Health Notes: Lt. Gov. Bolling challenges Virginians to heart health
Last month Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced that the incidence of cardiovascular disease is in decline in Virginia. He has issued another 13-week challenge, “Your Heart is in your Hands,” to encourage state employees to adopt healthier lifestyles: Eat healthier, exercise more, lose weight. All those contribute to combating heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. The heart attack rate dropped by 18 …

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Good vibrations: Local woman opens health and wellness business
Donna Norcott is encouraging residents to give vibration technology a try. The first-time business owner opened T-Zone Vibration Technology Labrador in the Labrador Mall March 22 and she thinks citizens will be amazed by the results.

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www.abc.net.au Transcript: www.abc.net.au Exercise is important whether you need to lose weight or not. In fact, being fat but fit is considered healthier than being a skinny slob. Nonetheless plenty of us exercise with our waistlines in mind and we want to get bang for our buck. So what’s the best way to shed those kilos? Do we run, skip, cycle, walk or swim? Well, if you want a really efficient fat-burning program, rule number one is don’t waste too much time agonising over how to go about it. It’s true that running will see you burn roughly twice the kilojoules per hour as walking. But if you can only run for five minutes, whereas you could walk briskly for a full hour, then all other things being equal, your walking workout will see you shed more fat. Likewise, unless you really go hard, a 30 minute swim generally doesn’t pack as much punch as a brisk half-hour walk. But the upside of being held up by the water is that there’s less pressure on your ankles and knees. If that means you’ll work out more often, then swimming could well be the better way to go. So if you’re exercising for fat loss, the specific activity you choose is less important than whether you can sustain it. But what about the issue of intensity? One thing that generates confusion about this is a diagram you often see on equipment or on posters in gyms. It’s a graph that tells you what exercise ‘zone’ you’re in, based on your heart rate and your age. The so-called ‘fat burning zone’, is second from …

If the health insurers don’t do it, who is going to do it? The Case for Humana Inc.
By Value Expectations. This simple question, posed by legendary value investor Bruce Berkowitz, puts the consensus concerns surrounding the managed care industry into perspective. The bottom line is that the health insurers are the only shot we have at managing this mess. As much as he might like to, Obama does not have another entity to do it. And our growing government does not have the …

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Health and Fitness: The Science Of Weight Loss And The Science Of Marathon Training Headline At San Diego Science …
San Diego, CA – Want to know the best way to get fit and lose weight? Planning to run a marathon?

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Dr Michael Smith presents ways to supplement your diet and exercise program with innovative nutrients to help you maintain a healthy weight. Designed to support any diet and exercise program approved by your doctor, this lecture series video introduces safe steps to successfully burn fat, lose weight, and keep it off.

AnMed Health recognized as Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence
The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery has recognized AnMed Health as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence.Bariatric, or weight loss, surgery is a procedure that decreases the size of the stomach, reduces food intake and can enable patients to lose a significant amount of weight. This is a permanent procedure that requires a lifetime commitment to maintaining a healthy …

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Jillian Michaels, America’s Ultimate Health & Wellness Expert, Announces New JumpStart 14 Day Cleanse and Burn(TM) as …
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Dermacut Sales Soar as Belly Fat Shrinks on Heels of Health Report
The yearend sales of Oxygenix Research’s best-selling male fat-reduction cream, Dermacut, have been spurred to new levels with the publication of a new male abdominal fat study by the Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism in Copenhagen.

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