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365 Ways #134–It’s all Fat to me

#134–your fat is talking to you: Fat around your hips says you’re eating too many carbs. Fat calves indicates you’re not sleeping well/enough/at the right times. Fat around your pecs...
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365 Ways #133–You’re as young as you act

#133–The right hemisphere of the brain develops three years before the left, and its growth is stimulated by play when we are children. As adults, the creative side is often...
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365 Ways #132–I’m picking on crunches, cuz I got your back!

#132–The human body can go weeks without food and days without water, but it can only survive for about three minutes without oxygen. The body will do anything it has...
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365 Ways #131–Crunches as a sedative

#131–whenever there occurs a contraction on one side of a joint, there must also occur a (relatively) equal and opposing contraction by the antagonist(s) or opposing muscle group(s) on the...
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365 Ways #130–Ain’t no B12 in lettuce or lipbalm!

#130–Cracks in your lips or on the corners of your mouth are signs of a Vitamin B deficiency. Found in whole, unprocessed foods, the eight B vitamins are all water...
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365 Ways #129–Eat the 30%

#129–Over 70% of the food consumed in the Western diet didn’t exist 10,000 years ago which probably means you weren’t designed to eat it.
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365 Ways #128–Unless you like the bald look

#128–Are you losing your hair? With hair loss, my first thought would be your stress level--and stress isn't just mental/emotional.  It's exercise, sleep, chemical, nutritional, hydration (or lack thereof), etc. ...
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365 Ways #127–Fat doesn’t make you fat

#127–fat doesn’t turn into fat, because it doesn’t stimulate insulin release which is a prerequisite of storing fat. Carbohydrates do stimulate the release of insulin. Insulin’s job is to open...
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