Tip Of The Week: What Meal Should Be The Biggest

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While research has shown us repeatedly that if you eat the exact same amount of calories you will lose or gain the exact same amount of weight, the timing of your calorie intake has a tremendous amount of influence on how many calories you will actually consume.

Exercise Of The Week: Cable Abs Crunch

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The Cable Abs Crunch is one of the common abdominal (stomach) exercise used in the gym. Cable crunches are a very effective, low impact way of exercising the abdominal muscles.

Can You Drink and Lose Weight?

 Learn what drinks are better for weight loss

 When you're trying to lose weight, alcohol is the number one enemy. With that being said, there are some healthier choices out there - here are a few clues to drinking while watching calories.

Tip Of The week: Deskercise

You absolutely love your job! It's interesting and rewarding but these days, it seems like everyone is working more hours and using the old "no-time-to-exercise" excuse more than ever. But what if you could actually workout at work?

Exercise Of The Week: Bicep curl

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Bicep Curl

While there is a virtually limitless number of exercises you can do to strengthen your muscles, a select few are very popular. Among those popular exercises is the bicep curl.

Can You Back The Body Of Your 20s?

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I’ve been told and also read comments on people post who desire to get back the body of their 20s, especially when you’re certain age and or have given birth that it is not possible. This thinking makes one “settle” for being overweight! 

Your Fitness Tracker Might Be Miscounting Your Calories

We all love our wearables—so much so that those little activity trackers were named the Biggest Fitness Trend of 2016. But we should start taking the data regarding how many calories our tracker says we've burned with a big grain of salt, according to a new report. (Are You Being Fooled By Your Fitness Tracker?

Tip Of The Week: Healthy Cooking

Tip 6: Making Sandwich

Endlessly versatile, healthy sandwiches are easy solutions for quick meal.

Exercise Of the Week: Standing Russian Twist

Traditional Russian twist is a great exercise for core strength but are not without faults however.

Fitness Crush Friday: GlamMa Wendy Ida

This woman is 64-years-old. True story (Picture: PA Real Life)

 

We’ve seen enough of those ‘we’re always getting mistaken for sisters!’ headlines to take them with a generous pinch of salt.

Often, what they actually mean is, we get mistaken for sisters in really dark rooms, from behind, when you’re squinting a bit.

But, in this case, we think Wendy Ida makes a valid point.

The 64-year-old Californian grandmother, who’s mum to 41-year-old Sky, says people often think they’re sisters when they’re out, and we can totally believe it.

Should You Eat Whole Eggs?

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MYTH: Egg Yolks Are Bad For You

Eggs are a nutritional powerhouse, but for a while, egg yolks have been demonized in the health-food industry as causing blood-cholesterol levels to skyrocket. Is it true? It's time to set the story straight on the nutritional benefits of an egg.

Tip Of THe Week: Healthy Cooking

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Tip 5: Cook With Herbs and Spices

Food would be so much less flavourful if it weren’t for the wonders of herbs. Think Chinese food without chili or suya (northern Nigerian meat barbeque) without suya-mix. No one wants to eat bland food