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Blogging Team

The Diet Detective's expert bloggers write about the latest trends in diet and fitness and offer their best tips for losing weight and keeping it off — for good!

Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights says a new study

By Charles Stuart Platkin
Current gym dogma holds that to build muscle size you need to lift heavy weights. However, a new study conducted at McMaster University has shown that a similar degree of muscle building can be achieved by using lighter weights. The secret is to pump iron until you reach muscle fatigue.

The findings are published in PLoS ONEhttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.

How to get rid of those holiday food gifts

By Judy Wurtman
Odd food items have suddenly appeared in workplace snack rooms. Wedges of waxy cheese, tubes of hard salami, and pears that look shellacked have replaced the ubiquitous half-eaten birthday cake. ‘Tis the season of the holiday food basket. Perhaps research on the anthropology of ritual food gifts can explain the thinking behind clustering processed cheese, fatty sausage, and Scottish shortbread in a basket and sending it as a holiday present.

This Halloween I'm Going as a Diet Detective!

By Mary Dimino
Treat or treat, just don't get an apple with a razor blade in it. Here's some fun (and candy corny) Halloween humor I've cooked up for you:

What is a vampires least favorite food? Steak

What do you get when you cross a black cat with a lemon. A sour-puss

How can you tell when a vampire (or me for that matter), has been in a bakery? All the jelly has been sucked out of the doughnuts.

What's a monster's favorite desert? I-Scream!







Holiday Air Travel Tips to Avoid Jet Lag and Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

By Tracy Benham

If you are traveling for the Holiday weekend here are a few tips and way to avoid jet lag.

Jet Lag

Overview: ( or stuff you know , but here is a quick reminder....

-In general, the more time zones you cross, the more you will be affected.
Accommodate for your destination by sleeping and eating an hour earlier or later pre-flight.


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