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Health News: Even Your Fat Cells Need Sleep
January 1st, 2013Researchers have found that not getting enough shuteye has a harmful impact on fat cells, reducing their ability to respond to insulin by 30 percent.
Swim to Slim
July 1st, 2011Take advantage of the warm weather and hit the pool to torch calories this summer!
Although it may not be as easy as lacing up your running shoes for a quick jog, the
payoff is totally worth the extra effort. There is hardly another workout that burns as many calories, firms the entire body, and provides the low-impact exercise that swimming offers.
Want to Keep Your Metabolism Revved?
August 1st, 2008Make sure you get enough calories each day. If you don’t, your body will sense the danger of starvation and actually slow down your metabolism, says Mark Hyman, MD, author of Ultrametabolism (Simon & Schuster, 2008). A quick way to figure out how many calories you need every day: Calculate your resting metabolic rate.
