February 2011
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You Are What You Eat « 3rd Avenue Fitness →
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Diabetes Type 2 – Diagnosing It – Where Do I Start →
Source: Diabetic Digest
How do doctors determine if you have Type 2 Diabetes? The healthcare team has three different tests they can perform to see if your blood glucose levels fit into the range of diabetes or pre-diabetes. These include the fasting plasma glucose, the oral glucose tolerance test, and the random plasma glucose test. All but the last one will then diagnose diabetes and...
December 2010
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The Truth About Your Weight Gain →
Two out of three people n America today are either overweight or obese. That means every time you sit down in an airplane or a packed movie theater, more likely than not you’re going to wind up as the lean center of a fat sandwich. But as you look right and left and see nothing but heft, you can’t help but think, What happened? How did we all get so darn fat? Well, the simple answer is that...
1 in 5 American men has heart disease. 3 in 4 are... →
Much of what hurts men, health-wise, is preventable, experts say.
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Exercise and cold weather: Tips to stay safe... →
Dressing in layers, protecting your hands and feet, and paying attention to the forecast can help you stay safe and warm while exercising outdoors in cold weather.
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“Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.”
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Real Life Fitness and Health →
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Amazing Lipid Panel Shift
One of our clients sadly went home this week after her stay at RLFH had come to the end. Upon leaving we compared her lipid panel results and they were nothing less than stellar for her 3 week stay.
Total Cholesterol dropped from 213 to 171
Triglycerides dropped from 273 to 102
Glucose from 87 to 82
HDL (good cholesterol) rose from 46 to 52
LDL dropped from 112 to 99
and her hdl/total...
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Below the Surface
How often do we step on the scale and turn that thin piece of equipment under our feet into a remote control for how we feel about ourselves for the day or even the week? While it’s true that when losing weight the scale is the greatest indicator of success, we must not forget about other very important “side effects” that come along with eating healthy and exercising. At...
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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
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RLFH is pleased to welcome Chef Tom Catrow
RLFH is please to welcome our new Head Chef, Top Catrow. Since graduating Western Culinary Institute in 1989, Chef Tom has gathered experience doing everything from opening his own restaurants which received wonderful reviews from well known critics, to being a personal chef to all-star NBA players. We are excited to have Chef Tom join us and look forward to his passion and expertise.
November 2010
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What is your favorite cardio workout?
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“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day...”
– Ellen Degeneres
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False Marketing Fuels Weight Gain and Frustration
The other morning while flipping on the television so my little girls could watch their early morning cartoons, an infomercial for the latest “Ab blasting sauna belt” was being aired. Anyone that knows me for more than 10 minutes knows my opinion on infomercials and especially ones promising a six pack with little to no change in your daily routine. In my humble (yet correct)...
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What is your motivation for getting healthy?
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RLFH is now on tumblr.
Now there is an even easier way to stay in touch with RLFH. Follow us on tumblr and you can interact with us like never before. Well be posting articles, answering questions and blogging.
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