Fitness

Fitness

Related to the practice of regular exercise to maintain good physical condition and health.

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macrobiotic

Fitness; Diet

This is a diet that originates from Eastern philosophies. Encouraging food choices to match the seasons of the year, it is mostly vegetarian, but also includes sea foods. (See ...

metabolism

Fitness; Diet

This is the collective name for all the life maintaining biochemical processes that take place within our bodies concerned with the breaking down of food, and the subsequent ...

monounsaturated fat

Fitness; Diet

In biochemistry and nutrition, monounsaturated fats or MUFA (MonoUnsaturated Fatty Acid) are fatty acids that have one double bond in the fatty acid chain and all of the remainder ...

morbid obesity

Fitness; Diet

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or ...

mormon tea

Fitness; Diet

Known also as Desert Tea, this contains a stimulant called ephedrine which increases the body’s metabolic rate for the increased `burning’ of calories. (See Calories and ...