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You may have heard of the “calorie restriction movement,” based on animal studies that indicate cutting your calorie intake by 20 percent could reduce your risk of disease and even help increase your lifespan by 20 percent. Despite the fact that researchers don’t yet know whether calorie restriction will work for humans, this form of dieting is gaining popularity.

But there is a downside to extreme dieting: If you diet and don’t also exercise, you’ll lose muscle mass and fitness.

In a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, healthy men and women between 50 and 60 years of age went on a one-year weight-loss program. One group lost weight through diet only (calorie restriction), while the other group lost weight through exercise (just cardio - no strength training). Both groups lost a similar amount of weight. However, while the exercise group increased their fitness levels, the diet group lost lower-body strength and muscle and cardiovascular fitness.

Obviously, the best choice for a fat-loss program is a combination of diet and exercise. So don’t just starve yourself thin. Focus on healthy eating, interval training, and total-body strength training to build the health and fitness you need as you grow older.

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“In short, we age due to waste mismanagement. Every living entity makes waste products; its inability to properly dispose of them causes the shortening of life. Our planet Earth is facing the same problem”. The food that we eat burns with oxygen in our cells to produce energy. After burning, the food becomes acidic waste and the cells dump them into the blood stream. Our body tries its best to get rid of these wastes through urine and perspiration. As we know, urine and skin surface are acidic.

Unfortunately, we cannot get rid of all the wastes that we produce. The major reasons are our lifestyle, the kinds of foods and drinks that we consume, and the polluted environment that kills our healthy cells and changes them into acidic wastes. What is left over must be stored somewhere in our body

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