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Fitness Tips from Your Trainer

Eat Your Breakfast:

° People who skip breakfast are increasing their risk of weight gain and possibly setting themselves up for diabetes and heart disease as well.

° Study from the University of Massachusetts showed that people who miss breakfast are 4 times more likely to be obese .

° A healthy breakfast includes fruit, whole grain cereal or bread, and low-fat or skim milk.

Go for the Tap:

° The bottled water craze started about 20 years ago in the United States.

° In recent years, sales of bottled water have exploded as a result of a perception by the public that bottled water is safer and purer than city tap water.

° But tap water has to meet higher standards than bottled water. Every test result I can find shows tap water as safe, if not safer, than bottled water.

Battle the Sweet Tooth:

° I control most of my sweet-tooth urges with low fat yogurt and Nature Valley Chewy Granola bars with yogurt on the bottom.

° Those that I can't control, I must avoid. My advice is don't allow them in the house.

° If you need a fix now and then, indulge it at a restaurant or ice cream parlor, but don't bring the temptation into your home.

Lift those Weights:

° Resistance training is necessary for weight loss. Every pound of muscle burns about 35 calories a day. A pound of fat by comparison burns about 2 calories a day.

° The best way to increase your metabolism is to add muscle, and the best way to add muscle is to lift weights.

° Resistance exercise has been shown to have profound effects on the skeletal system.

° Bones actually become stronger when they are stressed.

° The ravages of osteoporosis can be reduced or eliminated by strength and resistance exercise.

° Strong muscles around bones also greatly reduce the likelihood of fractures.