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Exercise, Nutrition, Weight Loss August 17, 2019

List: Ten reasons to eat more chocolate

Reasons to eat more dark chocolate.

Do you really need a reason to eat more chocolate?  Probably not!  Chocolate is the ultimate comfort food.  Chocolate is one of the simple pleasures in life that has been tied to just about any benefit you can imagine.  People claim it can reduce stress, protect your heart, and acts as an aphrodisiac.  

 
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Exercise, Nutrition, Research, Weight Loss August 15, 2019

Research: Does wellness in the workplace work?

Employee health program can be an effective means to increase healthy habits.  

Workplace wellness programs are all the rage businesses all across the United States. Employers have increasingly invested in these wellness programs to improve employee health and decrease health care costs.  They are being sold as the solution to the effects of the sedentary lifestyle that most of us participate in on a daily basis, however, there is little experimental evidence on the effects of these programs.  

 
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Exercise, Research, Weight Loss June 19, 2019

Research: Pattern of steps is associated with weight loss.

Pedometers may help weight loss after all

Pedometers are all the rage today.  From the Fitbit to the Apple Watch, it is hard to find someone without one on their wrists.  I personally wear one on each wrist.  I wind the motivations and functionality of the Apple Watch to be superior, but the step counts to better on the Fitbit.  The problem with pedometers is that there is scant evidence to show they help for weight loss.