Latest Health, Fitness, and Nutrition Headlines From Selected Blogs & News Feeds

Here you will find a collection of current News Headlines from various sources that might be of interest to you. These will help you stay on top of what is going on in the world today from the comfort of this community.

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Bodybuilding Secrets Pure Natural Bodybuilding... Old-School and Hard-Core  Introducing Bodybuilding Secrets 2.0 TweetWelcome to bodybuilding Secrets 2.0! Yes I have finally left the dark ages and updated this site to a shiny new word press blog with a new theme. This blog has been online since 2005 and I have to admit it was starting to look dated. We still have some work to do with the [...]  5 Famous Vince Gironda Exercises This is the excerpt.  7 Unusual Muscle Growth Secrets of Vince Gironda TweetHow much muscle have I gained over the years as a result of using Vince Gironda’s body building techniques over the years? I’m not sure. All I know is that it was a lot! More importantly, it was quality, all-natural muscle. You can do it too if you know the secrets… Vince was one of [...]  I Was Popping These “Muscle Pills” By The Fistful! Tweet “The wonder energy food!” That’s what Vince Gironda, maverick trainer to the movie stars and champion bodybuilders, said about Desiccated Liver. Energy is nice and all, but this is the part where he caught me hook, line and sinker as a young, impressionable teenage wannabe bodybuilder: “Try this trick: take 2 desiccated liver tablets [...]  Vince Gironda: Legend and Myth TweetWhen I hear that a “new” bodybuilding course is being launched on the Internet, usually I yawn, often I groan, and seldom do I give as much as second glance. But when I heard last week that a couple of guys had gotten together online to “resurrect” the long-lost methods of the late, great legendary [...]  Interview With Natural Bodybuilding Legend Skip LaCour, Pt.2 TweetIn this second part of the series, you’ll learn more about what it takes to be champion, including the truth about the role of genetics versus outright hard work and dedication. You’ll hear Skip’s thoughts on how you need to approach customizing your training style and what it takes to stay in shape and looking [...]  Tom Venuto Interviews Natural Bodybuilding Legend Skip Lacour TweetSkip Lacour has been a leader in natural bodybuilding for more than two decades. Now an entrepreneur and a much-sought after peak performance, leadership and success coach, Skip will always be remembered by we naturals as a legend in drug-free bodybuilding who not only drove himself to massive success in the sport, but selflessly helped [...]  I’m Back… and Back! TweetI told you I’d be back… and I just did back. Here’s the current mass building back routine: Today, September 1st, 2011 marked an official beginning of a 4 month MASS building phase for me. I’m on a mad quest to get bigger than I have ever been in my life. Never mind that I’m [...]  Dormant Bodybuilding Website Coming Back To Life? TweetBodybuildingSecrets.com has been online since 2005. But with the exception of my last bodybuilding competition (that same year), when i blogged almost daily (the details of my contest prep training and nutrition), this site has been mostly inactive. I’ve never made a “secret” of that… at one point I admitted in a blog post that [...]  Stacking supplements: Does It Work? TweetQUESTION: Dear Tom: I’m using lipo6x for fat burning. I was wondering if I can stack lipo6x with size-on precontest formula and nitrix and creatine and triblus? Would the combination work better than each one individually? Any advice? ANSWER: Advice? yes, be sure to flush twice so there arent any floaters left behind. Best regards, [...] Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.  Metabolic Side Effects Such As Obesity And Diabetes Caused By Antipsychotic Medications In 2008, roughly 14.3 million Americans were taking antipsychotics - typically prescribed for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or a number of other behavioral disorders - making them among the most prescribed drugs in the U.S...  Assessing The Value Of BMI Screening And Surveillance In Schools The value of routine body mass index (BMI) screening in schools has been a topic of ongoing controversy. An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc...  Key Factors In Student Weight - Impoverished Schools, Parent Education Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. Poor schools even influence how parental education protects kids from becoming overweight...  People-Pleasers Feel Pressure To Eat When They Believe It Will Help Another Person Feel More Comfortable If you are a people-pleaser who strives to keep your social relationships smooth and comfortable, you might find yourself overeating in certain social situations like Super Bowl watch parties. A new study from Case Western Reserve University found that, hungry or not, some people eat in an attempt to keep others comfortable...  Potatoes Lower Blood Pressure In Those With Obesity And Hypertension Without Increasing Weight The first study to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans has concluded that two small helpings of purple potatoes (Purple Majesty) a day decreases blood pressure by about 4 percent without causing weight gain...  Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer...  Our Dining Partners Influence Our Eating Behavior Share a meal with someone and you are both likely to mimic each other's behavior and take bites at the same time rather than eating at your own pace, says a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. This behavior was found to be more prominent at the beginning of an interaction than at the end...  Obesity-Related Diseases In Adolescents Improves With Bariatric Surgery Within First Two Years Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled...  Potential Link Between Daily Consumption Of Diet Soft Drinks And Risk Of Vascular Events Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center...  Shedding Light On Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Gene Mutation Linked To Accumulation Of Fat, Other Lipids In Liver A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of California at San Francisco has discovered that the mutation of a gene encoding a ketone body transporter triggers accumulation of fat and other lipids in the livers of zebrafish. This discovery, published in the Feb...