Small amounts of certain foods can reduce cholesterol.

Plant sterols occur naturally in a host of foods — primarily soybean oil, nuts, seeds, legumes and some fruits and vegetables.

Because plant sterols are chemically similar to cholesterol, the human body tends to absorb them and pass cholesterol out of the body as waste. The net result is that consuming foods rich in plant sterols can reduce the body’s blood cholesterol levels.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows food companies to declare the heart benefits of plant sterols on product packaging.

As a vegetarian, do you wonder if you’re getting the nutrients you require for your fitness or sport activities?

This is still a common question: can vegetarians perform as well as their carnivorous counterparts in physical competition?

To meet your nutrient needs and improve athletic performance, use these suggestions:

Meeting Calorie Needs

To best meet energy demands, consume six to eight small meals daily. These feedings supply a steady energy source and are easier on the body’s digestive system than three large meals per day.

Gaining and Losing Weight

The first eighteen to twenty-four months of transition for the transgender person can be an awkward period of appearance, very similar to puberty. 

It is during this timeframe that a "self-centered" person in transition would indeed not take family and friends into consideration, to allow time to adjust and accept this new exterior. 

It's common for the person in transition to feel as if they have finally exited "the cave" and now that they have finally accepted themselves, they want the world to accept them, too. 

When combining the two modalities in the same session, is one sequence better than the other for optimizing "after-burn"?

Combining aerobic exercise and resistance training in the same workout session -- a technique referred to as concurrent training -- can be a time-efficient training method.

Perhaps one of the longest-lasting and most engaging debates for fitness professionals has been with regards to which sequence is better when combining the two modalities.