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My First Half Marathon...From One Rookie to Another88

My First Half Marathon...From One Rookie to Another

The do's and don'ts of running/walking a half marathon based on my personal research and experience. Everything from strategy for beginners to lists of essentials along with nutrition and hydration while training and for race day too.

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Help for Diabetics to Understand A1C and Aid in Dieting81

Help for Diabetics to Understand A1C and Aid in Dieting

The A1C is a test that averages your blood sugar for the past three months. You can help yourself by controling your sugar with diet and exercise.

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Fructose Metabolism81

Fructose Metabolism

When it comes to fuel for your muscles, glucose is the body's preferred source. A diet that is relatively high in glucose, either coming from simple glucose molecules or polysaccharides, will provide the...

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How to Turn Fat into Muscle79

How to Turn Fat into Muscle

In order to understand how to turn fat into muscle, you first have to understand how the body uses energy depending on the type of activity. When your body does work of any kind it needs energy. The types of energy your body uses are...

11 comments    fitness exercise energy
What is a Healthy, Balanced Diet of Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats? | Why do We Need them in Our Daily Meals?78

What is a Healthy, Balanced Diet of Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats? | Why do We Need them in Our Daily Meals?

Carbohydrates are molecules that are broken down (metabolized) in the body to produce energy, so we can carry out physical tasks. For example they are converted to glycogen in order to be used by the muscles for any type of muscular work. Excess carbohydrates that the body doesn't require for energy are converted to fats and stored in adipose tissue cells (cells in the body that store fat molecules).

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How to Lose Weight in 10 days: 2 Ways that Work77

How to Lose Weight in 10 days: 2 Ways that Work

We live in a day when gaining unwanted pounds is easier than ever. Being raised in a fast-paced society that practices and promotes ease and convenience has made weight gain too easy for too many people. Ease is never having to exercise. Convenience...

31 comments    exercise weight loss energy
HORSE HEALTH 4; Tying-up and Azoturia (4th of 4 levels)76

HORSE HEALTH 4; Tying-up and Azoturia (4th of 4 levels)

Tying-up and Azoturia are referred to as Exertional Rhabdomyolysis. It is the most common muscle problem in horses and surfaces as being either being sporadic or chronic. The genetically inherited chronic forms are Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy or Recurrent Exertional Rhabdomyolysis. If a horse displays symptoms immediately stop from working and call the veterinarian. Signs include a reluctance to move, profuse sweating, and hard muscles in the hindquarters. There are many possible c

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37 Years of Tinnitus Therapy.  What Works. Part Three76

37 Years of Tinnitus Therapy. What Works. Part Three

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Hypoglycemic Diet -- Blood Sugar Diet76

Hypoglycemic Diet -- Blood Sugar Diet

There is a lot of different information out there about what exactly works with a hypoglycemic diet. Just to make sure we're all on the same page, hypoglycemia is a state of low blood sugar that fluctuates...

2 comments    diet weight loss stress
What is Fatigue - Signs & Symptoms73

What is Fatigue - Signs & Symptoms

Fatigue “Fatigue is an inability to sustain a given power output or speed. It is a mismatch between the demand for energy by the exercising muscles and the supply of energy in the form of ATP” (Sports Nutrition, Anita Bean, 2009) Therefore you...

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