Unlike aerobic exercise that burns calories primarily during the exercise session itself, strength training boosts your metabolism throughout the entire day and night. Muscle tissue actively burns calories. The greater your muscle mass, the more calories you burn.
Eating for Two Nutrition for pregnant exercisers means eating enough calories and taking in the extra nutrients needed for the health of both the mother and the fetus.
How Much Fat Is Enough? The fourth article of a series on fat from Susan Kleiner's book Power Eating. This article talks about striking the right balance between too much and too little fat in one's daily diet.
Do Your Homework Food labels are a great way to make intelligent choices toward better health and weight maintenance. Learn what to look for at the grocery store.
Watch Your Mouth How food tracking can help you lose weight and eat healthfully.
Health at Any Size Why you should focus on fitness rather than thinness.
Nutrition Summit 2000 A rundown of what occurred at the second National Nutrition Summit, which outlined how Americans should eat, exercise, and lose weight in the coming years.
Your Body's Energy Windows Recovery from exercise is faster if you fuel up with carbohydrate and some protein in the two hours immediately following a workout.
Popping Pills Did you take your vitamins today, or did they take you?
The Skinny on Your Health Experts disagree on how important weight loss is to physical health, but all agree that an active lifestyle helps.
Salad Days Salads can be an extremely healthful and low calorie food choice, but loading them down with high-calorie and fatty dressing destroys most of their benefits.
