Archive for April, 2007

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FitnessMantra Weekend: Five Key Foods for a Healthier Diet

Welcome to “FitnessMantra Weekend”, your once-a-week health news update. You can also stay updated with the latest in fitness news by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
This week, WebMD takes the prize for the most interesting article: Simple Fixes for a Healthier Diet begins by first describing the average American diet: highly deficient [...]


Think Yourself Thin: Real World Fitness Mantras

A mantra is defined as a sacred verbal formula repeated during prayer or meditation. It can also mean a commonly repeatedly word or phrase and in the world of fitness it sometimes takes on a special meaning.

Last week, NPR’s Morning Edition featured a piece titled “Thinking Thin: A Cognitive-Therapy Approach” about psychologist Judith Beck’s [...]


FitnessMantra Weekend: Is Waist Size The New Obesity Indicator?

Welcome to “FitnessMantra Weekend”, your once-a-week health news update. As always you can also stay updated with the latest in fitness news by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
Just last month you saw how passé it was to measure a person’s BMI to determine if there was a sign of obesity and how [...]


Confessions Of A Small-Time Blogger: FitnessMantra On Chitika BlogBash

For the past couple of weeks regular visitors may have noticed the Chitika BlogBash badge on this site. I was fortunate to be invited to be a part of Chitika’s month-long “30 days, 30 experts” event and my contribution titled “Confessions Of A Small-Time Blogger” is featured today.
If you ever wanted to know more about [...]