Exercise shown to powerfully decrease cigarette cravings

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Even mild exercise can help stave off cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms as well as decrease a smoker’s chance of reaching for a cigarette, according to a study published in the journal “Addiction.” Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Toronto reviewed 14 previously published studies and compared the results. Continue reading

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The 8th Annual Katie Ride for Life – April 21, 2012

Katie Ride for LifeThe Katie Ride for Life is a cycling and walking event for ALL levels to help raise funds and awareness for organ donor education. Katie Caples was a junior in high school from Fernandina Beach who became an organ and tissue donor after not surviving the trauma of an automobile accident in 1998. Continue reading

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Over-Training Counterproductive, Expert Says

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Challenging yourself in fitness training is good. But overdoing training is counterproductive to realizing your fitness goals, says Butler University’s Adrian Shepard, assistant director of recreation overseeing fitness. Over-training, also called over-exercising, he said, happens when you’re “not allowing your body the opportunity to adjust, adapt and recuperate in response to the training regimen you’re taking part in.” Continue reading

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Three Things Every Exercise Program Should Have

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1. What you should know to design a safe and effective exercise program
A complete fitness program must include aerobic exercise, muscular strength and endurance conditioning, and flexibility exercise. Aerobic exercise does good things for your cardiovascular system and is an important part of weight management. Muscular conditioning can improve strength and posture, reduce the risk of lower back injury, and is also an important component of a weight management program. Flexibility exercise is needed to maintain joint range of motion and reduce the risk of injury and muscle soreness.
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New Study Shows Yoga Can Ease Back Pain

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If you are practicing yoga, you may not know what you are missing in terms of back pain, stress and anxiety. However thousands of Americans suffer from back pain every day. If you happen to know one of them, consider passing along a bit of new information that might help them: Continue reading

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Harlem Ambassadors Return to Fernandina Beach!

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They’re coming back! For the second year in a row, the Fernandina Beach Rotary Club will bring back the wildly entertaining Harlem Ambassadors basketball team for an exhibition game with the hometown team, the Nassau Nets. The game, a fundraiser for the Rotary Club’s college scholarship and charitable programs, is scheduled for Friday February 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Fernandina Beach High School gymnasium. Continue reading

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Exercise Makes Us Happy — It’s Science

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Why do people exercise?

We know that regular fitness is good for the heart and that it can help the body to build muscles and maintain a healthy weight. But it also spurs the release of endorphins, those feel-good chemicals that promote happiness.

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Get your children away from the TV – Physical fitness makes smarter brains

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Want to raise healthy and smart children? Then don’t allow them to be couch potatoes. Exercise, it turns out, does more than benefit the body and overall health — physical fitness builds smarter brains in youngsters, too. Continue reading

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Burning Fat: Myths And Facts

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A popular myth is that there is a specific range of heart rates in which you must exercise to burn fat. Many cardio machines display a “fat-burning zone” on their panels, encouraging people to exercise in a specific heart rate range. Have you ever wondered if you really have to exercise in a specific heart rate zone to lose fat? And what happens if you venture out of that zone? Jason R. Karp, PhD, a nationally recognized speaker, writer and exercise physiologist who coaches recreational runners to Olympic hopefuls through his company, RunCoachJason.com, sheds light on this issue. Continue reading

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