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How Much Body Fat?
As part of establishing your exercise training routine you should make certain that you have an idea of how much body fat you’re carrying around. You can find out just about how much of your body weight is fat through a number of specialized tests, including measuring skinfold thickness, underwater (hydrostatic) weighing, and circumference measurements. [...]
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Overweight or Overfat?
Pay careful attention to this statement: overweight and overfat don’t always mean the same thing. Exercise training is important to fat loss. I’m sure you’ve observed that some people are very muscular and weigh more than the normal average for their height and age. Therefore, despite being technically overweight, these people have lean, healthy bodies [...]
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Tips to Stop Emotional Eating
According to the August issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource, emotional eating often leads to eating too much, especially high-calorie, sweet, salty and fatty foods. Women are especially prone to emotional eating — and then feel guiltier and less healthy than men do after snacking on “forbidden” foods. The connection between stress and eating likely [...]