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Physical Activity

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Losing weight with Strength Training

A new way to lose weight is doing strength exercises, thus increasing the amount of calories you normally spend per day at rest and avoid what you eat immediately turn to fat. Strength training must be intense enough to cause an increase in muscle mass, so that the increase in basal metabolism is effective and [...]

Depression Treatment

The brain, the unknown. How is an arrangement of atoms, which are similar to a tree, a kidney, a kitten or the computer where I write these lines, may be able to think, to withhold information or to have emotions? Broad issue. As often in this area is by studying the failures of the machine [...]

Weight Loss and Energy Expenditure

We know that our body uses food for energy and excess energy that results in excess fat. This means that if you eat more than what your body needs to carry out their daily activities you will gain weight.
Therefore, the most effective way to burn fat is to reduce the amount of calories you consume [...]

Strength Training for Weight Loss

Years ago those promotes aerobic sports such as jogging and cycling to burn calories and lose weight. No doubt that with an hour of moderate intensity aerobic exercise burns 300 calories and, if sufficiently severe, maintains a high level of metabolism for several hours after activity.But unfortunately, this effect of exercise burns calories! Is short-lived [...]