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Mmmmm Oatmeal – Breakfast of Champions!!

Not the “instant” breakfast of champions – but a bowl of oatmeal done right is the perfect way to start a day. It warms you up, fills you up, and pumps you up like no other breakfast food. Oatmeal alone offers numerous health benefits, including helping to lower cholesterol levels, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, [...]

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Looking behind to look ahead

Summer is officially coming to a close and here comes the rain, sleet, hail, snow, wind….. let’s  just say here comes fall/winter in B.C.!  Now as much as I am looking forward to snowboarding I am also taking a bit of time to reflect on my summer.  This year I went on a bit of [...]

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Georgia Straight, Best of Vancouver 2008: Fitness Town voted “Best Fitness Equipment Store”

  We’d like to thank everyone for their tremendous support of Fitness Town in this year’s 2008 Best of Vancouver, Georgia Straight reader’s awards.  We were picked by you as the “Best Fitness Equipment Stores” in the Vancouver, Lower Mainland.   We at Fitness Town appreciate your continued support and look forward to helping all of you make [...]

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Want to increase your risk of developing cancer? Then do not read this post (Part 2)

Step 2:  Calorie counting What’s that?  Who here knows how many calories make up a pound of fat?  The answer is 3500.   To put this into perspective for you, if you took a normal person and added an extra 180 calories to their daily diet (i.e can of pop, a glass of wine, or a [...]

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Understanding Labels part II

Per Dai’s Response I thought I would throw this up and get wacky with nutritional info-mation! Thanks Dai, and very good question. let’s dig a little deeper! Fructose is a simple sugar, which the body can use for energy. Because it does not cause blood sugar rise dramatically, because it has a low glycemic index. [...]

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Understanding food labels?!?!

On food labels, they base the percentages on a 2,000-calorie adult diet. So looking at the label above for two crackers, a grownup would see that they provide less than 1 gram of fiber, only 3% of the person’s daily needs. So that means he or she would have to eat other foods to get [...]

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Want to increase your risk of developing cancer? Then do not read this post.

A 17th Century philosopher by the name of Blaise Pascal posed a theory that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through pure reason, a person should “wager” as though God exists, because by living a life of belief in God they would have everything to gain and certainly nothing to lose. Unlike Pascal, I’m not here to pose a theory, but rather a solution to a problem. If you knew that your chances of developing cancer or life altering illness such as diabetes or obesity could be lessened, would you not do everything in your power to do so? I’m going to give you 3 steps that you can start following right away to ensure you stack the odds in your favor of living a long, healthy and disease-free life.

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Fitness Town Health and Wellness E-zine – July 2008 issue now on-line

The July issue of the Fitness Town Online Health and Wellness e-zine is now available for your perusal and in it you will find it chalk-a-block full of great articles on health, fitness, and overall wellness. You will also enjoy access to 1000′s of recipes, exercise instructional videos, workout routines and so much more! Please [...]

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