5 Foods With More Calcium Than A Glass Of Milk
Calcium is vital for building and maintaining healthy bones and teeth and ensuring the heart, nerves and muscles function properly. But milk is not the only calcium-rich food.
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Diet & Nutrition
Fitness is a key ingredient to a long, healthy firefighting career. The prevention of injuries is provided in the framework of fitness. Enhancing the fitness regimes of those who are already on the fitness train, while inspiring those who aren’t to join in. We aim to provide effective firefighter exercises and training workouts, the latest diet and nutrition recommendations, and awareness about the importance of developing a healthy mind, body, and soul connection.
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What You Need To Know About Antioxidants
Antioxidants are a nutrition topic that's had staying power for decades as other nutrition trends come and go. Why? Because although antioxidants can be overhyped at times, there is actual substance behind the hype.
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Alternatives to Traditional Pastas
The world's love affair with pasta traces back thousands of years to Asia, where archaeologists believe the first noodles were produced. There's been no turning back from this versatile and delicious comfort food favorite.
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Sour Power
These days, seemingly everyone is waxing poetic about the microbiome. There is a growing body of scientific evidence to suggest that gut dysbiosis (microbial imbalance of the intestine) is associated with inflammatory and immune-mediated ills, including heart disease and diabetes. So to improve quality of life, more people are looking for ways to fertilize their gut with beneficial micro-bugs.
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Is a Flexitarian Diet Right for You?
Most everyone has an idea of what constitutes a vegetarian or a vegan diet, but what about a "flexitarian" diet?
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3 Ways To Fuel Firefighter Performance
Learning how proper nutrition fuels optimal firefighter performance with Ryan Provencher.
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Diet, Exercise And Obesity Through The Lens Of A Firefighter
Large portion sizes and unhealthy food options emerged as an issue that has impacted the department both in the past and present.
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Trust Your Gut
Detoxes and cleanses are popular but commonly misunderstood concepts that involve eliminating foods or food groups for a given period of time. Popular detoxification programs such as juice cleanses, sugar detoxes, elimination diets, fasting and taking fiber supplements usually involve eating a minimal amount of food.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with Sugar
Our brains are wired to love and crave sugar. It’s very addictive, that’s part of why we love it so much. In fact, researchers have found that sugar is approximately eight times more addictive than cocaine.
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Six Ways to Eat Slower
Research suggests that fast eaters may gain more weight over time relative to slower eaters. In contrast, slower eaters naturally consume less food and feel more full after the meal.
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