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Weight Lifting – The Benefits

August 29th, 2009

In addition to developing strength and muscle mass, weight lifting also assists the human body in burning fat.

The Vitesse Home Gym provides a full-body workout in one package.

The Vitesse Home Gym provides a full-body workout in one package.

 Every pound of muscle you have will burn around 40 calories a day. People who lift weights regularly often seem to eat more than average, but their bodies are burn more fat than the average person, even when not exercising, so they never seem to become overweight. Building muscles by lifting weights will help you passively burn calories.

Strengthening bones

A full workout with weights exercises almost all of the 650 muscles in your body. Longer term benefits of weight training include strengthing your bones, which can reduce your risk of developing osteoporosis – a condition more common in Women. Many women worry that weight training will make them too muscular – However, men and women have different muscular structures, and weight training will not develop big muscles on women unless taken to extreme, if doenin moderation it will result in toned muscles.

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Diet And Your Heart – Cholesterol!

August 12th, 2009

Eating For a Healthy Heart

The right diet can help keep your heart healthy

The right diet can help keep your heart healthy

Your heart is one of the most important organs in the body, and the foods you eat affect how your heart operates. If you want your heart to be strong and able to pump blood as well as possible all over your body, it is important for you to eat a healthy diet. Heart-healthy foods are readily available in the supermarket, so choose some that are to your taste and you will be on the road to preventing heart disease.

Good Cholesterol

Cholesterol is an important thing to consider when it comes to eating heart-healthy foods. There are both good cholesterols and bad cholesterols. Good cholesterols are called HDL, and their job in the body is to take excess bad cholesterol (LDL) to the liver, where it can be broken down and then will leave the body. Most people do not need to acquire LDL from foods. Our bodies make enough of this kind of cholesterol on its own. It is the LDL cholesterol that can damage our hearts, not the HDL cholesterol, which actually helps our hearts be reducing the amount of LDL cholesterol in the body.

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