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		<title>Postworkout Vitamins: Help or Hindrance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know exercise is good for you. If you have type II diabetes, exercise helps with insulin resistance — so much so that exercise seems to be better than metformin (the most used anti-diabetic drug).
But I have a question – why is exercise good for you?
Stress can be good for you
Most people forget that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Active&#8221; Recovery, a Good Opportunity for Mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a hard workout, you might be dreading the soreness which will  inevitably ensue over the next 24-48 hours.  Your instinct could be to  take the next day off from exercising altogether. Not so fast!
Active recovery allows you to keep the momentum in terms of your  fitness AND can potentially decrease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Pain No Gain: Fitness Myth or Ultimate Fitness Truth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Pain, No Gain. Is this aphorism just a fitness myth and downright bad advice? A lot of people seem to think so. As a bodybuilder with 25 years of training experience and more than two dozen trophies on my shelf, I have another perspective to offer you..
The Ultimate Truth?
Success with your body and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Coffee Impacts Your Hormones (Good and Bad)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout its long history, coffee has endured both accolades and opposition. Over the ages, some of the world’s greatest composers, thinkers and statesmen have extolled coffee’s virtues, while others have denounced it as a poisonous, mind-corrupting drug. Coffee has been praised by certain religions and prohibited by others.
Some governments have subsidized coffee crops; others have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness Meditation is Worth a Try</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you think when you hear “hypnosis”? There are some people and some doctors who swear by it—and there are others who swear it’s just a scam. This split mindset is what therapists and psychologists are trying to avoid when it comes to the practice of mindfulness meditation. They want to be certain they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kabbalah and Higher Levels Consciousness</title>
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In the foreword to The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, Daniel C. Matt, one of the world’s leading Kabbalah scholars, and the author of a multi-volume English translation of The Zohar, the summa mystica of this ancient tradition, states: “Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, is precious and well hidden. Its symbolism, and multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart Has Its Own &#8220;Brain&#8221; and Consciousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heart Fields
Many believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process.
Far more than a simple pump, as was once believed, the heart is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation for Addiction Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Awareness techniques can not only help to free addictive patterns – but in some places have been developed as interventions in their own right. Anastasia Stephens outlines the latest developments and gives practical tips on meditation and psychotherapy, which can be speedily put into practice.

Addiction recovery is looking to the East. Whether it’s through Zen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quality Strength for Human Athletic Performance: A Guide to Speed Strength Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although most athletic skills and events depend upon a variety of physical qualities, speed strength (also called power) certainly rates among the most important. Whenever you need to accelerate yourself (as in running, cycling, swimming, skating, or skiing), an external object (such as a ball, a barbell, a javelin, or another person), or both (such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Exercise Doesn’t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I’ve got no fancy introduction. I’ve got no “journalistic hook.” You see, I recently had an “ah ha” moment that I’ve simply got to share with you. And here it is…
Exercise doesn’t work.
Now that might sound shocking coming from a guy with big biceps and 8% body fat; from a guy that recommends [...]]]></description>
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