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Take on These Five Habits to Help Slow Down The Aging Process….

Although diet and exercise are two of the major components in leading a healthy lifestyle and helping you age gracefully, there are other factors that influence your well being that should be taken into consideration. Searching for the fountain of youth and holding on to it, can be reinforced by incorporating the following five easy pointers …

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Cholesterol Crunch – How to Achieve Healthy Levels

The idea of cholesterol automatically conjures up thoughts of heart disease and strokes.  Although cholesterol is made naturally in the body and is important for the production of Vitamin D, hormones and certain digestive substances, it occurs in two forms and too much of the wrong kind can be detrimental to your health.  A high …

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Wide-Ranging Health Benefits of Walking Groups

Among the various modes of group fitness activities, joining an organized outdoor walking group is shown to confer improvements in blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol levels, and mood.  Sarah Hanson, from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), and colleagues completed a meta-analysis of 42 studies of outdoor walking group interventions in adults.  Identifying data …

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Leafy Greens Could Enhance Sports Endurance

Nitrate supplements have ignited a new conversation about nitrate-rich foods like spinach, arugula, and other vegetables, as being important for muscle endurance during exercising. A previous study has suggested that beetroot juice, an abundant dietary source of nitrate, increases blood flow to the skeletal muscles during exercise by 38%. In a recent sports performance study, …

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