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From Pro Football To Fitness Franchisee
Franchise Players is Entrepreneurs Q&A interview column that puts the spotlight on franchisees. If you’re a franchisee with advice and tips to share, emailktaylor@entrepreneur.com[1]. For Jordan Black, running a fitness franchise is very similar to playing in the NFL. According to the former professional football player, corporate team members are coaches, serving up a game […]
Prince Albert Woman Makes Saskatchewan Bodybuilding Debut
At 44 years old, Gelsinger has entered three bodybuilding competitions so far in her amateur career. When Gelsinger was in Vancouver attending the national bodybuilding competition, a group of women wearing the tracksuits caught her attention. The tracksuits belonged to Team Saskatchewan bodybuilding athletes. Theyre beautiful, theyre green, theyre black and I […]
High-fat diet postpones brain aging in mice
New Danish-led research suggests that signs of brain aging can be postponed in mice if placed on a high-fat diet. In the long term, this opens the possibility of treatment of children suffering from premature aging and patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The research project is headed by the Center for Healthy Aging, University […]
Working Hard? 7 Fitness Tips For Working Professionals
It is easy to sacrifice fitness for the sake of work. But we all know how it ends up for us, don’t we? So here’s a quick guide to get you started on being fit. 1. Have an early dinner In her book The Four-Week Countdown Diet[1], fitness trainer and nutritionist, Namita Jain suggests that […]
How exercise could reduce relapse during meth withdrawal
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that even brief workouts can reduce the risk of relapse in rats withdrawing from methamphetamine. In addition, the team found that exercise affected the neurons in a brain region that had never before been associated with meth withdrawal, suggesting a new direction for drug development. “There […]
Diets high in fruit, vegetables, whole grains and nuts among factors to lower first-time stroke risk
Eating Mediterranean or DASH-style diets, regularly engaging in physical activity and keeping your blood pressure under control can lower your risk of a first-time stroke, according to updated AHA/ASA guideline published in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke. “We have a huge opportunity to improve how we prevent new strokes, because risk factors that can […]
Bariatric surgery success influenced by how people view their own weight
Negative feelings about one’s own weight, known as internalized weight bias, influence the success people have after undergoing weight loss surgery, according to research appearing in the journal Obesity Surgery, published by Springer. The study, from the Geisinger Health System in the US, is considered the first and only study to examine internalized weight bias […]
Fish intake associated with boost to antidepressant response
Up to half of patients who suffer from depression (Major Depressive Disorder, or MDD) do not respond to treatment with SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors). Now a group of Dutch researchers have carried out a study which shows that increasing fatty fish intake appears to increase the response rate in patients who do not respond […]
Inspirational Teen Beats Cancer And Almost Doubles In Size To Become Burly Bodybuilder
VIEW GALLERY[1] These hard-hitting photographs chart the incredible transformation of a teenager during his fight against cancer and progression into the world of BODYBUILDING[2]. Survivor Zach Zeiler, 20, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma[3] in 2010, at the age of 15 – and saw his weight plummet to just seven stone. But as his inspiring collage […]
5 Career Lessons From A Pioneer Female Astronaut
I never dreamed of being an astronaut. None of my girlfriends growing up in the 60s did either. Maybe its because when we thought of astronauts, we associated the word with white men and Tang. But the truth is women are astronauts and have been since 1978, when NASA selected its first six female astronauts. […]