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Diet 101

Diet is one of the most perplexing and frustrating things to balance in our lives. Losing weight is a challenge for most because along with exerting oneself physically, understanding and applying healthy eating habits are ...
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Did you know Mango juice can prevent cancer?

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Healthy Lifestyle: 5 Reasons to Fill Your Basket with Blackberries

For everyone hoping to adopt or maintain a healthy lifestyle, the summer months are prime time to fill up baskets with blackberries. Despite their small size, the seasonal fruit really packs a sweet punch when ...
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5 Foods to Help You Last Through Group Fitness Class

Do you consider yourself relatively fit but still have trouble getting through an entire group fitness class? If so, the problem could be a matter of diet rather than a lack of resolve. With that ...
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A Healthy Lifestyle Should Also Include Healthy Snacking

Healthy snacking is just as important to a diet and living a healthy lifestyle as is eating a healthy meal. So while reaching for a bag of chips and a soda during a break once ...
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Eating Autumn Escarole May Help Marylanders Lead a Healthy Life

As the season slowly turns to fall here in the Old Line State, autumn vegetables will be making their way into CSA boxes and produce markets. When they do, one item Marylanders should be on ...
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Best Health Clubs’ Dietitians Dish on Why Turkey is More Than Just Delish

With a particular pilgrim laden holiday on the horizon, our best health clubs’ registered dietitians couldn’t help but feel compelled to dish on why turkey is more than just delish. So what is it, besides taste, ...
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Exercise Your Options: 5 Apples to Help You Get Your Autumn Snack On

Autumn and apples go together like Maryland’s best 24-hour gyms and the ability to exercise your options. There are at least 7,000 different varieties available worldwide and all of them pack a nutritious punch. So ...
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Health Life Tips: Say Hello to Low Calorie, Fall Fondue Parties

Autumn holidays, like National White Chocolate Day and Halloween, don’t have to sidetrack your goal of living a healthy life. There are actually low calorie options available that make joining in on the celebrations easy ...
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7 Mindful Eating Techniques to Holiday Proof Your Metabolic Weight Loss

A couple months of holiday weight gain can set back your metabolic weight loss for the rest of your life. That’s because most people never shed those extra pounds, and so they build up year after ...
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Healthy Lifestyle: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too!

You might have heard people say that life is too short and this is why they like to eat dessert first!  From the standpoint of a healthy lifestyle, eating dessert first may not be the ...
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Study Says Pizza is a Major Obstacle to Kids Fitness

A new study on kids fitness found that almost one in four teens eat pizza on an average day adding an extra 230 calories, 5 grams of saturated fat and 484 mg of sodium to ...
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