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How to lose excess weight – diet, exercise or both?
Dropping even a few pounds is a good way to ward off chronic disease -
Supermarket Confusion: Consultations begin for revised food guide
Calling all Canadians to have your voices heard in the creation of a New Canada’s Food Guide as part of a Healthy Eating Strategy for Canada -
Diet & Fitness High-intensity interval training isn't just for keeners
Even if you've got a lot of weight to lose, it will pay to make your workouts short and tough, Norwegian researchers have discovered. -
Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile
Simple physical activity -- mostly walking -- helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes -
Health Six surprising benefits of exercise
Yes, exercise can trim your waistline. But here are some of the lesser-known reasons to get off the couch and get moving. -
The power of prevention: Life expectancy tool weighs the burdens of behaviour
Is the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle worth all the effort? What comes across loud and clear in this study is the power of prevention -
How a debilitating vegetarian diet robbed me of all of life’s pleasures — and harmed ...
This forced transition to a near-vegetarian diet is a horrifying one: filled with food-fuelled hallucinations, tense social interactions, weight loss -
Get in the mindset of a winner
Real victories are made in the mind. Anna Magee finds out how strategies used by athletes in the Olympic arena can help the rest of us to win in life
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Five Olympic sports to watch: A fitness expert on what it takes to be podium-worthy ...
To find out more about the unique characteristics of Olympic athletes, here’s what it takes to be podium-worthy in the sports-to-watch in Rio -
Can't do vegetarian? Try flexitarian, which also has health benefits
The health (and planetary) benefits carry over, even with the occasional burger -
The added cost of eating red and processed meats — higher mortality risk, scientists say
This study's findings were straightforward: People whose source of protein came from red meat had a higher mortality rate than those who mostly ate plants -
Broga: A macho twist on yoga for men who want a more vigorous workout
A growing global fitness trend has men ditching dumbbells for yoga mats in so-called Broga classes, a macho twist on the thousands-year-old practice -
Do sports drinks fuel or fool athletes?
A blind taste test of six sports drinks and the nutrition facts behind them -
Diet & Fitness Pokémon Go's positive side? Turning gamers into exercisers
Will Pokémon Go prove to be a game-changer in the emerging market of activity-based video games? It’s still too early to tell. -
Diet & Fitness Is swimming the most age-friendly sport of them all?
If you think Speedos should be outlawed after the age of 30, you haven’t been hanging around with the masters swim crowd who wear their Speedos like a badge of ... -
The evolution of fitness in 10 iconic, wacky, life-changing trends
Our approach to fitness has evolved with our culture, from the Hula-Hoop of the 1950s to the leg warmers of the 1980s to today's data-centric activity trackers -
Diet & Fitness Let's get our kids back in the game
Canadian kids earn a D– on physical activity from ParticipAction. But children not only play less these days — they sleep less. -
The ups and downs of sit/stand desks
By almost all measures, adjustable desks have merit, but office workers still have to move more
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