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Is my heart rate too high when exercising?
I recently got my first heart rate monitor watch - a Polar FT4 - and used it for the first time at the gym yesterday. It was a fairly short workout in total but from the results my heart rate seems to be high, I will probably ask a doctor about it soon if this keeps up but people here seem to be quite clued up about this…
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Ideas for healthy toppings on Ryvita?
I usually just have mine with peanut butter (the natural stuff) - but it's so high in calories and I end up overeating it because I love it so much! So I'm trying to cut down my intake. Any suggestions for other healthy toppings? I can never think of interesting ones! Thank you!
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Supposed 'healthy' foods that are loaded with sugar/salt?
I am always surprised by the amount of foods on supermarket shelves marketed as 'healthy' but contain masses of sugar and salt!? I'm not quite sure how they even get away with calling themselves 'light' or 'healthy'! Any foods in particular that you have been put off by properly studying the nutritional information? For me…
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Nutrition Labels - do you find them useful?
I am conducting research for my dissertation covering consumer use & opinions of nutrition labels on food products, and health & nutrition claims placed on the packaging. I would be so grateful to anyone who could fill this in - there is also a prize draw of £20 worth of Amazon e-vouchers to be won :-) Preferably only…
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PLEASE help me with my food diary!
Hello & thank you for reading this! So I've read lots of different posts about how many calories I should be eating / whether I should be eating back my exercise calories or not. Finding it all a bit confusing and would appreciate any advice at all based on my food diary.. what am I doing right or wrong? My weakness is…
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Do you find dieting confusing due to advertising?
Hello everyone, Over the next few weeks I will be conducting research for my dissertation regarding nutrition confusion and marketing. I have not yet created any surveys as I need to research some more, but if anyone has any input on the topic it would be extremely helpful! I am mainly looking at how products are marketed…
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Cross Fit - logging calories?
Hi everyone, Sorry if this has been asked before! But curious how to log calories burned for activities like cross-fit, insanity, tabata etc? I know without a HRM it's impossible to get an accurate number, but what would be closest? Either the high impact aerobics or circuits maybe? Circuits seems to log as higher calories…
