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Candy does not contain any vitamins or nutrients, whereas fruits do.
As you stated, candy also does not have fiber. When you combine fiber with sugar as in the case of fruit, it lowers the glycemic rating of that food. That means you'll be able to digest it over a longer period of time, and the food will be available for energy for a longer period of time ...
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Take a look at this article: The Athlete's Heart. Looking at your exercise regimen, I think you are more of an athlete than you realize. Just biking the 8 miles a day has you putting on at least 40 miles per week of aerobic exercise.
The article states that with a heavy aerobic exercise regimen, the heart responds by lowering its heart rate, but ...
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There's no absolute "better" or "worse" for this type of substitution. It depends entirely on what problem you are trying to solve and what nutritional goals you are trying to achieve.
To answer your question most literally — "Yes", you can satisfy your daily water requirements with fruit juice. There is sufficient water in virtually any fruit juice ...
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Unless you've been using steroids and/or have a history of heart conditions in your family, I don't believe that having a lot of muscles is a risk factor for heart problems.
You gain muscles by working out, so while you were building up your muscles, you also built up your heart!
Simply put, unless you notice any limiting factors during working out (like ...
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While on a heavy lifting program, those who are underweight and want to get bigger need to eat a large amount of food. One of the best ways to make sure that one gets enough calories each day is to drink a gallon of milk in addition to three large meals.
To answer your questions individually:
Is all that good for you? Milk is awesome for the body. From ...
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The first thing that separates extreme athletes from most of the rest of us is the amount of energy they require. It's true that when you need to consume 12,000 Calories to keep up with your training, you simply can't eat clean. It's easy to make up all the protein the body needs within that amount of Calories, so these athletes can eat pretty much ...
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Precisely what foods you need to focus on is going to depend entirely on your past diet, your current health situation, and your goals. There are, however, a few basics that anyone can implement for a better life pretty much right away.
Rid yourself of artificial anythings: This includes artificial sweeteners, overprocessed TV dinners, chemicalized ...
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What it sounds like you are asking is how can you improve cardiovascular health most efficiently with the use of activity.
First off, heart health is mainly achieved through dietary adjustments but regular activity plays a vital role as well.
Any activity can improve the health of your heart provided you are reaching the right intensity. Indicators we use ...
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Your body will make you stop long before you do serious permanent damage. As long as you're sure that your muscles are sufficiently warmed up before doing these hard sessions, you won't hurt yourself.
To give you an idea, I do train with a heart-rate monitor. My resting rate is 45, I can sustain up to 178 for around an hour, and push to about 188 for a ...
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You question made me a bit intrested so I did some fast research on the subject and one example of what I found was that caffeine and low fat (produced products) seem to have a negative impact on people with anxiety problems.
A good first step might be to look into these two factors and for example skip the morning coffe for another beverage and to shop ...
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Water (H2O) is best for hydration
The more you sweat, the more water you'll need to drink to stay hydrated
It helps to drink glass of water about an hour before your workout, and then to drink small amounts of water throughout the entire workout. You may even want to drink another glass after the workout depending on how you feel.
Here are a couple links ...
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I highly recommend reading an account of someone who actually did the protocol for the good, bad, and the ugly. The article you cited really talked about the emotional side of things and didn't really go into any true negative side effects from a health perspective. The key components of GOMAD are:
You are lifting weights to build strength. This helps ...
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Eat more (healthily -- lean meat and vegetables). Then do multi-joint barbell exercises such as squat, deadlift and overhead press. To learn how to perform these exercises with good form, join a gym and take lessons, or at least read Mark Rippetoe's book Starting Strength. Then follow a program like StrongLifts 5x5, which is simple to learn and follow.
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Keep in mind that prevention is the best strategy here. By the time you recognize the symptoms of dehydration, your body has already been dehydrated for some time. Your body can actually be dehydrated without actually showing the symptoms of dehydration.
Here are some tips for preventing dehydration:
Drink plenty of water.
Schedule fitness activities ...
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You aren't really any more likely to be infected by salmonella from eating a rancid raw egg yolk as you are from eating a fresh raw egg yolk. Salmonella is a bacteria that is carried by birds (such as chickens) as well as several other types of animals, and passes very easily through the shell of an egg. Under the right circumstances, salmonella bacteria can ...
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Samuel Andrew hit a big part of it in his comment. Candies typically contain processed sugar, which is typically believed to be "more unhealthy" than natural sugars. I can't come up with specific studies at the moment on this though.
Also, candy tends to be empty calories. Most fruits are high in vitamins and minerals and are usually a great source of ...
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Apparently they are both prefectly fine for you (and certainly better than drinking nothing), but if you had a choice, then tea is better. Especially if you chose green tea.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Diet/story?id=2123324
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/247591/coffee_vs_tea_whats_better_.html?cat=51
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Overweight is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy. - Wikipedia
Being over recommended weight is not equivalent with being obese. It is important that you maintain some body fat (the U.S. military requires 3% to the best of my knowledge) in order to be healthy.
The bad news is that just a few extra pounds of fat can ...
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I suggest removing the lemon skin first. 'Modern' lemons contain many toxic chemicals and most of them accumulate in the lemon skin.
In addition, if you go to a restaurant and they put lemons in your water then once you drink it, you are trusting them that they properly washed the lemon.
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I have run and bicycled at -30C on occasion, and more often in -10C to -20C.
It is cold, but not an issue. A beard helps protect your face. Proper clothes for the rest.
Sweat is very useful on your face as it freezes (my beard looks white from all the ice) as there is a high energy cost to get water to move from 0C to -4C, so the heat input from your ...
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"Feel free to drop me a line on any hints or grandfatherly advice you might have. I'm doing this on my free time." - from your profile
If you want to get in good shape and look athletic, then become athletic. 1/2 hr walks and a decent diet will only get you so far, theres not really anybody i know who does this that I would consider physically fit or more ...
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You're supposed to drink 8-10 glasses of water a day. 8-10 glasses of juice is a lot of excess calories and sugar. You might find yourself gaining weight at a rapid pace which maybe you want. It's like drinking soda.
355 mL can of Coca Cola = 39g of sugar
200 mL juice box of Trader Joe's White Grape Juice = 30g of sugar
Just some thoughts to consider if ...
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The best treatment for dehydration is prevention, be sure to drink enough water throughout the day. One easy way to tell if you are starting to get dehydrated is your urine. If it's clear to light yellow then you are hydrated, colors darker than that indicate dehydration.
Are some drinks better than others? Is there a best?
Water is best to stay ...
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Drinking lemon juice in your water is great way to help reduce bloating and if consumed prior to eating will help control blood glucose levels and therefore in turn reduce insulin response. So, to answer your question, yes it is healthy. In fact, I've even read that putting lemon in your water with a few pinches of table salt is a great alternative to ...
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This was a study of 18 individuals so not really large enough to draw too many conclusions.
This was under moderate use of caffeine so it doesn't say anything about the ability to tolerate large amounts of fluid retention.
What is, worryingly, not mentioned is the risk of hyponatremia from fluid retention.
Lastly, I'm not sure you can conclude that you ...
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Maybe your calorie reduction is too drastic to support increased activity. Try figuring out how many calories you are consuming, and comparing that number to the calories you need to maintain your weight (you can find tools online to help with this). To lose a pound a week, you would need a deficit of 500 calories a day. If your calorie deficit is too large, ...
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You can't really spot reduce. In other words, you don't have any control of where you'll lose fat. Chances are you have lost some fat all over, even if you haven't noticed visible changes.
In fact, it's not a bad idea to make weekly measurements for this exact reason. You can actually measure your bodyfat pretty easily with a simple set of bodyfat ...
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You are right, the reaction to this book from the scientific community has been a complete silence. I would not call it pseudoscience though; there were scientific studies showing negative effects of high fiber diets for people with pancreatic insufficiency and certain metabolism deficiencies. Too much fiber could increase malabsorption, impair the ...
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Your body needs stimulus to grow. Then it needs food to fuel that growth. Working out without increasing food intake will cause you to get leaner and somewhat more fit. Increasing food intake without working out will make you bigger only by making you more fat. Neither of those are a good idea for your goals.
Here's what I'd do. I'd eat a lot more food than ...
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