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Resistance Band Workouts: Strength Training for Seniors

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What if staying strong as you age didn’t require heavy weights or expensive gym memberships? Elastic bands might hold the answer. These stretchy tools are revolutionizing fitness routines for older adults, offering a safe, adaptable way to build strength without straining joints. Unlike traditional gym equipment, elastic bands provide variable resistance , meaning the challenge increases as they stretch. This makes them ideal for maintaining muscle tone and improving mobility. Whether at home, outdoors, or while traveling, they’re lightweight and easy to store. Experts like Jason Machowsky, a board-certified sports physiologist, highlight their benefits: “They allow controlled movements that protect joints while still building functional strength.” For seniors in the U.S., this adaptability is key to staying active long-term. This guide will walk through simple setups, effective techniques, and safety measures tailored to older adults. Discover how to create a full-body routine that f...
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What Is Yo-Yo Dieting And Why It Never Works

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Yo-yo dieting, also known as weight cycling in nutrition circles, is the repeated cycle of losing weight, and regaining it. In some instances, you may gain even more weight than you lost in the first place. According to WebMD, the losses involved can be great (more than 50 pounds) or small (5 to 10 pounds). Whatever their weight, dieters can get  caught in the up and down cycle of losing weight, then putting it all back on again. The very name – yo-yo – implies failure. To subvert an idiom, what goes down must go up again. Obesity expert Rob van Dam of the Harvard Medical School told WebMD that diets fail because people think they can go back to your old lifestyle after they’ve lost the weight. And that’s where they fall into the yo-yo dieting trap. According to a 2006 study, it’s not just overweight or obese people who get caught up in the yo-yo syndrome. “Weight cycling affects people of normal weight, unhappy with their appearance.” (J-P Montani, Weight Cycling during gro...
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Can Cleanses Really Work?

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If you watch TV or been on social media lately chances are you see advertisements for a detox diet or colon cleanse. These practices can seem very alluring when they promise both immense weight loss and the ridding of toxic chemicals in your body. We all know modern people face exposure to chemicals every day, so it would seem like ridding ourselves of toxins is the best way to go. Let’s take a look at these common cleanses and detox diets to see what kind of toxins they can get rid of, if any. Before we do that, let’s learn a little more about toxins. All About Toxins. Toxins can range in definition depending on whom you talk to. Many people believe that toxins are abundant in processed foods in the form of preservatives, and in our natural environment. Cleanses offer you a way to rid yourself of these toxins. Unfortunately, toxins aren’t usually found trapped in your digestive tract. Toxins can be present in the food you take in, the water you drink, and the air you breathe. ...
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Acceptance-Based Behavioral Treatment (ABT) – The Mindfulness Diet - Lose More Weight And Keep It Off Longer

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There are hundreds of purported ways to lose weight, and the list will only get bigger the longer we live. However, a new modality of treatment- known as Acceptance Based behavioral Therapy (ABT) seeks to address weight loss by incorporating mindfulness to the attempt. Yes, this new modality of treatment has a lot to do with your mindset when attempting to lose weight, and has proven itself quite effective in studies. Can your mind really offer the ultimate weapon in controlling your weight? Read on and decide for yourself. Also Known As The Mindfulness Diet Mindfulness can be a powerful tool when incorporated into any facet of this. Weight loss isn’t any different. A study conducted in 2016 focused on making goal based choices and incorporating mindfulness when choosing foods to eat. The key goal of the researchers was to prove that this model of treatment is superior to regular behavioral therapy for weight loss and they were right. On average, persons who followed the n...
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10 Things You Should Never Do To Lose Weight

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Losing weight seems to be getting harder and harder in this day and age, where media is obsessed with a certain type of look; one that’s thin, flawless, and perfect. This drives people to search high and low for a quick way to lose weight. Unfortunately, things are rarely that simple. Compromising your health and well-being isn’t going to guarantee that you lose any weight. In fact, all that’s guaranteed is that you’re taking a toll on your health, which can lead to serious side effects, and even death. Read on to find out 10 things that should never be done when fighting the battle of the bulge. 1. Doubt yourself If you believe it, it will happen. Doubting yourself is counterintuitive and kills off your self-confidence, and without self-confidence, it’s unlikely you’ll be motivated to lose any weight. 2. Compare Everyone is different in how their bodies react to different foods because of genes, family history, and eating habits that go as far back as when you were in your mo...
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7 Steps To Detox From Junk Food

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Junk food can be a nasty habit. Especially if you’re eating it several times a day. Some people even go so far as to have a junk food addiction. If you are craving junk food and can’t seem to say no, then you may need to detox from that junk food. Did you know that what regulates your weight, eating habits and metabolism is not your stomach but your brain? Healthy whole food sends messages to the brain to turn off hunger and cravings, while processed junk food sends the opposite messages that propagate out of control cravings. Junk food is addicting, as it activates pleasure centers in the brain, much like cocaine and heroin. You can break food addictions habits, and get on track with a healthy lifestyle. There are several approaches that you can take for detoxing from junk food. Cold turkey is always an option, but many people find it difficult to ditch junk, so taking a step-by-step approach is much more prudent. Evaluate. Junk food is also often used as crutch and hunger i...
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5 Major Problems With Fad Diets

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The dictionary definition of “fad” is “an activity or topic of interest that is very popular for a short time, but which people become very bored with very quickly.” That describes “fad diets” to a T. They’re popular at first because the weight seems to melt away, but they fall out of favor when people realize there is no quick fix for sustained weight loss. Dietitian Robin Steagall of the Calorie Control Council tells WebMD that fad diets, on the face of it “offer ‘new’ ways to beat the boring mathematical reality of long-term weight loss.” She goes on to say that every diet works on the principle of cutting calories, but fad diets claim that they have found a new magic bullet, for example, eating at specified times, taking a “specially formulated” supplement; eating piles of cabbage; or not eating at all. There is nothing new to these diets, other than the fact that some of them can seriously harm your health. Here are five problems with fad diets: 1. Rapid loss of weight C...
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5 Key Ways To Make Your Weight Loss Efforts Safe

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Weight loss is a concern for millions of people around the world. In fact, in the US, obesity is at epidemic levels, with 2/3 of all adults either overweight or obese. Why is it so hard to lose weight? And why do so many seek extreme measures that may be more detrimental to their health than being overweight is? The truth is many of us want easy and fast fixes, and some really don’t want to work for it. But, safe and lasting weight loss requires time and effort, and safety is key when you consider the many extreme fad diets out there that can do a lot more harm than good. Before starting a weight-loss program speak to your doctor, especially – but not only – if you have an underlying condition, such as type 2 diabetes. The American Heart Association advises that your healthcare provider will be able to assess your weight loss needs, risk factors and help you to set realistic and safe goals. This plan of action is also encouraged by the Mayo Clinic, which emphasizes that your doc...
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