4 Foods that are good for running and not bad for you – myth buster

April 28th, 2010 • Running, Weight Loss Series
Tags: Carbs, Cardiovascular, Cheese, Dairy, Egg, Endurance, Fat, Fatigue, Food, Heart, HI, Iron, Jogging, Lean Meat, Magnesium, Nutrients, Nuts, Omega-3, Protein, Red Meat, Reps, Run, Running, Steak, Swiss, Weight Loss, Workout

Many foods that are called “bad” are actually “good” for you.Welcome back these foods but not at once. Just forget the old nutrient taboos that surround them.
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7 INSTANT SPEED TIPS

February 9th, 2010 • 1 comment Running
Tags: Cardiovascular, Fatigue, gravity, head, instant, position, Run, Running, shoulders, speed, tips, torso, Treadmill tips, Weight Loss, woman, women

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5 WAYS TO GAIN WEIGHT – SO STAY CLEAR

December 16th, 2009 • Weight Loss Series
Tags: Bus, Cardiovascular, Chi and Spirituality, Depression, Endurance, Exercise, Fat, Insomnia, Jogging, Loose, Office, Pray, Praying, Run, Running, Spirituality, Treadmill tips, Weight Loss

How often are bloggers tell you ways to loose weight? I wanted a different angle and decided to talk about the most of the common things we do which can have devastating effects on us as to regards with putting on weight. Simple steps can help put a stop to quick and lasting weight loss. Gaining weight, not surprisingly is easy, we are bombarded with food adverts and tempted every single day with food campaigns from marketers and window shop menu signs. Just yesterday, I was watching My Wife and Kids on Sky and it’s the episode where Michael Kyle and his wife get together against each other for a friendly football tournament with their children – it turns nasty in the end with both parents fighting for the girls teams to win the game – the last part of the episode got to me though – Pizza. Pizza is my favourite food and I can tell you Arm-Bar.co.uk will most definitely start talking about it more and more. The quick instant glance at a team eating Pizza and soda was nearly enough for me to go out late and buy a Pizza to myself and park up on my own and – as they say “scran up”.

Let’s follow these simple five steps that put the weight on, learn them, memorise them – and then completely avoid them. If these are some of your bad habits, you may need to look at removing them. Read more »

4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD EAT SLOWLY

December 14th, 2009 • 1 comment Eating Healthy
Tags: Better Digestion, Bloat, Bloated, Brain, Digest, Digestion, Eat, Eat Slowly, Eating, Food, humility, Less Stress, Nutrients, Patience, Slow, Treadmill tips, Weight Loss

Everyone knows we live in a modern, fast and digital world – the planet is changing, more and more people are connecting through social networking and more and more people are eating snacks from vending machines. Confused? It’s clearly true, there are more vending machines for crisps, chocolates, sweets and fizzy drinks then ever, especially in the UK. We are so busy and consumed with our daily lives we have adopted buying snacks on the move like sugar bag filled Coke-a-Cola and Sunny D that we have stopped to think about the long term effects.

Eating slowly is recommended for health. Slow eating reduces the consumption of food, as it postpones much of the meal to a time when the absorption of nutrients begin to produce physiological signals of satiety (feeling full). By taking your time eating, not only will the food you have eaten release signals to make you feel and think your full, it will help you relax, sleep better and unwind – you can appreciate your food and find “me time” to contemplate – gain patience and humility.

Slow eating will help you with chewing your food and this will result in the exercise of your jaws mixing with saliva with food, hence a complete efficient digestion taking place, food particles are cut into smaller pieces, not requiring much churning in the stomach or intestine.

“A bad stomach is the cause of the majority of the worlds problems” – Arm-Bar.. Read more »