Weight Management: Metabolic Health, Bulking & Fat Loss Strategies

Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.

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How to Lose Weight Around the Pubic Area

FUPA, slang for "fat upper pubic area," refers to the extra fat that forms just above your pubic hair line. Perhaps it's an area only you and those most intimate to you notice, but that doesn't mean you have to like it. Spot reduction of your FUPA isn't possible, but you can diminish a FUPA with time.

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How to Lose 10 Pounds With Vegetarian Food Diet

The basic strategies for weight loss apply regardless of your dietary choices. To lose 10 pounds, you must switch to healthier foods, watch portion sizes and the calorie content of your meals and increase physical activity.

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How to Gain Weight to Get Curves and Look Sexy

While everyone is born with a genetically determined body type -- for example, a pear, apple or banana shape -- lifestyle modifications like diet and exercise can slightly change the shape of your physique.

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70% Protein 20% Fat 10% Carbs Diet Plan

A diet consisting of 70 percent protein, 20 percent fat and 10 percent carbs is considered high-protein and low-carbohydrate. You might follow such a diet in an attempt to lose weight, but this ratio of macronutrients does not meet the nutritional recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine.

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Can Dehydration Cause Belly Fat?

Dehydration occurs when the amount of water leaving the body is greater than the amount taken in and is one of the main causes of weight gain. Dehydration affects the ability of your body to burn fat, encourages excessive calorie consumption and slows down your metabolism.

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The Best Recumbent Bike Workout for Weight Loss

A recumbent bike offers a more comfortable workout than other cardio equipment, such as a treadmill or upright bike. Because you sit back in a semireclined position, some users feel that a recumbent bike doesn't provide an intense, effective workout.

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Work & Exercise for People With TB

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial infection that affects the lungs. TB can also spread to other parts of the body, such as the brain, spine, bladder and joints. Only about 10 percent of those who have the TB bacteria, or germ, actually develop an active case of TB, according to FamilyDoctor.org.

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How to Lose Belly & Chest Fat on a Woman

In an ideal world, the wave of a magic wand would transform troublesome body areas into toned and taut muscles. In reality, it is impossible to pick and choose where to lose weight. A well-rounded approach, through diet and exercise, is the only natural way to lose overall body fat.

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How to Decrease Weight in 2 Months

When it comes to losing weight, it helps when you set up manageable goals -- like taking two months to get the weight off. But that also means making sure that your weight loss goals are realistic.

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Ideas for Fitness Team Names

When you join together with other exercise-minded individuals to form a fitness team, you'll likely spend considerable time recruiting members, deciding which events to enter and even designing team T-shirts. One of the first orders of business, however, is agreeing on a name for your team.

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The Calories Burned Shaking a Leg

The next time someone tells you to “shake a leg,” take their advice. Shaking your leg and fidgeting in your seat or with your hands can burn calories.

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Free Online Weight-Loss Programs

With all the diet books and programs vying for your attention and money, wouldn't it be nice if there was reliable information that could truly help you slim down, for free? You are in luck because there are free, high-quality programs on the Web. Finding them can sometimes be a little tricky because "free"

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Food List for an Autism Diet

Improving the symptoms of autism and other developmental disorders through diet is a popular method among parents. Scientific research is not conclusive on how effective a diet such as GFCF, or gluten-free/casein-free, is. However, a number of parents have said the GFCF diet has changed their lives.

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Why Can You Put 5 Pounds on in Two Days & It Takes Forever to Lose?

It can be discouraging -- although not necessarily surprising -- to see a massive jump in the scale after a night of indulging in too much food. And while overeating can make you gain weight over weeks or months, two days' worth of overeating isn't enough to do serious damage.

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The Fastest Ways to Get Rid of a Jelly Belly

A jelly belly does not actually have jelly rolling around in it; although high amounts of jelly in the diet can certainly contribute. It is basically a gathering of flab that makes the belly look soft and unfit.

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How to Lose Weight After Tubal Ligation

After having a tubal ligation, you may worry that changes in your hormones will make it harder to lose weight. The effects of tubal ligation on female hormone levels has been a matter of debate, but hormonal effects remain unproven, according to a review of studies reported in the February 1998 issue of "

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Can Exercising at Night Help You Lose Weight Faster?

When your goal is to lose weight fast, even small changes in your diet and exercise routine can make a big difference. Exercise, in particular, is critically important, and you should do as much as possible – any time of day.

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Can Protein Be Converted to Body Fat?

Whether you're trying to build muscle or lose weight, you may be adding more protein to your diet. While protein offers a number of benefits when consumed in adequate amounts, excess calories from protein are converted to body fat.

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How Much and How Often Should a Four-Month-Old Eat?

At 4 months old, your baby may not quite be ready to handle solids but she is gradually approaching that milestone. She has about doubled her birth weight, her stomach has grown a lot since birth and she can handle larger amounts of breast milk or formula at a time, according to BabyCenter.

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