestyle change key to maintaining healthy diet
This is not another diet, this is the rest of your life.
Try this week’s exercises: the plank, single arm row and wall angel
Throughout the challenge, we are featuring exercises demonstrated by each of our three challenge finalists...
Recipe: Try a flavourful salt substitute
We need salt in our diet, but too much is as bad as too little. The sodium in salt maintains the fluid...
Week 8: From the journals of Health Club finalists
Mon. — Suffering from a touch of the stomach flu, so my workout consisted of a 5-km walk around the ...
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Cut calories, lose weight: It’s not a quick fix, but it’s an effective one
Can you really lose weight just by cutting calories? Yes, you can, and simply by learning how many calories your body actually needs a day you can begin to take on the calorie-cutting challenge.
Build your strength at home
Building strength is one of the fundamental reasons for exercising. By building stronger muscles, you increase your ability to do physical work. You also reduce the strain on your heart, because a fitter heart pumps blood more efficiently.
Obesity
The fight against sugar
Large forces are afoot in the fight against obesity - and they are taking aim at sugar.
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'Exergames,' a great way to burn calories, studies find — as long as they're fun
"Exergames," interactive digital or video-based games such as Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution, are part of today's fitness landscape for children and young adults. But do they really offer a substantial calorie burn? Two studies find that some of ...
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Nutritious diet can include a combo or two
Smart eating is a numbers game: Eat a lot of the good stuff and a little of the bad.
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Dieting: No magic, no nonsense, no fad
The American Heart Association has got the skinny on losing weight and shares in its bestselling book No-Fad Diet.
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Too many grains, not enough veggies a common diet misstep
Registered dietitian Tania Vander Meulen solves people’s problems with food. Most of the people who come to her for help with their diets eat too many grains and not enough fruits and vegetables, she says.
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Can new ice cream lick health troubles?
Let’s admit it: Attempts to make ice cream healthier by deleting fat and sugar didn’t work. At least not for true ice cream lovers. But rather than taking stuff out, what if you could add an array of healthy ingredients to ice cream without wrecking ...
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Vital facts about carbs and fibre
Fresh artisan bread right out of the oven, a steamy bowl of steel-cut oats with maple syrup essence, a warm oatmeal raisin cookie. These foods and an endless list of delicious options fit perfectly in a balanced weight loss diet. Too good to be true? ...
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