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Your Hours of Sleep Vs. Your Calories Needed

Even while sleeping, the human body burns calories. However, the number of calories you burn each day, both while awake and sleeping, depends upon your level of physical activity. When calculating the...

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What Are the Benefits of Pomegranate Supplements?

For thousands of years, people utilized the bark, root and fruit of the pomegranate tree for herbal medicine. You may have noticed the pomegranate fruit at your local grocery store, with its rich red...

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The Ballerina Body Vs. Model Body

When you think of a ballerina's body and a model's body, you probably think they're very similar -- both thin and in shape. Although a majority of ballerinas and models are thin, their body structures...

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The Benefits of Eggs & Concentration

With an impressive nutritional profile that includes protein, phosphorus, vitamin B-12 and vitamin D, eggs make a worthwhile addition to a healthful diet. Their versatility in the kitchen offers you...

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What Is the Respiratory System Doing When Someone Is Jogging?

While the respiratory system is working at all times, it has to kick it into high gear when someone is jogging or performing other types of aerobic exercise. The respiratory system comprises a number...

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Sacred Basil Tea Benefits

Sacred basil – also called holy basil, Ocimum sanctum L., Ocimum tenuiflorum, or tulsi – is a staple herb of the Indian system of ayurveda. With a pleasant, sweet and spicy flavor, sacred basil tea...

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What Basic Mechanism Is Used to Maintain Body Hydration?

Drinking water is the purest form of hydrating your body. It makes up nearly 60 percent of your total body weight. Not a fan of H2O? Don't give up yet. There's water in nearly every morsel of food...

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Which Helps to Burn More Calories: Working Out the Upper or Lower Body?

Calories in and calories out -- regardless of how you slice it, calories always count. Muscles burn calories from food or from fat to generate energy, such that the more muscles you use in a given...

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What Type of Diet Is Right for Burning Fat?

Whether it is genetic, age or lifestyle-related, body fat is stubborn. Losing it can take months of frustrating gym work, self-starvation, unregulated pills, plastic surgery and crash diets that are...

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What Foods Give Us Nutrients?

Foods give your body energy so you can grow and participate in day-to-day activities. Understanding what to eat and when enables you to enjoy maximum nutritional benefits from your diet. Through the...

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Flaxseed Oil Vs. Sunflower Oil

You'll often see flaxseed oil and sunflower oil sold in health food stores as alternatives to more widely used canola and olive oils. Oil is pressed from either the sunflower seeds or tiny flaxseeds to...

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The Effects on Your Body of Jogging for 21 Days

Jogging is the natural progression between walking and running. It's a more leisurely pace, but it can still be a great workout. If you jog consistently for 21 days, or even a few times each week, you...

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Contents of a Balanced Diet

It's not a big surprise that what you eat affects your health. In fact, eating a poor diet and not getting enough exercise contribute to nearly half million deaths each year, reports the Center for...

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What Is the Total Body Plus Workout on P90X?

The original P90X workout video series from fitness company Beachbody has snowballed into a franchise of extreme workout videos. "Total Body Plus," a workout in the P90X Plus program, is one such...

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How Much Work Does It Take to Keep a Body Toned?

Getting your body in great shape takes time and effort -- and sadly, there's no "set and forget" button when it comes to maintaining that kind of physique. Even once you've achieved the toned, defined...

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The Muscles in Which Body Part Get the Greatest Workout Every Day?

Of the many muscles that come into play in your daily activities, perhaps no group is more taken for granted than the muscles of your core. Yet the muscles that surround your pelvis and lower spine...

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Stamina Recovery

If your get up and go got up and went, your lifestyle may be in need of a makeover. Many times the root cause of low stamina lies in daily choices you make in terms of sleep, nutrition and physical...

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How to Tone a Long Torso

Having a long torso means you tend to have more space in between the top of your chest and hips compared to other people, and along with it, shorter-looking legs. Like everyone else though, your...

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The Effect of Wrist Deviation on Grip & Pinch Strength

You use the muscles in your hands and fingers extensively to perform everyday tasks. These muscles are classified as intrinsic or extrinsic. Extrinsic muscles originate outside of your hand, while...

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How Often Do College Wrestlers Train?

College-level wrestling is a time-intensive endeavor. So much of your time is spent either in wrestling-specific training, carefully gauging your nutritional needs, cross training, or resting your body...

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