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Scaling the New Food Pyramid
The new Food Guide Pyramid offers personalized content based on your age, gender and activity level. To take advantage of the many consumer-friendly tools, visit www.mypyramid.gov, enter your information and start exploring page after page of nutrition recommendations based on your profile. This Web site goes way beyond the "two to four servings" type of recommendations; the new Pyramid offers such details as how many orange vegetables to eat each week and how many "discretionary calories" you’re allowed each day.
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Latin Food Diet Pyramid
Log onto http://www.latinonutrition.org/pdf/Camino
Magico.pdf for  a LatinAmerican food pyramid that stresses the health benefits of some traditional Latino fare. The guide also cites sample weekly grocery lists, healthy recipes and tips for making lower-fat versions of Latino staples.

Monitoring Exercise Intensity Using Heart Rate
You're huffing and puffing through another aerobic workout, wondering if you're really doing yourself any good. Are you working too hard or not hard enough? You look around. The person next to you has barely broken a sweat while the one in front is drenched from head to toe. Well, sweat may not be the best indicator of exercise intensity. For that, we need to look to our hearts.
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How to Choose the Right Personal Trainer
A personal trainer should be certified because that's your assurance you're working with a trainer who has the knowledge to provide you with a safe and effective workout. Not just any certification will do. You want a personal trainer who has been certified by a nationally recognized certifying organization, like ACE, which happens to be the largest non-profit fitness-certifying organization in the world.
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Exercise and Asthma
Many people with asthma believe exercise is not an option for them, that it will do more harm than good. The truth is that most asthmatics would likely benefit from some form of regular physical activity. Twelve percent to 15 percent of the population are considered asthmatics and suffer recurrent attacks of breathlessness
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