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Exercising With Thyroid Disorders

Hunter Bennett Exercise is hands down one of the most beneficial things that you can do for your body. It staves off weight gain, helps you build lean muscle mass, and can even enhance your mood and mental wellbeing. It literally improves every aspect of your health. As I said, it is the most beneficial

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Processed vs. Unprocessed Foods

Hunter Bennett Over the last few years, we have seen a bit of a change in what many people would consider being a ‘healthy’ diet. This has revolved around moving away from bread, grains, and cereals, towards an increase in consumption of whole foods, such as meats, fruits, and vegetables. With this has come a

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Exercises For Improved Balance

Hunter Bennett As you would be aware, we (as an entire population) are getting older. To put it simply, we are getting the opportunity to live longer, which is obviously an extremely good thing – however, that isn’t to say that it doesn’t pose its own set of challenges. You see, as you get older,

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Regaining Homeostasis With Diet & Exercise

Hunter Bennett In scientific literature, health is often defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being – and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity. With this in mind, health is a state of optimal balance that ensures the individual can manage every aspect of their life effectively, without the disease,

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Exercise: Is It Passion Or Addiction?

Hunter Bennett You would be hard pressed to find someone who could possibly consider exercising a bad thing. It helps us manage our weight and reduces our risk of disease and illness. Additionally, exercise improves our mental health and cognitive function. Yep, in the simplest sense, exercise is good. However, as I am sure most

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The Ketogenic Diet: How It Affects Athletic Performance

Hunter Bennett Every week a new way of eating hits the mainstream media. They are often described as a way to improve health and promote fat loss quickly and easily. Many of these diets are merely fads that have shown little value when finally placed under scrutiny by high-quality researchers. Which is why the ketogenic diet

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Alzheimer’s Disease- Could Irisin Be the Cure?

Hunter Bennett The one thing that strikes fear into the hearts of most people on this planet is the prospect of losing their mental capacity, such as having Alzheimer’s. To be honest, I am no different. Let’s face it, it’s terrifying. Now, most of you would appreciate that if you don’t actively try and maintain

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The Benefits of Sports Variation

Hunter Bennett There is a common line of thought suggesting that to become great at something, you need to focus on that single thing and dedicate as much time to it as humanly possible. For the most part, this does hold some truth to it. To become the best in the world at a given

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Is Sleep the Missing Link to Athletic Performance?

Hunter Bennett When it comes to maximizing athletic performance, we often find ourselves seeking out complex training methodologies and fancy new pieces of equipment to get an edge on the competition – and as a result, we tend to miss the forest through the trees. While there is nothing inherently wrong with these sorts of

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Cognitive Sports Training: How Can It Improve Performance?

Hunter Bennett Competing and performing in sport requires a huge amount of time, effort, and physical capacity. To perform at a high level, you need the ability to express strength, speed, and power, and maintain a high degree of technical proficiency. It is honestly a whole lot more complex than simply just playing a sport.

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Generation 100: The 3 Year Follow Up

Hunter Bennett For those of you who have been with us here at Forever Fit Science for a while, you might be aware of one of the first articles we ever wrote about ‘The Generation 100 Study’. This study was built around the need to determine the effects of a 5-year exercise program on mortality

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Marijuana & Essential Tremor: A Natural Treatment 

Hunter Bennett Most people become suspicious when they hear the words ‘alternative medicine’ – however this shouldn’t always be the case. There is recent evidence to suggest that some of these unique medicinal methodologies have a lot more merit than first thought, particularly when applied correctly to specific diseases of the human body. In this