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By Leigh Belanger | Nubella.com
My gym is staffed with certified fitness experts who follow the trends in their field. When I worked with my trainer last year, a good part of our work always included exercises involving standing on one leg, standing on an unstable surface or narrowing my range of motion to achieve ideal form.
Besides free weights, we used balls, bands, and plenty of my own body weight.
Since weight training can often be dull enough to make you lose your motivation, these new toys and tricks worked wonders to keep me engaged. But they did something else, too.
After running regularly for seven or eight years, I've been developing mild lower back pain after long runs, and moderate pain in one knee after every run. After a few months of planned strength training, I felt much less pain.
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Nutrition Notes Theresa Stahl, RD, LDN
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Balance In Eating As Well As In Exercise
Functional fitness involves teaching your body to balance its own weight and teaching all the muscles to work together rather than isolating them to work independently. It involves understanding how the body functions as a whole.
This understanding also is the key with nutrition. It's important to view the body as a whole. While you should eat foods you enjoy, you should also make choices that will aid your whole body, especially digestion and absorption of nutrients.
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Feature Recipe
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Mustard New Potatoes
With just 111 calories and the tangy taste of Dijon mustard, this recipe will surely delight the healthy eaters in your family. It’s also low cholesterol and low sodium – two more reasons to put this on the dinner table. What’s more, the "condiment of kings" is low in calories and cholesterol, but high in calcium, magnesium, potassium and niacin.
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Health Term Definition
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Core strength
When fitness experts talk about strengthening your core or trunk, they're referring to a group of muscles that includes your abdominals and your pelvic and back muscles.
Your core is the center of gravity and essential for functional fitness. Improved core strength helps keep your body aligned during other fitness activities like running and dancing, as well as when you sit at your desk or haul groceries.
Many exercises to improve core strength require no equipment other than a mat and your body weight, and incorporate movements from martial arts and yoga.
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Spotlight On
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Mustard
This condiment adds big flavor to sandwiches, salad dressings, and vegetable and meat dishes—without adding many calories. Both mustard greens and mustard seeds have pungent characteristics derived from their protective chemical defense system.
Mustard condiments are thought to go back to the Middle Ages, and prepared mustard as we know it is believed to have been developed by the Romans. Prepared mustard is made with whole or powdered mustard seeds combined with an acidic liquid like wine or vinegar.
Cooking mustard will diminish its spicy qualities, so use it in uncooked preparations or add it towards the end of food preparation.
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Nubella Health Bite
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Boosting vegetable consumption is an important step to promote overall health, but the way you prepare them is just as important. The key to retaining vegetable's nutrients is cooking them quickly with little water. Too much heat and water can cause the loss of vitamins, minerals and other healthful plant compounds called phytochemicals.
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Healthy Cooking Recipes
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Shrimp, Spice and Everything Nice
Today, thanks to the convenience and moderate prices at fast-food and family-style restaurants, many kids eat dinner out as frequently as they do at home. But in the seemingly antediluvian days when I was their age, eating out during the week was an occasion.
I remember my favorite restaurant when I was a child was located near what is now Lincoln Center in New York City. A large restaurant specializing in fish, it was unique, like Disneyland.
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America's 'Healthiest, Best-Tasting Sandwich'
Not surprisingly, we eat plenty of sandwiches - about a billion a year - and we're making the sandwich one of the most popular dinner dishes.
Now, somebody has created what is being heralded as America's healthiest and best tasting sandwich - grilled chicken with pomegranate and caramelized onion reduction and goat cheese.
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