Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival 144

by FitBuff BrandonMarch 8, 2010 Blog Carnivals

Monday is Blog Carnivals Day. A Blog Carnival is basically a collection of articles or blog posts, all relating to a similar subject, that are gathered together for your viewing pleasure. You can quickly and conveniently see a list of Article Titles and click on the ones that interest you to read the full post. [...]

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How to Get Abs Progress Pics – Lights Out week

by FitBuff BrandonMarch 7, 2010 Workout Log

After posting her pics here on FitBuff for the last few weeks, Alley decided to start her own website, so her progress pics and stats on now on her new health and fitness blog here:
Athletic Alley

Here are this week's progress pictures and measurements for me…
Weight: 189.4 pounds (+1.4lb from last week)
Waist: 33 inches (-0.1" from [...]

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Nut Allergies Symptoms

by FitBuff BloggerMarch 6, 2010 General Health

Introduction
Seafood has been a favorite food of mine for a while now. As far as I can recall, prawns were always my favorite yet I would have to stay away because of the hives (the merciless itching as well !!) that broke out due a strong allergy that one observant chap said was due to [...]

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Foods to avoid Cholesterol

by FitBuff BloggerMarch 5, 2010 Nutrition

Introduction
There was this article which outlined the relationship between obesity (more accurately, an enlarged waistline) with an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease. And with heart disease being the number one killer around the world, the medical community is exhorting their patients to switch to a healthier lifestyle, most importantly in regards to what they eat.
But [...]

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Lowering Cholesterol Foods: A lot of choices to pick from

by FitBuff BloggerMarch 4, 2010 Nutrition

Introduction
With cardiovascular disease being the largest cause of death and disability (killing one person every 34 seconds, actually!) in the United States and Europe, reducing cholesterol levels by maintaining a healthy diet, has been cited as one of the ways by one can reduce the risk of heart disease and therefore increase the lifespan of [...]

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Whey Protein Isolate: From wasted by-product to superfood

by FitBuff BloggerMarch 3, 2010 Nutrition

Introduction
It’s interesting to note that what we considered to be useless only a quarter of a century ago, a prominent example being whey, a by-product of cheese, has been toted by almost every fitness expert and organization in the business to be the best source of protein (and essential amino acids) available to man, even [...]

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Soy Protein: The 'complete' protein

by FitBuff BloggerMarch 2, 2010 Nutrition

Introduction
As most fitness enthusiasts and most folks who got through school know, proteins are responsible for growth as they comprise 75% of body solids, therefore building more muscle while reducing the amount of fat in your body. And we all know how important that is, especially for those who consider working out much more than [...]

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Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival 143

by FitBuff BrandonMarch 1, 2010 Blog Carnivals

Monday is Blog Carnivals Day. A Blog Carnival is basically a collection of articles or blog posts, all relating to a similar subject, that are gathered together for your viewing pleasure. You can quickly and conveniently see a list of Article Titles and click on the ones that interest you to read the full post. [...]

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How to Get Abs Progress Pics – Pizza Fusion week

by FitBuff BrandonFebruary 28, 2010 Workout Log

After posting her pics here on FitBuff for the last few weeks, Alley decided to start her own website, so her progress pics and stats on now on her new health and fitness blog here:
Athletic Alley

Here are this week's progress pictures and measurements for me…
Weight: 189.4 pounds (+1.4lb from last week)
Waist: 33 inches (-0.1" from [...]

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Weight Loss Surgery: Mirror, mirror on the wall…

by FitBuff BloggerFebruary 27, 2010 General Health

As I struggle every alternate day for an hour during a ‘forced break’ to work out, doing my ‘mirror, mirror on the wall’ the following day looking for the faintest hint that I’ve lost a little more weight, it beats me that fat people can pretend to be happy in uttering the words, “I’m fat [...]

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