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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.

RESOLUTION SKINNY 2012 on Twitter is Nominated for a Shorty Award

By Mary Dimino
Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the... Shorty Awards

YOURS TRULY is up for a 4th Annual Shorty Award in SOCIAL FITNESS

What do Conan O'Brien, Cory Booker, Sesame Street's Grover, Suze Orman, Ted Leo, Neil Patrick Harris, and NASA have in common? Besides being awesome, they're all Shorty Award winners.



Couch potatoes, arise! Get into your ‘I need to get moving’ mindset!

By Tracy Benham

It’s the first day of spring and it time to get your butt outside and moving. It’s probably been a months since you thought about putting on your shorts or short-sleeved shirts and getting out into the sunshine. But right around mid-March you start to think about heading back to the gym — just in time for Spring.


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