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The Power of Boredom

by Rae Pica

“But, Mo-o-m, there’s nothing to do!” Naturally, if free time is something to which she’s unaccustomed, you will at first hear numerous complaints of boredom (likely in a whining tone). Ignore them! And don’t succumb to the temptation to let electronics entertain her. Boredom is something today’s children are rarely allowed to experience – because someone is always seeing to it that they don’t have a chance!

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BASIC Nutrition - A Quick, Common-Sense Guide To What You Should Be Eating to Stay Healthy and Get Results Right Now

by Nick Nilsson

I would bet that without even thinking, you could name 4 or 5 diets or eating plans that are in the popular media...Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, Atkins, South Beach, etc. Every time you turn around, there's a fantastic "new" approach to eating. It's enough to make your head spin!
But it doesn't have to be that complicated. I've got some easy-to-follow nutritional principles that will help keep you on the right track. Beginner or advanced, these will work for you!

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Add Variety & Enjoyment To Your Workouts

By Kris Bierek

Are you bored of your workout routine? Here are some ideas for you.

Get Fresh Air - Yes, make a trip to the outdoors. If you are like most people, you are in doors all day long and bored with the daily repetition. Take your lunges outside try jogging, biking or walking. If you are a regular hitter of the pavement, find new routes or parks.

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Mother Nature’s Total Immune Boosting Breakthroughs

By Shane "The People's Chemist" Ellison

As a drug chemist, I used to fear going to work. I risked numerous health hazards – like being exposed to a cancer causing reagent and even losing my wedding ring to a chemical drain.  Cancer is bad, but having your wife feel like you are being careless about your marriage is worse. Unknown to her, I was washing off DNA twisting molecules that burned my skin and eyes while they vacuumed the air from my lungs.  My ring fell off somewhere between stripping off my clothes, pulling the lab’s evacuation button, and yanking the emergency shower cord. I naively assumed that these were necessary risks for making so-called life saving drugs. I was wrong.

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The Couch Potato Solution

By The Fit Advocate, Craig Pepin-Donat, International Fitness Expert and Author of "The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie"

The top reason that people give for not exercising regularly is not having enough time. For some reason, we can’t find time to exercise for 30 minutes, but the average home in the U.S. has a TV blaring for over seven hours, and the average American is glued to it for over four hours per day. We are drawn to watch TV because it is a quick and convenient escape. After a stressful day at work, one click of the remote can immediately change our state of mind.

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Orlistat Marketed as Alli is a Big, Fat Lie

By The Fit Advocate, Craig Pepin-Donat, International Fitness Expert and Author of "The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie"

Every year more than 70 million people resolve to lose weight by going on a diet, which feeds the big, fat $58 billion diet and weight-loss industry. After all the money is wasted, the cold, harsh reality is that fewer than 5 percent of dieters will realize long-term results. The other 95 percent will regain all the weight they lost, and then some. How can an industry survive with such a low success rate? How can it be legal to market and sell something that has a proven track record for failure? Now consumers have a brand new diet deception being marketed to them backed with over $150 million in marketing to spin the weight-loss lie.

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Six Principles for Improved Health and
Lasting Weight Loss

By The Fit Advocate, Craig Pepin-Donat, International Fitness Expert and Author of "The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie"

How many times have you proclaimed, “I need to go on a diet”? How many of those diets resulted in long-term success? Not many. Millions of people are looking for the answer to improved health and fitness, and spend billions of dollars every year on diets and weight loss. Diets continually fail to deliver results because no matter how compelling the underlying principles for any diet may seem, no one can stay on a diet forever. Eventually, you will drop the diet and go back to your normal eating habits. Typically, you not only gain back the weight you lost, but statistics show that you will also gain additional weight.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Purchasing Home Equipment

By The Fit Advocate, Craig Pepin-Donat, International Fitness Expert and Author of "The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie"

With all the options available to help you improve the way you look and feel, purchasing a piece of home equipment is a viable solution for those who are disciplined enough to use it consistently. Unfortunately, most home exercise equipment is left to collect dust because people buy the wrong equipment that won’t help them achieve their fitness goals. Slick marketing campaigns and infomercials that use deceptive claims have tricked people into thinking that they can achieve fast results with little effort.

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How to Avoid Getting Fat During the Holiday Season

By The Fit Advocate, Craig Pepin-Donat, International Fitness Expert and Author of "The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie"

The holiday season is among the experiences in life that almost guarantee to increase calorie consumption and lead you down the pound-packing path. If your goal is to avoid gaining weight needlessly, it is important to be aware of situations where you are more than likely to over indulge and stray from your normal eating habits. These events include vacations, travel, parties, relationship breakups, a job change, colds, moving or just about any situation that takes you out of your normal daily routine or involves stress.

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Health and Fitness Lies Exposed

By The Fit Advocate, Craig Pepin-Donat, International Fitness Expert and Author of "The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie"

If history has taught us anything, it is that when a business concept exhibits the potential for growth, companies and industries spread like a virus to expand and exploit the opportunity. From the meager beginnings of muscle-bound body builders, steel barbells, medicine balls and once-a-day vitamins, the health and fitness industry has transformed into a multi-billion dollar juggernaut. Health and fitness professionals have evolved from spandex and headbands to being highly trained sales and marketing snipers and your cash is their target.

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Get Busy Living The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie

By Marna Poole, www.EducationWorld.com

In The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie, noted international fitness expert and consumer advocate Craig Pepin-Donat doesn’t pull any punches; we can count on him to tell it like it is. Whether he’s challenging Big Pharma and government agencies or advising us which exercise equipment is worth our money, Pepin-Donat teaches without preaching and backs up his information by citing other experts in the field. In fact, each chapter in this tightly packed volume concludes with a list of resources — Web sites, reading material, health organizations — for further research, should we desire to expand our own knowledge.

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Tired of Being a Health and Fitness Sucker?

By Jean Eckenfels, Former Senior Editor, University of Chicago Press

Everywhere you look, another company or industry professes to have the answer to improved health and fitness, yet we are fatter and in worse shape than ever. Well, now we have a weapon against all those hucksters and con artists that have been taking us to the cleaners for years. Craig Pepin-Donat, The Fit Advocate, is an industry insider who has come forward and blown the lid off the health and fitness industry with his new book, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.

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The Truth About Health and Fitness Revealed

By Charles Damiano, Health and Fitness Expert and 2004 Body-for-Life Grand Master Champion Winner

Have you been searching for the answers to effectively losing weight, losing body fat, gaining muscle and improving your health? Millions of people have the desire to change their lives and improve their health, but have no idea how to do it. Unfortunately, there is a shady side of health and fitness that has profited at our expense for years.

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